when i finished my night shift at 3am, the winds had picked up considerably, and cricket was doing a good 4 knots on a near run. we had made it all the way to the green marker that signals a port turn towards deltaville, va. from here deltaville marina was only 6 nautical miles away, and on a beam reach we'de be making 5-7 knots, which would blow us there in less than an hour! i kind of knew that pam would not want to try to navigate into the harbour at night, since it is very shallow, and very tricky on the way in. i know i wouldn't've wanted to try. so when she took over her shift it was no surprise that she headed her bow to starboard (east), and on out to sea (or bay). cricket kicked up her heels and danced up and down the waves at a very spritely pace! fun! while i was falling asleep in the bunk, pam and cricket were having a grand time sailing back and forth for four hours in a very fine wind! the wind and cricket had saved some of the best sailing on the bay for our last morning on the big water!
when morning light arrived pam woke me from my dreams of bouncing up and down on the trampoline to a very beautiful, cool, windy morning. it was time to go to our last anchorage : ( right out from the deltaville marina. pam did an excellent job of piloting us through to our stopping spot, and kept cricket from dragging her feet to her haul out spot. we were tired when we anchored, and tried to nap, but somehow couldn't. so we got into jiminny, dinghied over to the marina (a very short ride), paid the $35 a week to use their facilities, and showered to our heart's, and dirty hair's content! we then took the cute little deltaville marina's bicycles into town to the cocomo restaurant for tuna bites, a crab cake sandwich, a caesar salad with a tuna steak, a corona and a pina colada. all very good. all went down very easily!
biked back. dinghied back, and had "movie night' aboard cricket. while a windy and rainy storm was a-stormin' out side, we watched "the hunt for red october" on the laptop with great pleasure, nice and dry inside. we went out on deck afterwards to enjoy the cool night air and the moon coming out from the shreds of clouds for a wee bit, and then turned in. big day tomorrow... time to begin getting cricket ready for the haulout.
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