We rarely stay anywhere very long!!!
We rarely stay anywhere very long!!!
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Watching spring flowers bloom all along the way north, we get an extra long spring, if quite a cool one this year. |
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We leave Jacksonville in mid April and head north overnight in the Atlantic to Beaufort to meet old friends, Brook and Mark who have a house there and
are shopping for a sail boat not unlike ours so we have much to talk about. After some fun days we head along the ICW to Charleston. We get Stuck there
for a week due to very windy weather that actually tosses an ocean liner over and shakes up some tourists. We decide to wait for better weather than
40-50 knot winds and chances for 70' rogue waves like they got!!! We had to solve some electrical problems anyway and Chuck is becoming quite the
whiz with these boat mechanics.
Finally we get to head out of Charleston in fine weather in the ocean all the way to Beaufort NC in record toime for us sailing and motor sailing to beat the sun and make it so we don't have to anchor in shoalish areas at night. We sail out into Albermarle Sound in NC and finally get into Dowry Creek Marina, one of our favorite places. Ted and Mary are so warm and friendly that it seems like home away from home. After a few days we afre heading for Norfolk and there we visit Carmine and Andy and see their new 38' Hunter and enjoy seeing Portsmouth, VA and the Nauticus Center with the Battleship Wisconsin. |
Sailing ship on Elizabeth River in Norfolk |
 A garden in Portsmouth Va |
 Battleship Wisconsin |
 Chuck usually drives the dinghy |
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We sailed from Norfolk the end of April and headed north, up the Chesapeake, towards the Potomac. We found a little-visited town on the west side of the bay
called Reedville. We decided to give it a try because it had deep creeks in which to anchor and it had an interesting history of fishing in the Chesapeake museum.
What a quaint place it turned out to be! They were having their annual "blessing of the fleet" celebration that weekend and the local Episcopal Church included
our boat with the other fishing boats so we were able to get CYAN blessed in the traditional way. We enjoyed some great crab and learned all about the
menhaden fishing industry...used for fish oil in all kinds of products except food, such from lipstick to catfood to paint.
Later we set off for the sail up the Potomac and a visit with relatives and Washington DC on the Potomac page |
 CYAN anchored near Reedville |
 St Mary's Church, and us |
 Here we are at the sign |
 Osprey nest on channel marker |
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