Sunday
May 7, 2017
We were at Deltaville Boatyard and Marina from Wednesday May 3 untill Sunday May 7. There was a mini looper Rendezvous being held there for us. There was no cost to us, but good information was given about traveling the Chesapeake Bay, electronics, electrical issues, engines and even an engine inspection. A well known looper broker Curtis Stokes sponsored it with the marina. They supplied beer and wine for Thursday night dock tails and they catered Mexican on Cinco de Mayo.
On the Chesapeake we passed our first, on the water, lighthouse. Wolf Trap Light is in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay. Originally it was a lightship. A ship was stationed in this spot in 1821 as a lightship. The lighthouse you see above was constructed in 1870. This lighthouse is no longer in operation.
The lighthouse is for sale for $250,000 if interested...
We found a Lord Nelson Boat here being worked on.... there are only 75 in the registry ...
Most are 37' and some 41'...
True Barnacles on this steel hull...
This has got to slow you down...
Free Oysters???
In 1608 Captain John Smith and 14 men set out on an epic voyage, to explore and map Chesapeake Bay. For 140 days Smith and his men endured Indian attacks, heat, disease, thirst and starvation, traveling 1700 miles throughout the Bay. Below is an exact reproduction of Smith's boat. It is taken out once a month, to maintain its' ability to float.
They had it a little rough, but nothing like the Great Loop...
Mike and Linda are inspecting the John Smith boat.
This is how the Mercury Engines got started...
Kiekhaefer purchased a factory and worked on all the engines laying around....
F.D. Crockett
One of only two log-bottom buyboats (meaning to accept a fuel powered engine) built exclusively for power. It was used for 70 years as a working vessel. In 2005, a descendant of the Smiths, donated her to the Deltaville museum. This boat marked a change in the way oysters, crabs and watermelon were transported in the Chesapeake.
So, we left Deltavilla Marina, winds were to be 10 mph and we experienced 25 mph with gusts...We were getting hit over the port bow with spray covering our boat....limited visibility and there was no way to see crab pots which will tangle around your props....so we head into the closest anchorage.... Winds are not supposed to lay down till late tomorrow...but we're heading out in it at 7 am tomorrow anyway...but we will NOT be following the lead boat tomorrow...we'll be staying along shore in 20' of water....
We're seeing hundreds of jellyfish here...
We are now at anchor in the Dividing Creek Inlet, off of the Chesapeake Bay. We are in Dividing Creek.
our anchorage...
closeup..
and right in front of us....
