A recurring theme on our passages here in the Chesapeake is what’s the next creek we’ll visit. I’ve started drafting a couple blog posts about creeks that we’ve visited so far, and we often discuss our next possible anchorage, and so this recurring term caused pause. My kindly sarcastic mind often bends and stretches a …
Category: Thoughts
Only Two Of These
We journeyed from Cape May, New Jersey, up the Delaware River, so to take a shortcut over to the Chesapeake Bay. Technically part of the official Intracoastal Waterway for snow birds boating south (while remaining inland) to warmer weather, we are using the waterway to visit the Northern Chesapeake area, and make a few planned …
A Real Passage
Our first real passage on Fayaway was completed yesterday. While certainly not our first overnight trip, we made a typical 54 hour slog, where the was forecast not entirely accurate. Fayaway got us here safely, very salty, and best of all (difficult to believe with the pounding we took), nothing broke! We left on a …
Places we’ve never been
As we start this adventure it is worth noting why we are heading out, it's not to get away from anything or anyone. Quite the contrary. We already miss our friends and family. They are life's most precious assets. Running down Buzzards Bay We are going purely for the adventure of "discovering" new places and …
Definitely Not Plan
We left our home base at our comfy mooring in Newburyport after an extended stay. We spent the time well after delays caused by the Marina. Topping it off we got an outrageous bill (only after pestering them several times that we wanted to settle up). I'll keep the mood positive so won't mention the …
SV Fayaway 