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I planned on doing a nice travel journal about my experience sailing the Delmarva loop with Captain Habib & crew, but instead I’m just going to dump a bunch of pictures and link to a youtube video.

Here’s a quick summary:

• Habib has a 36′ sail boat
• Crew of 7+1: Habib, Joe, James, Lyanne, Eric, Kat, Me + Susan on shore support
• Sailed Chesapeake south to the Atlantic, cut north up to Delaware bay, took canal back to Chesapeake
• 4.5 days?
• Night sailing is fun
• Those anti-sea-sickness patches you put behind your ears work really well
• Cleaning up a head mess is not fun (according to Habib)
• Saw dolphins from far away
• Saw rays from far away
• Saw a whale from a meter away
• Ate well on the boat courtesy of Kat & Eric
• Celebratory sushi afterwards
• Bus back to Pittsburgh

The summary: it was awesome. Everyone should do it.

Here’s some of my photos (the full set is on flickr):

Here’s an awesome video that Eric & Kat made about our whale encounter: Delmarva Whale [Youtube]

My best story comes from after I was back. I got off the greyhound in Pittsburgh at 3am. At 5am I woke up and thought I had fallen asleep on watch. I looked at the white wall and panicked thinking I couldn’t see around the jib sail. I stumbled down the steps to the “head” and only while peeing in a regular toilet did I realize I was not on a boat.