We left Fourth Cliff behind after 2 nights and arrived at Rockland, ME around midday Sunday. We were early so just went down and met a couple of the crew that were preparing the boat and loading groceries into the large ice chest on deck. The smaller one on the right is for passenger use; beer and wine and sodas and such. 
Wandered around the pretty seaport town and repacked for our voyage then reported on board at 4PM and got our cabin assignment. No 4 had to be the smallest cabin on the boat. We had enough standing headroom for one of us to stand at a time. And the double bed was under the deck so there was barely room to sit up in bed and I had to crawl over Lila to get out. There was a sink and mirror and a glass over the bed to let in some light from the deck. We met the captain at 6 for a brief safety briefing and met the crew. We were free to go in town to eat, then sleep aboard and our first meal aboard was breakfast the next morning and sailing shortly after that. We all went to Jimmy’s Pearl Restaurant (he was a former customer of the Stephen Taber that liked the area so much he bought a restaurant and stayed.) Lila and I ate with David and Susan, and Fred and Cami. We met Jimmy on the way out and he was appreciative of the business and the referral from Cap’n Noah.
The Stephen Taber is on the left, J&R Riggin in the middle and the Nathaniel Bowditch on the right. Taber and Riggin left at the same time. We were on a 6 day cruise, Riggin on a 3 day one.
Met a fellow ham radio operator and we set up a schedule to try to talk on our handy talkies daily but I couldn’t get mine to work right.
The meals were prepared on a very old woodstove by Aimee, who is a genius of a cook. She made the trip very worthwhile with her great meals.
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