By noon we’d refueled and washed Juno’s decks from all the bugs on the ICW then took her around back of the Atlantic Yacht Basin where she’d berth the next several nights while we’d be in NYC. We planned on arriving in NYC on Sunday so we had a day and a half to spare so we used a rental car to take in the history of Yorktown Friday afternoon. It was hot and sunny but the National Park Service does a good job of retelling the story of how the French navy commanded by De Grasse made it possible for the continental army under George Washington and the French led by LaFayette to defeat British General Cornwallis at Yorktown. It was all the more meaningful to us as we’d both read Nathanial Philbrick’s book, "In the Eye of the Hurricane" describing the battle of Yorktown. We capped the day off with a drink at a bar on the York river before returning to Chesapeake for a $1 Dairy Queen cone and bed.
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| Juno tied up on a creek off the ICW |
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| The view LaFayette had from a French redoubt of the British Army at Yorktown |
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| Cannons were pushed up the wall of the redoubt to increase their range |
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