Tomorrow Steve Ladd and I cast off from Brio's Millpond mooring!
Tomorrow morning, August 8th, Brio starts her 2700-mile trip. It's hard to believe. It's been at least a year in the making. Actually, Alice and I purchased Brio in June 2019 in part with the dream of making a "Loop" trip.
Brio is perfectly built for such trips. She requires 4.5 feet of water to "float her." In seaman's terms, that's her draft. Her "air draft" is about 14 feet, so she can get under many bridges without having to wait for the bridge tender to lift the bridge. She's 15.5 feet wide, so she fits into many standard slips. A catamaran or trimaran could never squeeze into a standard slip. She's 48 feet long, but if you measure her with her swim platform off the stern plus the little Whaler dinghy, then her length is perhaps 54 feet. That makes a difference in docking the boat. Some slips will only accommodate much smaller boats. Ah, c'est la vie, as the Quebecois might say.
She has three staterooms, each with its own bathroom, or "head." That's nice for couples. But we're all men on board. Even so, it's very comfortable to have your own bedroom and bathroom. The gallery is very user-friendly. If you want to see more, just go to www.sabreyachts.com and explore the Sabre 48 model.
So, here is the first leg of our trip. We travel north-northwest to Portsmouth tomorrow. We hope to enjoy a lobster dinner with Alice there. On Tuesday we will travel about 130 miles northeast to Bar Harbor, depending upon weather conditions. From there, we will travel to St. Andrews in New Brunswick, northwest of Grand Manan. On the chart, that's about where Chart 4115 is located. Later this week, we plan to travel to St. John, NB, where the famous "reversing falls" is located.
We will keep posting as we go along.
Cheers!
Brio
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