Traveling with Inch-n-Along (INA): Headed North

At 11:00 AM on Saturday May 2, 2015 we left Atlantic Yacht Basin (AYB) in Chesapeake, VA headed north up Chesapeake Bay. AYB had kept INA dry and safe for the winter but now it was time to start moving again. Our general itinerary for 2015 is as follows: We will head up Chesapeake Bay stopping at Delaware City, Cape May, Atlantic City and getting to New York City the last part of May. We are planning to spend two to three weeks in NYC and then maybe a week or more on Long Island Sound before heading up the Hudson River. Towards the end of June we will be up the Hudson and will enter the Erie Canal at Waterford, NY. We will travel the length of the Erie Canal, about 395 miles, to Buffalo, NY. We will leave the boat in Brewerton, NY at the end of September for the winter.

Our first travel day was a short one arriving at Hampton, VA in the afternoon. We had a quick dinner at the marina restaurant with our friends from R Island who are cruising with us. We got to bed early. The next morning we left just after sunrise for the 51 mile trip to Deltaville. We layed up there a couple of days because of weather. On Wednesday, May 6th we left Deltaville about 6:15AM headed to Solomon's Island, MD and had great dinner at the CD Cafe a restaurant we had eaten at last summer. With the weather looking good the next day we headed out with calm seas to Annapolis, MD. Annapolis is a great little town and we enjoyed a last walk around the downtown streets and a chocolate coconut ice cream cone from the Annapolis Ice Cream Company. The weather still looking good and a favorable tide we left Annapolis traveling 79 miles up the bay and across the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to Delaware City, DE. 79 miles is a long day for us! We plan to stay here a week going several days to Philadelphia to see the sites. So far we have traveled 276 miles from Atlantic Yacht Basin up Chesapeake Bay across the canal to the Delaware River.