{"id":5928,"date":"2016-07-30T11:28:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=5928"},"modified":"2016-07-30T11:28:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T11:28:03","slug":"if-you-dont-like-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=5928","title":{"rendered":"If you don\u2019t like the weather\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know the old saying, \u201cIf you don\u2019t like the weather, wait an hour?\u201d\u00a0 Well, if that sounds about right to \u00a0you, you\u2019re in Maine.<\/p>\n

After spending months in the Bahamas and Cuba, one can become used to weather that rarely changes, just more of the same\u2026 warm, sunny, breezy.\u00a0 During our two months cruising Cuba I believe that it rained ONCE.\u00a0 Yup, the weather is pretty predictable!<\/p>\n

Not so in Maine.\u00a0 After only two days here we have experienced just about every type of weather you could possibly expect to have mid-summer. \u00a0Yesterday we had light rain, hard rain, bright sunshine, warm temperatures, dense fog and chilly evening, and that was in ONE DAY.\u00a0 And the weather combined with really dramatic scenery makes it a real winner.\u00a0 I LOVE IT!!!<\/p>\n

Some of the folks we have run into during our travels aboard Pandora have commented on the contrast between the Bahamas and Maine and told us that if they had to choose between the Bahamas or Maine, they\u2019d choose Maine.\u00a0\u00a0 Me too.\u00a0 It\u2019s just beautiful.\u00a0 \u00a0Bummer that it\u2019s only a good place to sail in the summer because that\u2019s when I want to be home in CT.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Bob, what\u2019s the weather right now?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Good question.\u00a0\u00a0 Wait a moment while I look but I think it\u2019s sunny. \u00a0Yup.\u00a0 Sunny, for the moment anyway.\u00a0\u00a0 Satisfied?\u00a0\u00a0 Good.<\/p>\n

As I write this we are on a mooring in Southwest Harbor, on Mt Desert\/Acadia.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lovely spot. \u00a0\u00a0Yesterday we moved here, in the rain (did I mention that it rained yesterday, and was sunny too?) from Frenchboro where we made landfall in Maine.\u00a0 What a lovely island.\u00a0 This is the harbor. \u00a0 Big tides here.\"7-30-16aAbout 60 make their home on this little island, nearly all fishing for lobster. \u00a0 From the harbor you can see Mt Desert and Acadia in the distance, behind the fog bank. \u00a0You will just have to trust me on this.\"7-30-16aAbout \u00be of the island is set aside as a nature preserve.\u00a0\u00a0 The coastline of the island is very rugged and is nearly all made up of pink granite.\u00a0\"7-30-16aThere were butterflies doing their butterfly thing everywhere.\u00a0 Don\u2019t you just love the new camera?\"7-30-16aRemember the changing weather thing?\u00a0\u00a0 Here\u2019s the fog rolling in.\u00a0 One minute, 10 mile visibility.\u00a0 The next, well, a lot less.\"7-30-16aWhen we arrived in SW Harbor I couldn\u2019t resist taking a walk through the marina.\u00a0 This boat, and she means business, was designed by Steve Dashew.\u00a0 He\u2019s known for designing and building easily driven hulls in both sail and power. \u00a0To me, this design is a near perfect blend of form and function.\u00a0\"7-30-16aPersonally, I\u2019d love to see her painted but Steve is insistent about low maintenance.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0There\u2019s even a grill built into the aft deck.\u00a0 This is a real ocean going vessel.\u00a0\u00a0 And, she\u2019s as expensive as she is impressive.\u00a0 I\u2019d just love to have one of these.\u00a0\"7-30-16aWell, today the Corinthians cruise begins and it will be rah-rah for the next week with 100 of \u201cmy closest friends\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0I wonder what the weather will be like?\u00a0\u00a0 No, I can guess but I\u2019ll have to wait a few hours to know if I am right.<\/p>\n

So far?\u00a0 Yep, weather.\u00a0 Welcome to Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know the old saying, \u201cIf you don\u2019t like the weather, wait an hour?\u201d\u00a0 Well, if that sounds about right to \u00a0you, you\u2019re in Maine. After spending months in the Bahamas and Cuba, one can become used to weather that rarely changes, just more of the same\u2026 warm, sunny, breezy.\u00a0 During our two months cruising […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}