28 May, 2007

St. Mary's

Date: 5/25/2007
Location: St. Mary's, MD
Position: 38 11.406 N 076 26.117 W

Finally!

We actually went sailing!

The anchor light works!

The engine starts reliably!

We're relaxing!


We sailed from the Coan River across the Potomac to the St. Mary's River yesterday in 5-10 knots of SE wind. A nice, slow, relaxing, and easy sail. We sailed into into the anchorage and dropped the anchor, pretty as you please, without running the engine.

St Mary's is a lovely spot with a college and a historical reconstruction area we had a walk around and then back to Rachel for dinner. It certainly is nice to be sleeping at anchor again with the gentle rolling of the boat.

More soon.

Mark & Julie
s/v Rachel

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