Norfolk Yacht Club - at a dock

 

Waiting at Great Bridge for an opening

We took a casual approach to leaving this morning, not until 9:00 am, we only had 21 NM to go. When at the bridge, I noticed a drone hovering nearby. Who could that be? I later found out that it was from the couple we met last night. They were still at the free dock waiting for parts and flew the drone to capture footage of us going through the bridge and up to the lock. See the link for the video. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ejjKls01PBAnbcA9A8IwURBgcrei2Z8f/view?usp=drivesdk

Many aircraft carriers in for refitting 

We made all the bridges and railroad bridges without any delays (what’s all the fuss… ? Ha..) We counted ourselves lucky and motored on to the Norfolk YC for a dock. We made it about an hour before the storms came roaring through with winds to 40 kts! We saw it coming and I tied everything down but 40 kts is still pretty strong no matter how well things are secured.

The Norfolk YC is just fabulous. Here’s a typical room but there’s several restaurants, many other
Meeting rooms, presentation halls, etc. Immaculately done.

We are getting close to the end of our winter ICW trip. Our last day will be on Tuesday when we move along to Deltaville for three days of packing before hauling Fleetwing at Stingray Point Boat Works and leaving for New York in our car which we stored there over the winter. It was a good season even though the winds were much worse than our experience in previous years. We are already looking ahead to next year, a return to Key West.