11-24-10 deltaville to yorktown

11-24-10

Hi All,

Today we left Deltaville and sailed to Yorktown.  What a wonderful day! Stiff winds behind us made for a fast sail.  Let me back up our day…

We have been stalking noaa weather to make sure it would be a good day to sail. 

We got up late about 8am… did chores… put everything in its place in the boat since we knew we would be rockin and rollin with the waves… I heard the boat in the slip next to us making weird noises and their lines had gotten fowled so I hopped on their boat as I would hope if ours was bad someone would hop on our boat and we fixed their stressed lines and bow pulpit… as we were ready to depart a boat sailed to the dock and I asked if they would like us to assist them in docking… it was windy and they gladly accepted the help… then we got to talking like we always do… I said we got to get going as captains always do…

Here is the funny part… while I was gone home and Ben sailed from Maine to VA… Ben turned into a captain… our roles were reversed… funny very funny… as we were leaving Deltaville… well it is a tough hair pin turn and easy to run aground… I was driving and Ben was a pleasant back seat driver (just how I am to him)… yup normally when he drives I say things like… you can make your screen closer so you see more detail.. but this time he said that to me – not only that but he made the screen bigger… then as I was going through the channel I was looking at this and that cuz I have been there before… normally he would be doing that and I would be nervous saying watch… but now he was asking me to watch and I happily replied with what he would have told me… I got it… yup I see it… etc… I was now laughing cuz our roles have switched…

It felt good to hear him worry – or be aware of – the things that I usually am aware of but not sure if he is aware of them… now he wondered if I was aware of them… well that makes two of us totally aware… nice.. co-captians is great for us… but we all know when it comes to decisions… a happy wife is a happy life so I might get the last word in depending on the situation…

the temp today was 45 degrees. I was in my super duper windproof foul weather gear bibs and jacket. I can say I was never chilly or cold, my toes got a little cool. Ben on the other hand had a reversed role again... he was ca ca ca cold and shivering a bit although like a guy he did not admit he was cold.  silly guy. he also might have had to get ride of some ballast in his stomach as he got his sea legs... poor guy... always in good spirits though.

It has been  nice to see Ben advocate for the ICW intracoastal waterway (that means taking the inside route instead of going on the atlantic side… in the old days they made many canals on the inside of the land so the cargo vessels and such could make it to florida during the war.) so hear I have Ben all excited about telling me about the winds and the waves that could be on the outside when normally he would say… welp we have to experience it sometimes why not now… experience is a wonderful thing.

We plan to be at Becca and jason’s for thanksgiving! How fun is that!!! Then Friday seems to be a rough day in NOAA land so we might wait a day and leave Saturday and we still don’t know if it will be on the inside or the outside.

Happy thanksgiving all!