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The Maritime Museum in Annapolis, MD

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Friday, October 31 — This morning it felt like 38 degrees with wind chill factor. Christi had a hard time dragging herself outside to watch the sunrise. Because of the cold, she didn’t stay outside long, but she was glad she at least got to enjoy a few minutes of the lovely dawn, Here were a couple shots:

We were pleased to report that this morning, the flooding was gone and all was back to normal in the marina. While Christi and Keith did school, Eric cleaned the sea strainers. There was lots of mud in them and two live fish! One fish was long and skinny. He thought it looked like a snake and wondered if it was an eel.  

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Flooding in Annapolis, MD

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Thursday, October 30 — Yesterday, morning, we spent a long time discussing whether we should leave Annapolis today for Bermuda. The forecasts promised good weather for the passage. But… Hurricane Melissa, which had decimated Jamaica on Tuesday as a category 5, was still in the Caribbean. It had calmed down to a category 3 and was en route to Bermuda. It was expected to calm down to a tropical storm by the time it hit Bermuda and would be long gone by the time Kosmos arrived. But we’d learned the hard way that when there was a hurricane in the broader area, it could make local forecasts inaccurate, so we ultimately decided that the forecasts couldn’t be trusted and it was best to stay put.

Meanwhile, a storm was coming from the north that was supposed to hit tonight. While Christi and Keith were doing school, Eric spent a long time adjusting the lines and added 4 more lines in anticipation of the storm. For perspective to help understand the tide swings, the first photo was taken near low tide, the second photo near high tide.

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Settling into Life in Annapolis, Maryland

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Tuesday, October 28 — The last three days have been mellow. Now that it is so cold in the mornings, Christi has been finding it difficult to drag herself out of the warm bed to watch the sun rise. Instead, she falls back to sleep and misses the sun rises altogether.

On Sunday morning, Eric ran wing engine again to check to see if it was leaking exhaust. At first, it did smoke a little more, but he determined that was paint. After a few minutes, the smoking stopped Eric was happy to report that the wing engine exhaust was indeed fixed. In the early afternoon, Christi ran a few errands, including a trip to the closest grocery store, Giant. In the mid-afternoon, the Tiki kids came over to play board games with Keith. Here was a couple photos showing how beautiful the short drive between our marina and Tiki’s boat yard was.

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Exploring Annapolis by Car

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On Friday, October 24, 2025, Christi went for a walk to the river side of the condo complex to watch the sunrise.

However, it was too cold to stand idly, so she wound up skipping the sunrise in favor of going back to the warm boat.

Yesterday morning, Eric polished the second tank of fuel and rinsed down boat while Keith and Christi did school. At noon, Eric picked up the rental car. Our paravane fish were rusting and he wanted to get them sanded and repainted. He loaded fish in car and took them to the nearby boat yard for an estimate. The person who would be doing the job wasn’t in and told him to come back later. Next, he went to West Marine.

For lunch, we wanted to go to a highly rated restaurant called Grumpy’s, which served Thai food and donuts. We entered the name into Maps, and the cafe popped up as being in the same shopping center as West Marine.

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Fueling Up and Changing Marinas in Annapolis, MD

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Dawn on Wednesday, October 22, taken from the fuel dock.

It was the perfect day to get fuel. It had rained overnight, but was clear now. The wind was supposed to pick up soon, but was calm now. It was close to high tide, so it was easy to get on and off the boat for tying/untying. The fuel dock was conveniently located at our marina. We untied and went around the corner, where two staff caught the lines and tied us up to the fuel dock. Christi was relieved because she was not good at tying up to pylons, which was very different than tying up to cleats.

One of the tricky aspects of pylons was fenders. Eric had tied some of the fenders sideways while we were in the slip, and he hadn’t moved them prior to coming in to the fuel dock. We’re glad that he had them that way as we probably would have collided with a pylon sticking out from the fuel dock (the photo of the new marina has clear photos of how the pylons stick out from the docks).

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