Deltaville, Virginia

It was not easy leaving Pat, Barb, Margie and Bernie at Solomon Island.  Such a good time.  We'll definitely stop on the way back.  But south we must go.  So with a north wind blowing on Monday we were off at 0745 with the tide.  A dozen boats left Solomons Island with us.  With the wind behind us and a fair tide we decided to make it all the way to Deltaville, about 50 nautical miles.  Tuesday wind would be on our nose.
So Kathleen had time to do some Lacy lovin'.

Anchored at Deltaville Marina, a great place.  We ordered some parts to be delivered here.  Rain gutter for salon windows and a "pump gard" for the new washdown pump.  Mud in the south really stinks so when you pull up the anchor it's important to leave that stink in the water.  Also oil changing time, coolant change, fuel pump change, etc.

Once the anchor was down we looked in at the docks and were shocked by what we saw.  Can you see it?

Yeah, it's us!  We're LNVT hull number 21.  This is hull number 20.  Needs as much work as Rosie.

This is a real boater haven.  Great facilities including a shop that can do everything and a courtesy car (GMC Yukon with 250,000 miles on it) to get into the one grocery store, one hardware store, a couple of gas stations and a West Marine.
There are some great boats here like this steel hulled beauty.

The weather is, as I had feared, unpredictable and extreme, which is the new normal.  Pair that with stupid errors on my part and we have had daily challenges.  There are times when we wonder what the hell we're doing but then the wind backs down and the sun comes out.
We're 32 miles north of Norfolk where we enter the "ditch".  No more open water for quite a while.  Rosie will like that.
Still fretting the BMW engine and the outboard is going into the shop tomorrow.  So dependent on the internal combustion thing now.  Sailboats and hard dinghies look good sometimes.
Not sure what's going on in Vermont but today was 75 degrees and sunny.  We sat in the pilot house for a sundowner.

All is well with us but we do miss our friends and family.  Feel free to call or comment on the blog.  We'll check ban in from Norfolk.