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Lower Chesapeake Labor Day Cruise - part 2 - Onancock
Bob had intended to see if he could force water through the vent of
the aft head, but we were tied starboard side to the pier and it is on the port side and he couldn't reach it. It seems to be working better now anyway. Somer's Cove Marina, which was almost completely empty when we got there on Thursday morning, was about half full by Thursday night. The marina people are extremely efficient and there is plenty of water in there. The rates were $1.50/foot for Sun-Thurs, $1.75/ft for Fri-Sat, and $2.00/ft for holidays Friday Again Bob was up and about early - impatient to be off. He poured a glass of cranberry juice for me and left it in the cockpit. He told me to hold the spring line to the piling while he took the rest of the lines off, and after he got back aboard (unlike in Tangier), this time, I managed to pull the line off the piling without having it get caught. We were motoring out by 7:40. I knew he would want me to come back and steer so he could stow the lines and fenders, but I wanted to take pictures as we left, so I sat on the deck and ignored him for the 10+ minutes it took to motor out of the harbor as far as the Janes Island light. As we passed the condo, I looked up and saw an old lady in her nightgown at the window. I was chicken to take her picture but I wanted to. The people using the computer last night asked if we were going to take the shortcut to Pocomoke Sound through Broad Creek, but we were not, as I think it is too shallow for us and I don't think it would save us any time - especially if we ran aground. I had the radio on and mostly what was on it was Somers Cove Marina. I heard one exchange that went like this Boater - This is (indecipherable name) and I have a reservation for tonight SCM - Capn could you repeat the name of your vessel and what is your location? Boater - I just bought this boat and haven't put a name on it yet and I don't know where the hell I am. We passed the Tangier Island light about 10 (again too far away for a good picture). The wind was from almost directly behind us and was fairly light at about 8 knots. Bob tried with the jib and main and for awhile the boat was even heeling, but eventually he pulled in the jib because of the danger of jibeing. We passed Tangier light a little too far away for a good picture. Bob wanted me to take over the wheel so that he could pull in the main. When we got to the entrance to the Onancock River (pronounced Oh NAN cock), I started calling the harbormaster on the phone and on the radio. There was no answer. We motored all the way in (It is a very pretty little river.) and still there was no answer. It was about 12:30. The trip was 25.3 miles and took us about 4.5 hours. The harbormaster doesn't answer the radio (or at least I never saw him do so) and he only answers the phone if he happens to be in the office when you call. Without any specific directions, we started into a slip. The people on the next boat (TANGLE) helped us tie up, but it would be impossible for me to get off the boat as the finger pier was short and just barely above the water at high tide. And even if I could get off, I'd never be able to get back on. The dockmaster (who is a substitute retired guy with a dark lens on one eye of his glasses who apparently only works from7:30-12 and 1-4:30) got back from lunch and surveyed the situation and allowed as how he could put us on the face dock right outside the bathrooms. So we moved the boat over there being careful to keep the bow and the anchors on it back from the boat ramp. Starboard side to again. We walked over and had lunch at Mallards which is in the old Hopkins & Bro. store.. I had the chicken salad sandwich and Bob had the same except without the sandwich part. . The dockmaster said there was no internet except maybe at the library (which we found out was 4 miles out of town). We are across from Bagwell fuel docks. They had three large and one half size tank, a loading rack and a large and medium size horizontal tank all nicely painted dark green with yellow accents. As we watched they were washing one of the trucks. The dockmaster will go over there to let you get fuel if they aren't there. The people yesterday in Crisfield had told me about a place to eat called Shuckers where they would come and get you in a bus. But it was too new a place to be in the phone book, and the dockmaster couldn't find their phone number. So I was forced to call information for the number. Information first asked if the name started with an F or and S, and then she asked it if wasn't Shockers. I went and edited photos and wrote up emails. I also took a shower. In the meantime, several sailboats came in and a 50 foot boat called SEA BEAR from Florida tied up on the other side of the boat ramp. After the dockmaster left, a trawler from Solomons came in - they had two dogs and a bird on board. They said they had 3-4 foot waves and wind