Sun Suites Of Chesapeake

Our target date for departure from Norfolk was November 1 when our insurance window opened for transit. In the few preceding days since Dave returned from Arlington we wrapped up final preparations for departure. We visited the local Costco and Harris Teeter grocery for final provisioning of (mostly) perishable goods (all non-perishables were already stowed aboard). We prepared the cabins for the reunion of our temporary crew ...

... bringing the beast with us. The marketers could appreciate our sponsorship decals we post all over the RV.
I was not too worried about Josh's first competition. He could have warmed up at the first two which should have taken place before the Dawn of the Shred. Hotline Surf and Skate moved their dates to November 14th, which we already have left town for that, and WRV's competition ...

... opportunity to run the washing machine for the first time. It works! We “executed” a med moor tie-up at Indian Creek Yacht and Country Club, together at their visitor dock.

On October 23 we took a short sail to Jackson Creek off the Piankatank River. The channel entry is quite tiny—very interesting. We had motored the last 1-1/2 hours due to an adverse current. Jackson Creek was the most crowded anchorage we have ever been at in ...

... few other deafies who also grew up with Josh.

We were all pretty tight that 6 of us went out and played a few rounds of paintball at the local paintball park in Virginia Beach. Boy did we all get welts on our body from both close range, and long range shots!! We played capture the flag, and each man for himself. Stayed for 3 or 4 hours, and finally went home. The next few days I was in excruciating pain in my ...

... something large was hooked up. It was a white marlin and I mean that fast it was hooked, to the boat, picture taken and release before anybody had even drawn to see who would take the first fish.

We quickly set the fishing order and it was "on" all day long as we caught white marlin after white marlin for many hours before ...

... span) cannot be changed by the owner so a guru conveniently offered to visit and replace the battery, which is soldered into the phone’s circuit board. His availability was critical because we were only a few days away from our lease expiring at the marina at the end of September and after that date we would be on the water "out of reach". The guru tested all functionality with the phone number we had already established through our Mini-M subscription.

... a very low flow rate, well below the manufacturer’s rated flow so this was something we would have to investigate further before considering the re-start a success. On September 9 we headed southbound to the East River on Mobjack Bay on north winds blowing 15 kts. The weather was not proving to be very nice this week so we spent another day laid up in the East River. It was rainy and miserable. Dave and John (out of ...

... a 7 month ‘off season’ we arrived at Atlantic yacht basin (AYB) in Chesapeake Virginia about a week ago. I had ask the yard to move her out of the covered storage (we call it the Barn) before we got there. After the short flight up from Savannah we arrived in a driving rain and were hopeful to see her tied up on the ‘face dock’ out of the dark and often dirty barn. No luck, the yard had not been able to ...

... tomorrow's tour and drinks and snacks for the tour. Dunne's grocery (RS map pg. 90 Rick Steves' Pub Crawl (page 59 ...

... in the town of Bellhaven. This marina is reported in the book as being at mile 1.3 from the ICW Green marker "11" at mile 135.0. Although all of this sounds totally precise, in actuality most of the time there is just big open water but it does give one an excellent idea of what to expect ahead and what our options are for different anchorages and marinas. Margaret came ashore with me today and it will be no surprise to her friends that our first stop was ...