Beautiful morning. Gentle wind from a favorable direction. Let’s go!
The people we’ve met along our trip have given us lots of tips about places to stay, where to eat and an occasional warning about crossings (Albermarle!!) and shoals. None of them have mentioned how choppy the Chesapeake is. Our Lake Michigan sailing friends will know what we mean about chop — and the chop on the Chesapeake is worse than it is on Lake Michigan. That’s the good news and the bad news. Good because we are reassured that Dot Calm will do just fine when we get her to Lake Michigan. Bad because we will need to deal with Chesapeake chop for much of the rest of our trip.
The Tides marina is attached to the Tides Inn, a posh and polished cousin of Greenbriar and the Gasparilla Club on Boca Grande. Not so much chintz or green and pink fabrics, but swank just the same. There is a spa….ooooh that sounds good.
But, alas, the weather gods say we need to leave tomorrow in order to have reasonable distances between stops to make it to Washington DC to catch our plane to California.
Morning update…we are staying extra days for another weather window…because I ran out of a critical med and there are absolutely no pharmacies at the next two stops. That means we will be on a very tight schedule from Thursday on. One of the bromides in sailing safety school is that the most dangerous piece of equipment on a boat is a calendar. The other is a patient who doesn’t have the sense to check pill supply.
Here are a couple of past event photos to share!
