Cheryl's Notes:

Spent our last couple of days in Sarah Creek doing nothing. It was a beautiful spot for just relaxing. We did meet the Dammmeyers on Selah. They are from Eden Prairie, Minnesota and are working their way around the great loop. They take a few months off each year and work their way a little bit farther, then lay the boat up until the next year. I am not sure that they will be completing their journey. They have become property owners in NC and might stick there.

We left the York River today with quite a bit of excitement. As we left Sarah Creek we motored through a group of coast guard boats loaded with trainees. On one boat they were doing man over board A. We thought that they might use us for boarding training, but we slipped right through. We were making a quick getaway when we noticed the Navy warship bearing down on us. Warship #44 haled us on the radio and asked us to stand down until they could pass. There was a small patrol boat that swept alongside and stayed between us and the mothership until it passed by. I am glad that we weren't flying a pirate flag, they might have blown us out of the water.

We are now anchored in Godfrey Bay on the Piankatank River. Our plan is to head up to Urbanna on the Rappahannock River tomorrow.

John's Notes:

South bound sailing vessel approaching marker 13, this is War Ship 44..............
Oh, yea, sure. Lets chat. She wants to know what our intensions are. I tell her that in about a mile I'm making a hard turn to port. I didn't check it on radar, but I can tell that War Ship 44 is making turns for about 12kts. The Moran tug leading them down the York River is making 15kts and pushing a huge amount of water. We are making about 6kts. I didn't need much in the way of arm twisting to agree to back off until they are well past us. Of course the go fast escort boat is only 50 years off our port as insurance. Like if I had turned to port under full power, there is no way that I could have come within 1000 yards of good old 44. Just another day on the water.

Coming down river this morning we spied all those Coast Guard patrol boats. I though for sure that someone had ratted us out from two years ago when we "liberated" R24 from it's mooring in the Hampton River. Leprechaun is still "at large."

Currently in one of our favorite anchorages. Headed for a totally new place tomorrow.