about 25 knots coming over. Probably due to tide coming up the Bay in opposition to the wind blowing down the bay. The folks at Mallards were loading all kinds of food on the Capt. Eulice which is the Tangier ferry - it was a wedding reception, and they also had two private parties over there - which is one reason why we were going to Shuckers for dinner. Bob went out to wait about 5 for a pickup that was to be between 5:30 and 5:45. I looked up at the sky and said it looked kind of cloudy, but he ignored the hint, which I admit was very gentle. The weather report said 20% chance of rain. It hasn't rained much all summer. The Shuckers van came driven by the manager because the guy that drives it wasn't there yet. As we pulled up to the restaurant, it started to rain. It rained buckets, and we had left the hatches open. But we couldn't get back to the boat to fix it, so we went on and had dinner. Inside there were billiard tables and a large extensive bar which had sections in several rooms. They told us to go into the other room which was where the band (from Philadelphia) would be playing later. After we were seated, two couples of 'old people' came in and also a large family group with the grandmother on oxygen. That made us feel better as everyone had emphasized that Shuckers was 'a redneck bar' (and emphasized that there was excellent security) and I'm not sure I know what they meant by that. Bob had the prime rib special with mashed potatoes and green beans which he said was excellent although he could not eat even half of it. I had the fried fish basket (also a special) with onion rings, and I couldn't eat all of that either. We shared a home-made apple dumpling for dessert which was scrumptious. Much better, really, than my mother's apple dumplings. Moist flaky delicious crust and the apple inside had no spiky pieces of the core in it. It was still pouring down rain when we were ready to leave, but stopped when we reached the marina. Everything on the boat was soaking wet. One hatch over Bob's bunk had soaked the foot of his bedding through, although it all dried out Saturday. Everything in the cockpit was also soaked and the bimini was draining down onto the computer box with the computer in it. The TV and DirectTV controller which were next to the hatch over Bob's bunk were OK. Saturday September 1 Today we weren't going anywhere, so after we cleaned up the boat, we started out to walk up into town. The bench beside the dockmaster's office which faces the launch ramp is full of old men who sit there and kibitz people putting their boats into the water. It's a nice little town with old Victorian homes lining the main street at least one old time general store (House of Deals - Trust Worthy Hardware) which sold a little bit of everything. Bob said they had steamer clams (manoes) in there and there were vegetables, fruit and flowers displayed out front. We passed a plaque which said that here used to be the home of Francis Makemie, who established organized Presbyterianism in America. We saw a sign about the Scott Hill Cemetery, but I'm not sure where the actual cemetery was. Across the street was the Cokesbury Methodist Church (1850) which was a historic landmark and right after that a marker commemorating General Edmund R. Bagwell. Across the street from that was the Robert Lee Custis Memorial Garden. I gather that next weekend is the Onancock Harborfest which includes an arm wrestling championship, horseshoe tournament, rock climbing, kayak race, a rubber duck race, bands, a raffle and an auction. The hotel in town said they had a wireless internet for their guests. It was almost 11:00, so we stopped for lunch at Bizzottos, which was a combination art gallery (jewelry, pots etc.) and restaurant. Bob had a tuna salad plate which included a big heap of tuna, slices of yellow tomatoes, five large black olives, some canned peaches, thin slices of apple and two of those yellow-green hot peppers (whole). I had a pastrami wrap which had the yellow tomatoes in it, and one of those corkscrew macaroni salads. While we were eating a man and woman with a dog parked out front, leaving the dog in the car, and were rearranging the jewelry display. They provided us with our amusement while we ate. As we walked back to the boat, Bob pointed out to me that the drug store had a snap hook on the window frame which was labeled "Dog Tie" I went into the harbormaster's office to use his phone for the internet, but it was too late in the day for me to do much. He was anxious to be off. After he left a bunch of boats came in and we told them just to go into whatever slip they wanted. We were going to walk over to Mallards for dinner - I had noticed that the desserts looked good. Bob started getting antsy about it saying that people were standing in line at about 5:30. They weren't. Steamers were on the menu, but we didn't know what kind. They called them 'middlenecks'. So I ordered some to see. They were little squashed oval clamshells about the size of my thumb to the joint with tiny thumbnail sized clams in them, not the manoes that we really like. They came with some bread rusks and were tasty.. Bob had a plain crabcake for dinner, but he forgot to tell them broiled and so of course he got it fried. With it was a little plastic cup of bean salad. I got a lobster roll, which was drippy to eat, with the same little cup of salad and a bag of those organic potato chips. We both had Smith Island blueberry cake for dessert. It was very dense cake and sweet. |
