We headed over to Bath on Monday afternoon, waiting until midday to avoid a bunch of current down the Kennebec River that was there earlier in the day. We always pass by Fort Gorges, an old fort just outside the Portland harbor, which I think is super cool every time. We have an older drone video from during COVID posted here.

The trip up the Kennebec River was super pretty. It's like a much-smaller Connecticut River, with mostly gently flowing turns, and lots of greenery and pretty houses on the shores. The Kennebec also had lots of cute little lighthouses on many of the bends.

We talked to the harbormaster/police chief in Bath and he said we could stay on the dock for the night, and it turned out to be great. The dock's a little creaky but we barely got waked the whole time we stayed here, and the price was excellent (free).

On the Monday night, we ended up getting dinner together with Inquest/Sara at OystHERS restaurant, where everyone else oysters and I ate a fancy hot dog, and we all drank surprisingly-affordable bubbly. Sara and I ran over to the ice cream spot just before they closed at 8 and I got an excellent custom ice cream sammich.

Tuesday morning, I got up early and we all showed up at the Bath Maritime Museum, expecting a normal simple small town museum, but it turns out that Bath has a ton of history building more wooden ships than anywhere else in the US, and much of that shipbuilding was on or nearby the site of the museum, so they had a bunch of great exhibits about shipbuilding, and many restored original buildings for the different aspects of period shipbuilding.

Down the side of one of the open areas there was a sculpture-ish thing that represented the largest 6-masted ship that was ever built in Bath. The picture doesn't have anything good for scale, but it's absolutely enormous -- 50 feet wide at its widest, the bow was 50 feet above the keel. The masts had to be shortened from original size because they would have required aircraft warning lights at full height. It's just crazy how big they managed to get these wooden behemoths. Anyway, the museum was fantastic. I unfortunately had to shuttle us out of there early because I had meetings starting at 11, but there's still a bunch of museum to explore sometime in the future.

Sara took off to hang out with a friend in Bar Harbor for a few days, Hannah and I worked all day, and then the Inquest/Highwind crew got dinner and drinks at a brewery in town that was super slammed and slow as heck, but we weren't in a hurry so it all worked out.