[Rhodes22-list] Chesapeake Cruise planning

Sat Jan 21 22:16:02 EST 2012

 Mary Lou - assuming that the Dismal Swamp Canal is reopened in time, I would recommend that portion of the trip from Edenton to Norfolk.   Elizabeth City is fun and then the stretch of the river from there to the Canal is really beautiful.  The locks are time-restrictive, but the Canal experience is worth the time-inconvenience.  On the leg from Rock Hall to Avalon, we spent a night at Bohemia Bay Yacht Club ( not our most favorite stop, but convenient for our timing).  We then had good conditions thru the C & D , and upper part of the Del Bay, but ran into headwinds and chop along about the Salem Plant.  We pulled into the Cohansey River and the conditions changed like magic - I forget the name of the marina a mile or so up the river, but it's the first along the west bank of the Cohansey.  We overnighted there and left early the next morning to catch the ebb tide down to the Cape May Canal and thence up the NJ intracoastal to Avalon.   Frone

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From: Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
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Sent: Sat, Jan 21, 2012 7:15 pm
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Chesapeake Cruise planning

Hi Frone,
I remember you did the trip. I'd forgotten how quickly you did it. My 
goal on this trip is to visit some places we haven't been before.

What were your stops from Rock Hall to Avalon? We've got a friend 
planning to do that part of a Delmarva circumnavigation (Probably RH 
to Lewes) in the coming year.

And thanks for bringing up the gas issue. With a marina stop every 
other day it shouldn't be a problem but still it's something to keep 
in mind. We carry 7.5 gallons - 2 3 gallon tanks and 1.5 gallon can as reserve.

Dismal Swamp Canal would be interesting. It's closed right now (at 
least until March) for lock repair.

Mary Lou

At 03:52 PM 1/21/2012, you wrote:
>Mary Lou - A great plan.   While we keep Sunday Morning at our condo 
>in Avalon, we have taken her to the Chesapeake before and might do 
>so again, but alas, not in time for your  2012 "Norfolk Northern" 
>Bay trip.  When we had Sunday Morning refitted at Edenton about 5 
>years ago, we sailed her back to Avalon on the same route, but in 
>more of a delivery mode than a cruise.   We took 3 days to get to 
>Norfolk (overnights at Elizabeth City and the Dismal Swamp Canal 
>visitor center) and then 5 more days to Rock Hall.   We split the 
>journey, leaving her ( the boat, not my wife) in Rock Hall, then 
>returned a month later for the final 3 days back to Avalon, via the 
>C & D Canal, Del Bay and Cape May Canal.  We stopped at marinas each 
>night, but your suggestion of splitting anchoring with docking makes 
>a lot of sense.   We did motor more than you will have to with a 
>more leisurely pace.  We carried a 6 gallon tank and refilled every 
>other day ( Yamaha 8 horse 4 cycle).  Overall, it was !
>  a great time, with a typical Chesapeake Bay mixture of conditions 
> ( it was late May when we left Edenton.)   Stan and Rose met us for 
> a visit at the Dismal Swamp Visitors Center, as they spotted our 
> boat while they were traveling on Rte 17.  (Rose had picked us up 
> at the Edenton bus stop, as we had taken the overnight Trailways 
> bus from Phila to Edenton, via Norfolk.)
>     You will enjoy the journey, I'm sure.
>      Frone Crawford, s/v Sunday Morning
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
>To: rhodes22-list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Cc: svtriton <svtriton at aol.com>
>Sent: Sat, Jan 21, 2012 12:17 pm
>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Chesapeake Cruise planning
>
>
>Hello fellow Chesapeake Rhodies,
>
>Fred Kaiser, Tom Deliberto and I sat down last night and mapped out a
>possible most of the length of the Chesapeake trip that if we are
>lucky with schedules, health, weather and family obligations might
>just happen late April or May of this year.
>
>Plans are to pack up Fretless and drive to Norfolk to meet Triton.
>Tom's boat has been wintering in Edenton at the GB spa. Word is she
>is now gorgeously looking like new and will soon have her traveler
>mounted in a mid-cockpit experiment.
>
>Anyway, if all goes according to plan (or even if an undetermined
>critical mass of things go according to plan), we will launch in
>Norfolk and take two or three weeks to cruise up the Bay. Stops
>discussed (so far) are Norfolk, Cape Charles, Mobjack Bay (or the
>Piankatank or both), Tangier Island, Smith Island, Deal Island,
>Solomons Island, the Little Choptank, Knapps Narrows. the West (or
>South) River, the Magothy, Hart-Miller Island, Worton Creek and
>Betterton. If we decide to go all the way north other possibilities
>would include Turner's Creek on the Sassafras, Northeast and/or Havre
>De Grace and then Still Pond and the Middle River on our way back to 
>Rock Hall.
>
>We plan to take somewhere between two and three weeks for the trip
>depending on how things go and the weather. Our thoughts are to
>alternate anchoring out and marinas and to alternate long and short
>days where possible. There are times when Fred and I will have to set
>up office and actually get some work done. We're also flexible enough
>that if necessary we could do the trip in several stages.
>
>Thought we'd let you know now so you can put it on your radar in case
>you are able to join us for part of the cruise, a sail, a night in an
>anchorage, dinner ashore somewhere or whatever. We would love to meet
>up with friends and other Rhodies along the way. We'll let you know
>more as it gets closer and the schedules and plans firm up.
>
>Best to all,
>Mary Lou
>
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