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Saturday July 28, 2012
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We are outa there! Now we start the "long trek north" to the Delaware-Chesapeake canal, the Delaware River and New York. This is the third time we have covered this water so its all a bit ho hum. The distance to the Magothy anchorage is about 50 miles, so its a full day in a busy stretch of the Bay.

It was a hot day - Deidre vacated the bridge early afternoon and we fired up a generator and the AC for her. Overall we ran the AC from mid afternoon until 9AM Sunday - about 18 hours. She was able to get the satellite TV to work so was able to enjoy some Olympics.

We anchored about 5PM. The space behind Dobbins Island was jammed with boats and party goers - and police - and so we just dropped the anchor in mid bay. The air was totally hot, humid and dead although there was threat of thunder storms. I put out 150' feet of chain and attached the snubber in about 10' of water - so thought "bring it on". We saw a bit of wind and a few spots of rain but no more.

We were able to find the Olympics on "free to air" so had a full evening of TV, including the Aussie girls winning the 4 by 100 relay!

Nautical clock and "comfort meter"

My birthday gift, my retirement gift and our boat-warming gift arrived on Thursday. There were a couple of spaces left on our eyebrow in the Pilot House, just made for these instruments. And they look great! (Even though we had to order and pay for them ourselves!)