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All is calm
02 April 2009 | Lancaster, VA
We're home! Finally. We had thought that we would be fighting the northerly component of a northeast wind today, but we mostly had no wind at all. The Chesapeake was like a millpond. There isn't much to see in this picture, but that was our view today. The calm sea blended into the gray sky as we chased Northern Gannets up the bay.
It was a great trip and we had a lot of fun, but we are glad to be back in a real house with electric heat and a comfy bed.
Friendly cats
01 April 2009 | Norfolk, VA
milepost 0, and then some
We're home! Nah, just kidding. April fools. We wish we were home. In fact, we toyed with doing an overnight sail since the weather tonight is better for going up the Chesapeake than the weather tomorrow, but it would have involved crossing the busy shipping lanes of Hampton Roads after dark and we wimped out. We made a quick right hand turn into the Lafayette River and will start up the Chesapeake tomorrow.
In the picture, Skydusky is on the right and Taravana, a Lagoon catamaran, is on the left as we are waiting for the Deep Creek bridge and lock. We have either seen Taravana in person or heard them on the radio all the way from the McCormick bridge in northern Florida. So here we are today as the only two boats doing the Dismal Swamp Canal. The friendly lockmaster even serenaded us with a conch horn. Must have been a slow day...
Choose to sail
31 March 2009 | Elizabeth City, NC
milepost 50
At the mouth of the Alligator River, we had the choice of taking the Virginia Cut route or the Dismal Swamp Canal. Since we have done the Dismal Swamp Canal the last two times through, we had hoped to do the Virginia Cut. But once we got to Albemarle Sound, the choice was either bashing into waves in one direction or sailing on a close reach in the other. So we are now anchored at Elizabeth City on the Dismal Swamp route, again, after doing a nice sail across Albemarle Sound and then getting to use the spinnaker going up the Pasquatank River as the wind bent around and pushed us up the river.
Pamlico sunrise
30 March 2009 | Alligator River, NC
milepost 104
In trying to decide how far to go today, we looked back at last year's logbook and saw that we went all the way from Oriental to the other side of the 20 mile long Alligator-Pungo canal, so that was our goal today. We managed to get out of our tight slip at the marina in the calm before dawn. Winds today were mostly 20-25 knots from the west and northwest making for a fast bumpy ride and then wound down to 10-15 knots in the late afternoon. We sailed when the winds were with us and motorsailed when they were against us. We are now anchored at the end of the canal in the North Carolina marshes with no other boats or houses or lights of any kind in sight.
Man's best friend
29 March 2009 | Oriental, NC
Ed took a picture of this dog, who has been everyone's friend here at the marina. Ed still says "no" to getting a boat dog (or cat), but he does miss Holly. We both do. We expect the people on "Imagine" have a good vacuum cleaner on board.