we're off the dock after some pretty awesome repairs and upgrades while in annapolis maryland
cruising north on the chesapeake bay towards the c d canal
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calypso is performing great we're so happy to be out here but i do have some bad news for the
captain you know where we're supposed to be right where are we supposed to be a motley crew concert
today was today the crew concert it's like yeah i just got a reminder on my phone yeah well they um
now it's not till like next december or something like that yeah we'll be there are you gonna dress
all 80s i'm going to wear this all right but with bigger hair yeah get the offer on that
is that what it's called yeah well the hairspray that was big in the 80s look like you're doing
like the uh the normal relaxation sailing thing with your hat i am and keeping that off yeah we're
heading north so maybe the sun won't be as strong we're going there for you honey i am so excited i
feel like i'm going back to where i belong i am a snow bunny at heart i spent a lot of time in the
warm weather i love it but i'm ready for a change and then we'll come back to the warm weather
i'm all mixed up i love the warmth and the cold but since we're headed north i'm going
to enjoy all the sunshine i can get it wasn't long before we had the bay bridge in our sights
coming up on the chesapeake bay bridge i used to go over this bridge as a kid and stuff going down
to ocean city maryland it's pretty cool uh going underneath of it now it's a pretty sketchy bridge
when you drive over it i never really liked it but it's beautiful from the water where we're
going under it's 182 feet our mass is 62 feet i don't think we're gonna have problems with this
should be fun the bay bridge connects annapolis to the eastern shore of maryland
it opened in 1952 and is 4.3 miles in length there's lots of clearance i think we'll make it
beautiful bridge yeah it looks good for the water yeah huge yeah it is i know you drove over
this a lot when you were a kid yeah do you ever think you'd be sailing under it no it's awesome
i think the second one is the newer one i don't know probably the way it looks yeah right
oh
i got more than just words i got more than just words you bring me songs
so i got more than just words
i got peace in my mind
we had a very early wake up today actually woke up to the engines running so i knew it was time to go
i think we were underway by 6am i'm just sitting here i'm making us a bit of coffee right now i've
always enjoyed a hot cup of coffee in the morning on a mission to cure a case of acid
reflux i've made a switch this not only tastes good but it has great health benefits too which i
so i've love stopped drinking coffee and i switched to this other drink it's two cups of soy
milk a quarter teaspoon of turmeric and a half a teaspoon of cinnamon and then i do some raw honey
inside and i heat it all up there's also a little bit of ginger root about half an inch quarter inch
to half an inch that i cut up of course peel the skin off and i also throw it in there right at
the beginning and let it all just warm up together it's really good it's just as addicting as coffee
making the captain his coffee i still really enjoy the smell of coffee though i stopped doing coffee
when we started our passage from grenada to the united states a couple days before that and it
was really hard it's amazing what coffee does to you additionally i've since replaced the soy
with almond milk due to soy's potential negative effects on the body i thought i saw you coming
so i flipped it on here's your coffee thank you baby hopefully i remember how to make it are you
kidding me well i don't make it for me anymore and i can't i don't taste it thank you you're welcome
and my new mug oh yeah matching mugs yeah the yeti he kept using mine and i'm like what the heck i
like it yeah you want he wanted to engrave it but apparently like they only engraved the teal one
as of now i don't understand that i don't know either how you doing this morning i'm tired
but i'm good um nice calm anchorage yeah it was beautiful right it was we really lucked
out with the storms it wasn't like from the left and right of us yeah i mean it was great i woke
up at two and i opened up the windows it was cool we went to bed from the ac so i woke up the
windows and there was a nice breeze and then you started the engines and that was my wake-up call
yeah i wanted to get everything ready for you so you can just get up and do your thing i appreciate
that we have a little bit of a long day today yeah i'm actually thinking if this weather window holds
so right now we're approaching the c d canal so we are in the chesapeake bay
and we're going we're going north and we're going to go through the cmd canal which is here
and then come down the delaware river um and then stage around cape may but i was thinking that you
know we have to do it overnight no matter what to new york and if and the weather looks like it's
closing after tomorrow so we'll see how it goes but i was thinking maybe we would just continue
on tonight and um do our overnight tonight and then be in new york tomorrow right noon
i figured you'd be down with that i am down with it i just don't like them clean when like we have
a plan and it changes us well it's it's like i mean it's at least 12 hours before that change
so it's not like it's last minute yeah and we have we'll wait for the last forecast and all
