TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2012
We
had another decision to make.
Remember how we have to go really far off the Chesapeake to get into the
anchorages. We calculated that we
would save two days, 20 miles and 4 hours travel time if we just went directly
to Little Creek. We decided to go
for it. We couldn’t wait to get
off the Chesapeake. It has not
been nice to us. We left the
anchorage at 6:10 a.m. It took us about an hour to get out into the bay. Only ripples on the water so far.
It started raining about 6:55 a.m. We are so glad we don’t have an open
cockpit like we did on the sailboat.
We can travel in the rain and not get wet. In the sailboat we’d have been soaked by now. We love our windshield wipers.
I did take a picture of Point No Point
Lighthouse that was too far away last time.
It was overcast and rainy on and off all
day long. It was bouncy and choppy
at times. TRAVELLER took
everything the Chesapeake dished out and kept chugging along. More spray from the waves splashed over the cockpit roof.
We saw a Navy hovercraft zooming along out
in that mess. Can't believe I took a picture of something so fast, can you? The LCAT even talked
to us when we got really close to the marina to tell us he would be coming in
soon.
We could see the tiny lights of Little
Creek from at least 10 miles out.
As we got closer and closer, the waves calmed down. It was hard to
distinguish one set of lights from another. Thankfully we had the chartplotter
to guide us in. Gary could tell
which way to go since we’d already spent a couple of weeks there on the way up.
We tied up to the fuel dock at 10:06
p.m. We traveled for 103 miles in almost 16 hours. Our total
mileage now is 2889 miles. We were
so glad to be there. We were going
to spend the night at the dock and check in tomorrow. Can’t wait to see Sara’s family.
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