{"id":1405,"date":"2016-09-25T20:58:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T20:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2017-09-23T01:59:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T01:59:47","slug":"salty-as-salt-saudades-and-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/?p=1405","title":{"rendered":"Salty as Salt….Saudades….and South"},"content":{"rendered":"

We did not really go to Maine expecting that the \u201creal Maine\u201d would stand up, but we did keep hearing people use the phrase. <\/span>It is a crowded field of players, complicated by the jostling hordes of icons: <\/span>lighthouses, lobsters, rocks, and mansions masquerading as summer cottages for starters. Chicago Bulls<\/a> Nike Air zoom Pegasus 31 damskie<\/a> new balance 999 femme foot locker<\/a> <\/p>\n

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    Air Jordan 3 Retro<\/a> \"dscn3671\"<\/a> a place has a high icon level, naturally walls get built to contain the mass of visitors. <\/span>It becomes more of a trick to find that sense of coming home when entering a new harbor that cruising sailors mainline. Nike Air Max 2017 Kopen<\/a> adidas nmd hombre<\/a> Keith Holcombe Jersey<\/a> nike air max 2017 femme blanche<\/a> Even back in the 1950s, when a family set up a marine repair and storage shipyard in Rigg\u2019s Harbor, they had to finally build boats before they were trusted by locals to repair and store. <\/span>One thing that helped was for Steve to immediately identify himself as an \u201cother\u201d, i.e. <\/span>\u201ca Masshole\u201d. Mainiacs<\/span> laugh hard at that. <\/span>But I am not completely sure on who can be told the joke: <\/span>\u201cYou know Maine was part of Massachusetts from the 1650s to 1820, when they gained independence? Yeah, and now Massachusetts is buying it back one house at a time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    The northernmost point of this season was Roque Island, Maine, the exquisite summer playground of Peabodys and Gardiners (as in Isabella Stewart), who wore old clothes or went naked while enjoying summer stuff, high culture, and the fruits of a productive farm.\"dscn3679-1\"<\/a>\"img_0885\"<\/a> <\/span>According to the harbormaster, the gazillions of descendants fought a lot and now do timeshare kind of stuff. final fantasy 14 gil<\/a> sac a dos kanken pas cher<\/a> <\/p>\n

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    Sailing was fitful as best, trying to coax something out of 5-9kts and feeling grateful for 10-15kts. <\/span>Summer winds switch from NE to SW and the direction during the day was usually the opposite of where we fancied ourselves going. <\/span>Add in strong currents and a lot of \u201clight and variable\u201d winds. \"img_0820\"<\/a> <\/span>Due to the lobster pot density, unimaginable until seen, we travelled only by day and scanned intensely at all times particularly if the light was from ahead or the sails were up.\"img_0979\"<\/a> <\/span>The risk is wrapping the line around the prop: <\/span>locals have cutting blades and cages to fend off trouble.\"img_0891\"<\/a> <\/span>Even surrounded by formidable sailors and fabulous traditional boats, with a visit to the Wooden Boat School, we thought Maine waters belong to the lobster fishery<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Some places we ended up were Martha\u2019s Vineyard, the anchorages of Naushon Island, Nantucket, Plymouth, the greater Weymouth area, downtown Boston Harbor, the Isle of Shoals (Appledore and Smuttynose), Falmouth Foreside, <\/span>Casco Bay islands, Rockland, the islands and harbors around Mt. Nike Air Max 90<\/a> Joey Bosa Ohio State Jerseys<\/a> Desert, Jonesport ME, Portsmouth, Gloucester, Point Judith RI, Shelter Island, the Thimbles and Norwalk Islands in CT, New York City, Liberty Landing Marina in Jersey City, and now the Chesapeake. <\/span>A number of these were childhood haunts laced with memories expected and unexpected: <\/span>I had almost forgotten that I lived in the red brown small building to the left of the Brooklyn Bridge for a summer. <\/span>Here are just a few of our visitors (mea culpa to the many for whom I can’t find or don’t have a photo): <\/span><\/p>\n

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    Poking around leads to tiny delights, such as this fish ladder from the 1700s or Our Lady of Good Voyage Church in Gloucester or the church in Isleboro.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    I have found myself once again in love with all the quiet sounds a boat together with the sea make. <\/span>The grangle of the anchor chain as the tides shift. <\/span>The fluttering barr barr barr of waves against the hull in the quarter berth. <\/span>The high slup of waves on the leeward side of the salon. <\/span>The twing of halyards slapping the mast. Washington State Cougars Jerseys<\/a> <\/p>\n

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    That surrealness of one of the presidential candidates tangentially gets me back to that real Maine question.\"img_0957\"<\/a> <\/span>It can\u2019t be a ferry captain born in Massachusetts, or a kindred spirit oncologist sailor who has only summered there for decades. <\/span>I just can\u2019t make it someone in the painfully addicted communities, though signs for treatment help are the first thing you often see in small towns. <\/span>It could be the barber in Rockland, ME. Dont’a Hightower<\/a> Jason Heyward Jersey<\/a> Canotte Chicago Bulls<\/a> Nike Roshe Run Homme<\/a> Fisherman in general of course win hands down, though times are harder than ever. <\/span>In Southwest Harbor, home of Hinckley yachts, volunteers raise money for off season family social services by making popovers and coffee for a donation by summer throngs. <\/span>I refuse to nominate the governor Paul LePage. <\/span>My personal vote will go out to the harbormasters who were born and work here. <\/span>We talk to them often as we enter busier harbors, learn all sorts of useful information and some darn good stories from them, and respect them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We did not really go to Maine expecting that the \u201creal Maine\u201d would stand up, but we did keep hearing people use the phrase. It is a crowded field of players, complicated by the jostling hordes of icons: lighthouses, lobsters, rocks, and mansions masquerading as summer cottages for starters. Chicago Bulls Nike Air zoom Pegasus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7655,"href":"https:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/7655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rclouise.whychus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}