Rough seas

 Aside from the pretty bumpy ride today, there was not much excitement, but I'll take it!  We left the Solomons at 8am and for some reason, we had no GPS, fixed that, then no auto pilot, fixed that, no depth finder, fixed that and then we were on our way.  I think the instruments just had a brain fart as all we had to do is turn them off and back on again, a very easy solution.  The winds were as projected, 16 knots but the swell, a different story.  We estimated about a 4' swell with a 5 second interval (that means the "waves" were 4' high and ever 5 seconds a new one hits you), it was plenty to give us an "E Ticket" ride.  I slept quite a bit but just because I get so sleepy with the motion of the boat.  I did take the helm for a little while so David could watch his football game.  It was sure easy pulling into the marina, we spent so much time here and did so many trial runs that it has become quite familiar.  Tomorrow's job will be to wash the boat again and  move the boat into a real slip.  There were no slips available for tonight so we poached the gas dock.  The lady that was here last time that was fixing her sails to accomadate some new hardware that had, still has her heavy duty sewing machine here.  I think I will ask her if I might borrow her machine and sew some new velcro on our rail covers, she probably will. Today we went from Solomons MD to Deltaville VA, 60 miles and 8 hours.  No videos, terrible svc.


Don't know if you can see it but this couple had 4-5 Jack Russell puppies chasing the frisbee in the water.


The Little Tugboat That Could. ( pull a very heavily loaded cargo ship)

 


                Is this a crab spider??  It is about the size of the palm of your hand and beautiful too!



 Sunrise.
Sunset.

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