Days 316, 317 and 318 – at Dozier’s Regatta Point, Deltaville, VA - May 17-19, 2012

It is official – the weather is holding us hostage.  We have been incredibly lucky on our Loop and have not (for the most part) had to stay in a port due to weather when we were ready to move on.  There have been a few times – waiting to cross from New Buffalo to Chicago, in Orange Beach when we had hoped to move while we had friends visiting and when we waited to cross the Gulf – but most of the time when we have wanted to move we have been able to.

The weather pattern we are in right now seems to be stuck on high winds.  It has been blowing here for two days with no end in sight.  There are some great anchorages in creeks along the north shore of the Rappahannock River, but we aren’t interested in leaving a dock and going to an anchorage when the winds are blowing over 20 mph.  There were small craft warnings on Chesapeake Bay on Thursday and then on both the Bay and the Rappahannock River on Friday.  Saturday afternoon we got a tiny reprieve from all the wind, but it is kicking up again and Sunday is scheduled to be windy and rainy.  So, we watch the forecast and wait for a better day to move.

They have a courtesy car here at Regatta Point, so we (along with Greg and Kate) have taken advantage of it.  We’ve been to West Marine, the grocery store and a couple of gift shops.  We’ve also gone to the Deltaville Maritime Museum & Holly Point Nature Park.  The museum was opened in 2003 and it contains many beautiful model ships as well as information on the history of boat building in this area.  One of the museum’s missions is to preserve boatbuilding skills and as a result they support the rebuilding/restoration of old boats as well as the construction of new boats.

Fred has had time to work on a number of boat projects while we’ve been here, so the stainless has been getting polished, the anchor locker cleaned out and re-caulked and a leaky sump hose has been replaced along with a check valve being installed.  It’s great to be getting so much done, but we are ready to move on and see more of the Chesapeake Bay.

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one of the model ships at the Deltaville Maritime Museum

another model ship at the Deltaville Maritime Museum

the F.D. Crockett - one of the restoration projects done
by the Deltaville Maritime Museum



there were a number of bronze statues in the Holly Point
Nature Park, this is my favorite

the pelican statue (note to Carrie - they may be bigger than
Poindexter, but not nearly as cool)

another one of the many statues in the Holly Point Nature Park

the daytime weather may not be good for moving the boat, but the evenings
have been beautiful