Crossing the Potomac

7/17/07 – Kenny and I ate some oatmeal for breakfast and then weighed anchor. We motored through the Milford Haven harbor and tried unsuccessfully to buy fuel at two marinas but one was closed and one only sold diesel fuel. We continued along until we got to Deltaville, where we stopped at a marina that sold us fuel and ice and let us use their courtesy car to drive a few miles to buy some groceries. We got going again at about 11:00am and motored north for the afternoon and evening. We had a very light north wind all day so the sails would have been useless. I dropped the anchor just west to Lookout Point, knowing that the light north wind would put us in the lee of the point and make for a very comfortable anchorage. As soon as we had finished our dinner of pasta, the wind began blowing at around ten knots from the south. We had about fifteen miles of open water directly to the south of us so we began being tossed around by the ever increasing waves. We both had a cigar in recognition of the fact that we had just crossed into Maryland and then sat and relaxed before going to bed. It was a very rough night. We were bounced around so much that I sometimes had to hang on to keep from rolling out of my bed.