On Saturday, May 17, we departed Georgetown Yacht Basin for our destination at a marina off the Little Wicomico River VA called Cockrell's Marine Railway. They had constructed some additional dock space and installed some pilings in the water to create a slip large enough for Pas de Deux.

In the past week, contractors at the yard had completed the inspection and repair of our refrigeration units and had installed the bow pad eyes we needed for a later installation of the bow sprit needed for our future Code 0 sail . The Code 0 sail would fill a gap in our inventory, with this sail best for light to moderate broad reaching and perhaps easier to handle on a roller furler than the spinnaker. Dave wanted to "round out" our sail plan to include sails that would handle light wind and the deep downwind aspect of sailing that would characterize some of our future planned cruising grounds.

The first leg of this journey would include a stop at the Rhode River where we had anchored previously. Too bad we found that our autopilot wasn't working when we departed the marina. The wind was W to S, sometimes as strong as 15 kt. Because of the direction of the wind we spent much of the day motor sailing directly into it. We tacked under the Bay Bridge. We easily passed a Beneteau 43 upwind--we were higher and faster. Anchored at the Rhode River, we were visited by Bruce and Alison C. who live on the waterfront.