What to do with little to do

How about a walk in the woods, it's 52 degrees and windy

Check out Deltaville maritime Museaum, again

 

Almost rebuilt after fire from last year 

  Sculptures are all through the walking trail at Holly Point Park

Flowers still blooming

Watch Chris from C-2 Canvas work (that can be annoying for him)

Our good friends offer to take us to lunch outside Deltaville city limits.  So excited

Thanks jon and arlene for entertaining us for the day. Only a few more days before our canvas will be done. 

Feeling Naked and Exposed

Feeling naked as we have no canvas at all.  Very exposed!  This is how I found Qicksilver when I returned from Biloxi. Hopefully we'll have our Bimini on Thursday and dodger on Monday. Chris (our canvas man) says it should go fast from there. So we find things to keep ourselves busy. Jon has found about six new projects. One was discovered as he was about to change the engine's oil.  Our raw water pump was leaking and needs to be replaced. So one has to research and find one have it shipped...then...as the company was out of gaskets for the pump(how does that happen?) you look for the gasket, order it, ship it and track them both...,now just wait for dry weather as we are naked and exposed in the cockpit.  

        My niece Gindy at her restaurant             Taranto's near Biloxi   

Ok get ready... Whole bunch of selfies with my family in Biloxi ..me, mom and my sister, Georgia

            Dad and I ---we re at beau RiViage

          Me and my sister Mary

        Brenda and I

          Baby sister Lina

        And my brother Joe

So bare, naked and exposed......

Our new Bimini 

One job was to put awAy bathing suits and take out something with sleeves since it's in low 70 s here in Virginia. Nights get as cool as 40s and 50s. 

Was telling my sisters of the space we have for our clothes.  Aaron has one cabinet, Jon has two cabinets and three drawers. I have three cabinets and four drawers.  You learn to fold small and make two deep rows of clothes. I roll all my jeans and pants. 

Deltaville, Virginia For Lovers

We arrived in Deltaville, VA on Wednesday October 16. This stop was recommended by our new friends, Denise and Ladd   They also need canvas done and recommended C-2 canvas as they were more reasonable than the places in Florida. We are enjoying the smell of pine trees and the views of the Chesapeake are simply marvelous (trying use other words than beautiful). The nights are getting cold and we keep reminding ourselves of the warmth to come. 

Jon says riding these "granny" bikes are like sailing on land. 

Do you know how hard it is to take a selfy when you're riding a bike?  This is as close as I got.

Visited the Deltaville maritime Museaum and park 

Aaron does a lot of this....

And this....

Jon and I enjoyed a bottle of homemade wine from our friend Ray.  Thanks Ray, perfect with homemade sauce!

Good Bye Annapolis

OK, my Dad is getting upset with me when I don't update our blog. So here goes...(I'll try to keep up)

   One thing we noticed about Annapolis is that they love there dogs. Not only that, they cater to them. Most of the restaurants have outside tables and menus for your pup. The universal hold true here as well

Narrow streets and cool historical buildings. 

  It rained for almost a week. When we weren't trying to kill each other, we tried out the clippers....Aaron first...

Then Jon...

A little off the sides please 

One of the nights it didn't rain at anchor on Back Creek. 

Hanging out in Ego Alley,  where the boat show was. Got some really sweet deals. 

Now one night stay at Solomans Island in front of the Maritime Museaum. This concludes our time on Maryland.  Now to Deltaville, Virginia. It is about 60 miles east of Richmond. We will have our canvas redone and get ready for the intercoastal. 

Annapolis, Here We Come

We re in Annapolis.   Got here today, September 29.  We're in the Back Creek. Dingy dock right beside us and about half mile from center of town. Jon loves it and is ready to stay here forever. 

Yeah.  Sigh,  it has lots of sticks in the air, a water taxi, pump out/harbor master boat and hundreds of docks to walk.  Etc,... Etc

We will stay here a couple weeks to see the boat show. Hoping to catch up with some of our Fair Haven friends. 

There were two separate dingy races to maneuver around....not to mention... You guessed it... CRAB POTS....

This is just one view of our little anchorage in Back Creek.   There is every kind of boat you could want to look at here. A dream come true.

The Beginning of the Chesapeake

We spent a day in the Bohemia Rivera and took a ride in our dingy to get rid of our garbage and see if the had a store.  It was a two and half mile ride to a marina.  We tied up and looked but no one was around or in the office. It was decided that I decided that I would stay with the dingy and the boys would walk into town (it was also decided that I would throw the garbage in the dumpster) Both things decided by the boys. A marina worker arrived by car and I won't soon forget her. She was very pleasant and we talked about the summer soon coming to an end. Debbie's husband is crabber by trade, he had back surgery this summer and didn't work this season at all. She said it didn't matter much because crabbing was terrible this year and there wasn't much to be had. The local distributor was having to get them from North Carolina. As we continued to talk, she also told me that the marina she worked for would be closed for good October 31 and she would be without a job.  Again it's remarkable how extremely blessed we are to be having and taking this opportunity to see the beautiful east coast. I won't forget Debbie or her husband and I won't take any of this for granted.  Debbie was gracious and said of course we could leave our garbage and she wished us well with a smile. 

Friday we left the Bohemia River and headed to Rock Hall, MD. It was a place Jon had found that offered free dock and electric(this would satisfy one of Aaron's wishes-- the other of course is wifi. After 30 miles of motoring we found our way in to a long town dock that was empty. Good luck for us. Rock Hall is an oyster town, which made clear by the statue on the dock and the $1.00 tram driver that took us to town and have us local history   It was a good stop. We were able to do laundry and restock groceries and beer

 

I choose this picture to give you an idea of the Chesapeake Bay. We have to stay above or around Virginia until November 1st. Then we ll start down the intercostal that begins in Norfolk   

Our boat on the town dock in the little Barbour of Rock Hall. 

The monument built to honor the oyster haulers. 

When we walked back from town the first day, Denise got scared because she thought someone was on her boat Blue. 

 Haha. 

Across the Delaware Bay

We actually had a practice run on Tuesday September 24th. This is when Denise and Ladd had showed us the most favorable tide and current to push right up the Bay. We questioned the wind but they felt the current was more important. So has we moved out toward the mouth of the Bay a very large fishing boat was waving his arms in a "no way!" motion.  We tried to understand but couldn't hear and was already committed out the narrow canal.  This is where we met the 4 to 6 foot waves, coming from exactly the direction we were going and with the wind prediction of 10 to 15 knots of wind from the north to northwest, we promptly turned around.  This did not please Aaron who was down below securing all our belongings that had been thrown around. Another day in Cape May.....noooooo. He had already made us breakfast of eggs and toasted bagels.  Well we did stay the tenth day and left the next to a favorable tide and current and 12 knot wind north east. So we were able to pull out our headsail, in 2 to 4 foot waves, and plow through. It was a beautiful day and by mid day there was little to no wind. By the time we got to the C & D Canal, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, it was about 3 pm and we knew we'd have a really nice current. It was so nice that we were averaging about 7.5 knots and even hit 8.2. ( ok you non boaters this is fast for a boat that normally averages 6 knots on a good day). We were thrilled and was able to make anchorage at the Bohemia River before dinner. All in all, about an easy ten hour day. 

Aaron steering...he was just excited to be moving again. 

Jon looking for crab pots...they are everywhere and would really mess up the prop if they were to get tangled in. 

 Beautiful sunset in the Bohemia River