Coleman Cove Great Chebeague Island ME USA

Passing Franklin Island at the outer end of St George River

We left the delightfully named Maple Juice Cove today, Saturday 22 September at 0935hrs.  The plan was to break the passage to Portland over 2 days, but we were making such good progress that we just kept on sailing.

That seemed to be a particularly good idea because the forecast for Sunday had little wind so it was a case of sail the route today or motor it tomorrow.

Coleman Cove

We didn’t want to go straight into the main harbour at Portland because it is supposed to be quite a rolly anchorage due to the amount of boat traffic, so instead we scouted around in the islands to the north and found a suitable spot to anchor in Coleman Cove beside Chebeague Island (great name!).

 Coleman Cove, Chebeague Island

We dropped anchor at 1730hrs for what is just an overnight stop. Tomorrow we will move into Portland Harbour run some errands whilst on Monday we have a hire car booked to take our EPIRB (emergency beacon) to a service centre for its 5-yearly routine test and to have a new battery fitted.

Coleman Cove, Great Chebeague Island, ME, USA