Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Currently staying at Hampton, VA. The town has a lovely harbor area. We were here about this time last year for a emergency medical training course for off shore sailors and enjoyed our stay.













The Carib1500 leaves from here and the fleet of 71 boats is still here due to weather. Usually someone from our US Sail and Power Squadron is crew on one of the boats. We discovered that this year it is our friend Terry Hartl who is crew on Pied-A-Mer a Hans Christian 43. We went to the marina hosting the event and tracked down Terry this morning and had a nice visit and thanks to the captain, Paul, were able to go on board for a few minutes. The are leaving tomorrow morning and the last minute preparation is underway and the excitment level high.

























Several of the local Coast Guard patrol boats come into the harbor for a break from patrol. They are concerned with the security of the naval base here and they are heavily armed as can be seen in this photo when they came by this morning.