We arrived Friday evening to Deltaville after a very long day. There were no hick-ups during the trip except loosing the luggage between Chicago and Richmond, as two big mammas in the airport told us where to leave our bagage- trolleys and of course nothing happened after that. However all our bags arrived by taxi at 5am next morning.
Deltaville is a small village very spread out on a peninsula, only 1/2mile wide, at the Rappahannock River. There are trees all around, so you don't get the impression of the sea except that almost every house has a boat at the bottum of the garden. Our B&B is Sanderling House, is run very efficiently by a british couple, Jill & Don Walter. The boat-yard is ten minutes away on bicycles, which we borrowed from a friendly chap at the yard.
The weather was good when we first arrived , very mild and pleasant, but now is it cold and rainy like home.
It was good being onboard Aros More again. We thought that we had to do most of the work ourselves, but the yard-owner, Geoff Scroeder, says all is in hand. They will manage both the electrics (isolator and invertor/charger), put in the macerator / toilet- system and do the antifouling. David is sorting out boat survey, getting the liferaft serviced and getting our cruising permit.
So, everything is falling into place and hopefully we get the boat launched soon.
2 comments:
Glad to hear you've arrived safely. Flying wouldn't be flying without losing a bag or 2 and I expect Arosmore has enough balast of rusty Tennants in the bilges from 1986. Might need to change to Bud for the locals!
So between you and Sir Ran F climbing Everest for MCCC I am now an official blogger!
Happy varnishing and ice berg spotting x
Lucky you it all sounds great fun . Iam off on night shift so enjoy your freedom !!
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