August 9th, Tues. Georgetown to Havre de Grace MD
Today we travel to Havre de Grace on the west side of the bay. This is the most northerly point we will visit this summer. The bay is only 5 miles across, east to west, but we still need to maneuver shoals and shallow areas. The ride was calm and even warm again today. Tom tried fishing, unsuccessfully, snagged our own lure. We were traveling 9 mph which is too fast for any fish to catch us -beef for dinner. We entered the mooring field at Tidewater Marina only to find none of the mooring balls had any pennants attached. We dropped the dingy, the first mate stood on the swim platform, ready with a line and the captain expertly and slowly pulled alongside the ball so the first mate could attach a line thru the eye by hand. It was a tricky maneuver, and a first for this crew, and we were pleased with our success. We celebrated with a victory beer. We once again dinghied into the marina and started our explorations. The marina had a nice courtesy van which we used to get an overview of the town. After dinner we headed out to Walmart to once again do provisioning. When transportation is available, we have learned to take advantage of it. Yesterday we bought milk for $4.95 a gallon and today it was $1.62. Between the 2 boats, we bought so much stuff, it took 2 trips with the dinghy to get the provisions onboard.
August 10th. Havre de Grace
This town consists of 3 streets, 3 blocks of stores and many, many antique stores with a large variety of collectibles. Tom's favorite was Bahouka's Antiques. Upstairs housed a beer muzium, with beer glass, beer sign, beer tray, beer tapper, beer mirror and beer can imaginable. The store had an eclectic assortment of old "stuff". Sister-in-law Cindy would have loved it all. Lunch was a 3/4 pound burger at Roger's House Tavern housed in the oldest building in the city. Once back on the boat, the wind and waves had kicked up so we swung around, bounced a little title but still enjoyed the sunshine.
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