Day 92: Chester River Yacht Club to St. Micheal’s Harbor Inn & Restort, St. Michael’s, MD (32NM, 5 Hours)

We left this morning with the current and wind (10-15 knots with gusts) against us.  In fact, it was a very nice ride.  It was choppy, but for the most part the waves were head on.  We arrived at the Kent Narrows Bascule Bridge (which opens on the hour and half hours) right on time for it to open.  There was some confusion when a sailboat named “Splash Landing” attempted to call the bridge.  Brian thought the bridge was calling us since many bridge tenders get our boat name incorrect.  Once passed Kent Narrows, we were in Prospect Bay.  There were many more boats, especially sail, than in the

St. Michael's Harbor entrance from the Miles River

Chester River and before the Kent Narrows.  At one point we had to weave in and out of sail boats making for the greater Chesapeake Bay.  When we, arrived St. Michael’s Harbor Inn, the dock master wanted to go inside a dock enclosure to dock stern in to slip B6.  Brian barely slipped between to boats tied up on either side of the narrow channel then rotated Splash Down for a stern in docking.  But, just before he had Splash Down’s stern into the slip a strong gust put our swim platform in danger of hitting a piling.  Brian, unable to recover due to the narrowness of the fairway decided to abort the docking in the enclosure, exit the enclosure, and wait for a dock wall outside the enclosure to open up in 20 minutes.  We hovered in the channel for 30 minutes then moved into easily onto the dock wall.  We were able to find our way into the inside (air conditioned) bar for lunch and to arrange for our spa appointments for tomorrow afternoon — with great expectations!