We departed from Crisfield this morning at 0630 with a forecast of E winds 5-10 knots and 1 foot seas. It was a little rougher than that early in the morning as we left the Little Annemessex River and turned in to Tangier Sound. Winds still appeared to be NE and blowing at 15-20 knots. It was not as rough as yesterday but for the first couple of hours it was rougher than anticipated.

It calmed down when we reached Deal Island and turned into Hooper Strait to go back in the Chesapeake Bay… winds switched to E and under 10 knots with seas less than 1 foot. VERY NICE!

Tons of boat traffic today… not cruisers per say but fishermen trolling with those trolling drones or whatever they are called… they look like toy boats out to each side of their boats and they don’t seem to mind crossing right in front of you… no controversy with any of them but still very annoying to have to deal with them.

We did have two really cool sailboats pass us heading south… both were identical and under full sail… very beautiful boats.

And the coolest thing to us at least was seeing “MI-T-MO” pass by heading south. We have covered a lot of miles cruising with her and her previous owner Mike Efford. He sold he last year and down-sized to a smaller trawler. But is was really cool to see the new owner is using her.

The bay as usual had a several large ships moving north and south… one large ship did pass us fairly close… they are massive and are really moving fast for their size.

Our planned destination for the day was Galesville, MD. We have gone there many times and docked at the town dock. As we were approaching Galesville we decided we would rather anchor out tonight. We have really been enjoying being on the hook. We decided to anchor in the Rhode River… it’s in the general area of Galesville but actually closet city is Edgewater, MD.

We arrived and anchored at 1700 for the night at N38°52.573', W076°31.422'. We traveled today for 10 hours and 30 minutes covering 75.6 nautical miles averaging 7.2 knots.