EIDER 03-18-18

N39°31.566' / W075°48.539'

Put the anchor down last night at 10:30pm in Chesapeake City, MD.  Would have liked to stay a day in this very attractive small town but the weather is favorable for a run down Delaware Bay.  It will be great to have that behind us as it can be a bear. The trip from the Solomons started out rougher than expected so we had actually turned back but conditions moderated and we did a second u-turn to head back up towards Annapolis.  By the time we went under the Bay bridges it was calm .  It was an experience when we got to the large ship channel that leads to the C and D Canal.  We saw 6 large tubs , 2 moving the largest barges we have seen.  It was dark at that point and they pass us very close which makes it all loom bigger.  One tug had a barge piled high with ship containers.  I wondered if they were salvaged .  During the first of the recent series of winter storms s freighter lost 70 containers overboard off the coast of North Carolina.  It is like a millpond in here so a very comfy night at anchor.

03-19-18

Dawn in Chesapeake City

 Leaving Chesapeake City, MD on the C and D canal.

Headed down Delaware Bay to Cape May where we will wait out the next winter ‘event’