Sail to Baltimore
Approaching the Francis Scott Key Bridge
Our latest excursion was a three day trip to Baltimore to visit some friends from our distant past: Geeta and Jim, neuroscience researchers at Johns Hopkins University. We had met about 30 years ago when Shelly worked in a neuroscience lab at CU. It’s actually quite a distance up to Baltimore from Rock Hall, so we anchored overnight at Bodkin Creek. The next day, in what was again record-breaking heat in Baltimore, we motored ten miles up the busy Patapsco river to Baltimore’s inner harbor.
Watch Out!
On the way we got to check out our AIS system, the one that tells us where the big commercial ships are going and how fast. It helped us immensely and also told all these ships who and what we were. We are very conservative and avoided the large shipping channels when possible anyway, so we had no conflicts. This was good practice for Norfolk Virginia, the busiest shipping area in the continent. We have to get through there to enter the ICW in a couple of weeks.
Good Karma in Baltimore, Tested and Commissioned!
We now feel all the prep work to get the Good Karma seaworthy is pretty much finished. There will certainly be ongoing maintenance, probably quite a lot. However, all we can take care of for now is finished. We plan on leaving our three month home in a week, ready to head down the Chesapeake toward Florida!
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