Up early before sunrise to check weather forecast... South winds 5-10 knots increasing later afternoon to 15-20 knots with gust to 30 knots... seas increasing to 3 foot. Forecast was good for several hours in the morning for sure... we could make a small step north to Galesville or maybe Annapolis. We left the dock at 0630 hopeful for a good 6 hours before winds and seas picked up.

We were about 5 hours out when we had a container ship pass us heading south... it may of been a smaller ship but it was putting out a huge wake... just after it passed I turned into it's wake... there were only two waves but they were gigantic... 6 to 8 foot and right on top of one another... first one the bow came up with and then we dropped down into the trough and the next one hit the bow and over it onto the foredeck... WOW... quite the experience for sure... things flew around inside the boat a bit but we had nothing damaged luckily.

As we were approaching the Annapolis area we still had very little wind and following seas 1 to 2 ft... weather was not looking good for the next couple of days so we decided to continue on to where we had planned for Saturday night... Chesapeake City. We had a current pushing us and looking at the tide ahead of us the push would continue all the way there... we maintained 7.5 to 8.0 knots most of the way... as we hit the C&D Canal the current was pushing us over 9 knots.

We arrived to Chesapeake City at 1800 and were securely docked at 1815. Our location for night is N39°31.638’, W075°48.667’. We traveled today for 11 hours and 30 minutes covering 88.2 nautical miles averaging 7.7 knots.

There were signs on the dock... "No Recreational Boating Allowed" due to Corvid-19 Maryland State Restrictions... Susan is worried we are gong to get booted off the docks... from what I have read this does not apply to vessels transiting the area... only to local boaters... so we will see what happens.

Weather forecast for today was WNW Winds 10-15 kts with gusts to 25 kts... seas 3 ft... not a great forecast... yesterday it had been 5-10 knot winds after the early morning high winds and rain... and it was dead calm all night long... and wind reports when I woke up on the bay were reporting less than 5 knots... typically, wind does no pick up till around 0900 to 1000... leave early and get north of the Potomac before the winds pick up and we would be home free with a more westerly wind... I decided to roll the dice and leave... we left the dock at 0645.

Things were great till about 30 minutes north of Smith Point...winds 5-10 knots with 1 to 2 foot seas... then the wind started to pickup... not much at first just seeing a few gusts to 20-25 knots... about halfway across the mouth of the Potomac River we had full 20 knot winds with gusts to over 30 knots... 1-2 seas did not take long to change to solid 4 footers with some nice 6 ft rogues... Spray from the waves was slamming against the pilothouse windows... but at this point we were committed to continue north... just had to tough it out for a couple of hours... then we would be lee of Point Lookout on the north side of the Potomac.

Then luck was not with us... the wind direction starting shifting to more northerly... it was right on our nose... we did not get as much wind protection from Point Lookout as expected... running a mile or two off the beach we still had 2-4 footers and once we pasted Solomons we would have no wind protection from land... we would most likely go back to the 4-6 foot seas and we would be in that for 4 or 5 hours more... NOPE... we made a decision to stop when we reached Solomons, MD... that was still a couple more hours to go.

We reached Point No Point and made a turn to port to continue along the shore... we were hailed by a Navy Patrol boat on the VHF... they asked to maintain our course along the shore line and stay within 3/4 of a mile of the shore as the gunnery range was active today with live fire... I acknowledged and moved to within the requested range... which ended up helping with the seas more than I expected... waves down to 1-2 ft... the wind had also shifted back to a more westerly direction which helped... but we still planned to stop in Solomons, MD.

There were actually 6 Navy patrol boats patrolling around the gunnery range according to AIS... we did see some helicopters making low runs over the range... but being 2 miles west of the action we did not see much more than them flying over the range... couldn't see any of the live action.

Earlier when we decided to stop in Solomons we made a reservation at Calvert Marina... can't beat $1.00 per foot rate and $10 for electric. WE have stopped here in the past and it's a great stop when things are open in town... but with the Corona Virus everything is closed down.

We arrived to Calvert's Marina at 1300 and were securely docked at 1315. Our location for night is N38°19.932’, W076°27.424’. We traveled today for 6 hours and 30 minutes covering 42.1 nautical miles averaging 6.5 knots.

Weather this morning raining and winds 25-30 knots... staying put at Ingram Bay Marina today.