Guildive Cruises Blog

Lots to report:

The State of Maine arrived two weekends ago and the Castine harbor has regained its worldly feel.  I enjoy having the ship in-port as I am a commercial sailor and love active large shipping ports.  The State of Maine is a modest reminder of the ports of great activity like New York, Hong Kong and Rotterdam.  Even ask anyone of her sailors and they will tell you the ports they visited on their two month voyage all interesting shipping ports.   Given the ships arrival we had a great sunset cruise with two parents of one of the Cadets and were able to view the docking procedure from a safe and curious distance, then put out to the Penobscot Bay for the splendor and beauty of day’s end on the Maine Coast.

Guildive had a successful day in Lincolnville on the first Monday of this month.  The Inn at Ocean’s Edge, Spouter Inn and Whale’s Tooth Pub have welcomed us warmly to Lincolnville and are sending guests with us on day sails.  We use the Whale’s Tooth Pub guest mooring to board passengers from the Lincolnville Beach wharf.  We are offering 2 day sails on Mondays in July and August.  Sailing Guildive over to Lincolnville is  extra work for the two of us.  We first had to approach the inns and guage if there might be enough interest to warrant sailing the 15 miles from Castine.  Sure enough though we were met with great enthusiasm and the first of our Mondays we even scheduled an extra sail to accommodate interest.  The wind was light in the morning but began to build Southerly and by the afternoon we were sailing great.  Our guest seemed adventurous and rightfully so as they had to get to Guildive via our little tender and a 5 minute small boat ride.  On our second sail I met a fellow Nova Scotian and we had some excited young sailors who helped set sail and command the boat.  With the third sail and a delicious meal at the pub Kate and I didn’t get back to Castine until 0100.  A late day but a memorable start to a new chapter in Guildive’s 76 year old history.  We are pleased to say that we will be sailing from Lincolnville Beach every Monday until September 1^st.    Well now back to sailing.

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