Bar Harbor, Maine

On Thursday September 7, we headed into Yarmouth to catch the “Cat” ferry to Bar Harbor Maine. It is an impressive vehicle, a catamaran of 320 feet long. It can hold up to 14 trucks/RVs, 220 cars and up to 750 people. On our crossing, it had 220 people, about a hundred cars and 3 RVs. The RVs were loaded first, since we had to go in nose first, turn around and come back nose first to the back of the boat. We were the small one and the third to board. The photo shows us next to one of those big guys.

The trip to Bar Harbor is 100 miles and takes only 3 hours. This is due to the Cats ability to do 50 MPH in open water. The ride is very smooth and uneventful. We had fog most of the way across, so we didn’t see much.

The sun broke out when we got about 10 miles off the coast of Maine. What impressed me most was the incredible number of lobster trap floats in the water, there were thousands of them going out to about 10 miles.