The morning brought more clouds and rain -- we weren't going anywhere today. Kerry and Jen had both planned to leave early, needing to be home to attend to chores and the like. Of course, Sue insisted on sending them off with their belly's full -- so breakfast was what is becoming our "guest" standard: a large batch of bacon and eggs !
After breakfast and some final chit-chat, I dinghy-ed the girls in to get to their cars. Just as we arrived at the dock, another cruising couple were getting into their dinghy -- I saw that he had an "electric" outboard and I asked him about his experience with it as I had considered (and ultimately rejected) buying one.
One thing led to another in the conversation and I soon discovered that like me, he was from NYC (the Bronx in his case) and our respective high schools had been rivals in football, track and basketball. They (Mike and Elizabeth) had a 45 foot Hinckley (perhaps the "Bentley" of American boats, hand made with loving care) sitting on a mooring close to ours. They had brought the boat down from Maine and were planning to explore the Chesapeake on it for the next few years. Like us, Deltaville was their final major stop -- they planned to leve the boat there when they returned home.
A much as I was enjoying the conversation, I needed to get back to helping the girls off, so I excused myself with a "see you in Deltaville".
Once the girls were gone, I picked Sue up from the boat so we could get some exercise and do some laundry (we have carpets/throw mats all over the boat and they needed some "freshening" after a few weeks at sea).
We opted for exercise first -- on the way to the grocery store, we passed the Calvert Museum and noticed that they were preparing for a concert -- they had 4 "headliners" coming: Smash Mouth, Sugar Ray and two other groups whose names I rapidly forgot. The concert would be loud, outdoors and, in fact, in our boat's backyard as the crow flies -- we unwittingly had a "front row" seat to the concert and given the acts and our musical tastes, we weren't sure we were gong to enjoy the show.
Once we returned to the Marina, we did our laundry and some "electronic" chores. and retreated to the boat for a quiet afternoon. Naturally, the quiet didn't last -- the first set started at 5:30 or so and we were continuously "regaled" by the rotation through the 4 headliner groups. Some of the music was actually familiar, even enjoyable, but we were definitely relieved when they ended around 9:30, well past the normal "cruiser's midnight".
After breakfast and some final chit-chat, I dinghy-ed the girls in to get to their cars. Just as we arrived at the dock, another cruising couple were getting into their dinghy -- I saw that he had an "electric" outboard and I asked him about his experience with it as I had considered (and ultimately rejected) buying one.
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| Breakfast conversation |
A much as I was enjoying the conversation, I needed to get back to helping the girls off, so I excused myself with a "see you in Deltaville".
Once the girls were gone, I picked Sue up from the boat so we could get some exercise and do some laundry (we have carpets/throw mats all over the boat and they needed some "freshening" after a few weeks at sea).
We opted for exercise first -- on the way to the grocery store, we passed the Calvert Museum and noticed that they were preparing for a concert -- they had 4 "headliners" coming: Smash Mouth, Sugar Ray and two other groups whose names I rapidly forgot. The concert would be loud, outdoors and, in fact, in our boat's backyard as the crow flies -- we unwittingly had a "front row" seat to the concert and given the acts and our musical tastes, we weren't sure we were gong to enjoy the show.
Once we returned to the Marina, we did our laundry and some "electronic" chores. and retreated to the boat for a quiet afternoon. Naturally, the quiet didn't last -- the first set started at 5:30 or so and we were continuously "regaled" by the rotation through the 4 headliner groups. Some of the music was actually familiar, even enjoyable, but we were definitely relieved when they ended around 9:30, well past the normal "cruiser's midnight".
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