Today was splash in and boat moving day. We came off the hard at Ferry Point Marina and moved to Whitehall marina. It was a 3hr passage. At first we thought it was going to rain all day and be too windy so we were going to push to tomorrow- then the rain stopped and it looked like tomorrow would be too windy. So we took the weather window. 
It was still overcast and raw, and I thought there is no way the sun could come out today. 
Jesus loves to surprise us and Adonai loves to see us smile!  Wouldn’t you know it? About 15 min after we left the dock, the clouds parted and the sun shone down. It only lasted for 5 min, but I knew it was a G-d wink!  One of those moments where He breaks through and says, “Girl, I got you”. I had been nervous about moving bc the last time we went out we had some engine trouble. Well everything went fine. 

They got us in the travel lift and they let us stay there while Steve changed the oil. The coolant did not appear to be leaking. The engine started right up! We hired a captain  from Chronic Sailing named Steve. I felt like we might need an extra hand and as insurance that it would go well. It worked!  Steve motored out of the slip (once we were off the bottom😉). Ferry Point’s well is only about 6-7’ deep and the tide went out while Steve was changing the oil. Plus it was a North wind so blows out the water too. So when they first let the slings loose we didn’t move. So they put us back in the slings and moved the lift out about another foot. Then we were able to move. Steve and I motored the whole way. The captain just hung out. Now just off of Cape St Claire beach there was a boat fishing in the channel after we passed him, all of a sudden we started to slow down. We were going a good 5.5-6.0 knots then down to 3.3kts. The engine was still at 1800rpms and the engine temp at ~160. So that’s when the captain made his money- he said “slow down, no neutral, now kick it in reverse.” Then as soon as we went in reverse a crab pot popped out of the water behind us like a duck surfacing!  We snagged a crab pot and it slowed us down by half our speed!  Good thing we figured it out otherwise the line can get wrapped around the prop. We thought we had dodged them all.  The captain said we may have but sometimes they tie them together and you think you went in clean water between them but there is a line between them. We will have to watch that in the summer. It isn’t even crab season yet!
The rest of the passage was smooth sailing!  
We carefully negotiated Whitehall bay, and the channel is skinny we have to watch the depth very closely. There are shoals on either side that go from 10’ to 2’. 
There are several ‘S’ turns to make and we’ll get used to where to point the more we go in and out.  Then docking went very smoothly. That was what we really wanted the captain for and he helped keep us calm and was another hand for lines. It really helps when you’re docking to have 3 ppl- just so there are deckhands in port and starboard and someone at the helm. We slowed down, and backed it in - just got to get lined up good. The wind was out of the north but it was calm when we got up the creek. 
Bay Dreamer really loves her new home!

Moving Bay Dreamer from Ferry pt to Whitehall Marina

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