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These are all the Blogs posted on Friday, 29 April, 2016.
FL to CT - Day 35
Hampton, VA to Crisfield, MD
We spent an uneventful evening on the hook in Hampton...Susan said it stormed... pouring down rain with thunder and lightning.... never heard it... I slept right through it... woke to alarm at 0530 to get an early start today with destination planned as Crisfield, MD. Anchor up and underway at 0630.

It was forecast for NNE winds 10-15 knots with 1-2 seas... of course it turned out being much worse... Winds were NE and a little over 20 knots steady... seas were more like 3-4 and very close together and we were heading directly into them... this makes for a very bumpy ride... and there were always that 4th set of waves that is much larger... Susan and Lily were not happy to say the least. It was also raining on an doff all day... just a real YUKKY DAY!

Our boat traffic is way down now... the majority of it stopping in Norfolk for the upcoming AGLCA Rendezvous in the first week of May... everyone we had met along the way was headed to it. We only saw one sportfish going north, a tug and barge heading south and one large container ship heading south.

It did calm down to the forecast of 1-2 seas about 1300 so the last portion of the trip to day was much nicer than the morning pounding.

We arrived to our destination Somers Cove Marina in Crisfield, MD at 1700. Our location for the night is N37°58.642', W075°51.403'. We traveled today for 10 hours and 30 minutes covering 65.8 nautical miles averaging 6.3 knots.
Posted at 6:32 PM by:Jay
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