Having decided I had seen enough of this area and a
weather window opened, I lifted the anchor at about 11.30am Tuesday 7th
Aug (had to wait for at least half tide to get over the bar at the entrance to
Sarah Creek easily)
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| Yorktown from Sarah Creek, bridge on right |
The anchor came up in a ball of mud with 30 odd feet of
rope and the chain wrapped around it, I could not clear this until we were
safely into York River because of current and the meandering channel into Sarah
Creek. I raised the sails as soon as I could but ended up motor sailing the
whole way because of little or no wind. As we were approaching the Chesapeake
Bay bridge tunnel a thunder storm passed close increasing the wind, seeing it
coming I double reefed the main, but shook them out again within an hour as
storm passed. Got into Ocean City Maryland, about 8am on Thursday 9th,
only to find the bay too shallow to anchor, so left again, coming in we were
doing about 2 ½ knots at high revs leaving we did about 5 knots at low revs.
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| Storm passing |
Another
thunder storm passed around us in the early afternoon, we made it into Cape
Henlopen and anchored off at 7pm on Thursday 9th with more storms
due for the weekend.
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| Cape Henlopen |
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