October 10th and 11th
This blog will be a little out of date by the time we post it, because we’ve been anchoring and the wireless possibilities have been few.
Left the Cohansey River, calculating that we could make it up the rest of Delaware Bay before the current turned against us and then turn into the C& D Canal and still have a couple of hours of that current still in our favour. A beautiful day and the currents and winds cooperated. Dropped the sail for the canal and were lucky with ship traffic. Only a few and there was plenty of room each time they passed us. We arrived in Chesapeake City, almost at the end of the canal, hoping for the free dock we had read about. It was full so we headed into the basin to anchor. The chart listed plenty of water, however we grounded right at the entry. Docked right there was Highborne Lady, the boat with the couple who have done this trip 58 times. Well, in an instant, Bill, who is 84years old, was hopping off his boat and into his dingy and he motored over and pushed us off. No towboat necessary this time! We anchored in the basin and noticed Jock there, (the catamaran sailor who knows Willie Brown). He dingied over to our boat and then the four of us spent the afternoon visiting the museum there that is the old pump house and steam engine for the old canal, then walked over to the main dock for ice cream, and were joined by Bill and Barbara, our rescuers form Highborne Lady.
We headed out the next morning for Chesapeake Bay. Once in the Bay you knew you were in sailing territory finally….sailboats wherever you looked. We anchored in Worton Creek, and took our dingy, Sea Jay 2, in to the marina there. We were greeted by a very friendly dog named Rainy, who was really keen play fetch with his favourite stick no matter where you threw it. A person at the marina showed us Rainy’s willingness to take a running dive from the dock to fetch the stick and that sold Christopher. The next 45 minutes they were inseparable. We’re hoping the blog will let us load up a short video of that. Dingied back to Tiffany Rose, and a beautiful calm evening and night at anchor.
This blog will be a little out of date by the time we post it, because we’ve been anchoring and the wireless possibilities have been few.
Left the Cohansey River, calculating that we could make it up the rest of Delaware Bay before the current turned against us and then turn into the C& D Canal and still have a couple of hours of that current still in our favour. A beautiful day and the currents and winds cooperated. Dropped the sail for the canal and were lucky with ship traffic. Only a few and there was plenty of room each time they passed us. We arrived in Chesapeake City, almost at the end of the canal, hoping for the free dock we had read about. It was full so we headed into the basin to anchor. The chart listed plenty of water, however we grounded right at the entry. Docked right there was Highborne Lady, the boat with the couple who have done this trip 58 times. Well, in an instant, Bill, who is 84years old, was hopping off his boat and into his dingy and he motored over and pushed us off. No towboat necessary this time! We anchored in the basin and noticed Jock there, (the catamaran sailor who knows Willie Brown). He dingied over to our boat and then the four of us spent the afternoon visiting the museum there that is the old pump house and steam engine for the old canal, then walked over to the main dock for ice cream, and were joined by Bill and Barbara, our rescuers form Highborne Lady.
We headed out the next morning for Chesapeake Bay. Once in the Bay you knew you were in sailing territory finally….sailboats wherever you looked. We anchored in Worton Creek, and took our dingy, Sea Jay 2, in to the marina there. We were greeted by a very friendly dog named Rainy, who was really keen play fetch with his favourite stick no matter where you threw it. A person at the marina showed us Rainy’s willingness to take a running dive from the dock to fetch the stick and that sold Christopher. The next 45 minutes they were inseparable. We’re hoping the blog will let us load up a short video of that. Dingied back to Tiffany Rose, and a beautiful calm evening and night at anchor.
1 comment:
Great video! Have tried to post comments before, no luck. Have followed some other instruction, so hope this works.
Have also sent e-mail.
Continued happy Sailing!
Dad
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