Our day started at 4 am when the wind shifted—as forecast—from the S to the NW. The whistling wind and creaking anchor chain snubber line woke us both. We slept very little after that. We left the Dun Cove anchorage just as the sun was rising and pointed toward the Chesapeake Bay. The forecast called for wind in the mid-twenties so we put a reef in the mainsail. We tried sailing with both the mainsail and the jib but the waves were pushing the boat every which way, making it hard to keep our small self-tacking jib filled. Since we had plenty of wind to keep us moving we bypassed Solomons and decided to go to either the northern shore of the Potomac or Ingram Bay, just S of the Potomac. In the end we chose Ingram Bay because we have been here twice before and knew it was a nice, calm, protected anchorage. In ten hours we covered 66 miles—almost all of it under sail—and are ready for a good night’s sleep.
Sunrise in Dun Cove.
Sunset in Mill Creek, Ingram Bay.
happy sailing
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