Fryedaze Cruising Adventures: Cape Charles, Onancock, Crisfield

Well Fryedaze is starting to smell the barn. You can feel the giddy up as her bow moves slowly up and down through the swells of the Chesapeake. Fryedaze and Dave are ready for some time at home but Betsy has thrown out an anchor that the boat has to drag the rest of the way. She loves the boat, the cruising, the adventure, challenge, the cruisers and the friend we meet and the control of what we do next. The three stops before we get home have been picked based on previous cruising. We enjoy the eastern shore and Cape Charles, Onancock and Crisfield are nice stops to chill out on our way north. The ride across the wide ope stretch went well. The Chesapeake was kind and the winds were down. At Cape Charles we missed the MTOA friends by a day due to weather. Our MTOA mentors and friends Jim and Talley met us on the dock at Oyster Bay Farm Marina. It was good to see them and catch up. We hung out for two day and headed to Onancock for a one day stop. We had a nice dinner at The Mallard and enjoyed the quiet of the Onancock Warf. The next day we headed out for Crisfield Somers Cover Marina. Several folk thought we shouldnt go due to wind predictionts. We knew that the forecast was for high winds after 11am so we just headed out early and got in before the winds picked up, easy peasy. Crisfield has an awesome facility in a town that time has passed by. At one time the 700 slip marina had a waiting list. Now there are very few boats in the marina. The facilities are great but no one is there. Most of the restaurants are closed. Maybe one day the town will come back to life.
We had to stay two day in Crisfield due to winds. It was blowing 25 knots with gusts to 35 and Fryedaze wouldn't fair well in those seas. We walked the town, checked out the the town docks and had breakfast at a nice restaurant near the docks. Somers Cove is a peaceful place and we always relax there. The next day is HOME!

Hospital Ship moored on our way out of Norfolk harbor

LHA 3 was built in Ingall Litton Shipyard in Pascagoula Mississippi. LHA 1-5 where in the yards when Dave was there 35 years ago!!

Lots of ships in at the base, more than we have ever seen

One of those sneaky subs hidding behind the nets.

Cape Charles waterfront

We have bad feelings about these guys. They are the Menhaden boats out of Reedville. There are at least five of these guys that use ocean fishing practises in the bay with spotter planes to harvest the Menhaden. Maryland doesn't allow the to enter Maryland water.