And we provide this care at Grady Hospital and through 6 facilities inside and outside of the Perimeter. Whatever the need, Grady fulfills it â even as we continue to raise the bar for medical care in the region. Learn about us.
But what about the shortcut across the beautiful Gulf of Maine? The straight line from the Cape Cod Canal to Penobscot Bay is about 150 nautical miles. Making Penobscot Bay your destination has several benefits. Distances donât vary widely between southern Maine and Downeast Maine across the Gulf. Once inside Penobscot Bay, the cruising boat is free to roam in any weather.
Thus the retreat of the ice from the islands to a position north of Cape Cod may have taken only a few thousand years. By roughly 15,000 years ago, the ice had retreated from the Gulf of Maine and all of southern New England.