Sunday October 23: Deltaville, VA

Finally we are in a different state than Maryland! It was another long day of 65 miles - about 8 1/2 hours but we've found it's better to go when the weather is good than do short days and get stuck places. As you can see from the chart at the left, we're really making our way down the bay. Maybe one of these times we'll have time to stop all of the places we'd like to stop. Almost 130 miles in the last two days with 50 left for tomorrow until we arrive at Norfolk. (I notice Blogspot has been doing some weird things with the pictures. If you click on the picture to enlarge it, all of the pictures sometimes are along the bottom of a black screen. You can blow any of them up by now clicking on the words at the bottom left of the screen.)

When we left this morning from Solomons Island, it was crystal clear - until we untied and moved 30 feet out from the dock! Suddenly we were sitting in fog. The sun was up so we continued out of the channel - thinking that the sun would burn through the fog pretty quickly. It did and we were on our way. Another picture perfect day on the bay. Winds less than 8 mph and waves less than 1 foot - often ripples. Saw lots of sailboats headed south with us - it was almost like a freeway as we left the Solomon Island! Also saw half a dozen freighters and cargo ships headed most likely to Baltimore.

Our destination was Deltaville, VA. Steve once again did a great job of finding us a dock at the Fishing Bay Yacht Club. He's checking out how the lines are tide as we haven't been at a fixed dock for the last two months. Not much of a tide here though - 1 1/2 feet. The dock is free as they have reciprocal agreements with any Yacht Club of America members. We qualify because of the MTOA trawler group to which we belong. We like free :-) Anyway, it's a very nice place (not that I've been off of the boat yet!) and we'll be off tomorrow for Norfolk. Depending on weather, we may stay an extra day. We're not used to these long days of travel yet!!