Wow…I have NOT been doing a good job of keeping you all up to date on our travels lately. Sorry! Gonna work hard on rectifying this, starting right here and now with this post. When we last left you, we were going through bridges trying to make our way...
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We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Bridges!
Or shoals…or live firing at Marine Corps bases…or opposing currents…or eight foot tides…or high winds when we’re at anchor… Everything doesn’t always come up roses when traveling down the ICW in a sailboat that needs 53 feet of clearance above it and 6 feet below! On the day that...
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?
To leave or not to leave…that is the question we find ourselves asking on so many occasions lately. After leaving the Dismal Swamp, we’d headed to Elizabeth City, NC with intentions of staying for a night and continuing along our merry way early the next morning. So, we made...
Dismal? I Don’t Think So!
At the beginning of the ICW we had to make a choice. We could have either taken the Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal (also known as the Virginia Cut) or followed the Dismal Swamp Canal. With a name like Dismal Swamp, it was an easy choice for us! 😉 At...
Goodbye Chesapeake…Hello ICW!
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...
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...
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,...
Hiding from Joaquin
We would have loved to have had some time to check out Cape May, but we were now racing to hide from hurricane Joaquin, so Jim got busy checking tide tables and currents. We had two issues to contend with. First of all, we were looking for low tide...