Snowbirds, we will be ( The Big Journey to The Bahamas )

Snowbird: (  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbird_(person)  )

We are just about ready to throw off the docklines for our trip to the Bahamas, returning in Spring.

Photo: Delaware City, DE. Delaware River on right, east Chesapeake and Delaware canal entrance below it. credit: Google Maps.

Delaware City Marina is in the center on the old narrow branch "2nd original" canal.

We plan to depart our B Dock at Delaware City Marina, Delaware on Monday Oct 18 give or take a few days.

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10/13 - We'll take the boat to the fuel dock at 10 am and bring her back with the otherside toward the dock to scrub the other side of the hull. While the engine is warm, Dave will change the oil for the coming year.

Our clothes and Thunder's toys are onboard now and seem to fit. Next is a fresh food run today or tomorrow.

It's hard to leave the house and yard in this nice weather. We'll miss our little town, Fort Delaware and marina. In our house, we'll miss our desks that are next to each other. It's easy to concentrate and distract each other! We'll both miss the grand piano; we have some portable instruments on the ship. We have breakfast and dinner on the porch alot so will miss the changing garden view.

It will take us a leisurely week and a half to sail from Delaware to Norfolk, VA, seeing friends on the way.

Norfolk, VA is where official " Mile Zero" of the Intracoastal Waterway(ICW) starts. Locations are marked as Mile Markers(MM) numbers all the way down to Key West Florida. We will sail to MM 1024 at West Palm Beach, FL. I'll try to insert some MMs later.

What I call the "greater- full ICW" starts in Massachusetts and goes down to FL and continues around Florida to Gulf of Mexico at Brownsville, TX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracoastal_Waterway 

3000 miles long.

J on B Dock