Juno 423: True Blue Football Fans Listen to Game en route to Leadenham Creek off the Broad River Oct 30-31

Anxious to be on the move after having sat on anchor for the past 36 hours, we hauled anchor and headed out by 8 am Saturday Oct. 30th dodging the trot lines the crab fisherman were laying throughout our anchorage. With a good 15-20 knots out of the SW, we sailed about 40 miles south to Leadenham Creek off the Broad River. As it was Saturday, and as we are both U of M grads, we listened to the Michigan vs. Michigan State football game while sailing. With long sails, any distraction can help pass the time. The first half of the game was going so well for the Michigan team, but State came back strong in the second half and pulled ahead of our team.With minutes left to tie the score, Michigan threw an interception ending all hopes and our team ended up losing to MSU 37 to 33. Our team had the stats over Michigan State but never seemed to be able to get the touchdowns when needed. Instead, they relied too heavily on Jake Moody, their great place kicker for about half of their 33 points - not good enough to win these games. Moving on, Leadenham Creek was a great choice in which to anchor as it was up the Choptank and Broad Rivers and was nice and quiet. We passed five other sailboats that had rafted up in Boby Owl Creek on our way in but we continued on a little further up the creek to a spot where we were all alone.

Weighing our options for our next port of call with travel times and future weather forecasts, we decided to stay put and spend Sunday Oct. 31st on anchor in Leadenham Creek since it was so nice and quiet. Sarah used the morning to clean the dirty dorade vents and to do laundry, and because the forecast was for cooler weather approaching, we both snuck in a stern shower while the sun was out and it wasn’t too cold (65 degrees). After lunch we set out to explore by dinghy but a pop up shower sent us back to the boat to keep dry. Being Sunday we caught up by phone with our kids. Sally & Luis shared a cute photo of the two of them as Pooh and Tigger. Our evening was very quiet with no trick or treaters rowing by, but we enjoyed a little candy treat for dessert and made great progress on catching up on our blog such that the first installment is almost ready to post when we find a good Internet signal.