SONATA commenced the Great American LOOP for the third time May 21, 2015, and, crossed her wake, completed the third adventure May 18, 2016. This Blog is that story. SONATA's Second Loop was from May 19, 2011, to May 7, 2012. Captains Charlie and Bonnie Burke aboard their Grand Banks 42 started their FIRST Loop May 25, 2007, and, after 3 countries, 18 states, and some 8,000 miles the trip was completed by returning to homeport, Ocean Marine in Portsmouth, VA, May 24, 2008.
Friday, May 27, 2011
May 19, 2011 . . . Departure on Loop #2, Ocean Marine to Onancock, VA
SONATA and crew are prepared for departure, first port of call is to be Onancock, Virginia, on the Eastern Shore.
Mike Kidd waves good-bye to SONATA as she passes "A" Dock leaving Ocean Marine.
SONATA will return next year..........
Our early morning departure takes us past Fort Wool and a last look at the Tidewater Area.
Pete and Sue Pawlus traveled with us to Onancock aboard MISS FAITH.
Our second night was an anchorage on Mill Creek near Solomon's Island.
At the South River, Pier 7, we joined Don and Theresa Miller who will be traveling with us on the Loop. We met the Millers during our first Loop experience.
The next day we are off to the C & D Canal and Chesapeake City.
You can never take enough pictures of the Thomas Point Light, here with ships waiting their turn to Baltimore.
As we pass Annapolis . . . did the Navy really have to send warship 60 to celebrate our departure?
GREAT ESCAPE on the C & D, then GREAT ESCAPE and SONATA alongside the municipal dock in Chesapeake City, Maryland.
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