We're back!!! We have not updated for several days due to problems with our laptop. We hope these are now resolved.
We enjoyed three days at Portsmouth. Muriel found a car at the marina with a tag "Muriel H." Hoger was her maiden name.
We are learning to walk whereever we need to go.
On Monday, we left Portsmouth for Deltaville, about a 50 mile day. The wind had some ideas of its own. We had 20 to 25 knot winds from the west. Crossing the mouth of Mobjack Bay was quite a ride. Shelly was wanting to call the Coast Guard to come remove her from the boat. We had 4 to 6 foot seas and heavy spray over the flybridge. The boat handled it much better than the crew. We only broke a few things but spent a lot of time picking up the mess inside the boat. We made the trip with two other looper boats. Upon arrival at Deltaville we celebrated with a couple of shots of some very smooth peach shine. We spent two days at Dossier's Marina in Deltaville. This is a beautiful marina run by great people. We borrowed their courtesy car and the seven of us piled in, literally, and went to the Dollar General, West Marine, and grocery store before enjoying lunch in Deltaville.
On Wednesday we made a short hop up to Riedsville in beautiful weather. We anchored in the harbor there and dingyed ashore to see some of the town. Louis Wade found the ice cream shop. We all enjoyed ice cream. (Louis never misses an ice cream shop. He even has an ice cream maker on board.)
On Thursday we moved on to Solomans Island, Md. and stayed at the Spring Cove Marina. Another beautiful facility. We walked and the others rode their bikes into town for lunch on Friday. On the way back Muriel, Shelly, and I heard a singer performing on the back of a charter fishing boat at Bunky's Charter Boats. He sounded good so we joined the group and enjoyed listening. Soon we began to realize they all knew each other. Then we noticed a spray of flowers on two of the boats. When we left I asked one of group, John, what was happening. He explained that Bunky had died and seven boats had taken him out for a burial at sea and returned to celebrate his life.
It was upon arrival at Solomon's that Muriel realized that our refrigerator was not working. I spent quite a while Friday on the phone trying to locate someone to work on it. It has to be someone authorized to perform warranty work. I have finally located one shop which will try to work us in on Tuesday.
Today we ran on up to Annapolis because this is where we need to be to get the work done. It was a perfect day on the Chesapeake Bay. Upon arrival at Annapolis we toured through the harbor. This was quite an experience on Memorial Day weekend. More boats than you can imagine.
It has been great receiving responses from friends.
Bud, Muriel, and Shelly