Fall Cruise

[Dobbs]

I was down below at one point and looked out the windward windows and thought about a picture, but it didn't happen. The problem with photographing crazy seas-states is that there's rarely anything in the frame as a reference, so the scale is lost. My thought while down below involved the horizon obscured by the waves. That sort of works like a reference point, it'sjust hard to photograph.

[Dobbs]

From Onancock, we headed north again to Bivalve, Maryland on the Nanticoke River.

[Bligh]

Found you on my map Dobbs.
Rob.

[Dobbs]

The following morning we tied up at the Slaughter Creek marina to explore the island. A funny thing was that the marina owner informed us that he had a bunch of bicycles we were free to use, but he wasn't sure if any were rideable. Suzanne and I spent our first hour doing whirlwind bike repairs and made two functional bikes out of four.

[Bligh]

Well done those two sailors.

When I was a young student at college we had an experience somewhat similar. In the College laundry were a gaggle of broken washing machines. My friend in the next room to mine had been working on mending machines for a holiday job. We offered to the Student Union to get as many machines working as we could for a small remuneration. By cannibalizing eight machines he got four working for them in the laundry.
The fifth one which we did not mention was spirited away to our GP room. We were the only corridor with our own private washing machine and spin dryer for two years. When we graduated and left college, a strange fifth machine suddenly re-appeared back in the laundry room.