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Lower Chesapeake Labor Day Cruise - part 2 - Onancock
"Rosalie B." wrote in message ... Bob had intended to see if he could force water through the vent of the aft head, but we were tied starboard side to the pier and it is on the port side and he couldn't reach it. It seems to be working better now anyway. Somer's Cove Marina, which was almost completely empty when we got there on Thursday morning, was about half full by Thursday night. The marina people are extremely efficient and there is plenty of water in there. The rates were $1.50/foot for Sun-Thurs, $1.75/ft for Fri-Sat, and $2.00/ft for holidays Correct me if I am wrong: I take it that this rate applies to the length of the boat. A 40 foot sailboat would pay $80.00 USD per night. So a three day Holiday week end would cost $240. plus applicable taxes. Friday Again Bob was up and about early - impatient to be off. He poured a glass of cranberry juice for me and left it in the cockpit. He told me to hold the spring line to the piling while he took the rest of the lines off, and after he got back aboard (unlike in Tangier), this time, I managed to pull the line off the piling without having it get caught. We were motoring out by 7:40. I knew he would want me to come back and steer so he could stow the lines and fenders, but I wanted to take pictures as we left, so I sat on the deck and ignored him for the 10+ minutes it took to motor out of the harbor as far as the Janes Island light. As we passed the condo, I looked up and saw an old lady in her nightgown at the window. I was chicken to take her picture but I wanted to. The people using the computer last night asked if we were going to take the shortcut to Pocomoke Sound through Broad Creek, but we were not, as I think it is too shallow for us and I don't think it would save us any time - especially if we ran aground. I had the radio on and mostly what was on it was Somers Cove Marina. I heard one exchange that went like this Boater - This is (indecipherable name) and I have a reservation for tonight SCM - Capn could you repeat the name of your vessel and what is your location? Boater - I just bought this boat and haven't put a name on it yet and I don't know where the hell I am. We passed the Tangier Island light about 10 (again too far away for a good picture). The wind was from almost directly behind us and was fairly light at about 8 knots. Bob tried with the jib and main and for awhile the boat was even heeling, but eventually he pulled in the jib because of the danger of jibeing. We passed Tangier light a little too far away for a good picture. Bob wanted me to take over the wheel so that he could pull in the main. When we got to the entrance to the Onancock River (pronounced Oh NAN cock), I started calling the harbormaster on the phone and on the radio. There was no answer. We motored all the way in (It is a very pretty little river.) and still there was no answer. It was about 12:30. The trip was 25.3 miles and took us about 4.5 hours. The harbormaster doesn't answer the radio (or at least I never saw him do so) and he only answers the phone if he happens to be in the office when you call. Without any specific directions, we started into a slip. The people on the next boat (TANGLE) helped us tie up, but it would be impossible for me to get off the boat as the finger pier was short and just barely above the water at high tide. And even if I could get off, I'd never be able to get back on. The dockmaster (who is a substitute retired guy with a dark lens on one eye of his glasses who apparently only works from7:30-12 and 1-4:30) got back from lunch and surveyed the situation and allowed as how he could put us on the face dock right outside the bathrooms. So we moved the boat over there being careful to keep the bow and the anchors on it back from the boat ramp. Starboard side to again. We walked over and had lunch at Mallards which is in the old Hopkins & Bro. store.. I had the chicken salad sandwich and Bob had the same except without the sandwich part. . The dockmaster said there was no internet except maybe at the library (which we found out was 4 miles out of town). We are across from Bagwell fuel docks. They had three large and one half size tank, a loading rack and a large and medium size horizontal tank all nicely painted dark green with yellow accents. As we watched they were washing one of the trucks. The dockmaster will go over there to let you get