Travel Day Finally – Spring Cove Marina to Rock Hall Harbor

Very overcast with a bit of drizzle

We enjoyed Spring Cove Marina with the swimming pool, nice showers, and great staff but it is time to move onward to get our Bimini Top repaired. A misty, overcast, rainy morning cool again early temps in the 60’s and later as the skies cleared a bit up to 75 or so. Wind out of the east to start shifting to northeast and then west and a bit of a change up to the south this evening at anchorage. One of our autopilot display controllers no longer boots up so I move the display from the upper helm to the lower helm so we could steer from inside the cabin. We have redundant systems but we come to rely on a certain pattern of activities. Since we do not have a Bimini Top or upper helm windshield we will steer from the lower helm in all but the best conditions. As we entered the anchorage this evening we did steer from the upper helm since the sun was out and the winds quite calm. The only factor that slows down the boat is that we were traveling against the tidal current almost the whole way and making only about 7 mph, at one point the adverse current was 1.5 mph. We observed anywhere from 9.5 to 5.3 mph today with the same throttle setting.
 

These large ships are very interesting to me

We traveled 68 miles today, up the Chesapeake past Cambridge, St. Michaels and Annapolis all places we had planned to visit on our journey, But the Bimini is critical to enjoying our cruise. We saw large ocean going ships just south of the Bay Bridge that links Annapolis to the eastern shore. I believe the only other bridge across the Chesapeake is tunnel bridge near the ocean.

We followed 4 sailboats into the anchorage and they all rafted together after searching out the area. There are 9 boats in this anchorage this evening and plenty of room for more if necessary. 

The Bay Bridge just north of Annapolis, 4.3 miles long

The sun settles at our anchorage