Regatta Point Yatching Center (formerly Dozier’s) - at a dock

 

I’ve never seen so many aircraft carriers in for maintenance, about 6 I think I counted

After a week of high winds at Dowry Creek Marina, the weather has been great. How can you complain about winds less than 10 kts along with a flood tide to push you north on the Chesapeake? We had the tide all the way to our marina. 

We led a parade northward out of Norfolk

Along the way, we saw huge cargo ships anchored in the Chesapeake, about a dozen, waiting, I guess, for a spot to dock? We passed two cargo ships on our way from Norfolk. They were doing 15 kts and we had to time our passage across their bow so as to not interrupt their travel. Regardless of that, we did see several small boats that I though were way too close to the big ships but that’s up to the captain. 

Our home for the next three days, nice floating docks!

With the good winds and fair tide, we made it to Dozier’s by 2:30 (leaving Norfolk YC at 8:15). We are now in the last stages of our season, somewhat sad. We need to clean the boat tomorrow and I have to change the oil and filters along with the associated fuel filters to get Fleetwing ready to go in the fall. 

We are putting Fleetwing on the hard at Stingray Point Boat Works which is a DIY yard so I’m allow to work on Fleetwing myself. Some yards do not allow the owner to do his own work but Stingray does. So Wednesday is a work day and Thursday is a packing day. Then it’s over to Stingray to pull the boat, after which, we’ll head north.