October 26

Today we moved from St. Michaels to Solomon's Island. The morning was nasty with predictions of 30 knot winds which fortunately did not materialize on our route. We started one half hour after Eagle's Wings. On the trip, there was a following sea which generally guarantees that Annette will be sick. She took some medicine and followed some other strategies she has learned to help her. A while after we made a turn that put the wind and waves on our stern, our speed dropped significantly. We should have been going very fast but we were about a knot slow. I looked back and saw that the dinghy had taken a few waves and was about half full of water. It was like we were dragging an anchor. We slowed the boat and I was able to pull the dinghy close and turn it so I could reach the stern where there is a one-way plug that allows it to drain. It had been so long since we had towed a dinghy that I had forgotten that little detail. Although it took more waves on the trip, the dinghy quickly drained itself. After a day of bouncing around, we made the anchorage at Mill Creek in Solomon's Island. We actually beat Eagle's Wings to the anchorage despite our late start. The rain continued so we stayed on the boat and spent a quiet night.