the breaking of a blogfast in yorktown

it’s time to break the long blog fast for ben!

my excuse for not blogging for so long was that this is supposed to be a sail blog, and i wasn’t sailing... lame, yes, but true... but today my excuse is dissolving into the salty sea water under the wake of our beloved cricket. technically i could continue the blogfast, because we didn’t sail at all today, but we did leave a 35 mile long track line on our new garmin

chartplotter, but all under motor. technically i don’t have to blog, but i will.

we are now officially done at deltaville boatyard & marina after one last unexpected $500+ bill to replace our old autopilot display. argh! but now we are free! free at last! thank God almighty, we are free at last! free to wander! free to roam!

after our favorite marine electrical technician, mike, mounted our new surprise purchase that we had sent overnight from california (shows how desperate we were to get gone), after he connected the wires, after we quickly tore the lines off the moorings to go out for a short sea trial and a few tweeks, we literally did a quick touch and go on the marina dock just long enough for mike to jump off cricket. a quick u-turn and some sweet navigating out of jackson creek by our beloved captain got us into the chesapeake bay major. we bee-lined cricket south to yorktown with barely any drama. t’was a beautiful day in the wind and waves. we could tell lila was a wee bit nervous, but took her new moving, bobbing home with a good attitude, sleeping much of the day away in a few of owen’s old cricket haunts. she’s often follow me around the deck of the boat, taking comfort (perhaps false) that i knew what i was doing. lila was a very cute ship’s cat today! when it came time at the end of the day to pick up a mooring she walked to the bow of the boat with me and leaned over the gunnels with me as i reached out with the boat-hook to catch the mooring. felt like i had a little kid with me!

we’ll spend the next couple of days here preparing to go on our north atlantic voyage to new york city!

we are now pleasantly bobbing up and down at our mooring. over to our starboard stern yorktown’s revolutionary war memorial is lit up on a hill on the nearby shore. over our port stern, further away the big bridge over the york river has many, cheery lights reflecting on the rippling water. with a lovely cool breeze blowing through our hair, ready with sleeping pads in cricket’s cockpit, ready for a very satisfying night’s rest.

pictures tomorrow : ) ------------[}-