Nanseann: Day 244 June 15 60 mi Dozier's Regatta Point Deltaville VA

The Chesapeake Bay is truly a cruising paradise with 4000 miles of coastline. The Bay is 200 miles south to north and about 30 miles wide. The average depth is 21 feet and the water changes from saltwater in the Southern Bay to brackish water in mid-Bay to fresh water in the Northern Bay.

The name itself is derived from the Indian word Chesepioc which early settlers took to mean "Grand Water".

Today we depart Norfolk at 7:45AM for Deltaville. We finally have a nice day without wind and afternoon thunderstorms predicted and everyone is leaving Waterside. It is like someone has opened the gates and said GO!!!!! This is a new experience for the crew and the Nanseann.....

The Waterfront is wall-to-wall people at 6:30AM

All sizes and shapes

Norfolk/ICW Mile Zero....now Mile 205 for the Chesapeake

Naval Hospital

Can't you just see troops/equipment unloading on a beach

Container Ship loading

One of our new nuclear ships

We are a "small fish" among these "big boys"

USS Enterprise...last look Glenn

H.W. Bush Carrier

Hampton on the James River

Tower Garden riding well

We can see land on our port side and lots of sailboats, fishing boats and cruisers going up and down the Chesapeake. On our starboard we can see 6 Container Ships in the Ship Channel going up the Bay. They are too far away to get a picture of them.

We are following a secondary channel that keeps us out of the Ship Channel and hopefully away from shore to avoid the crab pots and shoals that come off points of land. We are navigating point-to-point with Wolf Trap Lighthouse being our first point.

We will cross the James River first, then the York River and into the Rappahannock River today.....Three of the five big rivers we will cross......this is where we will find current and some motion if the wind comes up. But today the Chesapeake is blue skies.....calm water......and a good experience.....