Finally in the Chesapeake Bay - Yeah - WED.

After anchoring at 12:20 AM this morning... at Reedy Island after a very long day...(coming from Atlantic City, NJ...down the coast, then all the way up Delaware Bay...) we slept in a bit..

After a late breakfast...and tidying up the vessel a bit, and replacing the smallest Bilge pump, ...we decided that we were getting pounded in this anchorage at Reedy Is. (outgoing tide, and opposing wind)...with 2 to 3 foot waves rolling through anchorage, and pounding us in the side... (as you don't lay to the wind, and waves there... you lay to the current).

So...if we were going to get "pounded" anyway.. .we may as well do it while moving! So we upped anchor and took off to the C&D canal....

Picking up the anchor there, at Reedy Island, is always interesting... because as a result of the current, and it's affect on the hull, and keel.. the anchor is sometimes behind the boat (to our stern)... wierd but true...

So to raise the chain, Susan actually had to back the boat up while I wound in the chain. Fun Wow.

So... off we went...Wild, and foggy trip for the first 3 nm up to the C&D... one tug and barge came out of the C&D canal, and just dropped the hook right in front of us... Perhaps it was THAT BAD!!! ????

OH well...we were committed now...to the west bound passage. So... in we went with the wind behind us now... and an EBB tide Moveing toward the Chesapeake...we carried quite a bit of speed all the ways through and about half-way down the Chesapeake route to STILL POND, which is where we anchored.

 ONE weird thing happened about 1/2 hr away from our anchorage...the engine buzzer (trouble alarm started buzzing)... One would think.."OMG" shut the engine down... BUt wait... the buzzer hasn't worked in 6 months...(since the trip north)... why now.. The gauges (oil pressure, and water temp) show normal readings... Then as quick as it started.. the buzzing stopped... then started... then stopped... What the heck?????

So... tomorrow we take apart the engine control/display... and see what's happening.

We also discovered that with all the motoring and motor sailing in fairly rough waters...we've developed a leaky rudder packing. GREAT !!! Always something to keep us busy, right?

So...we're anchored in Still Pond just north of Annapolis, MD (about one day's sail). Weather will most likely make tomorrow a project day, right here at anchor. The barometer dropped about 1/4 of the glass...and the wind is now howling in the rigging. We're both tired...and may make a very early evening of it....