Sometimes, travel by sailboat is easy. Certainly this last trip from Charleston up to Annapolis was in that category. There was no bad weather, the winds were on the light side, frequently light enough that we didn’t really get a chance to sail, and gave a good bit of exercise to the Volvo. About the only disappointment (other than motoring 2/3 of the time!) was that the weather and daylight did not come together at a place where we could stop and catch some fish.

537 miles in just under 4 days.

Chasing Rainbows

When we see this kind of image on the radar, we know that rain is in our future.

Sometime you do get a bit of a pretty picture as you approach the weather:

Unfortunately, that rumored pot of gold has remained elusive. When we catch up to the rainbow all we get is wet!

Play Time

No trip up the coast would be complete without a visit from the local dolphins. This group of five stayed with us for over an hour. Just racing along as we sailed.

Annapolis Plans

We have a variety of things on our plate here. Some really exciting (not!) things like a dentist visit, some social events, some boat work. Right now we have picked up a mooring off the Naval Academy where we will spend the next week, then we have some running around to do and will be moving to a shoreside dock.

One of the things we will be doing here is to have the local Volvo shop give our engine a good going over. She is having her 30th birthday this year and is coming up on 11,000 hours and there are things that need doing I do not have the tools to do. She hasn’t given us a bit of trouble, and we hope to keep it that way for a long time.

Hopefully we will be done here before the end of June, and then we will head north toward New England.