Friday 10/13/2017 - Reedville to Deltaville

Up at 5:30am and anchor up at 6:30.  Left the upper part of Mill Creek and motored the 3 nm out to the entrance of the Great Wicomico.  The last two miles got very rough with the wind NE at about 17.  Got out through the channel under motor alone and headed down to Windmill Pt.  at the north side of the Rappahannock River entrance.  The swells were huge (4 to 5') but with the genoa alone up, we were OK.  I had considered going into Dymer cr. if it was too rough outside but we decided to make it into Fishing Cr. south of Deltaville.  We rounded Stingray Pt. at about 11 and came into Fishing Bay just after noon.  We anchored in 18' of water.  Originally we had planned to make it to Mobjack Bay tonight but it was way too rough and it got worse in the afternoon.  We ate lunch and as we were eating it started raining again.  At least we had sailed for 5 hours with NO rain and were fairly dry.  Phil took a nap below and I am no trying to catch up on my blogging.