It’s Monday morning and here’s what greeted me shortly after I woke up. This and cabin temperatures in the mid 50s. Brrrr!!! Glad that we have our trusty Espar diesel heater. It’s toasty now. On the perhaps bright or dark side of things, depending on your perspective, did someone say “red sky in the morning, sailor take warning?” Me, I’ll focus on the bright side. What a dramatic sight and a great way to start the day. 
On Friday evening our boys Rob and Christoper arrived in Annapolis to retrieve us from Pandora and take us to Baltimore for a weekend at Candice’s, Rob’s girlfriend’s, home. After nearly a month without seeing them it was a “love fest” as expected. What a great time we had enjoying each other’s company and eating. Did I say eating? Yes, lots of that.
It’s been a week as of yesterday since we arrived in Annapolis and while we have really enjoyed the visit, it’s time to move on. However, we signed up to work the SSCA booth for Monday afternoon so we can’t leave until Tuesday. With the cold weather that has rolled in over the last few days we will likely enjoy some brisk winds from a northerly direction as the week progresses to speed us on our way. I am counting on that as our general route from now on is going to be SOUTH. I like the sound of that.
Our loose plans for the week are to work ourselves down the bay and spend a night with friends in Williamsburg VA, perhaps Friday or Saturday night.
I have to say that I am very excited about heading down the ICW and can’t wait till we head into waters that are further south than we have done in the past.
Speaking of boats. How about a tour of cockpits at the show. Pandora has a nice cockpit but she can’t hold a candle to some of these. Floating condo anyone? These catamarans are all the rage on the charter circuit. It would be fun to spend a week with friends aboard in warmer climes on one of these. 
This is what they look like from the bow. Not exactly sweet lines. However, in the form follows function department, they do make for a great party platform. 
How about this drop down transom? Sort of like your own private deck or perhaps dock. And, this one is a mono hull. Notice the twin wheels as the boat is so wide that you need to steer from both sides to see what you are doing. Seems like a bit too much complexity to me. Having said that, there is plenty of room for your blender and buffet table on deck. I guess we would have to revise our “six for cocktails, four for dinner and two sleep over” rule upward. Oh yea, notice the boarding step on the port side. No more leaping off onto the dock. 
And now for something a bit more basic. Not a lot of entertaining here. However, I’ll bet that it would be plenty of entertaining to sail this baby in 30kts on a broad reach. Hold onto your knickers!!!
Speaking of cockpits, this one doesn’t even have one. In the “form follows function department… Not sure. Nice color, I guess. 
A bit of mopping up for us at the show today as we make one more round of the vendors to pick up some items that we purchased. Some don’t deliver product at the show and ship afterwards. That won’t work for us though as we are not headed home. However, vendors are happy to sell the floor models as they don’t want to take them home.
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