Days 257 and 258 - Liars Bench — Captain Father John

Miles cruised 36, fuel purchased $0, slip fee $80, daily high temperature 82°f

On Sunday afternoon we were reminded that weather can be fickle as an intense squall blew threw. The wind gusts hit 50 mph for a sustained three minutes followed by torrential rain. There were several surprised boaters that had just left the harbor. We saw one small boat being towed in by another small boat. They looked very, very wet. We were tucked safely under our satellite TV blocking roof. The marina does not get HBO in the boaters lounge so I am a week behind on the latest episode of Game of Thrones.

There was a boat catching stingrays on stingray point right behind our boat.

We spent a third night in Deltaville and cast off at 9:15 am on Monday morning for Tangier Island. Because our trip plan is written in jello it was determined that Tangier Island was six miles north of our route to Onancock Wharf. Therefore we decided to go straight to Onancock today and visit Tangier Island tomorrow for lunch. Then proceed to the Solomons.

Approching the Wharf at Onancock, VA

On our way across Chesapeake Bay there were 1-2 foot rollers on our beam. We were cruising at 8 mph and getting a bit of yaw. We had 24 miles to go. We could continue to rock and roll for the next 3 hours or crank up the turbos to 25 mph, get on top of the swells and be there in one hour. We arrived in Onancock after a nice flat ride in one hour

Onancock is a quaint little town that came highly recommended by John and Jan Halter on Mitzvah. We had initially planned to stay two two nights but the weather forecast for Wednesday is blowy from the NW. That would be on our nose for 60 miles as we cruise to the Solomoms. The forecast for Tuesday is continued winds from the SW so that will be a flatter ride. And the marina in the Solomons has a swimming pool.

CL and Andy at the Onancock Wharf.

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” – Muhammad Ali

Bonus photo

A bench reserved for fishermen and sailboat racers.

Carl (Chef) Wooden

“We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.”
Anna Freud

Anna Freud (3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst. She was the 6th and last child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. She followed the path of her father and contributed to the field of psychoanalysis.

Alongside Melanie Klein, she may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology: as her father put it, child analysis “had received a powerful impetus through ‘the work of Frau Melanie Klein and of my daughter, Anna Freud.'”Compared to her father, her work emphasized the importance of the ego and its ability to be trained socially. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Freud as the 99th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
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