Chesapeake Bay

Tuesday June 28

We are now officially on the Chesapeake Bay. We walked to downtown Portsmith to check out a nautical store called Skipjack nautical wares and Marine gallery.  Walked back to the marina and then left tidewater marina at around 11:30 AM.  It’s hard to know where to go in the Chesapeake. It’s not like following the intercoastal waterway where  you have a magenta line or a certain channel to go through. We had a beam sea for about 22 miles as we crossed the Chesapeake into the York River. We got to our marina called Wormley Creek Marina in Yorktown Va. at around 4:30 PM. This marina was inexpensive. One dollar per foot per night and if you pay for five nights they gave you two nights free.  Electricity was nine dollars a night for the five nights that you paid for and free for the other two nights. We decided this would be a good place for us to spend 4 July weekend, where our independence really all started.  We decided to stay the seven nights to get things done on the boat and to try to see Williamsburg Yorktown and Jamestown, the triangle as they call it.