DO NOT go to the Chesapeake until the middle of September. The weather now
is calm (except for black thunder squalls), hot, muggy, buggy, and hot.
Did I mention windless and hot?
Leave by the end of October when it gets windy and frigid.
Between the middle of September and the end of October the Chesapeake is
heaven on earth.
I suppose there is a similar time in the Spring too.
I would go to Maine immediately and get out of the heat. Maine is one of
the sweetest cruising grounds on Earth in the summertime. Rockland is a
wonderful harbor to start at, large and well protected with friendly people
and lots going on ashore. Head south at the end of August and be in
Gloucester Mass for the schooner races on Labor Day weekend. Then head
south, spend a few days in NYC at the 79th St Boat Basin, then head
directly for Cape May, through its canal, up the Delaware, through the C&D,
and thence six weeks of finest kind cruising meandering down the Chesapeake.
Winter in Beaufort SC.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Julington Creek
30 07.695N 081 38.484W
> [Original Message]
> From: lets go sailing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Lv-ab <[email protected]>
> Date: 7/27/2008 7:03:27 AM
> Subject: [Liveaboard] getting ready
>
> Hey folks,
> The time has come. I getting Princess Thalia ready to sail her back to
> Annapolis spend the winter here and then who knows. I just purchased a
wind
> genny Ampair 100 from Bacons
> yesterday in a reasonable price that I could not resist. I also have a
> Kyocera 130 watt
> solar panel with a Prostar 15 controller to run my loads like fridge and
the
> rest.
> I've had it with the weather and the rest up here and looking forward to
> turn the page
> start a new chapter and start a new chapter. I bought a sewing machine
from
> sailrite last
> year and I just finished a complete bimini and I re-sewed my genoa's
sun
> cover.
> It turned out pretty nice. It will be an other way to bring food on the
> table with small repairs.
> I am going down from Oswego and the Hudson and then C&D down the
Chesapeake.
> She is almost ready with few things do be organized for the journey. A
> couple of months ago
> I was doing a repair on a '84 Hunter 34 and the customer requested to
> rearrange his sail locker
> and remove a device that was just taking space and it was not in use.
> Well this thing turned out to be a Katadyn E80 water-maker to my benefit.
> I just need to refurbish it and clean it. So there is an other asset for
> long trips to the
> Islands and Europe.
> So, fire up your engines and spin the gears of advice. I am all ears.
>
> Yanni Marinated
> S/V Princess Thalia
> Columbia 8.7 #73
> Hamilton-Fifty Point @ H3
> N 43.13.406
> W 73.37.431
>
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