Day 2 Southbound

SATURDAY- Hauled a very muddy anchor about 9:30 AM for another beautiful day cruising South. The trip was only 41 miles, taking 6 hours; the auto pilot did most of the steering. We passed a huge container ship and many weekend fishermen and sail boats.

Anchored in Mill Creek at Solomons Island about 3:30, we dinghied ashore to tour this little resort area with it's hundreds of sailboats. Louis happily sniffed every grass blade. The temperature turned nippy at sunset so we returned, hoisted the dinghy and tied it back down.

Tomorrow will be an earlier start as we have almost 60 miles to travel. The weather should be good.

FLASH! As I was about to upload this, a 40 foot steel hulled schooner, underway in the pitch dark, collided with a 32 foot Grand Banks trawler next to us in the anchorage! The sailboat's very long bowsprit nearly t-boned the trawler then raked its port side. No one is injured but the trawler is surely damaged. Mike has our fore deck spot light focused on them, brightly illuminating the scene. There's been much chatter on the emergency VHF channel and several boats of police/Coast Guard, etc have responded.

Clipper Ship at dock here in Solomon.

Louis waiting to go back to the boat.