Hello again - this will be in two parts, Friday and Saturday.
When we arrived in Deltaville we had neighbors and we quickly began swapping information. Art and Sue on board Lauren A are from Maryland and have been cruising the ICW for many years. Has and Dotty and Morse (boat cat) are from Lancaster, Pa - also with many years experience. Friday morning brought a very questionable forecast and we all decided to stay, meeting Phil and Nell also staying in the marina.
Tom decided to finish the wiring to our running light on the bow pulpit. BIG PROJECT - involving removing the bow pulpit so he could thread the wire through the tubing. Everyone joined in with advise and tools and Has, Phil, and Art added muscle Our hammer made a deep dive to become a home for the clams and crabs - after a great deal of grunting the pulpit was off then the trick of threading the wire through - Tom was successful and we were put back together in short order. We threw together a pot luck eating in the Captains Lounge provided for my Regatta Point Marina. The day finished with a lovely visit on Skye- Has and Dorthy's SV, deciding the best place to go the next day.
Saturday brought light wind and cooler temperatures, but we quickly got under way Has and Dotty right behind us. Out in the Chesapeake the wind picked up and both of us set sails, turned of engines and enjoyed a pleasant two to three hours of sailing before the wind died. We past three light houses, got some pelicans and over all the trip into Elizabeth River where Norfolk is was a chilly but pleasant ride.
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| Morse - boat cat |
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| Has, Dotty getting ready to leave |
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| Skye under sail ( Cool Hand did pass her) |
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| yep this is a pelican butt |
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| a map of where we where and our speed under sail - 6.2 whoo hoo |
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| A 52-foot caisson tower near the confluence of the Rappahannock River and Chesapeake Bay. The red, octagonal tower rests atop a brown concrete base; a square black lantern room is offset to one side. Original optic was a 4th order Fresnel lens. Operational; automated in 1971. Trumpet fog signal (discontinued). Owned and maintained by USCG. (Hampton Roads) Eligible for listing on National Register of Historic Places. |
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| 58-foot tower at the entrance to Mobjack Bay (Mathews County, Va). An unusual tower of cream-colored Ashlar sandstone, with a black lantern that once housed a 4th order Fresnel lens. Automated 1930; deactivated in 1963. Separate keeper’s quarters have been destroyed and continuing erosion severely threatens the lighthouse, now owned by Mathews County. The third oldest lighthouse on Chesapeake Bay. Owned and maintained by Mathews County. |
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| Conical, 35-foot, red "spark plug" caisson light in Hampton Roads at the confluence of the James River and Chesapeake Bay. Operational; automated in 1954. Originally housed a 4th order Fresnel lens and had a fog bell. Modern light is outside the lantern room, atop a pole. Owned and maintained by USCG (Coast Guard Group Hampton Roads). Eligible for listing on National Register of Historic Places |
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| Description: Old Point Comfort Lighthouse marks the entrance to historic Hampton Roads, an important harbor situated at the mouths of the James, Nansemond and Elizabeth Rivers, and stands on ground which has seen many a fort constructed nearby to defend this import waterway. The tower’s present neighbor, the Civil-War era Fort Monroe, was preceded by colonial Fort George, which in turn was probably preceded by an even earlier fortification. A navigational beacon on Old Point Comfort was active as early as 1775 when John Dams, caretaker of the ruins at Fort George, was paid an annual supplement of 20 pounds to tend a light there. Some historians believe that Native Americans kept wood fires burning at the Point before that for the benefit of Spanish ships during the 16th century. |
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| I believe this is Fort Story |
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| a fishing Sail boat - |
Nice lighthouses, is that your cat?
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