The boat shows of boat shows

So after we left we Cape May, we motored up the Delaware bay (for those of you who were under the impression that we were a SAIL boat, let me clear that up for you. We were once a sailboat but when travelling on a schedule, we are definitely a power boat. There just never seems to be enough wind, and if there is wind it's coming directly off our nose!!! Stupid Murphy!!!). There is absolutely nothing to write about the Delaware bay and river. The most exciting thing we see is the nuclear power plant, that you can see for at least most of the voyage up. Besides that it's boring. So let's fast forward to the Chesapeake bay.

We stopped for a night up the Sassafras River, it's this beautiful lush river. On lake Champlain we anchor in bays in the Chesapeake you anchor in creeks. The following night we anchored in Worton creek. Our depth sounder read 0.1 feet below the keel the whole time we were there. But we didn't run aground. I was impressed.

From there we went to Annapolis. Our first night there we anchored near Ambition's new temporary home. I wish I could have seen my dad tie up to pilings for the first time. Apparently it wasn't so smooth. As nice as our anchorage was, surrounded by HUGE houses, it was far from Annapolis. So we changed locations.

We dropped the hook in the middle of a creek that borders Annapolis. I thought that there would be a small place for us to spend the night. However, there were marinas as far as the eye could see. I have never seen so many masts before. The other boats were anchored right in the middle of the narrow channel between the marinas. So we anchored there too, right smack dab in the middle. We've come a long way from not wanting to anchor anywhere we could see another boat!

Anyways.... we went to the Annapolis boat show. The biggest sailing boat show. It was gigantic. There was so much stuff that I didn't know I needed for the boat! If they make it for boats that had it there. Some of the funny stuff we saw was a "Winch Wench"; it's beer holder that fits in your winch (a winch is the big turny thing that helps pull in the ropes of the sails. They are also in the perfect to hold a beer).

Besides the funny stuff, there was electronics, sails (the coolest spinakker thing I've ever seen. It's a sail that flips out of the genoa. I'm still don't know how it works but it sure looks cool), batteries, teak everythings, kitchen tools, etc........

And the boats they had....wow!!! There must have been close to a hundred boats to check out. I finally figured out why the Island Packet is such a popular cruising boat. It's beautiful and spacious below. You even forget that it's a nasty beige colour hull. The Hanze was ultra modern, but not well thought out. The one boat I think we are going buy next is the .....Oyster!!!! They had their 80 foot model there to show. It was beautiful and worth 6.5.....MILLION DOLLARS!!! I don't think even if I had the money, I could spend it on that.

The best part about the show, after every day someone hosts a party, with free drinks and food!!! I loved it. Our friend Scotty even drove up from the Solomons to visit with us. We spent a couple of wonderful nights with James and Chantal. One night we decided to party like we were teenagers. So we pre-drank and snuck in a bottle of rum to the party. It was overpriced and boring so we didn't feel bad at all. We sure did have fun....i think James has sworn off drinking for a while after that night.

But all good things have to come to an end. Once the show finished, we said goodbye to Daddy and Cindy, and took off to the Solomons. Hopefully Josh will be able to help Scotty with some work in return for getting help solving our never ending battery problems.

We miss you all.

Roxanne and Josh