The Sail to the Sun Rally started on Monday October 17th from Bluewater Marina in Hampton. A beautiful morning for the run down to Great Bridge. We were supposed to go through the Dismal Swamp canal, but the flooding completely overwhelmed the locks and bridges, closing the canal indefinitely. Our friends Don and Signe Ferguson joined us for the first week. Happy to have them along!
So we had to alter our plans to go through the Virginia Cut past Atlantic Yacht Basin, where Jack Stumborg, the owner, found a way to fit 18 boats along the free docks and in his yacht basin. The ICW pictures here show the entire ICW and the Virginia portion. The official ICW starts at mile zero in Norfolk and ends at mile 1198 in Miami. Note that the ICW is measured in statue miles while we measure our track in nautical miles. We will keep track of the entire trip and each day as we go. We passed mile zero on the way to AYB.
We also figured out that we needed to take off our wind instruments, so up the mast I went! Good weather. 159 total nm, 22nm for the day, mile 12 on the ICW. 20 gal diesel at AYB.