fuel if they aren't there. The people yesterday in Crisfield had told me about a place to eat called Shuckers where they would come and get you in a bus. But it was too new a place to be in the phone book, and the dockmaster couldn't find their phone number. So I was forced to call information for the number. Information first asked if the name started with an F or and S, and then she asked it if wasn't Shockers. I went and edited photos and wrote up emails. I also took a shower. In the meantime, several sailboats came in and a 50 foot boat called SEA BEAR from Florida tied up on the other side of the boat ramp. After the dockmaster left, a trawler from Solomons came in - they had two dogs and a bird on board. They said they had 3-4 foot waves and wind about 25 knots coming over. Probably due to tide coming up the Bay in opposition to the wind blowing down the bay. The folks at Mallards were loading all kinds of food on the Capt. Eulice which is the Tangier ferry - it was a wedding reception, and they also had two private parties over there - which is one reason why we were going to Shuckers for dinner. Bob went out to wait about 5 for a pickup that was to be between 5:30 and 5:45. I looked up at the sky and said it looked kind of cloudy, but he ignored the hint, which I admit was very gentle. The weather report said 20% chance of rain. It hasn't rained much all summer. The Shuckers van came driven by the manager because the guy that drives it wasn't there yet. As we pulled up to the restaurant, it started to rain. It rained buckets, and we had left the hatches open. But we couldn't get back to the boat to fix it, so we went on and had dinner. Inside there were billiard tables and a large extensive bar which had sections in several rooms. They told us to go into the other room which was where the band (from Philadelphia) would be playing later. After we were seated, two couples of 'old people' came in and also a large family group with the grandmother on oxygen. That made us feel better as everyone had emphasized that Shuckers was 'a redneck bar' (and emphasized that there was excellent security) and I'm not sure I know what they meant by that. Bob had the prime rib special with mashed potatoes and green beans which he said was excellent although he could not eat even half of it. I had the fried fish basket (also a special) with onion rings, and I couldn't eat all of that either. We shared a home-made apple dumpling for dessert which was scrumptious. Much better, really, than my mother's apple dumplings. Moist flaky delicious crust and the apple inside had no spiky pieces of the core in it. It was still pouring down rain when we were ready to leave, but stopped when we reached the marina. Everything on the boat was soaking wet. One hatch over Bob's bunk had soaked the foot of his bedding through, although it all dried out Saturday. Everything in the cockpit was also soaked and the bimini was draining down onto the computer box with the computer in it. The TV and DirectTV controller which were next to the hatch over Bob's bunk were OK. Saturday September 1 Today we weren't going anywhere, so after we cleaned up the boat, we started out to walk up into town. The bench beside the dockmaster's office which faces the launch ramp is full of old men who sit there and kibitz people putting their boats into the water. It's a nice little town with old Victorian homes lining the main street at least one old time general store (House of Deals - Trust Worthy Hardware) which sold a little bit of everything. Bob said they had steamer clams (manoes) in there and there were vegetables, fruit and flowers displayed out front. We passed a plaque which said that here used to be the home of Francis Makemie, who established organized Presbyterianism in America. We saw a sign about the Scott Hill Cemetery, but I'm not sure where the actual cemetery was. Across the street was the Cokesbury Methodist Church (1850) which was a historic landmark and right after that a marker commemorating General Edmund R. Bagwell. Across the street from that was the Robert Lee Custis Memorial Garden. I gather that next weekend is the Onancock Harborfest which includes an arm wrestling championship, horseshoe tournament, rock climbing, kayak race, a rubber duck race, bands, a raffle and an auction. The hotel in town said they had a wireless internet for their guests. It was almost 11:00, so we stopped for lunch at Bizzottos, which was a combination art gallery (jewelry, pots etc.) and restaurant. Bob had a tuna salad plate which included a big heap of tuna, slices of yellow tomatoes, five large black olives, some canned peaches, thin slices of apple and two of those yellow-green hot peppers (whole). I had a pastrami wrap which had the yellow tomatoes in it, and one of those corkscrew macaroni salads. While we were eating a man and woman with a dog parked out front, leaving the dog in the car, and were rearranging the jewelry display. They provided us with our amusement while