We departed Hampton timed to make it through several swing bridges that are on a tight schedule. Short day of travel followed by a long day. We have been watching Sandy closely the original prediction was for landfall in the Chesapeake so it seemed prudent to set off in the relative protection of the Inter Coastal Waterway. We have situated ourselves in a small town called Belhaven because it is situated as far west from the actual coast, with the hopes of blunting the effects of the storm.
We are near Belhaven in a creek on a dock at a small marina. Nothing special but we can stretch our legs and wait. We have good protection from the NE,N,NW,W,SW so as things clock around we should be fine. We stayed west so that we wouldn't be near the coast on the the ICW where there is no good place to have protection and we couldn't travel fast enough to get to Georgia or Florida to avoid Sandy.
If the storm stays east of here we may not see anything more than 20k with gusts to 35k so we feel we have found the safest place to ride out the storm.
We have to go to the office to have cell service or Internet. It is in and out out on the dock so once we have to hunker down you may not hear from us until after the storm remember no news is good news.
It sounds like the New England area is in for an awful mess. Everyone stay safe we will be thinking of you too.
Hopefully a week from now this will be just another story.
D&D
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| Our Private Anchorage on the Hampton River |
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| Our Present Location near Belhaven NC |
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| War Ships in Norfolk VA note patrol boat shadowing our movement |
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| Norfolk in the Rear View Mirror |
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| In the Lock at Great Bridge VA |
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| Calm before the storm. Sunset Alligator River NC |
We're up in the Solomons for the storm, very quiet here theese past two days also. We check in on you after the storm. Tom & MaryLou S/V Dalmatian
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