STILL in STILL POND - Chesapeake Bay

Good Morning… it’s still Thursday the 20^th of OCT.

The wind started blowing toward Gale Force this morning… very early… about 4 AM… we were up a couple of times from then on until dawn…checking things… and not really getting back to sleep.

We did try to leave the Still Pond anchorage (although with this wind… it’s not a very ‘still pond’).  We pulled the anchor up about 0830 and tried to motor out into the Bay…. NO WAY…

Gale force gusts, with steady winds of 30 knots… with 3 to 5 foot waves, some coming over the bow… convinced us this was not a good move…. So we came about, and returned to STILL POND.

But… This time we anchored way over to the east, and against the south shore… somewhat more protected than the place we were in last night.

We’re still rocking a bit with the rollers coming in from the Bay… but it’s a LOT more protected…!!!

 

Anyway… we fixed a nice breakfast,  more coffee… I fixed the anchor ball, and am now making fresh water for dishes, etc.

I did manage to get in a nap… until one mammoth explosion entered my ears…. Wham… I was up and out of the berth like a shot… I thought the anchor chain, or swivel had snapped, and we would be adrift…  Turns out it was that Army proving ground just across the Bay…. Artillery…. I think it’s Aberdeen… ???    Must have been a "bunker buster"... !!!

Anyway…. Once awake… I decided to continue with some of the projects….

I did take the offending buzzer out the circuit for the main engine warning system; …. And tape up the wires…. That was truly weird… (why it started working after 6 months or more of sabbatical?????)

It does appear that we have better TV reception, and internet service on this side of the “pond”…. Don’t know why that would be, but… we’ll take it.

OK… have to go check the watermaker again…. Filling just the forward-starboard tank…for now…