I was awake at 0600 so I got up and made coffee, washed the dishes from the night before, and studied the tide tables contained in the navigation program to see when we should leave to have high water levels in the shallow water areas we encountered on Saturday.
Dora got up at 0800 and we went for a long walk through the residential streets in the old part of Pocomoke City near the River. There were many large homes, many of them older than one-hundred years. Most were in good condition but some had been neglected for a long time and were in the need of extensive restoration.
It was calm and already getting hot. When we got back, I switched to the secondary circuit on the boat so we could run the air conditioner and I ran the primary circuit off the inverter to keep the refrigerator and freezer running. This was necessary because the dock had only one 30 amp electric plug that was working and it was questionable. I switched it back in the evening when it was cooler and recharged the batteries. In the afternoon, I topped off the reservoir in the hydraulic steering unit on the bridge and filled one of our propane tanks at a convenience store within sight of the marina, across the bascule bridge.
On our evening walk we met Bill Ullmann the owner of a boat two boats down from us that had a 39 foot double-ended sailboat that he had built himself, except for the hull. He built it in a hanger in North Dakota over several years and sailed it down the Mississippi River the Caribbean as far as Venezuela. He has a home in Pocomoke City and keeps it at the dock there for $500.00 per year. He offered to drive me to Crisfield to pick up our mail and save up the seven hour run in the boat. It is only 25 to 30 minutes by car.
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