Well it is now 8:00pm on Friday evening October 14, and we have been working most of the day to complete preparations for our departure tomorrow morning.
Yep, that’s right, at first light on Saturday, October 15, we will start engines, start the generator, disconnect shore power and cast off all lines. By approximately 6:45am (usually the breaking of dawn) we will begin the slow backing away from the Gingerville Yacht Center’s B Dock and once clear, I will turn her outbound and at long last the Misty Lady will be motoring southbound on the Chesapeake Bay to the mouth of the Potomac River.
As our voyage begins, we will move slowly out of Gingerville Creek into the South River and turn down river toward the Bay. It is my plan that the Bride and I (oops I meant the First Mate) will try to take a number of photos. Some we will take with my big Canon and will use them in a later version of the blog once we are ensconced in our home berth at the Capital Yacht Club.
Our original plan was to travel as far as we felt comfortable and move into a transient slip at a marina on the Potomac, because travel in the dark is not something I would countenance. Our thought now is that if we can make between 13 and 15 knots while underway we may be able to make it all the way to the Capital Yacht Club before nightfall. As we move up the river, we will keep a sharp eye on the progress and may still fall back on the idea of a layover somewhere on the Potomac.
During the trip, I will try to write a blog entry as we progress on our voyage. Photos where possible.
Wishes for a safe and successful voyage are solicited
Stay tuned, it gets better.
Author: harv1941
Just a summary, I am 84 years of age, retired in July 2013 and settled down to promoting the dangers of bacterial meningitis, which killed my beloved son, Mike in 2009. My wife, Charlotte, and I embarked on an adventure of live aboard cruising, aboard a large Blue Water motor yacht. While our beginning was rather fraught with hurdles, we continued to look forward to the day we moved aboard the Misty Lady and cruise the eastern seaboard and associated waterways. After more than four years of life aboard this Bluewater Motor Yacht, I developed an advanced problem due to interaction with medications and experienced rather frightening balance problems. Therefore, getting on and off the yacht was fraught with danger of falling between the docks and the boat's hull. Walking the docks was also problematic considering that our yacht club docks were all floating docks and my balance problem was a danger during the walk from our yacht's docking slip to the clubhouse or out to the DC Wharf facilities and our car housed in the yacht club's reserved garage. SO, we had to regretfully put the Misty Lady up for sale and move back on shore. We moved on shore, first into a condo apartment in Alexandria, then after two years there, we relocated to the city of Newport News, in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Our original desired location was in the city of Hampton, Virginia, which is the oldest English-speaking settlement in the United States having been established originally in 1610. My ancestors came to this country through this settlement in the mid 1600s and lived in that area for around 100 years before beginning a migration of one portion of our family toward the west.
I looked forward to moving back to this area and exploring the roots of my family, both maternal and paternal ancestry, but we found a great house in the Newport News area and became ensconced in the terrific neighborhood of Kiln Creek. My wife, being still actively employed, received a substantial offer in a position with a government contractor firm back up in Northern Virginia. So we put the Newport News house up for sale, receiving and accepting an offer withing two days. We then relocated back up to the city of Alexandria and into another high rise condo. My wife reached a point where considerations for retirement were becoming very important. She indicated that she really didn't want to retire in Alexandria, so once again we began a house search in the Tidewater area, this time in the City of Williamsburg and in a community restricted to 55+ age owners. We found the ideal location, initiated the sale and closing for our retirement home. We then put our condo on the market. Alas, the market was not as robust as before so we had to change asking price a couple of time, but finally the Alexandria Condo was sold. Now we are set to enjoy the great locations found here in the Tidewater/Hampton Roads area, considering that we are history buffs and there are literally hundreds of historical sites in this segment of our nation. Of course living in Williamsburg is the epitome of history living life.
So, now we are in our retirement home, in a great retirement type community. A great clubhouse with a fine dining restaurant, a grill/pub, an award winning PGA designed golf course and miles of walking trails. Looking forward to my wife's eventual full retirement and the two of us visiting all up and down the east coast historical spots.
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