Norfolk

We stayed today and played tourist. This picture was taken on the USS Wisconsin a battle ship docked here in Norfolk and open for tours. It was amazing how large it is. After touring the Navel museum, we took the ferry back to Portsmouth and walked Old Town. The architecture was very interesting and picturesque, it takes you back in time.
The weather today was mild with sunshine, temperature was in the 60's. We plan to leave tomorrow morning around 9AM when the first bridge opens. We will take the Dismal Swamp route spending the night at the Visitors Center.

Leaving Deltaville on the 36

Larry says it's been difficult to get a good weather window this year. He was right again. We left Deltaville this morning at 7 AM. The wind waves were on our nose. We have yet to have a good sail on the Chesapeake Bay. Maybe next year! After 9 hours and very little to eat, I wasn't going below, we finally arrived in Norfolk. We had planned to anchor again in Hospital Basin but when there were 25 knot, gusting to 38 knot winds and white caps in the river we intelligently decided to go into Tidewater Yacht Marina. The winds are to increase with rain this evening. We have decided to stay one more day here in Norfolk, there is a lot to see and we are not on an agenda but we are eager to get to warm weather.

Still in Deltaville

The picture is Larry on Thanksgiving carving our turkey dinner. You can see we even had pumpkin pie. Our oven works great!

After an early attempt yesterday morning, Friday to leave Deltaville, we returned because of and issue with our radar. The plan now is to leave on Tuesday morning. With the Holiday Raymarine is closed for the weekend, oh well. The temperature dropped to 20 degrees last night. We would have been at anchor in Norfolk without heat. Not fun! The temperature is supposed to rise and will be up to 70 by Tuesday. I guess all worked out in our (at least my) favor.

Ready to Sail

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and we are ready to sail again! Friday is the plan, weather permiting.

We will have Thanksgiving dinner aboard our new boat. This will be our first not only on the new boat but any boat. It will also be the first time ever being away from family. Lots of firsts.

It took us just under a week to move from the old boat to the new boat and settle everthing.

The weather is getting cold here and it is definitely time to go south. In the picture you can see our full enclosure, I'm sure we will be glad that we have it.