Location: Docked on the Coan River, Chesapeake
Position: 37 56.652 N 076 28.883 W
We arrived back to Rachel on July 7th. Wow has it just been a week we've been back?
After a lovely, albeit too quick visit with Mark's family in Maine, we were hoping to get Rachel ready and take off to points North for a month or two.
Unfortunately Julie's mum passed away on Monday after a short hospital stay. It is always distressing to lose a parent, but there is also a sense of relief that she will no longer be suffering from the debilitating Alzheimers with which she was afflicted. The funeral is next Friday, so we'll be flying to England and will be gone until Sunday, the 22nd of July. We are still getting Rachel ready to head North, it just won't happen until we return at the end of next week.
It's been so hot that the half finished awning job has bubbled up to the top of the priority list
Mark is busily preparing Rachel for our next offshore adventure from Norfolk, Virginia to Block Island, Rhode Island and then on to Maine via the Cape Cod Canal. We're rustling up some crew so we won't have to do all the night shifts ourselves, although we are trying to make it sound more attractive than it actually will be
Apart from that, we're having a great time taking dinghy rides, watching the osprey feed their babies in their nest across the river, watching a spider build it s web on our bimini supports, etc.
Wow! Are we really the same people who just quit our jobs and moved onto our lovely boat 3 months ago?
"No! Get off the computer, stop waffling on, and get back to work
"Ow!"
Mark & Julie
s/v Rachel