we ate. As we walked back to the boat, Bob pointed out to me that the drug store had a snap hook on the window frame which was labeled "Dog Tie" I went into the harbormaster's office to use his phone for the internet, but it was too late in the day for me to do much. He was anxious to be off. After he left a bunch of boats came in and we told them just to go into whatever slip they wanted. We were going to walk over to Mallards for dinner - I had noticed that the desserts looked good. Bob started getting antsy about it saying that people were standing in line at about 5:30. They weren't. Steamers were on the menu, but we didn't know what kind. They called them 'middlenecks'. So I ordered some to see. They were little squashed oval clamshells about the size of my thumb to the joint with tiny thumbnail sized clams in them, not the manoes that we really like. They came with some bread rusks and were tasty.. Bob had a plain crabcake for dinner, but he forgot to tell them broiled and so of course he got it fried. With it was a little plastic cup of bean salad. I got a lobster roll, which was drippy to eat, with the same little cup of salad and a bag of those organic potato chips. We both had Smith Island blueberry cake for dessert. It was very dense cake and sweet. |
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Lower Chesapeake Labor Day Cruise - part 2 - Onancock
wrote in news:46ddfea8$0$4051
: Correct me if I am wrong: I take it that this rate applies to the length of the boat. A 40 foot sailboat would pay $80.00 USD per night. So a three day Holiday week end would cost $240. plus applicable taxes. Yep. I'd have to leave 49A of electrical loads running just to feel better. Nothing's cheap about cruising on a boat! Larry -- Compare it to our rates, he http://www.charlestoncitymarina.com/rates.cfm $2/ft/night. Did you want 50A of power with that for ANOTHER $10/night? $12/ft/week. $70/week for 50A of power...like getting one night free! Oops...hope you were sittin' down before you read that. Holidays are the same price....high. |
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Lower Chesapeake Labor Day Cruise - part 2 - Onancock
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:56:34 +0000, Larry wrote:
wrote in news:46ddfea8$0$4051 : Correct me if I am wrong: I take it that this rate applies to the length of the boat. A 40 foot sailboat would pay $80.00 USD per night. So a three day Holiday week end would cost $240. plus applicable taxes. Yep. I'd have to leave 49A of electrical loads running just to feel better. Nothing's cheap about cruising on a boat! So I've noticed. But as Rosalie somewhat details it, eating in the local restaurants significantly adds to the daily costs. Rosalie and Bob prefer to dock, but great savings can be had by mooring or anchoring. There are many kinds of cruising styles, and the same boat might find one couple spending widely different amounts in their cruising than another couple. Thanks for the logs, Rosalie. --Vic |
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Lower Chesapeake Labor Day Cruise - part 2 - Onancock
"Vic Smith" wrote in message ... On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:56:34 +0000, Larry wrote: wrote in news:46ddfea8$0$4051 : Correct me if I am wrong: I take it that this rate applies to the length of the boat. A 40 foot sailboat would pay $80.00 USD per night. So a three day Holiday week end would cost $240. plus applicable taxes. Yep. I'd have to leave 49A of electrical loads running just to feel better. Nothing's cheap about cruising on a boat! So I've noticed. But as Rosalie somewhat details it, eating in the local restaurants significantly adds to the daily costs. Rosalie and Bob prefer to dock, but great savings can be had by mooring or anchoring. There are many kinds of cruising styles, and the same boat might find one couple spending widely different amounts in their cruising than another couple. Thanks for the logs, Rosalie. --Vic Looks like it could cost less and more convenient to go on a cruise ship tour This as long as you do not go wild on drinks. Just joking. |
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Lower Chesapeake Labor Day Cruise - part 2 - Onancock
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:02:57 -0300, wrote:
Looks like it could cost less and more convenient to go on a cruise ship tour Yep, and if the cruise ship crew would let you lend a hand in fixing things in exotic places, you'd have it all. --Vic |
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Lower Chesapeake Labor Day Cruise - part 2 - Onancock
Rosalie B. wrote in
: Bob had intended to see if he could force water through the vent of the aft head It sure is more fun to read Rosalie's stories than any of the boat magazine stories, isn't it?....(c; Larry -- |
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Lower Chesapeake Labor Day Cruise - part 2 - Onancock
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:44:44 -0400, Rosalie B.
