Up at 7 AM we smiled as we read the weather report — less than 5 knots of wind on a Chesapeake Bay that was flat calm. We readied the boat and said “See you along the way” to a retired marine family on their sailboat also getting underway this morning. We both moored last night at Regatta Point Yacht Center. We talked and found we are traveling a similar plan. They’re headed to the Bahamas for the first time. We’ve seen this before. They’ll travel their plan and we ours, yet meet along the way. It’s one of the benefits of this kind of travel ….meeting and developing friendships.
It was a peaceful 50 nautical mile cruise to Ocean Yacht Marina in Portsmouth. But studying the weather forecast we’re pretty sure we’ll be here until Saturday as a major wind weather event starts tonight with 35-knot gale force winds that lingers until Friday or Saturday. Our next travel events include going through Great Bridge Lock lock and onto Currituck Sound with its narrow dredged path for boats down to Coinjoick Marina near Albemarle Sound. Good weather needed for this stretch of the ICW. We’ll wait here until the winds die down. After dinner aboard, we’ve settled down to our nightly Jeopardy viewing.
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