The plan for today is to simply get the boat to Annapolis so we can pick up my niece, her husband and two of my nephews on Saturday morning for a weekend boat outing.
Since the distance to Annapolis was relatively small (perhaps 15 miles), we decided to spend the morning in the creek; Sue took the time to work (she has been helping her daughter Becky with her psychological assessment business) while Jack took the opportunity to complete some work for his client and do some boat chores.
We pulled up the anchor around noon -- it was a sunny, hot day and the winds were light and out of the NE -- since we were heading SW, the sailing conditions were poor (light winds on downhill run generally means lots of flopping around), so we motor sailed.
We arrived in Annapolis around three, and took a tour of the harbor to see whether we would be able to do a "touch and go" on the city dock to pick up our passengers the next day -- after seeing the position of and traffic at the city dock, we decided it would be easier for us to anchor and have our guests come out to the boat by water taxi.
We dropped our anchor off of the wall of the Naval Academy just outside the main harbor, providing ourselves with an "environmental" alarm clock, namely the drill sergeant chanting the cadence of the plebe's physical training at 6:30 am :-)
Some quiet time on deck followed by a grilled salmon dinner onboard completed the day.
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| Annapolis Harbor from our anchorage; the Naval SAcadey Wall is on the right |
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| The wall just behind My Weight -- Calisthetics at 6:00am in the footbal field! |
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