6/21/05
10:00 AM
Knapp's Narrow Marina
Knapp's Narrows
Tilghman Island MD
Lat 38 43.170
Lon 76 20.058

Spindrift at Knapps Narrows

This is a very nice marina. Continental Breakfast in the morning, swimming pool and best of all a wireless connection. Also there is fine restaurant. Last night at 3:00 AM I was awakened by the sound of a motor and the always alarming cry of "OH NO". There are a couple of other two word phrases that mean roughly the same thing, but none bode well for the utterer. It was too dark to see anything but hearing no crash I guess all went fine in the end.

We have seen some of the strangest boat names ever here. Chief among these were:

"The Lords Prayer"

By way of contrast:

"Hell Froze Over"

and the always popular:

"Worm"


6/21/05
9:00 PM
Same Damn Place
These are Canada Geese, but the adults are much smaller
than any I have seen before. It turns out that there are at least
10 subspecies of Canada Geese and they vary greatly in size.
This is the first time I have seen the small race.


Kay loves this place. I suspected I was going to have to use dynamite to dislodge her but now that is even going to be impossible. For dinner I had clams and Kay had Oysters. I had a side salad and Kay had a side perl (in her oyster). Talk about luck. I think she should have a ring made out of it.

Actually I like it here as much as Kay. We are next to the busiest lift bridge in the world or so we are told. It opens hundreds of times a day and is so perfectly balanced it requires little energy to so. The variety of activity is fascinating.

We are on a floating facing peer meaning it is parallel to the Narrows. The wind is pinning us to the peer so leaving right now would be a challenge for me. The boat in front of is a Gozzard, a VERY nice boat. He said they were leaving in the morning. I said great I want to see how you do it.He said he had one small advantage: Bow Thrusters. Damn!

On a Cigarette style boat: "War Pig"

6/22/05
10:30 AM
Ditto

We were to leave today but we are heading West and then NW and the wind is blowing 10 to 15 from the West do to switch to 15 from the NW . It is said that "Gentlemen never sail to weather", well this "Gentleman" does not even motor to weather. We have little to complain about though, this is the first "bad" day we have had on the trip so far. We have not even had to run the Air Conditioner and wind conditions have been uniformly superb.

Leaving here, whenever that turns out to be, we exit by a narrow channel where we have run aground before. Very encouraging, of course. To make matters worse my new GPS has it charted wrong, showing one of the red marks on the wrong side of the channel. Or to put it in even a worse light, the channel on the wrong side of the mark. I guess we will find out tomorrow.


Now days most sailors carrying towing insurance, You can get it in any amount depending on your level of pessimism. We carry unlimited both. Our contract is with TowboatUS. The local franchise of which is named prosaically as "Tow Jamm". When you hear it over the radio for the first time, not knowing how they spell it, it sure sounds strange.

I talked to the Captain of the Lady Patty, a sailboat that carries people for hire, and he says his electronic GPS C-Charts have the same error as our Garmin "BlueWater" electronic Charts. Something strange in Cartographyville.


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