We've been at a slip at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard since last Thursday night. The dockage is in a great, protected area, with 40' slips, 30 amp power, and water. The folks here are friendly, and we plan to be here until Sunday. This will be the longest we've stopped anywhere since we left home.
The weather here has been foggy, with misty rain, hard rain, and bright sunshine, though not much of that.
We rented a car for a week, enabling us to get groceries, go to church, do laundry, get lp gas, pick up prescriptions, and visit the surrounding area. We made a trip up to Freeport, a little over an hour's drive, and did our mandatory tourist trip to LL Bean!
The "down" time has also given us an address for long enough to receive some mail. The dogs are enjoying frequent walks.
I pulled the autopilot control head and display units off and sent them to RayMarine to see if they have the parts to fix my failing pilot. That will mean we leave here without a heading sensor, so no radar overlay on the plotter, and no north up display on the radar. After years of running vessels with North Up radar, I'll be temporarily reverting back to head-up radar. I generally use a separate screen for radar, rather than a chart overlay when running in poor visibility anyhow. Boy, these state of the art electronics really spoil you.
I don't think we've taken any photos since we've been here. But, we have tons of photos of Maine, taken on our trip, since there are way too many to post.
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