Plowing Mud; Could Have Been Worse
After several weeks of work on various projects, I left Whitehall Marina near Annapolis on June 7th to begin our pre-cruising shakedown trip to the northeast. Rhoda, Tristan, and Jenn had arranged to meet me between the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, so I motored and sailed solo up the Chesapeake all day and into the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. I was hand-steering up the middle of the 450-ft-wide canal and needed to go below to get a shirt from my duffel bag. I was in a s