wrote: Again Bob was up and about early - impatient to be off. He poured a glass of cranberry juice for me and left it in the cockpit. As I read on, the tension was great as I wondered how this juice would be spilled, spraying the cockpit with red-speckled stains. It never happened, and a good sail was had. Good work, Rosalie and Bob! --Vic |
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Lower Chesapeake Labor Day Cruise - part 2 - Onancock
Vic Smith wrote:
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:44:44 -0400, Rosalie B. wrote: Again Bob was up and about early - impatient to be off. He poured a glass of cranberry juice for me and left it in the cockpit. As I read on, the tension was great as I wondered how this juice would be spilled, spraying the cockpit with red-speckled stains. It never happened, and a good sail was had. Good work, Rosalie and Bob! Sorry not to resolve that - I have spilled the cranberry juice (my drink of choice) but only in the bunk :-( This time it took me awhile to find where it was (not that he hid it). We were just motoring out - it was calm. |
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Lower Chesapeake Labor Day Cruise - Last part - Reedville and home
Onancock dockage is $1.25/ft with $5 for 30 amp electric. Their
bathrooms are reasonably nice. Sunday, September 2 No matter what I have done to the computer that got wet, it will not boot and hangs. Before I left, I put the navigation software on this computer, and last night I did a route to Reedville on it. It is a very simple route. I had tried and tried to call the Reedville Marina at the Crazy Crab restaurant without any success. So I made a reservation at the Fairport marina where they had a restaurant (but it wouldn't be open when we were there), fuel and a pumpout. Since Point Lookout (our home marina) had the fire at their fuel dock, we can't get fuel there, and Bob isn't sure how well their pumpout works. I don't think there is much in there, because I have consistently used the marina bathrooms but he is worried about it. When the tide is low, I can get off the boat with no problem - BUT when it is high, even with a step stool, it is too far for me to be comfortable. Because it hurts to step down, and I am always a little dizzy from vertigo, I hold on like death to the large pilings to the extent that I have scraped a bit of the skin off my left forearm. I put this computer down on the nav table hooked to the GPS. Bob as usual was chomping at the bit to be gone, so after I used the bathroom, we pushed off a little before 8. We had the previous track on the GPS, so we followed that out the river. I had wanted to go close enough to the Tangier Light to get a picture, but Bob didn't go close enough - I made the mistake of telling him not to head directly for the light. We were closer coming down from Crisfield. I was also having a LOT of trouble with THIS computer. The cursor just would not be controlled - it would get just to where I wanted to click and before I could do it, the cursor would skate off somewhere else so I would click somewhere I didn't want. I tried using the touchpad and it was just as bad, and I turned everything on and off. Also the charting program said that another program was using the GPS port. Finally I disconnected the GPS, and THAT was it - the computer behaved perfectly after that - except that we didn't have the little moving ship on the chart. By 11:50, we were over to the other side of the Bay, and before 12:45 we were passing the Great Wicomico spider. I had called Fairport and they said their pumpout wasn't working, which ****ed Bob off because he said they made their profit on the fuel and didn't want to do the pumpout. I tried Reedville all morning (as soon as I had a signal) but their phone was busy. We came up Cockrell Creek, and went to where I thought the marina was - they told us just to go to the fuel dock, but there appeared to be someone else there. So we went around the corner to Reedville - and I saw someone leaving the pier in front of the restaurant, so I called again and this time they answered and said that the two boats we saw were just there for lunch, and if we were ready to slide into their place when they left, we could get fuel and a pumpout right there. We tied up to the dock in front of the restaurant to wait. We had gone 29.9 nm from Onancock in 5.4 hours I called Fairport and told them we weren't coming, and after a certain amount of back and forth, we DID get tied up and DID get fuel and DID get a successful pumpout. (And there wasn't