[password]seabird14
[position] 37 00.49 N 076 19.0 W
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[weather] 10kts E
[status] Day 3 - 0015 local 27 Oct, anchor down, Old Point Comfort, Fort Monroe Anchorage, Norfolk VA. The wind filled in nicely for us to sail for the final 12 hours of this passage on a broad reach with full main and jib. All day long the USCG was putting out pon-pon notices about a single handed sailor who is overdue here in Norfolk, and listening to all the activity related to the search for him/her made for a somber afternoon. Other strange notices were about an injured humpback whale in the vicinity (no, we did not hit it) and we were all startled when a land bird who had lost its way flew down below. We chased him up top, but he hitched a ride under our dinghy until land was near again. Arriving in this very busy port at night was somewhat challenging, and being passed by a 297m container ship going 16kts in the confined channel gave us a HUGE 12foot wake to deal with, thankfully just after we had dropped the main and were under power. It is supposed to blow and rain pretty hard tomorrow, so we may re-anchor in the morning when we can get a better lay of the land. For now it it stow and go to bed, thankful for another safe journey.
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