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Norfolk, VA

21 October 2009
We are here! Finally, some warm weather and lovely sunshine. We had a tough journey down from Cape May, the forecast Westerlies were nowhere in sight and instead we had steady SouthWesterly winds blowing about 12-15 knots (we were traveling south-west!). Not only that but the seas were awful and we were slamming into 3 foot chop the whole way. The only consolation was that it was a beautiful sunny day and then a crystal clear starlit night. The sunrise this morning was amazing and followed shortly thereafter by sightings of Dolphins and Pelicans - an indication that we had arrived in the south. It took us several hours to reach the anchorage here in Norfolk where we jostled for position with a lot of French-Canadian boats. Our day was complete when we spied Blessed Spirit here in the anchorage. After establishing radio contact we arranged to head over to them for celebratory drinks - Ahhh we are cruising at last!

The photo shows the amazing sunset from last night. The second photo shows our little hitch-hiker who joined us for part of the way- a little yellow rumped warbler. As you can see he was very tired.



Total distance: 168nm
Time taken: 30 1/2 hours
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Vessel Name: Osprey
Vessel Make/Model: Shannon38 #33
Hailing Port: East Greenwich, RI
Crew: Tom & Vicky Worosz
About: We have cruised to the Bahamas and back twice ad are now back on land for a while. This Summer (2012) we have outfitted ourseleves with motorcycles and are heading off for a month long "land cruise'

Who: Tom & Vicky Worosz
Port: East Greenwich, RI