SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2012
Today was an absolutely awful day. We got up before dawn at 5:45 a.m. We wanted to catch the current
again.
We traveled from Chesapeake
City through the C & D Canal to where it opens up into the Elk River.
Quite a bit of the time we had to travel in the channel because
of all of the fishnets that kept us from taking shortcuts.
The waves weren’t too bad until we made it
out into the Chesapeake Bay. Have
we mentioned how much we hate traveling on the Chesapeake? We bounced and bounced and bounced for
hours. We were miserable. All we could do was hold on. We’d be going along and fall off one
wave into a hole and then run into the next wave. We were taking waves over the bow that were splashing over
top of the pilothouse roof. I don’t even want to talk about the trip
because it was so bad. It seemed
like it took forever since we had to slow down because of the horribly rough water.
We finally zigzagged our way into Mill Creek (where
the rower hit us TWICE). We were
exhausted after going only 57 miles in almost 11 hours. We have gone 2731 miles so far. Tonight we will need to go to bed early.
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