12/5/13
Thursday
A little over one shot out on the bower anchor in two fathoms of water. FWE securely anchored Hospital Cove, NORVA.
Did not get as far today as I had wanted, but Mother Nature can play havoc with some of the best plans! The fog was not too bad and cleared up around the York River entrance. I have re enforced my belief that Furuno writes the absolutely worst manuals, they are so bad in fact I think they may pay people to review them just to ensure that they are almost unintelligible........now their equipment has never failed me and once you get the hang of them you can almost talk to the space station with them. But the manuals......ugh......oh BTW the manual have gotten better over the years,but they still have a ways to go IMHO. I am laughing so hard as I write this!
Now that my rant is done, back to what really maters.....one prolonged blast every two min, for several hours, it is amazing how you get into a rhythm and after about 20 min you don't need the clock any more. When the fog cleared the the light misting began, only a few times and nothing heavy, just enough the clean the salt off the upper works! Then listening to the USNS Big. Horn have some fun entering the buoys with a sail boat giving him the business.....USCG came on and asked if every thing was OK...Big Horn said it was, so the USCG was happy. Sail boat got out of the way and all was right with the world.
Traffic in NORVA was the usual.....a few ships, some tug and barge traffic, and a few pleasure boaters, in all a very enjoyable day! Now I sit hear cooking my frozen pizza with extra meet while looking almost directly at PETA's national head quarters, and the ACE region building!
Go Forward......shift Pier side to Top in the morning, bunker a full bag of fuel, hold up and clean the boat, then dinner and drinks with friends at the. Green Lantern......I wonder if the owner is either into comic books, Big Bang, both or is there some other reference that I am missing......
Hope to see y'all out there!