Tuesday, April 21, 2009
21 April - Day 48. The big winds predicted for last night never got much over 25kts. This morning the winds are clocking and driving a fairly constant rain into us. It's amazing how much the holding can change within a small anchorage. We slid all over the place just north of our current spot. While here we're solid as a rock. Thanks to the unsettled weather, everyone in White Sound was staying pretty close to their boats this morning. After the weather cleared Dan and Myra, S/V Kairos, stopped by to say hello. They live in Colorado, where Myra is a middle school principal. Dan grew up in Preston, MD which is about 30 miles north of our home in Church Creek. His family, like mine, started farming in American Corner, MD (which consists of three houses and a stop sign) in the 1700's. While we're strangers, I doubt our great great grandparents were. I imagine a landlubber tends to think of cruising in terms of a solitary sailor on a lonely ocean. For us, nothing could be farther from the truth. Cruising is akin to a giant social scene where the price of admission is a boat. Today's party at the Green Turtle Club Marina started at 2 pm and Nellie D.'s crew wasn't home until after 10 pm. 0nm today: 1281nm total. DBH
