Splash

 Destiny aka Mast Confusion is about to get a lift.

 She is up and moving.

 It is neat to see how the professionals move these boats

 Moving toward the water

 Almost there.

 Becky is watching her go in.

 Not sure if the movie will work, but it is the lowering of the Destiny.

 A large pod of dolphins came by as I motored toward Crisfield. I never saw so many.

 Destiny is sitting at her dock for the next month.

Yea she is floating and seems great, the raw water pump is going out so I need to order a new one. Glad she made it here. 

She is almost ready

 Destiny is our boat's name, but since we did not get the lettering done, it will be Mast Confusion for one more year. We just put on new Hunter 356 letters this morning after the hull was waxed.

 You can see the barrier paint that is installed on after the sand blasting of the old paint.

 After many coats of barrier it got the first new coat of bottom paint. It is a red hard coat, the final coats with be Ablative and black. Ablative paint slowly wears down and we will be able to see when it is getting thin when the red starts to show through.

 It is going pretty well. Becky and I have been doing projects on the inside and there have been many.  It has been a task just going through all the storage nooks and lockers to determine what we can use and how best to utilize the space available. 

Starting to get ship shape.

St. Jane's Island and we have contact with Destiny

 Going across the Chesapeake Bay you have to go through two tunnels below the water.

 As soon as we cross we stopped at Sting Ray's for lunch, it was good.

 We made it Janes Island State Park and unhitched Tweety.

 Next we traveled to the boat. You can see that the bottom has been sand blasted and painted with two barrier coats. It will get on more tomorrow and a hard coat of red bottom paint. Then it will get an 

Ablative  blue paint over that. 

 Destiny's bottom looks nice.

 Smooth and ready for the final coats

 We are fascinated by the Skipjacks. They have been repairing this one all winter. You can see the new transom

 This is the old transom.

 These boats are still used.

 What a great looking boat.

 This one has been restored too, look at the size of that boom.

 Helen Virginia was in the water and ready to go.

 Another view of the Helen Virginia.

 The skipjack were very functional boats. They have very shallow draft and they are used daily.

As the sun sets the boats are coming home.

 It is going

 Going

Gone

Today Virginia Beach

 We traveled about 300 miles today, that is a lot for us. On the way we saw many fields filled with these purple or white flowering plants. Not sure what they were, but they were pretty.

 Being Memorial weekend the beach was busy, but not a big issue to us. It was only 84 degrees and we do not swim at that temperature. 

 Two ships passing in the daylight. This is the opening of the Chesapeake Bay.

 Lots of people having fun.

 If you look closely you can see the bridge that goes across the Chesapeake. It looks like it ends, but it goes under water. The reason is if the bridge would ever get bombed it would not stop our ships from getting out.

 Tweety's almost done traveling for a while. Tomorrow he only has to follow Frosty for about 110 miles.

 Seems like he is enjoying the sunshine, it has been a very nice day.

Gotta go, someone wants to play backgammon. 

Day Two at Little Pee Dee

 Today we went hunting for the mighty mighty beaver.

 The trail was very nice and the pine trees very tall.

 Having trouble seeing the beaver, but he did make a nice lake.

 Not sure if this will work, but it is a panoramic view of the beaver lake.

Nice trail, old man standing.

 Found a salamander with a green tail. Very rare.

 Ducks very friendly , they came up for a talk.

 Must not like what we had to say.

 Lazy afternoon, played games. First one backgammon.

 Second one domino's.  The master won both.