with Emily!!!
Hard enough to navigate it all now without engine 

Amazing what you guys have done!
I wonder how it will feel to be behind helm of a car after all this helm time!!!

We finally left Great Bridge after staying there for 5 nights. We spent one night at AYB then four nights at the town free dock. Now we are on our way to Jeff (our broker for Willow) at Severn Yacht Center to get a haul out and our port engine transmission fixed. We are hoping he gives us a good deal since he was our broker!

Abdu - our proshot employee of 6 years joined us on Sunday and he will be traveling all the way to New York with us. He has a flight back to Egypt in about a week and is flying out of New York.

Our plans have changed quite a bit over the past few days. We have now decided to rent a car on Wednesday afternoon and drive to Bedford NY on Thursday to make it to Lizzie’s wedding. We are very excited for our two upcoming weddings and then will hopefully be able to pick up Willow in early July to continue our travels to MV.

We went through the great bridge lock yesterday which went okay. It was very challenging without reverse on the port engine and we ended up doing a 180 (similar to the fuel dock in FL) before getting tied off. There was a current coming from behind us which we did not expect and we tied up the bow line first. I could not engage the port engine in forward idle once the bow was tied off so tried reversing with starboard but the current was too strong and the stern swung out and we did a 180. In hindsight we should have tied off the stern line first and this would not have been a problem…anyways the lock operator was very helpful and said this happens at least once a day 🤪.

We then had to twist another 180 degrees before we exited since we could not reverse out of it. Very exciting stuff! 

Anyways we will be very happy to have our Port engine working again and are going to get a few other smaller projects done while hauled at Severn. 



Great Bridge to downtown Norfolk

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