Companion Travels: Yay! All is Well With AC Again!!!

Friday evening at Tidewater Marina in Portsmouth was a gathering of the MTOA group (Marine Trawlers Owners Association) from the Chesapeake Area. Since we are also members of MTOA out of Florida, they invited us to their "docktail" gathering. What a great group of people! They were so friendly and very helpful in telling us which areas to visit and what some of the better marinas and anchorages were. Saturday morning they headed out for their "Cruise to Nowhere" for about 4 days.

The AC controller panel arrived Saturday noon and we called the mechanic. He was swamped and could not get to us till Monday or Tuesday. So Captain Ron gave it a shot and voila'... we're back in business. Ron and his buddy Mike (via phone) determined that a wire on the pre-wired board was attached to the wrong lug. Once that was corrected and installed... we had snowflakes!

Love That Snowflake! :-)

Sunday after the rain passed we headed out of Portsmouth through Hampton Roads with plans to reach our anchorage. Well you know what they say in cruising... don't be on a schedule.

The water was so rough and waves were bouncing us around every which way. We looked at each other and said, "let's not continue this". So we turned around and headed for the "Old Point Comfort Marina" at Fort Monroe. What a great treat that turned out to be!

Fort Monroe Museum takes you from the colonial period through the 20th century. As you walk through the casement museum, you feel like you were actually there. It was the home of Robert E. Lee and later the holding cell for Confederate President Jefferson Davis. It was also named "Freedom's Fortress" after commanding general Benjamin Franklin Butler who decided to call three runaway slaves "contraband of war". This was the beginning of slavery's end.