Christi and Jan van Heek are no strangers to Down East Maine, having visited the region’s postcard-like ports countless times aboard their J/46 sailboat. They are also new residents of Rackliff Island just south of Rockland, having moved there a year ago from Marblehead, Massachusetts. Their two adult daughters and their families followed them. “We’re all Mainers now,” says Christi.
It’s a late October morning as I pull into a parking spot at Safe Harbor Rockland Marina, where I’ll meet the van Heeks. The sun is beaming, but I’m wearing a parka because it’s not like boating weather. Like, at all.
So then why are
