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| Back at home |
There are no photos of sunrise Thursday... I woke up in time and stuck my head out of the companionway, but with the heavy clouds and being in the city, it just wasn't worth it.
The morning was spent using the facilities of the marina. Harbor East has slips with finger piers on both sides and Vicky wanted me to move Seas The Day from one side of the slip to the other so she could scrub down both sides. (In fairness, there may have been a few skid marks on her hull from my various docking attempts.)
We departed around 11:00 after taking a quick turn around Inner Harbour. There were several military vessels in place for Fleet Week - I won't make any attempt to identify them.
Coming out of Inner Harbor, I finally located (and got a little close to) Annie's pier at Fells Point (from the movie, Sleepless in Seattle). Today a military ship was tied up to that pier.
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| Annie's pier (from Sleepless in Seattle) |
The winds were light and indeed the garrison flag was flying at Fort McHenry. This flag is the same dimensions as the real Star Spangled Banner that flew during that night in the war of 1812.
After passing the fort, we simply followed the green side of the channel out past the Key Bridge.
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| I'm being watched by a resident of the Fort McHenry buoy |
When the channel turned after the Key Bridge, we aimed straight for Rock Hall. We had a bit of traffic as we crossed the channel, but then it was smooth motoring across the bay.
A fair questions might be... why motoring? Well, it was a perfect day and winds were just right at 12 knots or so, but they were coming right from the direction we were traveling (aka, "on the nose"). We briefly discussed sailing south then east, but that would essentially double the time to get home and we were, frankly, tired, so we motored across the bay.
Yes, that means that for the entire vacation, we were under sail for maybe 2 to 3 hours.
Around 2:00 PM we made the turn north into the Swan Creek channel, and soon we were looking at Osprey Point Marina. Shortly after that, we were safely docked back in our home slip.
About 45 minutes before we docked, we read the news of Queen Elizabeth's death, so once we docked, we hung out in the salon and watched the coverage on the TV.
Later, we had a final dinner at Osprey Point restaurant.
Friday was two weeks onboard Seas The Day, but all we did was to wake up, have breakfast and "load and go". We stopped briefly at Chick-Filet for lunch. There are no photos.
We did have a nice chat on the ride home about the vacation. Vicky's favorite part was the crabbing (even though she only ate a few), and she wants to do more of that. My favorite part was the evening walk on Solomons Island... along the boardwalk to have dinner and ice cream on the way home. We both noted that we liked the marina in Oxford (and we met two people there who used to keep their boats at Osprey Point, both noting that "it's only 15 minutes more than from Rock Hall).
Finally, I asked her... "So do you think you could go longer?" The answer was yes... she envisions retirement as living in China for half a year and spending a good portion of the half-year in the US aboard Seas The Day exploring. Having just purchased a theater organ, I'm not sure I'm ready for that plan (unless we get one for China 😜), but I can easily see us going on longer (e.g., month(s)-long) excursions.
Anyway, once home, I retraced our steps from the entire trip on Google Earth. Here's the result... 205 nautical miles!
Summary of Costs
Osprey Point Restaurant - $119
Chick-Filet - $20
Total for this segment - $139
Fuel - (Filled 9/24) - 26 gal, $137
Grand Total for Entire Vacation
Days 1&2 - Rock Hall, Kent Narrows - $518
Days 2&3 - Herrington Harbor South - $429
Days 5&6 - Solomons, MD - $504
Days 7&8 - Oxford, MD - $605 (+$10 from Day 9)
Days 9, 10, 11 - at anchor - $0
Day 12 - Baltimore - $468 (Note: Baltimore has similar cost for 1 day as others for two).
Days 13&14 - Rock Hall, then Home - $139
Fuel (including guess) - $285
Grand Total - $2958 (for two weeks - note, that's beyond cost of owning Seas The Day)
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