October 5, 2006 Solomans Island

We left the West River about 8AM. The wind had picked up and it appeared the weather was turned for the worse. One of the boats in the anchorage dragged this morning as the winds picked up. The waves were high (3 - 4 feet) when we reached the bay but the wind was from the North and it followed us all the way down the bay to the Patuxent River where we anchored near the Comfort Marina in Solomans Island. We finally sailed most of the day with the exception of entering and leaving the harbors. We spent most of the day "wing and wing" (where you have your jib out one side of the boat and the mainsail out the other side, kind of like birds wings) with following 3 - 4 foot seas. It was a bit rough but we made good time and even past other boats up along the way as the winds were between 10 - 20 knots and our boats loves that and she likes to fly...

The weather is supposed to blow at about 35 knots from the NE for the next two days. We may end up here until Sunday. The anchorage is filling up. "Dream Weaver" anchored next to us (they are the boat that dragged in the West River and I'm sure you can understand our concern with the winds that are supposed to be coming). We are in 11 feet of water with 90 feet of 3/8 inch chain and the 66# Bruce out. Mark is fairly confident that we will hold.

We were greeted by 2 beautiful white swans after we anchored. Vicki promptly fed the rest of our rock hard baggette left over from New York City to them.