We Have a Plan

It appears we have a weather window that will allow us to leave Beaufort and travel around Cape Hatteras to the Chesapeake Bay. The conditions won’t be ideal by any stretch of the imagination but the trip should be doable. We plan to leave Beaufort sometime during the day tomorrow and go to Cape Lookout where we will anchor and wait for the north wind to drop and shift to the south. That shift is forecast to take place around sunset. We will then leave Cape Lookout and head toward Cape Hatteras and the Chesapeake. The large low-pressure system that has been sitting offshore for several days has kicked up some large seas so we will hug the coast as much as possible.  We have decided to continue on up the Chesapeake and go straight home, arriving sometime late Tuesday night. We were getting nervous that we would be stopped by the coast guard or DNR since recreational boating has been banned by the governor. George called the DNR yesterday to ask if we will be allowed to travel home. The person he spoke to, Captain Campbell, said she would have to check with the governor's office and call back. She did call back and said since we have been living aboard for the past five months we are not considered recreational boaters and will be allowed to go home. 

In the meantime we have fallen into a routine while we are confined to the marina. We eat breakfast in our sunny, east facing cockpit, otherwise known as the “sunroom”. We spend some time reading and checking the news—although I look at the news less and less these days—and playing games. I have never been a person who enjoys video games but I have recently started playing as a means of distraction. My latest game is FreeCell. Early in the week we would complete at least one chore, although we have run out of chores to do on the boat. We go for at least one walk up and down the docks of the marina each day. I have been practicing my ukulele and we play a game of Bananagrams in the late afternoon. We are both looking forward to getting home. 

Sitting in the “sunroom”