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We sailed down the Chesapeake over night taking advantage of mostly favorable winds, and arrived at the mouth of the bay at about 6AM. We are continuing to sail at a good pace with favorable winds out along Virginia Beach, and Kitty Hawk toward Cape Hatteras, where we will turn south. Right now the wind is still out of the south southwest, which is nice for our current course. We are counting on the wind backing toward the north as forecast about the time we turn the corner at Hatteras to make the trip south more comfortable.

I did just happen to look at MarineTraffic.com to get a longer range picture of the traffic in the area, and Holy Cow! It looks like over two dozen boats pulled out of Norfolk anchorages this morning and fell in behind us on the migration south. In the following image, the purple boats are the recreational boats like us…

Now the challenge will be: Keeping all of them behind us! 😁