Sea and Sky

Day 2 of our first “solo cruise” is going great. We anchored out in a pretty exposed area but it was so calm that we just bobbed gently and had Amazing views. I know it’s boring for most people but I can’t stop taking pictures of the sea and sky. The comings and goings of the day are so beautiful! At times, you can barely see where one ends the other begins.

We celebrated our first night solo at anchor watching the sun set from the cockpit.

We woke up to this.

We were very near a military training area and while coming in to anchor we saw several navy vessels flying around the restricted area. We’re not sure what waked us in the night but something very large and very fast went by. We’ve never been rocked as extremely before, even aboard Lucky. If our bed wasn’t athwart ship (across the width rather than fore/aft), we would have been thrown hard out of bed. Thankfully, nothing fell down and broke, but wow, I’d love to know what passed in the night!

This morning I drove us out of the anchorage and have put in a few hours today at the helm. It’s been much more quiet down lower in the bay. This morning there were flocks of pelicans and this afternoon there are tugs pulling barges that look like cities with shacks on them (dredging barges). Mid day, we met up with 2 Nordhavns at the mouth of the Potomac and said hello via the VHF radio :}

We’ve been making good time again today. If we continue as we are, we should arrive in Yorktown this evening just before sunset. If so, we’ll anchor right next to the marina, where Sean & Louise were anchored last night. There’s supposed to be very strong current in the river so we’ll wait for slack tomorrow to go to the marina.  We made the trip down much more quickly than we thought we would. At 1500 rpm we’ve been averaging 7 knots/hour with a fuel burn of about 4.5. That’s not bad!   

Boat Business

• The fridge light fixed itself
• The new router died! (Thankfully, there’s a Best Buy in Yorktown)