We picked up a couple of friends from RI at Rockland Sunday night and on Monday morning cruised together (again, predominantly on solar) to Hurricane Island where we picked up one of their guest moorings. Knowing they are an off-the-grid island, we invited them out to see our solar-electric system, and they in turn gave us a tour of their solar and other sustainable systems. It was a timely visit, as they have just received the approval of their Board to obtain/build their own 45 passenger vessel that will not run on fossil fuels. We chatted with them a bit about it. It will be a multi-year process and we wish them much luck!
We spent some time ashore Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning enjoying their trails. It was initially a privately owned quarry island that was suddenly abandoned (business decision)- meals left on the table style, according to the ‘old stories’. There are numerous signs of its quarry history: old granite foundations for the long-gone buildings, which were dismantled, and the parts hauled away for reuse elsewhere; the old quarry hole now filled with fresh water where the gulls appear to like to bathe before returning to the sea; lots of rusting metal- boilers, steam engines, wheels, etc.; granite in various states of from just cracked, to rough cut, to carved. A couple of days later we had a friend and his wife from Vinalhaven aboard for dinner and it turns out a branch of Susie’s family (great grand-parent generation) was the family chosen to coordinate everyone leaving island and then dismantling the old buildings. They are from Vinalhaven, which is where they returned once Hurricane Island’s quarries shut down. Small world!
Poor reception here, so only one picture for now, but I’ll update with more later.
Life on Lady 
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