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Beautiful sailing, crashing boats, Neptune’s blessing, and a crowded lock are some of the experiences we share in this week’s blog post.

Annapolis, Maryland to Deltaville, Virginia Thursday, October 8 – Thursday, October 15 109 nautical miles (NM) / 125 statute miles Our time in Annapolis culminated with the Annapolis Boat show and with that we have departed and are heading south. Sailboat Show Thursday, October 8 – Sunday, October 12 Welcome to the boat show! This week we attended the Annapolis Sailboat show for our third time.  The first time was in 2017 before we owned Utopia , and we flew up here and met s

The Annapolis Powerboat Show took place this week, which was followed by the autumn session of Cruisers University, both of which we got to experience.

We hit the road this week to the Maryland Yacht Club to attend a gathering of members of the Seven Seas Cruising Association (SSCA) and then back to Annapolis to watch the Boat Show Rising getting assembled.  

This week we leave St. Michaels Marina, cross to the other side of Chesapeake Bay, pass through Spa Creek Bridge, grab a mooring ball and soak in Annapolis before the boat show madness begins.

As we return to the Chesapeake Bay, we find ourselves dancing with weather and currents with mixed results.

This week featured an epic anchorage and moving south back towards Chesapeake Bay.

Utopia only moved once this past week: from Port Jefferson to Port Washington, but Jimmy and I, along with the crew of Quest II, took a couple side trips by land two very different places.

With beautiful weather following Hurricane Erin, we visited a submarine, a friend, and a quiet little island, watched sailing races, practiced docking to a moving target, and explored the Village of Port Jefferson on the big island.

We continued our westward trek leaving Block Island and moving into Long Island Sound while keeping a close eye on Hurricane Erin.  We visited funky Montauk, did some hiking, detoured to Connecticut and hunkered down for a glancing brush with Erin.   

We began our westward trek towards New York when we left Marthas Haven and headed back to Cuttyhunk where we met someone who has sailed on Utopia before we owned her. We also revisited Newport where the post office service is way better than the UPS store, and then Block Island this week where we had pizza delivered to the boat.

It is August and we are often wearing long sleeves and sometimes jackets! The north is a strange, but pretty world.

We spent a whole week in Newport where we had a few visitors that came to town to say hello.

Utopia stayed anchored for six nights at lovely Block Island before sailing up to Newport, Rhode Island.  During the week at Block Island we hiked, biked, and played bumper boats with giant trawlers. In Newport we were lucky enough to grab a mooring ball within this very busy port.

This week we made a short return to Annapolis, then headed north up Chesapeake Bay until leaving the bay waters by entering the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. From there we worked our way over to Rhode Island.

This week we share our Independence Day and some in Annapolis followed by a visit to quaint St. Michaels.

We are now cruising the mid area of Maryland's western shore of the Chesapeake as the “heat dome” melted into just normal hot weather. At least this week the warm weather has been punctuated with some fun times as we moved from the St. Marys City Area up to Annapolis with a lingering stop in Solomons.

Fixing holding tanks, running aground, biting flies, jellyfish filled waters, and oppressive heat are just some of the things in this week’s blog post.  There are also some very nice moments covered.

We have finally made it to the Chesapeake Bay! But first we had to traverse a lock and visited Norfolk, VA.

We visited the lovely town of Beaufort, NC for a few days, then got back onto the ICW heading northbound all the way into Virginia, with a stop in Belhaven and Coinjock on the way.