Beaufort, NC to Cambridge, MD 3/20/26-3/22/26

We decided to leave Beaufort late Friday morning—two days ago—and arrived home at 11 am this morning. Although we expected the trip might have some potentially uncomfortable sections, it turned out to be not bad at all. The wind at Cape Hatteras never went over 20 knots, the squalls forecast to come off the coast of North Carolina ended up as just two light rain showers, and the N wind off of the coast of Virginia remained very light and didn’t last more than a few hours and the dense fog in Cambridge was not that dense. We were even able to sail more than expected. We would normally choose to anchor overnight somewhere on the Chesapeake before continuing home but the air temperature dropped to 45° last night and the water temperature was only 49°. Our little electric heater can be used only when we are plugged into shore power so we chose to sail overnight on the Chesapeake and spend tonight in our nice, warm condo. The challenge of sailing at night on the Chesapeake is dealing with all of the ship traffic. There was indeed quite a bit—especially on George’s watch—but all of the ship pilots were polite. Since it is very early in the season and there aren’t yet a lot of crab pots set outside of the channel, we were able to stay outside the channel and out of the way of the ships.

We love the Bahamas and had a great winter there. Nevertheless, it is nice to be home.