October 3rd- Chesapeake City, MD

We’re still anchored at Engineers Cove in Chesapeake City. We had one neighbor but are now the lone boat anchored here. Every once in a while the rain stops for a bit and we get to land. Today’s shore run included hot showers at the marina. Luxury!

We saw this big ship coming down the canal yesterday. Glad we weren’t in the canal.

We’ve put up all of our cockpit canvas to deflect some of the heavy downpours. The temperature has been from the mid 50s F during the day to mid 40s F at night. With wet foul weather gear and a wet dog things are getting very damp. Today we had a lot of hull condensation. We had the same issue on Catalpa when outside temps got cold. Ollie dries off but nothing else does. We started the day off with hurricane lanterns lit. Progressed to firing up our Little Buddy propane heater. Eventually I dug out the wood stove chimney and some fire wood out of the lazarette. I installed the wood stove last winter, replacing an ailing diesel stove. We haven’t had an opportunity to test it yet but I packed in a bunch of wood to burn before we departed. Being a woodworker, I have an almost unlimited supply of scrap wood. The stove was lit. We’re happy with the new wood stove. It puts out a decent amount of heat and Evergreen’s salon is drying out.

The rain and wind looks like it’s going to continue for another day or two. If the weather isn’t too bad tomorrow we might travel a little further down the C & D and anchor up a river. Both the Bohemia and Sassafras river look interesting and we need a change of scenery.

Evergreen anchored in Engineer’s Cove, Chesapeake City.