Wayne.B wrote:

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:59:03 -0400, Rosalie B.
wrote:

Larry wrote:

FROM: Skip and Lydia
VESSEL: "Flying Pig"
CONTACT: 18:58 CDST
SHIP'S POSITION:
38 Degrees 20.9 Minutes North and 74 Degrees 42.4 Minutes West
LOCATION: Near Elizabeth, MD
COURSE: 26 Degrees North - Magnetic
SPEED: Five NMPH
MESSAGE: All is well, have experienced heavy thunderstorms.
FROM: Net Relay Station

I don't know any Elizabeth MD. There's Elizabeth City NC and
Elizabeth NJ but when I look up that position, it is about even with
the MD/DE line a little north of Ocean City MD.

That's what I came up with also. You can get a graphical display by
going to:

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cg...ki4mpc&terra=1

and zooming out a bit.

The weather is pretty miserable out there right now, better if they
had waited for a better window. If it was me I'd put in at Cape May
and wait for the fronts to move through.

We've had quite a bit of rain and thunder and lightening here (down on
the Potomac near Point Lookout) for the last two days, and have lost
power a couple of times in the evenings.

This was not really predicted on the weather I was watching (TV news
mostly). I do watch the weather and the rain surprised me because we
have been having a drought - a prediction of rain would have been
welcome. And I didn't see anything but a possible afternoon showers.
I was going to suggest we go out on the boat Sat, except that Bob had
a dental appointment early Monday morning and we might not have gotten
back in time. I didn't see any weather mentioned in the forecast for
the end of the weekend that would have precluded a trip of a couple of
days.

Ocean City isn't really a good place for a big sailboat (I gather -
never having done that), and I thought they might be a little close to
shore to preclude being driven off course and into the beach, but the
wind will probably be offshore, and it isn't the Florida Keys or Cape
Hatteras so it will probably be OK.