Thursday, September 12. Day 65 Today we are going to Arlington, VA to visit Phil’s cousins Karen and Jerry. We woke early at 6am and left the boat at 645am to walk a little over a mile to the Bus stop. When we got there, the 160 express bus just arrived and not knowing if […]
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Monday September 9, Day 62 Our first full day in Essex, my niece was working in the morning, so we relaxed on the boat. I worked most of the time updating the blog and Phil was reading or doing what he does on the iPad. For lunch I doctored the crab spaghetti, which made it […]
Wednesday, September 4. Day 57 606am we start the engine, but the snubber hooked on the chain twice, once in the top part and again in the bottom slot and it was something for Phil to get unhooked. Finally at 615am we raised anchor the 2nd boat to leave. At 645am on the Atlantic Ocean […]
Sunday, September 8. Day 60 We’ve been gone for 2 months. It’s hard to believe. Today our goal is to get to Middle River as close to where our Niece, Heather, lives to spend a few days. We raised anchor at 731am knowing that we would be fighting the current all the way down, but […]
Saturday, September 7. Day 59 Last night we set the alarm for 5am so that we would have 30 min to get ready to leave at 530am so that we would catch the rising tide at the end of Cape May Canal to ride the current up the Delaware Bay. I don’t know what happened, […]
We had a wonderful visit with our friends Jim and Linda for 4 1/2 days which started when we raised anchor at 423pm to go through Oyster Channel at high tide through Barnegat Bay to tie up at 555pm at their dock. Here are some photos that Clive, and neighbor and sailor, took as we […]
Tuesday, September 3. Day 56 We very much enjoyed our stay with Jim and Linda and appreciate all the hospitality. We hope to see them again later in our travels. After our last breakfast we left their dock at 933am to be close to high tide on our way through Oyster Channel so if we […]
I started out the day washing two loads of clothes while Phil cleaned the side decks and cockpit on Changes. I had my iPad with me and checked the weather, as we often do daily before a passage and it looked like it had changed to be SW on Friday instead of continued E or […]
The long-awaited camera connection kit arrived today. hurrah! Below are some photos that I have wanted to share with you, Inside front and top zippers for side window Mostly finished side windows. Need Phil to put on quarter turn hardware to attach to Bimini tubing. Putting the fixed wind instrument on top of the mast. […]
I am sorry that I’m so far behind with keeping up with the blog. Phil and I have been very busy with the canvas and dinghy projects and the an overnight trip to Barnegat Bay. I received my USB cord that was suppose to work with my camera connection kit, which doesn’t so now waiting […]
Travels with the Dolsens 