that kind of stuff to predict when download and stuff like that and then we'll see how it goes
what do you think about that i'm fine with that i mean you know would that be in new york tomorrow
it'd be cooler in new york yeah that cooler weather is what's in the morning
that's fine as long as the weather looks great you know i don't want to push no we can get there
we'd only be pushing because it looks good and then it looks bad after that yeah i'm fine with
anything either way we have to do it it's not like we're doing anything different right
and it's not it's seriously if you if you forget about everything all it is is one day
it's 24 hours not a big deal that's exciting so we'll just make the call after our last weather
report we'll make the call this afternoon well i'm gonna let you enjoy your coffee here
i always feel confident with jeremiah's decisions he keeps me informed and takes my input which i
really appreciate it takes a lot for him to make a last-minute change as that's usually when bad
things happen but this is just a consideration and we have time to consider it in the meantime
we will just enjoy our favorite morning beverage and take in the sights set the bella up it's very
easy because she's a smaller dog he had a bigger dog i imagine would have to have discipline
to stay in uh hi you ready come out come on come on out we got the baby sleeping over here
nice breeze coming through i'll be relaxed put my doors before we get rough weather
you know what she's excited about food are you excited how'd you sleep do you sleep did
you sleep good okay i know you want to eat right you're hungry are you hungry you want to eat yeah
i saw you all come by today with the sunset in your eyes i couldn't find strength to say
the chesapeake in the delaware canal is 14 miles long 450 feet wide and 35 feet in depth
opening in 1829 it saves approximately 300
miles on the route between the ports such as baltimore and philadelphia
we're almost through the cnb canal this uh connects maryland and delaware and uh from
the chesapeake bay to the um delaware river so you can see on the shards here
that's where we are right here that's the delaware river and what we've done
is we've taken this czech chesapeake bay and we've cut through the canal
to delaware river where we're gonna go south we're still moving at 8.7 8.9 knots right now
and at one point we got the 10 knots which was awesome but then uh i'm also running the engines
at 2 600 rpm we usually run 28 2900 2600 is the low end of the uh recommended range to
run the engine so just a conserved fuel we're running low and we still we're going 10 knots
what you have to do is you have the time when you enter it with the tides um what what i was told
by another cruiser was that you had to time it try to get two hours after slack tied on the low side
um and you start going with it with the low tide and then you'll be pushed all the way
through and obviously it's opposite for the other side i'm not really sure what the tides are going
to do here in the delaware river i think it's a low tide also type thing um where and we're
yeah we're a little bit we're almost half going up so hopefully we'll have some good current going
down i don't know if we're going to be going off short today or not we might pull into cape may all
depends on the forecast that comes out for tonight some of the forecasts talked about thunderstorms
stuff like that tonight so i'm going to see really let it let it play out it takes us surprise till
15 or 1700 to get down there anyway so towards the inlet so we'll see and make that determination
and then either pull in around cape may anger anchorage or um continue on
ended up falling for me
and to this day i don't know how
i think about it constantly what do you think of our morning commute it's beautiful
yeah that thing's awesome man it's just plowing through it's got a
six foot wave coming at our asses oh yeah this guy's going to navigate over here
we were going like nine nine something channel now
we're going five five because we're going against grant yeah big current up here here's
the latest weather reports have come in and they're not good
so we've anchored off cape may and will wait out a storm that will be even worse than forecasted
coming up on the lazy geckos emailing you guys okay here we go
wildwood new jersey boardwalk
it's normal well today's the big day i'm excited to get to the boat today
and move on i have an hour left of my watch i'm passing by calypso north carolina
luck on your first cruising adventure thank you there you go those things are broken
uber to get some groceries doing a great job there honey thank you
we're passing billy joel's estate
if it lets loose it's gonna probably plummet into our boat
they were under the bow already v8 chef antenna firmly mounted it's all burned
up in here i guess we won't be leaving early without a radar is everything so small i can't
freaking read it you didn't really see the top at all oh you're right in front of us it's gone
don't take me back you can't take me back and turn north and probably put out the head tail it's nice
and smooth it's lit victory our radar has been giving us trouble have a good time with it um
put it right under your butt yesterday to come back into new york
what do you think about what are you into the naked shot
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