A series of successes!

First, thank you to all of our friends! Your positive thoughts and prayers for our trip have been working, and we truly appreciate your support.

We are happy to report some real success stories!

Success #1--Our "5 MileWifi" has been working very well most of the time. It allows us to go online and check email, do banking, and update the blog. We are very pleased about this!

Success #2--After our centerboard work and re-launch at Cape May, we waited an extra couple of days for a storm to pass through. Then we had a great ride up the Delaware Bay, sailing some , motor sailing some, and powering some. We were making 8.2 knots at the end of the day! Having a favorable tide makes all the difference. We made it from Cape May to Chesapeake City in 9 hours and 40 minutes, record time for us! And, when we got to Chesapeake City, there was space available at the City Dock (only $15 per night for electric).

Success #3--We are now at Tolchester Marina, in northern Maryland, where we ended our trip last fall. We are preparing to leave in the morning for Galesville, MD, heading south!! So we are excited about continuing on into (for us) unexplored territory! The plan is for Galesville tomorrow night and Solomon's the following night. Temperatures are in the 60's, instead of in the 20's and 30's as we experienced last fall.

A joy!--One of the best parts about this cruising life is the people we meet along the way. We hope to meet up again soon with the Ishmael crew. We met some folks in Cape May whom we were able to assist with information about where to go to haul a boat (Tolchester, of course!). Today we spent some time with Stan, whom we had met last spring here at Tolchester, and his lovely wife Jeanne. We have a dinner invitation from them for spring when we return! We also met Jim, a single hander from Maine, at Cape May. All super people.

Garmie (our Garmin Chartplotter) is a real blessing, and takes great care of us! Kubbie (our Beta diesel engine) averages 10 miles per gallon and also takes great care of us!