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With a high tide at 0400 we departed Shelburne at 0530 and the tide gave us some help along the way about an extra knot or two of boat speed, sweet. The weather was cloudy but clear with very little wind. WE made excellent time right out to Brazil Rock clearing it at 1000 hrs and setting our new course of 270 degrees for Cape Cod. A little while later we heard some radio traffic between a Canadian Patrol Aircraft and a boat. Five minutes later we had a close encounter with the same big aircraft which did a very low fly over banking hard to the left and our radio came to life with a call to Rose Lee from the big plane. Th was a routine courtesy call where we gave our last port of departure and our heading, number of souls on board etc... They wished us a good journey and that was that, its nice knowing we have those resources available in the case of an emergency. At 1130 we had some converging shipping traffic and I decided to fire up the radar to see how they looked in the clear light of day. Oh Oh the radar was giving me an error message no data again:( Joyce was down below so I continued to mess with it unsuccessfully. An hour later with no luck at all in getting the radar back up and even if we did we didn't know how long it would last we had a meeting of next steps. We both agreed that radar was critical for a safe passage across the Gulf of Maine or AIS which we don't currently have. We checked the weather again and fog was forecast that night and the next day for the gulf of Maine so we made the decision to turn back for Shelburne. On our way back we didn't want to get tied up for several days messing with the radar so a decision was made to enjoy our own beautiful coast for the the next several weeks and we would address the radar issues after our vacation (after all the goal here is to get time on the boat and have some fun). We arrived back in Shelburne at 1900 hrs and as we entered the long harbour the radar came back to life (what the heck). Anyway the radar has proven itself unreliable until we can determine what is going on we wont count on it. We have a lot of skills to develop as we move towards our sailing retirement but one of the most important sailing skills is flexibility and we have plenty of that. We are looking forward to several more weeks on the boat and even though its not quite as planned we will have a great time I am sure:) We spent the remainder of our evening watching the parade of lights on the water. These people go all out decorating their boats, I will post a few pics when I get to a good wifi spot.
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