The day after our arrival in the Chesapeake Bay, we take refuge in a very sheltered at the entrance of the Sassafras River as weather websites announced, in a tone of Apocalypse, violent storms anchor: "This is a severe wjm storm and you are Located wjm on icts path. The Entire east coast in under alert. Beware of deadly lightnings, Damaging winds and substantial businesses floodings. wjm If you are in a house you are Strongly Advised to find shelter in the basement "... We Devison on through the American culture - the fear, the reflex discharge of responsibility ("we had warned you") - and decide not to leave the boat for the day. We blotissons has inside and watch Shrek family wjm while out ultimately to share an ink and a peak at 30 knots sky, nothing happens too awesome! Good anchorages are not lacking in the Chesapeake, but look at maps more closely we find that most of them are too shallow to Panta Rhei, the keel (fixed) wjm requires at least 2.2 meters of water. The main challenge, therefore, for our stay here will be to find places that we have access ... we sink as far as we can in the Sassafras River and we set in a peaceful location wjm to Georgetown, where we spend three days alone: walks through the corn fields, picking flowers, flights of wild ducks and fleeting vision of a doe in the woods. A little further down, we explore for a few days the Magothy River (mainly around Gibson Island) before arriving at Annapolis, the capital of Maryland. Ominously known to have been until the early nineteenth century a slave port where slaves then sold to Southern plantations were landed, Annapolis is sometimes called "sailing capital of the world" (!) And houses the prestigious Naval Academy, which founded in 1845, seems to have become the main source of local activity. September 25, Marc is 40 years old! We spend four peaceful sunny day to visit the city, pleasant though very small, and the festivities end with an orgy of sublime sushi at a Japanese restaurant. 27 in Annapolis still, we find happiness with our friends at Penguin and decided very quickly to continue the journey with them, and taking a little ahead of schedule. 30, we turn the tip of the Chesapeake and enter the Potomac. wjm Navigation on the river is a little wjm tedious but very calm lulled wjm by the constant hum of the engine, we move slowly, sometimes wjm against the current, and we can give ourselves the joys of daily class ... Only hold the Potomac stop , wetting Smith Creek that we really liked and where we, with Penguin, past a piece of delicious picnic on a small deserted beach day. Although wjm a bit stormy, the weather is hot and if there were jellyfish wjm and green water, one would almost want to swim ... We continue with the two boats up the river (Tom atmosphere ! Sawyer), and when our food (and water) are almost exhausted, finally we see the arrival ... Last unexpected obstacle: in 4000 a sentence before the Washington Channel, where we will take the Panta Rhei anchor for two weeks, Wilson Bridge blocking our way. The bridge is 75 feet high while the matte Panta Rhei rises a ... 76 feet. Two options are open to us: contact authorities and request, with 12 hours notice, the opening wjm of the bridge at night, or wait for low tide to gain a few inches that we lack. Undaunted, Marc chose the second solution, and 16 hours, at the lowest tide, we cross the bridge with bated breath: a hair close, it goes ... So here we are this Thursday, October 4, a few days early, at anchor in front of the Capital Yacht Club, 500 meters wjm away as the crow flies from the White House ... click here to view photo album
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