The last post described our planned trip on the Grace Bailey sailing out of Camden Maine. The Grace is their flagship and 19 guests, 4 crew and Captain Ray made our way out of Camden harbor for the open water - 70's during the day, no rain, and 50's at nigth were a great change from the 100's of the rest of the country. The cabins are "tidy" and believe me, we needed the blanket nearly every night. 
Captain Ray is a great host and always finds something to chat about from sailing to Labyrinths. 
The food is hearty and cooked on a wood stove in the galley - Travis, the cook, is the highest paid crew memnbber and well deserved - he is in the galley at 4 AM and stops only after dinner dishes are put away. The high point of the trip is a Maine lobster dinner cooekd on shore. Lobsters are about $5/# up here and the guys in the cooler are ready to rock 
Fully a quarter of the people did not like lobtser so there was plenty to go around. Of course the scenery was incredible. This trip was about sailing and we got plenty of wind with several days at more than 30 knots. Captain Ray is an old salt who knows his ship and did not feel we needed to reef, so we heeled and loved it. Mornings were crisp, sunny with a bit of fog over the water - great for coffee and fresh pastries to greet the day. 
No power on the ship so not much to do after sunset except talk a bit and turn in. Next post - the foods of Montreal
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