JG here: thought I'd post a few pics from my camera to get us caught up to today, so these are in chronological order from trip day one :)
Also you can find us on Instagram: #straycatsail
From 2200sf of living space to living out of 3 bags for the next 7 months. Felt great to downsize, but I'm pretty sure I forgot to bring something.
The crew: Capt. Mark, Suzanne, Jon
A tall ship that passed us as we left Solomons.
We have an unplanned 4th crew member who is managing pest control. He's quiet, but is constantly lounging when there are clearly things to be done.
Dusk shot from our anchor spot in Reedville Va.
Heading to the bay on Saturday morning for what would be a great day of sailing. Blurry shot, but I like it.
Another from Saturday morning.
Sails up! Saturday morning!
Approaching Norfolk and passing the naval yards. Very impressive, we saw no less than a dozen warships seemingly at the ready.
Welcome to Norfolk!
We ended up anchoring Saturday night right behind this catamaran for what turned out to be a very rough night w wind gusts to 25kts. I was awake often wondering if we were dragging the anchor, thankfully we didn't. We would end up following this cat, "Pamalynn", all day today (Sunday) and having dinner with its crew, a nice retired couple heading home to Stewart, Florida.
We went ashore to dinner and when we returned to Stray Cat, she was in full disco mode. Which explains the blurry pic. The "pimp lights" sure make it easy to spot your boat at night in a busy anchorage!
The first of many bridge passings today. You can see Pamalynn in the lead and the second cat is Bossa Nova. The three of us convoyed south for about 50 miles today (Sunday) and we are all docked together for the night. At dinner we met the Bossa Nova crew, owner from Brazil and its Capt. from France, and two friends of the owner who I believe were from Nebraska.
This is what most of today looked like: "motoring in the ditch" through southern Virginia and into North Carolina. It was cold and windy all day.
Among the numerous road crossings was one lock, "Great Bridge Lock". Here we are staging to enter behind the other cats. It wasn't nearly as exciting as I had hoped, I'm pretty sure the water level only dropped us 6 inches.
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