It was brought to my attention that I didn't give you the name of the destroyer that we were lucky enough to see sail out to sea. The name of the  ship was the Micheal Murphy, named after a Navy Seal who lead his men into battle in Afghanistan  and only one survived.That information was supplied by one of our wonderful readers, thanks John. I did know the name of the ship just not the story. This morning we got up and it was a clear day, with the wave height at 5 foot, so we decided to wait a little while for the seas to calm down some. John had sent us info that said it would calm down during the day, so we left at 11am. The seas were rough getting out of the inlet it was about 4 foot seas, but we kept on moving. Once outside the inlet the waves were still 4 foot but they were rolling and pretty smooth, so it wasn't as bad as we expected. I was a little nervous at first but Carl assured me we were just fine and I felt better. Carl is not one to take a chance with our safety. The day went by fast.. The engine is running much better now and we were able to cruise at about 6.5 knots.. Much faster than before. We arrived in Portland by 2:30pm, we couldn't believe it... This port is protected by 3 forts. Not a ship would have been able to come in here without being seen by one of these forts.  New England did make sure all of their ports were proctected from anyone who thought about  envading them...America safe from the sea.... As we came into port we waved at people like we have at every other port only here, nobody waved back or said hi. Even when we docked I said hi to people with no response. This is your typical big city where no one says hi, not like the rest of Maine...We were very surprised..We tried to get to the city dock, but it was a very small hole and a lobster boat bet us to it. And it didn't look like it would be moving anytime soon. So we headed to the anchorage on the east side of town. They don't allow you to anchor inside the harbor, and the anchorage is pretty far out. Once at anchor Carl putzed around a bit and then we took the dingy down so we could go ashore. At shore we had to pay $5.00 for the dingy dock use, which didn't make Carl to happy. But hey, we had to pay it some other ports and I wanted to go ashore. Plus we will never pass this way again. The town is really neat, like most other New England towns, very old with narrow streets and wonderful old buildings. We found a place to stop and have a drink that even let us bring Bella inside. They didn't serve food and it was a cool little neighborhood bar. We loved it...We walked though town looking in all the windows and checking it out. I saw a shop that had little hand blown glass lobster buoys, they were so cute. I would have bought one but they were more than I was able to spend. But very cool. I am sure they are something everyone should have after traversing  these waters trying to miss them. One thing we noticed on the way back south is that aren't as many lobster pots as when we came through here on our way north. They must be pulling some in. At the end of the evening we headed back to our boat guided by the mast on the boat the boat next to us. She is one of those high end boats with lights all the way up her mast, thanks fellow sailor. Today we move farther south and make our way on port at a time..