The Adventures Continue... The Owl arrives in Norfolk, VA

Today we sailed the S.V. OWL from Deltaville, VA to Norfolk, VA. We had light wind and it was a slow motor/sail down the Chesapeake Bay. We had calm seas and the motor is running well. We spent a good bit of the day planning our next few days through the various sounds and canals in North Carolina.


Our greatest victory of they day was getting Captain Jim Baker's phone back up after it's dip in the bilge of the S.V. OWL. The phone started working inside of the AT&T store as we were about to purchase a new one. After some minor surgery under indirect supervision from contractor Andrew Godfrey, it is now fully functional. We were able to recover these pictures from our adventure into rural Virginia to get supplies to fix the cooling system onboard.

The culprit, the one place where the floorboards were spaced widely enough to allow a blackberry to slide through.

The assorment of shotgun shells, a VHF radio, and knives in Roy's truck

First Mate Chris Davis wearing the local hunt club hat while driving to the marine supply store.

They even like North Carolina BBQ in Virginia.

Tomorrow we will pull off docks and head for Coinjock, NC on the far side of the Currituck Sound.

Goodnight from Norfolk, VA.

The Owl in Deltaville, VA

We spent last night on the transient dock at Fishing Bay Harbor Marina in Deltaville, VA. Deltaville is a great town to come into on a wooden sailboat, at one time it was the boat building capital of the the Chesapeake, and every marina in town has its share of wooden boats.



We spent the afternoon making repairs to the standing rigging, which had loosened up after a full day under sail. This was expected, it has been a long time since the Owl has had all of her sail out. Luckily this gave Chris the opportunity to do one of his favorite things: get hoisted up the mast in a homemade bosun's seat!



After our repairs were made we were greeted by a friend of ours, Mark Powell, who came down from Richmond. Mark keeps several boats at Fishing Bay Marina, including 2 classic wooden Herreshoff sailboats and a Catalina 42. Mark took us on a tour of the many local boatyards, where we saw the charred remains of 4 boats that caught fire back in June. We actually heard about this fire on the VHF radio and saw the smoke while passing Deltaville on the Oyster Catcher delivery.



For dinner we decided to try a local restaurant that none of us had been to: Cocomo's. We highly recommend if you are ever in Deltaville that you eat here and get the "steamer medley." Any other order would be the wrong choice. This "medley" is more of a feast than a dinner, a veritable mountain of steamed crab, clams, shrimp and vegtables.



We are off to a nice start this morning making an easy 6 knots down the Chesapeake. Tonight's destination: Norfolk.