Landed

Deltaville, VA
N 37 22.693 W 076 20.102

Well things worked out pretty good. Last night the wind shifted to the East, which wasn't in the forecast at all. That kept us going quite well at 4-6 knots. We took down the spinnaker and put up the jib and the staysail and we got along quite well. Those winds held up to just about dawn, but by then we were within 10 miles of the Chesapeake Bay entrance. We dropped the sails and motored past the Bay Bridge-Tunnel.

We were even luckier because we arrived at the bay just in time for the flood tide to arrive and give us a boost. After passing the bridge-tunnel, the winds started again, but from the south. But by then we were heading NW again. We made it to Deltaville by 13:30 today. Just before entering the channel we looked up and there was another Westsail 32 passing right in front of us. This one was named Christa with home port San Francisco. I regret that we never kept an explicit count of the number
of Westsails we've seen while cruising. It must be two to four dozen.

Jackson Creek, where we are anchored, is the place where we went aground twice trying to get in to the entrance channel two years ago. Today it went fine, we never had less than 8.5 feet under us at any time. The last time we were here, our friends John and Mary Ann and Gary were with us.

This should make my lake sailing friends jealous. It took 3.5 days to sail from Poughkeepsie to Deltaville. We were on port tack the entire trip. Never once did we come about.

Now it's time to go to bed early and get a good night's sleep. Night all.