Sunday, Sept 14th – the rain cleared overnight
and weather was calling for sunshine for the next several days. We were
communicating with Peter Bailey, a friend from Toronto, who was visiting his
brother in Georgia and wanted to meet up with us. We decided to stay another
day in Rock Hall to make the visit happen.
Traffic in and out of this tiny inlet was heavy since it was
the only nice day of the weekend. Close to
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| Biking to town of Rock Hall |
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| Lunch at The Kitchen |
Julie emptied the freezer to thaw as I worked at switching
the deck hose to use sea water. For those that have never seen an anchor locker before...the picture has the mooring ball just over
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| Anchor locker |
the bow, the orange control switch for the windlass (round shiny cog that the chain wraps around) for raising and lowering the anchor rode, the black deck hose to the right, yellow line around cleat attaches to the mooring ball and there is 200' of 3/8's chain in the dark center hole.
Julie is great at reading the flyers we pick up, charts and all the books we have about the area. Today, while relaxing, she read about the law with regards to putting waste overboard. Some boats like ours are equipped with a Y-valve...in one direction our toilet waste goes to the holding tank to be later pumped out, the other direction our waste goes directly overboard. To eject it overboard, you must be 3 nautical miles (nm) from shore. But more to the point, the Y-valve must be secured with a lock or in the closed position and the handle removed. Fines are up to $35,000. Yesterday, Steve was mentioning that this is the area where the USCG are likely to board your vessel to check...yike! (see, it is a word)
Julie is great at reading the flyers we pick up, charts and all the books we have about the area. Today, while relaxing, she read about the law with regards to putting waste overboard. Some boats like ours are equipped with a Y-valve...in one direction our toilet waste goes to the holding tank to be later pumped out, the other direction our waste goes directly overboard. To eject it overboard, you must be 3 nautical miles (nm) from shore. But more to the point, the Y-valve must be secured with a lock or in the closed position and the handle removed. Fines are up to $35,000. Yesterday, Steve was mentioning that this is the area where the USCG are likely to board your vessel to check...yike! (see, it is a word)
Before we knew it, it was 17:30, so we passed
on the curry chicken and made spaghetti…another beautiful sunset and an evening of chatting
in the cockpit.
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| Sunset by Rock Hall, MD |
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