For some reason, we both overslept this morning. I didn't get up until 8:30, which is a couple of hours later than I usually get up. It was nearly ten o'clock by the time Roy got up! He couldn't believe it. Neither could I.
After breakfast, Roy installed the new capacitor in the generator, but it still didn't generate, so he removed it.
We just barely made the 12:45 ferry. We had planned on touring the Liberty Ship, Jeremiah O'Brien, today, but when we got there, it turned out they're not having regular tours today. Instead, they're having a three-hour cruise at fifty dollars a head! We said goodbye to that one in a hurry.
Took the capacitor back and got a refund. Went to various places looking for a head gasket. Every place we went, Roy recited the entire tale of woe regarding the generator, until I was ready to run off screaming.
We wanted to try a lobster dinner at a good restaurant to find out what lobster should taste like and how it should be prepared. We had a brochure for a seafood restaurant in South Portland that sounded really good, so we went there. Were we ever disappointed! They used paper plates and plastic knives and forks, the melted butter tasted like lard, and the lobsters didn't even taste as good as the ones we'd had on the boat. I don't know what's happened to lobsters. When I was a kid, they were delicious, and the one Daddy treated me to in San Jose twenty odd years ago was scrumptious, but nowadays they don't seem to have any flavor at all.
We missed the 5:35 ferry, so we had to take the 7:15, which turned out to be a much smaller one. When we got to Peaks Island, we enjoyed some delicious ice cream at the little store on the corner. Paddled back to the boat just before dark.
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