Boats boats boats!

Today we find ourselves in Deltaville, Virginia. What a place! On our way in to the anchorage here in Jackson Creek we made a side trip to the innermost reaches of Deltaville for fuel. After calling what seems like every marina and boatyard between here and Myrtle Beach, we realized the Chesapeake Cove Marina had the best price around. So we filled the tanks for the first time since Portland, Maine. Pretty great range…we expected to need fuel by Cape May but we got all the way down here using less than 3/4 of the diesel in the tanks. Now we are topped up on fuel and a little lighter on cash. It was an eye-watering $1,555 for 267 gallons. Yikes. Thanks for all the winning, Trump.

Two restored beauties at the Deltaville Maritime Museum. One is the beautiful F. D. Crockett a 1924, 62’ log bottomed buy boat. The other is Jennie Mae, a 1986 round-stern, deadrise Virginia workboat.

This morning we dinghied to the Deltaville Maritime Museum. Boy oh boy do we like maritime museums. In the boatshop I got all my crab boat questions answered. And at the exhibit hall, Ellen and I volunteered to help out at tomorrow’s Halloween party. This part of the Chesapeake is boat-heaven. The guy at the fuel dock thinks there are more boats than residents, and we have no reason to doubt him.

And of course there were more window boats.

The woman working at this place, Man Cave and She Shed, accused her boss of being a hoarder. She may not be wrong.

We liked this ¾ tree, custom pruned to accommodate the power lines.

We walked about 1.5 miles to Nauti Nell’s, a marine consignment store. Our quest was to find a male quick-connect fuel fitting for the backup dinghy fuel tank. It wasn’t until I went to switch tanks a couple of weeks ago that I realized we have one tank with a Yamaha fitting and another with a Suzuki fitting, and the fuel line is a Suzuki. Nell’s didn’t have the fitting but had everything else under the sun. West Marine was closed (their one employee left a note saying they had gone to the Post Office and would be back soon.) But the hardware store right down the street from the museum had exactly what we needed. Love this place.