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Putting the boat in the water - June

Saturday and Sunday August 25-26

It was too hot to do anything. But it looked like the weather might be good for Labor Day, so I started thinking about going out in the boat. I wasn't too thrilled to be out on the Bay in good weather on a holiday weekend with all the crazies, but I thought Bob was getting impatient to do something with the boat, so I started turning off my email lists anyway

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Grandson at the wheel

Because except for two days with one of our grandsons, we haven't been anywhere except from the haul slip to our slip this summer. One of those days, the wind was quite boisterous (top photo) and he had a good time learning to steer the boat. The other day there was no wind and it was mostly motoring - boooring.

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Historic church in Chaptico

August 27th

Monday, I went out to Chaptico to take pictures of a church that's on the National Register of Historic Places. I called the Washington Post to stop delivery. Told them the last day would be Tuesday and to start delivery the following Tuesday, although I had actually planned to be home on Sunday.

I also called Parks Marina in Tangier and asked him if we could tie up to the dock by the marina office on Wednesday night, and I called the Onancock marina for Friday night. Mr Parks said not to get there before 2 pm.

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My crab toast appetizer

Tuesday August 28th

We decided to move onto the boat this afternoon, and as usual, I was packing at the last minute while Bob was ready hours ahead.

It was hot, and took two trips in the cart. Bob did not start the refrigeration - just took a cooler. That means that we don't have any cold water to drink. After we got things stowed, we went to Schiebles for dinner. Bob had a crabcake sandwich with applesauce, and I had a crab toast appetizer. This was a kind of large matzo - pizza type crust with crab meat on the top, topped with cheese. Very good. The cashier left before we finished so we had to wait quite a while for someone to take our money.

Then we came back to the boat and put the cushions in the cockpit and made the beds. I found that I could use the marina wireless network in the cockpit , but not in the cabin.

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Tug pushing barge with spuds

Wednesday, August 29th

Finally got underway about 8. It is almost dead calm in the marina - the water is smooth and unruffled except by passing wakes. Bob tried to put the sails up for a bit, but the wind was from the east, and that's where we were heading. I called Somers Cove Marina in Crisfield and they said we could come in for Thursday night but would absolutely have to leave on Friday by noon because they were expecting 130 boats in that day.

We passed a tug and tow coming up the Potomac, and saw other barges (including one with spuds) and tugs in the river and bay.

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Point Lookout, partly obscured

As we passed Point Lookout, I noticed that there is some kind of building that has been built almost in front of it so you can't really see it from the river mouth, and almost not at all from the bay. There's also a big pier out from near there on the Bay side. We were really too far from either Point Lookout or Smith Point for any pictures.

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Bell/horn marker off Point Lookout

We ate some fried chicken in the cockpit about noon. The Chesapeake Breeze (the Reedville Tangier ferry) sped past us at 2:15. We reached the Green 1 for the Bay entrance to Tangier