ranger58sb
Guru
We arrived at our home port day before yesterday, and spent yesterday packing and schlepping the first carload of stuff -- including the Ship's Cat and her supplies -- to our house.
When still underway, we didn't encounter any marinas that were closed... although co-located restaurants were usually either only doing take-away (usual) or were altogether closed. The latter was less common, but I suspect in those instances the restaurants just may not have ever had enough business to make that switch viable.
We were also able to fuel every time we wanted to, although that was only in Georgetown prepping for the ocean run to Southport, and then again at Top Rack prepping for the Chesapeake run.
That said, we could tell from the news that we were maybe always just one step ahead of a closure, so our last several legs were each twice and long as our usual pace... and that in turn meant we "zoomed" on past several of the stops we would have usually made. And we bypassed a couple of our usual en route family visits by doing that, too.
The last leg, 140 NM from Top Rack to Annapolis... on plane except for through Portsmouth... just wasn't our favorite. Plus it started out a bit rough, with choppy seas... but at least that eventually laid down enough to be OK and at one point even got smooth for a while.
-Chris
When still underway, we didn't encounter any marinas that were closed... although co-located restaurants were usually either only doing take-away (usual) or were altogether closed. The latter was less common, but I suspect in those instances the restaurants just may not have ever had enough business to make that switch viable.
We were also able to fuel every time we wanted to, although that was only in Georgetown prepping for the ocean run to Southport, and then again at Top Rack prepping for the Chesapeake run.
That said, we could tell from the news that we were maybe always just one step ahead of a closure, so our last several legs were each twice and long as our usual pace... and that in turn meant we "zoomed" on past several of the stops we would have usually made. And we bypassed a couple of our usual en route family visits by doing that, too.
The last leg, 140 NM from Top Rack to Annapolis... on plane except for through Portsmouth... just wasn't our favorite. Plus it started out a bit rough, with choppy seas... but at least that eventually laid down enough to be OK and at one point even got smooth for a while.
-Chris