Month: July 2006
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Feet Dunk’n Day
This was our longest day so far, leaving Deltaville, VA at 0720 and setting the anchor in Solomons, MD at 1900. Very little wind, but some large boat wakes (300 meter size boats) made for good feet dunk’n. Beth and Noah sat out on the rail and waited for big waves to cool them off. They…
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Deltaville
Noah found kids in Deltaville. We visited the small maritime museum with a family from England and ran into all kinds of families participating in a boat building workshop. Folks build a 12 or 14 foot wooden rowboat in five days. Lots of children were catching crabs and having fun on a floating raft in…
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York River to Deltaville
Today’s journey was much less eventful than Sunday’s. The engine performed just the way it was supposed to and there was no oil in the engine pan. Temps climbed close to one hundred and we picked out a marina with a pool. The major landmark today was Wolf Trap light which marks a shoal quite…
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You Don’t Want this View from Your Boat
With boat projects completed, we set out for Deltaville this morning. It turned out to be a nice day for sailing as we beat up the York River. The new charting software worked well and we passed a three masted schooner going out of Yorktown under full sail. Getting out into the bay, we turned…
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Maintenance Days
Millions of baby oysters lurk under the docks at York River Yacht Harbor. The Sarah Creek Shellfish company buys seed oysters in Maine and grows them in tubs and racks under the docks here. When they get to be over an inch, they move them out into beds in the bay and then harvest them…
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