Category: Sailing

Pulled away from the mooring as the chapel was beginning to chime twelve. The harbormaster was there in his skiff, ready to collect another days fee if we dallied. Departed Annapolis and headed through the crowd of Sunday sailors to pass under the Bay Bridge. Noah was forced to forgo computer games so he could…

Made it into Annapolis City Harbor on Friday afternoon amid warnings of severe thunderstorms from NOAA. They died down before getting here, so we spent a quiet night on a city mooring. We ran into Dave Deiter, recently retired from Kodak in the bathhouse and his boat, Orion, is two moorings away from us. The…

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…

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…

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…

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…