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Update 9/22/05: We've been all over the Chesapeake Bay it seems this summer. St. Michaels, with Sally and John Wadsworth, Havre de Grace and Georgetown/Fredericktown, with Ollie Berry, and twice to Annapolis and Baltimore. Today we're in Baltimore again and will hope to catch a couple Red Sox/Orioles games this weekend.
We've enjoyed having all of our guests and look forward to more in the future (maybe someday we'll get the forward head re-installed!). Perhaps when we're in Florida others may be more interested in sailing with us, or perhaps the Bahamas.
The Chesapeake Bay mud is something you have to experience but we're sure looking forward to soft sand and clean water. The paddle wheel transducer stopped working within the first few days (algae buildup) and hasn't worked since. Seems it would be easy to dive down and clean the wheel and just get it rotating again, right? Well, the water's so dirty here (either black or green) that you can't see a foot in front of you. I even tried the Garrity underwater flashlight and it wouldn't show far enough to be of help. Fortunately the chartplotter provides speed over ground anyway, although it's nice to compare one against the other to determine current movements.
We've each sent a small article off to Living Aboard magazine in hopes of publication. Nothing special, just what we observe or learn as we travel. In my case, it was just a complilation of the anchoring techniques or gaffes that we've observed. Maybe we've been lucky, but actually it's mostly good common sense. Kathleen's little letter to the editor is about her successes with baking breads, rolls, brownies, corn bread, etc., in the pressure cooker (on the stove top). She's not yet had a failure, and I'm the beneficiary! Hallelujah!
I'll try to add a few pics now. Hope they show up!
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