Day 24 - Smith Point to Deltaville, VA

Well, we made it to the "Yachting Capital of the East". I have been looking forward to a few days here in Deltaville.

You see, Deltaville became a world class operation for Yachting a few years ago,(1999) after Hurricane Floyd dumped more than 10 inches of rain on the Eastern Shore, and along the Chesapeake Bay on September 16-17. Chestertown collected 14.00
inches. Annapolis had 11.60 inches. Floyd's eye passed over Ocean City, with a barometric pressure of 28.88 inches. Gusts in Ocean City, MD peaked at about 60 mph.
Hugo ripped up the area badly, and when just about all insurance companies refused to cover anyone from the north from going south of here until after November 1st...the official end of hurricaine season. And the last year, in 2012, Hurricane Sandy lashed Maryland on October 29-30 with isolated hurricane force gusts and widespread gales, heavy rain in the eastern two-thirds of the state and
significant snow in the west. The Ocean City fishing pier was partially destroyed and
bay sections flooded.
It seems that everyone ends up here for a week or two before they venture south to NC, SC GA or FL.
Deltaville, with it's proximity to Newport News-Williamsburgh Intl Airport is an beautiful area. Houses run from 250,000.00 for a fixer-upper, to a norm of 500,000., to a high of 7M. Not too bad considering Annapolis and Solomons are about double that.

We had a great day of traveling.....not too long, yet not too short. However, 2 miles outside of Deltaville, we ran aground again for the third time so far this trip, and if that is not enough, after Tow Boat US came and wiggled us out of the sand, I ran aground the fourth time. Having his number in my cell, I called him, waited two minutes, and we are "wiggled" free again.

I apologize to those I made fun of running aground in a channel, but I guess it can happen to the best of us....LOL. The channel markers or bouys just don't outline the channel well enough after Hurricaine Sandy hit last October. The Army Corps of Engineers needs to re-survey certain areas and just don't have the time, money or manpower to do it down here as of yet.
I was in the center of the channel in three out of the four groundings. But again, no problem except for the loss of time (20 minutes, total)!

Anyways, the area is exceptional and so are the marinas here. We pulled into the marina at 1PM, tied up, and started meeting some others that are going south after bthe first of November. We have tied up at Dozier's Regatta Point Yachting Center.