We are Off!

We left our slip just before 9 am this morning. Before leaving, we ate our breakfast on board Breeze On while listening to Chris Parker’s weather forecast, using the Starlink for our internet connection. George had mailed the internet router we use in the condo back to Comcast for the winter. We found out last year that our T-Mobile cell service does not enable us to stream the forecast from the condo. The Starlink on Breeze On worked quite well.

After pulling out of the slip I circled around the creek for about a 1/2 hour while George secured the dinghy. It was only the second time he had done it using this plan and it took a while. Now the dinghy is snug and ready to go offshore.

We have a good weather window to go out into the Atlantic, around Cape Hatteras, and into Beaufort. The trip should take us just over two days. We would have preferred to take three days traveling down the Chesapeake but the forecast for the end of the week is questionable, so we are taking advantage of this opportunity.

It was cold and windy when we left a few hours ago, with wind on the nose and chop in the river. We didn’t bother putting the sails up for the first two hours. Now that we’re have exited the Choptank River and turned to the south we were able to sail for about an hour, until the wind dropped. Now we are motor sailing, quite a common occurrence for us.