day twenty-nine - back to the boat yard

6:30, blanketed in fog. Put on the wool sweater and foul weather bibs. A teasingly light wind as we sail off the mooring, ghosting out of the cove.7:15 a little more wind, 1.8. Making 2.6, then 4.1 tacking against the tide, listening to a lobster boat somewhere in the mist. Then less wind, tide carrying us toward the rocks, motor sailing.8:45 rounding Stinson Neck. 9:10 at red marker "2", sailing north at 1.6. Pass Green ledge to starboard, Crow Island ahead to port. 2.4 with wind over starboard quarter. 10:10 pass "EE", the red and white buoy that marks the east end of Eggemoggin Reach. Sun pushing through the fog.10:35 Smuttynose Island to port, Mahoney Island to starboard. Fog lifting and Naskeag Point plainly visible. Follow the shoreline into Herrick Bay. Coming through the mooring field see friend Michael's beautiful Hinckley 41 sailboat. Sail by to take a closer look, it is a surprise when he comes up from below and calls my name. It is good to see him.Turn north towards the…