After a cloudy, chilly, rainy, and you guessed it…foggy trip from Reedville, VA to Deltaville, VA we spent we spent the next three nights at anchor waiting out a bunch of rain and some heavy winds. On the fourth morning, the winds had died down, so we made our...
Articles for November 2015
Safety Check in the Fog!
As we pulled away from the Solomons area to make our way to Reedville, VA, it was overcast and a little foggy. We carefully made our way back out into the Patuxent River and under the bridge as we headed back towards the Chesapeake. It was very still and...
Exploring More of the Chesapeake
While we loved our time in Annapolis hanging on the Navy mooring ball in Weems Creek, eventually it was time to move on. Several people had told us that St. Michaels was a cute little town which we should visit if we had the chance, so it was there...
Annapolis Sail Boat Show
We’d been talking about going to the United States Sailboat Show in Annapolis, Maryland for several years, but had never made it out there. Instead, each winter we would drive (several times in blinding snowstorms!) to Chicago for the Strictly Sail Show, which up until this year had been...
Why I Secretly Love Fall
Shhh….don’t tell anyone, but I secretly LOVE fall! I mean summer will always be my first love, but there’s just something about fall. I don’t know if it’s the coolish/warmish days where you need a sweatshirt, but can still get by wearing shorts (for the record…I hate long pants!),...
Sailboats, Midshipmen and Blue Crabs, Oh My!
Wow! I have never seen so many sailboats in one place in my life. As we reached Annapolis, where we planned on attending the upcoming in water boat show, the sailboat traffic was crazy! There were boats sailing EVERYWHERE! The Navy sailboats were out with their beautiful spinnakers flying,...