Tour of the Chesapeake, Part 1
After completing our land-based excursions to Maryland, New York, Florida, and Connecticut, Steve and I were ready to free Starry Night from her Galesville mooring and start our tour of the Chesapeake. As always, we were at the mercy of the wind and so we started our journey by crossing from the western shore of Maryland, where Galesville is located, to the Eastern Shore at Rock Hall. We hoisted the mainsail with high hopes of sailing, but the winds were too light and we ended up motoring our way across. The trip was uneventful although Steve noticed white smoke or steam coming from our diesel engines' exhaust. We surmised that it was due to atmospheric conditions since air temperatures were beginning to drop but we ran the motors at lower speeds (where the steam stopped) until we could take a closer look. Rock Hall was established in 1707 and was formerly called Rock Hall Crossroads. In the Colonial Era, it was a shipping point for tobacco, seafood and other agricultural goods an