Inspiration for a great song

 I thought the excitement for the day was going to be the variety of  bridges we went under, but we found something soooo much more exciting.  We were up at 4:45am and got off the dock very smoothly, letting that strong current, once again, do the work for us.  It pulled our bow away from the dock and off we went.  There is a very, very shallow part of the channel, my job was to watch the depth finder as we slowly went over the top of it. We ended up having plenty of water under the keel, a whole 22”  before we would have dug into the muck.  After we got into deeper water, we enjoyed a beautiful sunrise. I have learned to enjoy sunrise, I have slept through 99% of them in my life and just didn’t know what I was missing.  The ocean was quite snotty for awhile, 30 knots of wind, 3’ waves.  I managed without Dramamine, maybe I am finally getting some sea legs.  Lots of pics today! Today we went from Delaware City to Baltimore MD,  64 miles, 9 hours.

We took so much seawater over the bow, we had to hose of the windshield.

David stumbled onto this blurb while looking at bridge Information.  We found the buoy, it was very moving, we live in an amazing country.

This is the view that inspired the Star Spangled Banner.

One of the bridges along the way.

Francis Scott Key is memorialized buy this buoy.

A different bridge along the way.

Our Coast Guard on patrol.

Bridges galore today.

If you tap the picture I believe it enlarges it so you can see the detail.  A tug was towing this container ship.
One of many sunrise pics.


You can see how fast the current is flowing.

Sunrise is starting 






The current was flowing so fast, we weren’t making much headway.  Even this little sailboat passed us, ha.

Mah-umm, when are we gonna be there. I’m so bored!

Another engineering accomplishment.  This is a train bridge that lowers the cross piece to complete the track for the train to pass.

Mr. Key’s inspiring view
Oh no, more military ships, I promise not to write a book about the minutiae.

The cannons are still there.  Also statues have been erected.



Fort  McHenry.

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