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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nOur visit to the North Fork of Long Island included a visit to Shinn Vineyards<\/a>,<\/a> the only biodynamic<\/a> winery on LI and perhaps in the US. You can really see the difference in the look of the vineyard when no herbicides are used. It’s so much more lush and natural looking. They have really nice weekly e-mail that’s worth subscribing<\/a> to. <\/p>\n For the month of July we sailed in and out of Wickford prior to heading up to New Bedford and on to Maine for August. Our favorate place to visit in Wickford is Pleasant Street Warf, run by old friends. What a great spot. It looks like it did 50 years ago. <\/p>\n A highlight of the summer was a weekend spent on board with my two sons Rob and Chris as well as my father when we made a run from Wickford to New Bedford, with a stop in Cuttyhunk. My dad who just turned 80 is in terrific shape (I will be thrilled if I have his energy at 80) and we had a ball. It was the first time in all my years of sailing when the 4 of us were on the boat together.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We have sailed Maine every summer for over 10 years now and while we didn’t cover as much distance in Maine as we normally do we had a really great time. We lucked out with terrific weather in spite of the record rainfall that this summer brought to New England.<\/p>\n Have you ever wondered how they cut the grass on remote island summer homes? Here’s a shot of a boat docked in Rockland fueling up the John Deer for a visit to cut some lawns. I wonder how they get them out of the boat when they get there? I should have asked. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our visit to Boothbay harbor was fun and this shot of a NY30 is a good example of the wonderful wood boats that you see all over Maine. There’s a thriving boat building and restoration business going on in Maine these days. Note the tall ship being worked on at the shipyard in the background. <\/p>\n Two weeks in August in Maine followed by nearly two weeks in early September found us heading down the coast with another stop in Wickford and back to Norwalk. A hurricane went through in late August and in it’s wake we had a week and a half of winds from the North and West which made for unusually fair winds when Brenda and I ran from Rockland all the way back to Norwalk.<\/p>\n A favorite place we visited this summer was Allen Island off of Muscongus bay just a bit east of Boothbay Harbor, the summer home of Andrew and Betse Wyeth. Unfortunately, Andrew died earlier this year but we were pleased to see Betse still using the island. In fact, she arrived when we were on one of their moorings. She waved to Brenda, a thrill for her indeed. The Wyeth’s homes on the island show what can be done when you have good taste and style along with the money to indulge your vision. There are many homes on the island and the scene does look just like one of his paintings. <\/p>\n Quite a variety of architecture on Wyeth’s islands and it all holds together wonderfully. This is one of the Wyeth launches and is named after the famous explorer, Weymouth’s ship the Archangel. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n