Bohemia River

Tuesday September 10, 2013
39 28.507 N
75 55.256 W

Big day today - 81 Statute Miles.

We needed to get water under the boat to get out of the slip. Low tide was about 4:30 AM so we needed to leave at either before 3 AM or after 7 AM when we would get an extra 15" of water. Needless to say we decided on 7 AM and after a bit of a nudge Tide Hiker backed out into the "deep water" well enough. We sure stirred up a lot of mud.

We then had the tide with us all the way up the Delaware to the C&D. The trudge up the Delaware is just that. Its featureless but not the ocean. It can get very unpleasant when the wind and tide appose each other. But all went well and we made good time, and we were into the canal by about 2 PM. There is a free dock in Chesapeake City that everyone cruiser knows about and coverts, and as usual it was already occupied when we arrived. So we continued another 10 or so miles into the upper Chesapeake and anchored in the Bohemia River.

Its a nice anchorage, but a bit "skinny". We were at almost high tide and only had a couple of feet under us when we anchored. There was a couple of boats there when we arrived and a couple arrived after us. The wind died to nothing by sunset. Not that i knew because I went to bed at 5 PM and slept until about 8, got up for dinner and an hour of TV and then went back to bed. I have not been feeling well for a few days - either a cold or a long spell of hay fever. Either way, my head and eyes were killing me.

The anchor alarm went off at 4 AM for no particular reason other than boredom. It was dead calm. The boat was probably sitting in the mud anyhow. We reset the alarm and went to bed.