Day Five--Chesapeake City to Annapolis

This has been the best day yet. Two Navy ships escorted us all the way through the remainder of the C&D

Canal.

 

When we entered the Chesapeake we were able to raise both sails and sailed the entire way down the Chesapeake to Annapolis. The winds were 10-15 with gusts up to 20 and the sailing was just fantastic.

 

The water was quite muddy and had a lot of sticks and logs floating in it after yesterday's storms.

It was so exciting to sail under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. We have driven over it many times and watched other boats sailing in the water below. I can't tell you how many bridges we have passed under this week but this was my favorite by far.

 

We picked up a mooring ball, our first on Breeze On. I was at the helm and George was handling the mooring.

 

We also arranged to have the pump out boat to come and pump out our holding tanks. We have two heads and two nine gallon holding tanks on Breeze On. George and I were using one head and found out that a nine gallon tank was filled in two days. We used the worker's bathroom when we were staying at McMichael Yacht Yard so this was our first experience with a pump out. It wasn't as bad as we expected. George held the nozzle down as tight as he could to avoid a disaster.

 

 

We took the water taxi over to Eastport for dinner and as we were leaving we got to see a different perspective of Breeze On.

 

 

Tomorrow we head for Cambridge. It will be nice to be home but I am still a little anxious about docking in our slip. Suky has given me homework to visualize docking it without any problems. That is one more challenge in a week filled with challenges.

 

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