Sarah’s Creek, Hayes, VA

Our destination today is Sarah’s Creek, Hayes, VA to visit with our ex-Vermont friends Ken & Donna Nitchie who moved last year to Hayes, near Yorktown. They sailed their boat to Sarah’s Creek from Vermont. Their neighborhood has a dock for members of their community. Ken & Donna have a slip available for us to use.

Pounding down the Chesapeake

We leave Fishing Bay Yacht Club around 8:30 and head over to Deltaville Marina for fuel and a pumpout. Meet Neil & Carol Titcomb from Branford, CT on the first time south on their sailboat “Interlude”. Their destination is Vero Beach, Fl.

Once we leave Fishing Bay, we have the wind on our nose. Waves and wind continues to build through the day. By afternoon we are pounding pretty hard through short period waves. 


The bow goes down into one wave and then the water on the front deck gets flung into the air going up the next wave before the water can run off the deck. This pretty much covers the whole boat with salt spray. We finally head up the York River, but don’t get a lot of relieve from the waves. Finally we turn up into the very calm and protected Sarah’s Creek. Ken and Donna are there to catch our dock lines.

 

Linda putting out the dock lines

Ken and Donna, our Sarah's Creek welcoming committee

Ken and Donna have us over for dinner and laundry at their home. After dinner they have a meeting to attend to and Linda does laundry and I open packages for various boat items that we had mailed to them. I have a number of projects to work on. The most important one is replacing the wind gauge on the top of our mast. My pills did arrive, Linda’s did not.