Our Tuesday (maybe it was Monday, it's sort of hard to keep track!) Portland was for me a great break....I didn't wake up till 9:00 AM and I asked John if we should enquire about the marina and being John he had been up at daybreak, registered with the marina, got us codes for the gate, done his laundry at the coin wash and arranged for help with our problem with the boat.  Probably the only reason I don't get fired is that crew is hard to find!!

Meanwhile John and a friend in Nova Scotia had figured out what was wrong and got everything working.  I lazed about, did my laundry and read my book while he was doing all the work.  John heard about a huge marine store downtown and couldn't resist going for a visit.  He was like a kid in a candy store.

I also introduced John to Uber the taxi service so we both used it succefully...it had only started in this area a week and a half ago.  I think he's hooked on it.

The next day we left trying to get as far as we could go.  We ended up in Portsmouth, NH at one of the most luxurious marinas I have ever seen called Wentworth on the Sea. John went up to find if there was a grocery store nearby and came back with the keys to a courtesy car that was part of our $50 overnight charges...what a deal!  John being John and Brian being Brian off we headed to the West Marine store!  It's like going to Costco where you always buy things you don't really need.

John got a surprise call from Dixie and she was in the area and going to meet us for dinner.  So we met at a restaurant downtown and then she came and spent the night with us.  When we boarded, John rushed on ahead of us and was madly trying to clean up the boat....we really don't make that much of a mess?

Wednesday we headed out early to try and make as much distance as we could and ended up in beautiful Marblehead MA.  It's a huge harbor with about 2000 boats moored in it.  We were fortunate that the Harbor Master let us tie up to his dock which is right in the heart of town.  What an amazing town where the houses close to the docks are all +300 years old and incredibly we'll taken care of. A real early New England town.  The dock master told us of a great restaurant up the street where we had one of the best sea food meals I've ever had.  (Kelly the picture)

We woke up ready to head south but after looking at the weather decided to stay here another day.  This was a good call as soon after it started to blow and the rain poured down, so much so they initiated a flood warning.  So, what to do.  I went back to bed until noon while John was in his element doing all sorts of maintenance and repairs......what a nice guy he didn't even wake me up to help!  It poured rain the whole day so we just hunkerd down in the boat.  Tomorrow we leave early heading to a marina at the mouth of the Cape Cod Canal.