More Pics from Annapolis

Our  attempt to catch a blue crab for Sophia was just that, an attempt:

In addition to Sophia taking multiple steps on purpose on her own during the week she learned to say "hot" "boat" "light" and built a warm relationship with the crew:

After a farewell dinner the guests were off to London and Cin to Bar Harbor with her mom and Lisa to view the fall leaves.

Upon Cin's return early next week HD is off to warmer weather.

Annapolis

Attending our fourth Sailboat show here. Got some info from vendors to fix a few pieces of hardware we have onboard. Not exciting this year. Maybe its' because it is smaller this year, the weather didn't cooperate or is it we were anticipating the arrival of our London guests?

It got a lot better with their arrival even if they had more gear than even all the stuff Cin has wanted to buy the last year and a half.

The weather turned cold but we had a nice sail to St. Michaels in our PJ's.

Then there was a lot of splorin to do:

The crew is back onboard HD after leaving her in Cape May to drive north to attend a very special party this past weekend in Connecticut.

Having just left Stratford, Connecticut a few days ago this land excursion was necessary to position HD in the Chesapeake for  the Sailboat show that starts Thursday and more importantly be ready for her youngest crew member to arrive in two days. Not being sure of Sophia's sailing skills (although this is her second cruise on HD) we wanted to save her  the North Atlantic Ocean passage between NYC and the Delaware Bay.

Now HD is back in the more protected Chesapeake Bay and will be in Annapolis by night fall to attend the sailboat show this weekend. AND tomorrow we test sail an Oyster 46' as we are contemplating a new boat. These are made in the UK and are a true blue water world cruiser. So the decision is whether to make the splurge and continue cruising for a while or stay with HD and consider a land base as well.
My guess is that an Oyster is in our future and if we go used in our very near future as a new one takes a year to build.

Note; Sailed the Oyster 46 and it definitely doesn't have the sailing symmetry of HD. Gives us something more to ponder