We made it...

Woke up this morning to decent weather.... WELL... (sort of)...

it was very nice in STILL POND up at the north east corner of the Chesapeake....

I even pulled up the anchor with no-one at the helm... (remember..manual windlass)... it was THAT calm in the "pond"....(which by the way.. isn't a pond at all... just a small bay).

Anyway....once we started out into the chesapeake... toward Annapolis the protection given by the "Still POND" borders became violently obvious... the Bay was sort of a wreck... The color of a light chocolate milkshake, with the mud of the bottom stirred up....

As we continued to the South West I had to haul in the yankee to 1/4 of it's full size... the winds raised to 31.+ knots, at one point.... but for the most part stayed about 20 to 24 knots.... (for those sailors out there... the winds came to the point where the "backsides" of the waves were blown 'smooth'....then the breaking tops blew off...

Not a really good sign....)

For the first few hours of the trip down to Annapolis we looked like the only boat out there.... Small Craft Warnings were up but... it wasn't that bad... we were doing 7 to 8 knots, using the tidal current... as a boost...

The USCG came on the radio and mentioned that the US Navy was exercising a security area of 1000 yards around a naval vessel near the Severn River... (our destination)... GREAT!!! Turns out the naval vessel was a Submarine...

NEAT !!!! Small Attack type.... I think....

I had to laugh at that.... This is our fifth year of doing this.... and we still move during the crap weather, and sit and visit with friends during the nice weather.... Maybe someday we'll actually "MOVE during the GOOD weather"

Tonight we were picked up by Deb Taber, and went to dinner in East Port... NICE... we do look forward to visiting with Deb. Susan is staying over at Deb's tonight.... and I may do that tomorrow, IF Sydney will get along with their two cats.