An auspicious day (10-10-10) and off to a great start. Richard & Virginia Cross from s/v Mandy out of San Diego (but on the hard - for too long- in Deltaville) joined us for our shakedown cruise. Getting away from the dock at Norton's was an immediate joy. Seeing the Rappahonock River from the mouth of Broad Creek was amazing. And no words can describe how at it was to then be on the Chesapeake again!
We went "wet" again on Thursday morning. Friday and Saturday were a blur of things to get done. It always seems like the list is endless. We bent on sails on Friday, though, so that meant we were a sailboat again. We put the full cockpit enclosure up on Saturday, so that meant we were an Island Packet again!
All the tension and anxiety of putting a boat back in the water immediately faded away when we raised sails in the Rappahonock. Though we were only making 3 1/2 knots in 6 to 8 knots of wind (and bucking the in-coming tide), it felt like we were flying! The Bay was flat and the wind light, but we managed to sail South (!!) around Stingray Point to the Pianitank River. Since the wind then gave up we motorsailed up river to peek into Fishing Bay. Then back out to Jackson Creek, where we anchored off the pink chairs we last saw in June.
A 3 1/2 hour sail to travel a distance that is one mile by land (Jackson Creek and Broad Creek are on either side of the pennisula which is Deltaville). But its idyllic here. Almost pastoral compared to the dozen closely spaced marinas on Broad Creek. And to be floating at anchor. It's great to be back!
Tomorrow, we head South....
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