Maryland and Beyond

Another beautiful sunset, in Solomons, MD

There's not much to report, we've had a quiet couple of days. Yesterday was cool and rainy, a perfect day for getting things done. Martin and Jim changed the oil in the main engine. That required going to a hardware store to get some tools first. A kind man at the office offered to give them a ride so that made it much easier. The oil change was a success so that’s a major maintenance item done. I cleaned, made a crockpot curry for dinner and finally took inventory of all our food stores and recorded it in an excel spreadsheet. 

This morning we headed out early for Annapolis. The forecast was for 4ft seas which made me a bit nervous about getting seasick but we’re out here now and it’s about 1 to 1.5. I guess I didn’t need the patch, but better safe than sorry!  I’m looking forward to Annapolis. There’s even a quilt shop biking distance from the marina!  We’ll have the Dometic folks come out to do some work on the chiller and we’ll get to play tourist a bit too. 

We have our itinerary more or less set for the next couple months.  We’ll spend 2 days in Annapolis, leaving on the 12^th,. Then we’ll head across the bay for the east side and hook up, Finally(!) with our friends Sean & Louise. We’ll go to Baltimore on the 19^th and drop Jim off. We’ll stay in Baltimore for a little over a week, attend Trawler Fest, and Jeff will be back on board with us for the week.  Then we head to Yorktown, near Williamsburg, VA.  My Mom is planning to come out and join us for about 5 days. Around the 9^th, we’ll head to Deltaville with our friends while they have some work done. 

Some time around the 15^th we’ll have a Nordhavn rep, Devin, coming to meet us from the west coast. He’ll be helping us get back down to Stuart, FL. We’ll have a bit of warranty work done and then we’ll head to Ft. Lauderdale where we’ll be in the Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show. I’m a bit nervous about having Blossom in the show, it’s weird to have hundreds of strangers walking through your home. Once we’ve met that obligation, we’ll return to Stuart to finish our warranty work (including getting our new propeller).  I’m heading home for about 2 weeks in November and when I return, we’ll be free to cruise!  We plan on spending the holidays with Sean & Louise in the Florida area. Key West anyone?