I went to the 1pm talk about boon sat. 12/11/2010. It was the 300 year commemoration of the wreck of the Nottingham galley. Quite a story of spying, smuggling, cannibalism, etc. It was held at cape Neddick lighthouse. I checked the distance from the parking lot there and it is 6.5mi from the light. 6.7 from the parking lot. Its a reasonable sized parking lot and there is a walk over ledge down to the water on the north side. I would definitely like to do it sometime. I did the isle of shoals from Wallis sands with flat seas and it only took 1.5 hours. That was a trip of 7 mi. each way. I went out to the boon a number of years ago in a motor boat. It is indeed barren. I remember about 100 seals on the east side. I think thats where the boat landing/launch/ramp is. It didnt look to inviting for a motor boat at the time so we didnt land. It was very hard staffing the lighthouse in the day because every few years they get storms that wash over the island. A number of times the keepers have had to hang out in the tower because of the huge seas. The island is only 14ft above sea level. The keepers house is gone.
