Inspired

With the announcement yesterday about INDIGO going on the market, I was inspired to write about our 9 day cruise this summer.

We headed out on a Thursday night around 6pm to head toward Annapolis, Maryland. We were going to the United Stated Boat Show (the link, of course, now has info about next year’s show). This was the first time we had done this by boat. In years past we always went by car and usually with others. We were excited to be able to see all this from the water. Jay wanted to get as far down the Bay as we could before dropping the hook. 4 hours later we anchored and got a good night’s sleep.

Friday morning was leisurely. We knew we were not going into the show that day and we knew all the moorings would be taken so no hurry. We had a very nice sail down.

sailing downwind

about to sail under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge

And what was I doing during most of this?

I get some of my best sleep on the boat!

We were able to anchor off the Naval Academy. Some friends of ours were there on Saturday by car and they met us for Pain Killers at Pusser’s. If you have never had the pleasure of a Pain Killer…well, they are named appropriately. A new friend of mine, Cindy, was also there. I met her at my LYS and we started talking about sailing. Come to find out that she and her husband have a sailboat that they keep a couple of rivers down from us. When I told her we were going to the boat show by boat they started thinking about it, too. So they had arrived around the same time we had. I hope that next season we will do a little sailing with them. It will be fun to have someone to knit with over cocktails.

Saturday we woke to beautiful weather and a boat that had anchored WAY TOO CLOSE to us the night before. As we were pulling our anchor up to drop back and “get out of HIS way,” I spotted a couple of moorings right off the boat show that had been vacated. You’ve seen that photo here.

We went into the boat show that morning with a long list of things that needed to be bought for INDIGO (dinghy, cockpit table, autopilot, etc). We stopped by the area where Pacific Seacraft were showing off all there newest boats. Earlier we had gone by with the boat and someone took this picture of Bart (the broker that sold us the boat) and Steve (PS new owner).

Pretty cool, huh? We had a great time talking to them.

I’m going to stop here for tonight. Its getting late and I still have 7 more days to go. More tomorrow.