Virgina is for Covers
After 15 days of hard running, long days, we reached Atlantic Yacht Basin (AYB) in Chesapeake Virginia, just south of Norfolk, where the boat will be stored under cover for the next 8 months. This is the same place we left the boat last year for the majority of storm season. From the last post, we were in Stuart, Florida, and expecting to take 3 weeks to get the boat to AYB. Having Tristan along has really helped as we have been able to put in long days. Generally up before dawn and away with first good light, and docked around 6. As we worked our way north, and being past Spring equinox, the days progressively got longer and we lengthened the days so that we were regularly putting in 10 to 12 hour days. That enabled us to log close to 80 nautical miles days pretty regularly. Total mileage for the trip from Sarasota was 1,071 nautical miles (1,983 km) for an average daily run of 75 miles. That may not sound like an outstanding average speed, but considering bridge opening delay