First Day Out

We left home this morning at 9:30 am. Our departure was delayed by about a half hour because we had to go out in search of WiFi. We disconnect our WiFi router and mail it back to Xfinity each fall before we leave. Xfinity does offer a plan to pause service, but for only three months. Yesterday George disconnected our router and mailed it to Xfinity. This morning we wanted to listen to the forecast of our weather guru, Chris Parker, before we left home. George had planned to ask Chris about the best day to go offshore around Cape Hatteras during the question period at the end of Chris’s broadcast. When George tried to use his phone to connect to Chris’s website, it wouldn’t connect. We tried to sign in with my phone and had the same problem. So we hopped in the car and drove a few hundred yards to use the library’s WiFi. The library was closed so we sat in the car. The forecast was running long and we wanted to go back home to finish getting ready so we skipped the question period and hope to ask our question during Chris’s next broadcast on Monday. 

Today was a sunny day with no wind making it a comfortable trip motoring to Solomons, our first stop. The temperature was so pleasant that we were content with just three of our ten enclosure panels up. We followed a large line of other sailboats headed to the same destination. There are boats anchored everywhere in and around Solomons.  We found a nice, peaceful cove just beyond several other anchored boats. George says anchoring is a lot more challenging now with the dinghy tied to the bow. Fortunately, he won’t have to work around it too many more times. We are expecting windy, rainy weather tomorrow so all of the enclosure panels are now up and we hope to get an early start in the morning to beat the worst of the weather. 

Putting up one of the enclosure panels. 




Our thermos of ice water. We appreciate not having to go down into the galley to refill our thermoses. We are also appreciating the new cushions I made for the helm. Why did it take us eight years to think of them?