We got up and left Hospital point by 8:15. We were the
second from the last sail boat out of the Anchorage. I did a little more
diagnosis of the starting problem and I found that hte Balmar is never
charging the house batteries unless you put the momentary parallel switch
on. I'll look at it more when we get to North Carolina. We motored past
all the docks where they are working on battle ships and aircraft carriers.
It's pretty amazing. We were in a line between two Hinckley power boats and
one of them asked us if it was a Bermuda 40 and we chatted for a moment as
they passed us slowly. When we got to the Gilmerton bridge it was about
9:15 but they don't open till 9:30. We had to wait for two trains so we
didn't get through till 9:50 or so. We continued on and went under I64
which is 65 feet. We were terrified. It was low tide but it looked like we
were 2 inches below it. We were probably 5 feet below it but who knows...
we went through really slow. Later we got the locks just before the Great
Bridge and had a little confusion tieing up but got it in the end. We are
still learning. We tied up on the south side of the bridge by the Museum
where the first land battle of the Revolutionary war was fought. After
cleaning up we walked with our laundry abut .75 miles to the laundry mat and
also a grocery store. Sam and I tried hoisting O-Malley on the deck to
drain some water out after several days of rain. It worked just fine. Now we are having beans and rice and tortillas. We
will get an early start tomorrow.