I can't say that it is an uplifting experience to run your boat aground. Getting it off however certainly is. Today's run was Onancock to Yorktown VA. Great sail blasting across the Chessepeake put us in striking distance of Yorktown where a
neap tide and tricky small entrance made us kiss bottom. No harm done as I was going at less than 2 knots and the bottom was silt. We backed out of the entrance with our tail between the legs and anchored just outside the narrow cut to enjoy a GT and
quiet evening.
Pork loin BBQ with carrots and baked potatoes....
Tomorrow I will go for a swim to investigate stbd engine raw water blockage. I suspect a shopping bag wrapped around our sail drive or the saildrive ate sea grass.
Also our freshwater pump is acting up and there seems to be an air leak somewhere upline.
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