much there, just as I thought). We ate the leftovers from our Shuckers dinner for a VERY late lunch after we did all that - it was about 4 pm by that time. The sign on the dock said that it was $1.00/ft, but Charlesy (the owner) said dockage had gone up. He charged us $5 for electric, and fuel was $2.80/gal which Bob said was high for home heating oil (that's all it was) We got 25 gallons of fuel which is what we used in 6 days of motoring or motor sailing. (That includes 2 days with our grandson in July). The total bill was $126.70 of which some $70 was fuel. This time we were tied starboard side to, so Bob could access the vents. He said he got a lot of black stuff out of one of them, but he thinks that was the vent for the propane locker. I was talking to a lady who was sitting on the porch and she told me that the Great Wicomico spider used to be a screwpile lighthouse which was dismantled about 1963, and the little house at the end of a pier down at the end of the creek was a replica of it. The trawler in front of us (which didn't leave) has two couples on it and one of them came to talk to us - as a parting shot, he said that our boat was memorable or recognizable or something like that. Not sure if he meant that it was gaudy, or if he meant it nicely to be a compliment. Bob was again very antsy - he said people were lining up for dinner, not realizing that people were just sitting out on the porch waiting for outside seating which we don't want. We have enough time outside in the cockpit of the boat, and Bob generally doesn't like to eat outside except for that. I wanted to wait until later since we had such a late lunch. But it is easier to just go ahead and eat when he wants to. I had half of a cup of cream of lobster soup, which was pretty good, although there were some lumps in it that weren't lobster and to a lot of lobster. For dinner I had a crab melt ($19.95) which was lump crab on an English muffin with cheese on top. It came with a salad and a side. It was good. Bob had the single crab cake with two sides (the side of the day was butterbeans which is one of his favorites) for $14.95. This time he asked for it to be broiled. These were all from the regular menu. We had dessert - I had a berry-apple cobbler, with ice cream which tasted a little burnt I'm sorry to say, and I didn't finish all of it. Bob had a fancy chocolate cake. Total with tip was $52.99. Monday September 3 - Bob is concerned because he only has enough of his pills for one week, and so we HAVE to get home today. So we push off about 7:45, and motor slowly out. Bob says the sailboat ahead of us is one from our marina. At first it looks as if they are going to shortcut the red 6 in the river, but they get back on course. After we got to the mouth of the river, it again looks as if they are going for the pound nets, but then they get back on course. Bob has put the main up and then the jib. We see the ELVA C coming back up the creek toward the Reedville Fisherman's Museum with a lot of people on it. It's only about 8:15 am. I hear a motor and look up and see a small plane. Maybe it is a menhaden spotter? There are at least three menhaden ships out in the bay (an later I see there are actually two planes). I watch a smaller boat circle around the large boat, and then I see a froth on the surface (from the school of menhaden) with the gulls diving on it. I go down and pack things up preparing to get off the boat. We pass Smith Point about 9:40. I hear the following on the radio "About the incident at the red 8 on the Potomac - the DNR fireboat is there, so your services won't be needed" Oh exciting! Where is the red 8. I can't find one on the lower Potomac. They appear to start renumbering at the Nice bridge (301). I guess that's where the red 8 is. We see a lot of PWCs buzzing around in Smith Creek. We wonder where they get their fuel with Pt. Lookout out of commission. We got into the slip without incident - the guy from HAND MAIDEN (on the other side of the dock) helps a little bit (He takes direction well and doesn't try to take charge or lean on the stanchions or anything). Bob gets all his 14 dock lines adjusted to his satisfaction, and gets two carts. We get a late lunch at the A&W place - Bob is upset because a hamburger is $2.29 when he can get the same thing for $1 at Mickey D's. I think A&Ws is a bigger burger. grandma Rosalie S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD CSY 44 WO #156 http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id1.html |
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