N39° 31.639', W75° 48.669'
Tonight finds us tied to the free city dock in Chesapeake City MD. Another long day on the water and the Chesapeake Bay is now behind us.
Our daughter, her husband and our son made the long drive down to Solomons MD to come visit us for the Easter long weekend. We had them with us for all of Friday and Saturday, and most of Sunday. Sunday afternoon it was time for them to drive back to Ottawa, so we bid farewell to them and then we moved back to the anchorage.
The weather forecast for the upper half of the Chesapeake was looking okay for today, with forecasts of 1-2' waves for the first two weather zones, and then 1' waves for the last two. We weighed anchor at 0630 and headed out to see how well NOAA did this time. It was a little rougher than expected for about the first hour and a bit, but we've noticed that it can get a little squirrelly where rivers enter large bodies of water, and most of the rough water we were seeing was at the mouth of the Patuxent River. I also figured that what we were seeing were remnants of the waves from yesterday, and that it just hadn't completely settled down yet. Sure enough, after we were underway for about 2 hours the conditions settled down to a fairly comfortable 1' chop on our starboard forward quarter.
We decided to do another 100 mile day today because the conditions for the upper Chesapeake were forecasted to get rough again tomorrow. With the weather delay we had in Solomons, as well as the time we spent visiting with the kids, we felt the need to get some more miles under the keel, and decided to try to clear the Chesapeake altogether, and not take a chance of getting stuck in Rock Hall waiting on weather.
Tomorrow we've got 1-2' waves forecasted for Delaware Bay. If these forecast holds for us we're going to leave here early tomorrow and try to make the 72 mile run to Cape May NJ. Once there we'll have to decide whether to do the outside again, or make an attempt on the Jersey ICW. As the long range forecast for the Jersey coast is looking very bad, it looks like the Jersey ICW will be our route north through New Jersey.
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