Oct. 22 - Uneventful motor trip from Great Bridge to Coinjock. Weather’s cold, overcast and clammy. It ain’t Boca! Stay overnight at the Midway Marina and will be off early for a night on the hook in the Alligator River.

Oct. 23 - Down the "ditch", across the Albermarle River in very gusty NW conditions and anchor is East Lake at the mouth of the Alligator River. Course from ICW in the lake is full of crab pots, but once inside, they disappear. Anchor overnight in gusty winds but with… Read the Full Log Entry

Oct. 16 - We head for the Poquoson River, just South of the York River today.  Winds are 10 knots or so aft for the first half of the trip and we motor sail at a good clip.  When we get to the Wolftrap light they turn light and squirrely and are dead aft, so we take down the sails and motor into the river.  It’s finally sunny and warm and the anchorage is pretty.  Have to get a whisker pole for these kinds of days when we’re South.  Too hard to go wing on wing without it when the wind’s so… Read the Full Log Entry

Oct. 6 - Motor sail with light headwinds to Solomon’s Island, MD at mouth of Patuxent River.  It’s a large river with lots of history, particularly associated with the War of 1812.  Big sailing community.  Pull into Zahniser’s Marina before first bridge.  It’s a terrific facility and very hospitable.  After we get settled we take a walk towards town and wind up at a little place called the Bluefish Café in another marina.  Unprepossessing from the outside but lots of deck space on the other… Read the Full Log Entry

Oct. 3 - Leave on a sunny windless day for St. Michaels passing under the William P. Lane Bridge over the Chesapeake after the fog starts to roll in a bit.  Plan to proceed around the south end of Tilghman Island into the Choptank River and then Broad Creek into San Domingo Creek, rather than by way of Eastern Bay, which takes you into St. Michaels proper.  We don’t quite get “up the creek” in daylight.  The water is quite shallow and the creeks quite narrow, so we anchor in the open… Read the Full Log Entry

Sept. 23/24/25 - Waited for favorable tide and traveled 12 miles up the winding but generally wide and deep Chester River to Chestertown.  Home of Washington College and and largest by far town in County, so large in fact that it actually has a couple of streets and a small natural foods store, but no supermarket, etc.  It’s also the “County Seat” with the County Courthouse, which is why there are pix of all these incredibly quaint law offices.

Quite a number of houses date back to… Read the Full Log Entry

Sept. 17 - Hung out on the mooring in Georgetown MD.  Walked into town and picked up some provisions.

Sept. 18 - Hung out another day; did laundry, etc.

Sept. 19 - Motored against the wind to Baltimore.  Have to admit, I didn’t want to go to Baltimore but Kryss needed to get to “civilization”, and glad we did.  We are all the way at the head of the harbor (in the “inner harbor”) and anchored next to WWII submarine “Torsk” and 1927 Lightship “Chesapeake”, one pier away from USS… Read the Full Log Entry

Sept. 15 - Woke up to a beautiful sunny calm day. Motored out of Cape May Inlet and started up the Delaware. What a day. Passed by lots of large cargo ships, etc. Wound up doing over 60 miles from anchorage in Cape May Harbor to anchorage behind Reedy Island just before C&D Canal. Had light winds for most of the day but around two o’clock picked up following wind and strong following current. By the time we got to the head of the Bay we were doing over 9.5 knts with main and iron jenny (… Read the Full Log Entry

Sept. 11 - Hung out in Atlantic City catching our breath.  Went to the Boardwalk for a stroll and had lunch at new casino “Revel”.  Nice lunch.  AC is still a dump anywhere but in the casinos and since we don’t gamble, not much of an attraction.

Sept. 12 - Left the marina at high tide for estuary anchorage just outside yacht basin.  Wind was against me turning from the slip into the “fairway” and I was humbled as I struggled to turn the boat into the wind and in the direction we were… Read the Full Log Entry

Sept. 5-8. Stayed at Great Kills Yacht Club, went to wedding, visited with Larry and Dorothy and generally "caught our breath".

Sept. 9 - Left Great Kills at about 8 motoring into tide and head wind to Sandy Hook (warships you see in the pix are anchored just outside Atlantic Highlands as we go by); picked up outgoing tide just past Sandy Hook and favorable breeze, put up the sails and finally had a pleasant sail on the way down to Manasquan, albeit that the apparent wind never got… Read the Full Log Entry

These are the pictures taken along the way from Manhasset Long Island to Great Kills.