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New York!
Wow, it has been a very busy week! We made it to New York! We started the week traveling through the Delaware/Chesapeake Canal which took us into Delaware Bay. We anchored that night in a quiet spot just behind an island that was made mostly of reeds. The kids thought it was weird because there was no town nearby and there was nobody else around. Of course, there was a thunderstorm that night but otherwise it was very peaceful. Delaware Bay was surprising differently from the Chesapeake. I can see why it is much more popular to visit the Chesapeake. Delaware Bay seems relatively unpopulated, with much fewer towns to…
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Changing the tunes
Random post (and the weekly blog is coming soon) When I was young, my family drove around Europe for a month and many of our mornings started with my Dad singing ‘On the Road Again’. It became the theme song for the trip. I have found that on many of travel trips since, certains songs seem to pop into my head that seem to represent the trip that I am on. The same has happend on this trip. However, at different times, different tunes will pop into either my head or one of the kids starts singing something over and over again. Here are some that have come to us…
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Annapolis and more
We left Solomons with the engines running and electricity coming from our house batteries. However, after only a short 6-hour motor up to Annapolis, we arrived, made dinner and the batteries died. We spent the next day and a half without electricity and running water. It was not very pleasant, mostly because it is was very hot and we really wanted our air-conditioning! The reason that we were without electricity and water was because the house batteries needed to be charged, but at the time, with our electical system still not fully set up, they needed to be charged by the alternator and regulator. However, those required 24-volt power to…
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A week. . . in Solomons
Sorry it has been a little longer since my last post. We have been spending long days working on the boat to get the electronic system upgraded. This meant completely taking out the batteries, the wires and switches for the DC power system all the way up to the distribution chanel (break panel). Kevin is reconfiguring it to add in the new batteries as well as 3 new 5 kW inverter/chargers. This will allow us to have AC power all the time, and lots of it, to support our electric galley, as well as decrease our dependance on our generator. We are also adding in over 3kW of solar panels…
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Into the Chesapeake
We ended up spending a total of 4 days in Beaufort, and left on July 1st. The extra days in Beaufort gave us the chance to stock on food, pick up a package (which contained a bolt to replace the one that fell out of our power winch on our mast, actually, it fell out and we though we had lost it but later found it in the anchor locker when pulling up the anchor), and enjoy the beach. The package was actually in Morehead City, which was just across the water from Beaufort. It was more industrial looking, Kevin and I caught an uber over to the area, and…
