Pasadena

    We are now on land for annual service to the boat. It's going to be a very expensive stop. We've been having issues the last few years with peeling bottom (anti-fouling) paint. It's going to cost a lot to have the bottom soda-blasted, barrier coated and painted.

     To make things more hectic we have been negotiating (now finished) our house sale and repairs and are waiting for financing confirmation, then the closing.

      Getting here was interesting. My last post was written while underway off the coast of New Jersey. We had a good sail until we got to Atlantic City right around sunset. The course change put us more into the wind and seas. The bigger chop only lasted about an hour before the seas dropped to under a foot again. Not bad.

     We had to go around Cape May in the dark through a very narrow passage in the reefs. We came pretty close to a 6 foot shoal before making it through the most dangerous areas. Then we aimed for the main shipping channel. I went to bed for two hours just before we reached the channel and woke up for my shift to find us a mile or more off course on the wrong side of Ship John Shoal. Scary. Took me a while to get back on track. Fortunately daylight came and all was well.

     We started through the C & D Canal about 0800 and passed by Chessapeake City and its free dock to go on to the Sassafras River off Chessapeake Bay. The last segment from the Canal to the Sassafras was nasty, bashing into a very big, nasty chop. Pounding is no fun. It was a nice quiet anchorage, however. We'd never been there before. All in all it was a 30.5 hour passage.

     The next day we went to 'our' spot in Worton Creek. It was only two hours away so even though it wasn't a great day to be on the Bay again, it was short.

     After that we went to Bodkin Creek where Pleasure Cove Marina is.

     And that's where we are now. Not knowing when we will leave or how much it's going to cost us.