We pulled up anchor at 8 so as to have one foot of water above low tide to work with. We were able to leave the anchorage without incident. The day was a little foggy and it drizzled most of the day. Near the end of the day we seemed to cross some invisible barrier as we traveled down the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. It went from cool and misty to bright, hot and humid. In an instant.

AIS is a wonderful device and it was very useful several times today. It allows other boats to see you on their chart and lets them know your boat name. So when a boat was catching up to me as I tried to go around a tug, he could call me on the radio and tell me what the tug wanted us to do and what he was going to do to avoid both me and the tug.

An ocean type container ship came down the river. He was quite large and basically wanted others out of the channel since he was so large. Now ships have extremely loud horns. One can hear them from several miles away over the water. As I was getting ready to take his picture (so he was very close), he decided it was foggy. So he gave one long, loud blast of his horn - right next to me. I almost dropped my phone!

A third boat joined us on our dock. Steve and Ruthie from Waterlily, who joined us for dinner. They are veteran cruisers and they both had a wealth of knowledge about everything on the East Coast, plus Bahamas and Caribbean. So they were very informative and helpful. Roger had been following someone blogging on YouTube about his sailing adventures. The blogger turned out to be Steve's son.