Home At Hayden Bay
Ahh, there is no place like home, both for us and for Cinnamon. Here we are just a few miles from where Cinnamon’s hull was laid up in 1967 at Yacht Constructor’s Portland yard. It has also been our home port since 2007 since we purchased an old Capri 25 that was docked at the marina. We spent the year sailing the Capri every chance we had and over the winter made new cushion covers and did other little projects to fix her up. Now, once again the fates smiled on us as we sold the Capri the first week we advertised on Craig’s List and so our budget for refitting Cinnamon was replenished some.
We took a slip out on the very last row of the marina, L row, because there were some double slips open that had no boats on either side. This gave us the chance to practice docking and undocking without worrying about hitting someone else’s boat and plenty of room for those first few attempts that weren’t quite perfect. The first couple of times in we were far enough away from the finger that I had to reach out with the boat hook as we were coming in and snag the cleat to pull us over. Much better then coming to close though. After a few attempts I was stepping off the boat onto the dock tying up the dock lines.