Sassafras River to Chesapeake City on the C&D Canal

Last night rain storms passed each hour, Kathy mentioned she was awake from 2 AM to 4 AM as the storms rolled through. Very unusual weather for this time of year. Today, it was overcast and cool with 30 knot westerly winds, fortunately most of our trip was protected from the west as we moved north and east to Chesapeake City. Quaint little town with lots of specialty shops, restaurants and ice cream parlor.

The C&D canal was sponsored by Benjamin Franklin and removes 300 nm for the sea transit from Philadelphia to Baltimore. The canal is run by the Army Corps of Engineers and allows commercial vessels to 886 feet.

Freedom, Newport, RI

We arrived midafternoon and after a walk through town settled in at the Tiki Bar to see a 104 ft, 1926 Trumpy pull into the pier T. This boat is a sister ship to the Sequoia  the FDR presidential yacht and was refit in 2009. Currently, traveling from a winter in the Bahamas to their home port of Newport, RI. Absoulutely beautiful boat.

Tomorrow down the Delaware bay to Cape May and the Ocean.

Dennis and Debi on the Fly Bridge



Reunion on the Sassafras





The Tiki Bar, Thinking of you Eliot