The Delaware Bay was beautiful with very little boat traffic. It was quiet uneventful cruise on a beautiful day as we headed up to Delaware City.
Lynn made a lot of progress on the afghan she is knitting for her niece, Samantha.
We arrived at the familiar Delaware City Marina at 4:45 and docked in front of a huge Great Harbor trawler, a boat with so much windage it’s practically a sailboat! We are sure it has more square footage than our new condo.
We planned to stay three nights at the marina so Jonny could do an oil change and so we could time our trip up the Delaware River to visit
Stephanie in Philadelphia. Each night we had dinner on board since our favorite local restaurant, Lewinsky on Clinton, had closed! We had so much seafood from our fish market purchases that we were in good shape! We had shrimp salad for lunch and Jonny cooked the flounder in a brown butter sauce for dinner and it was delicious!
The next day we went for a long walk on a beautiful trail past a pre-Civil War African American cemetery and towards the “new” C&D Canal. It was lovely!
Lynn did three big loads of laundry while Jonny tried to replace the water pump with an old one that he thought still worked. No such luck - so he ordered a new one which would arrive the next day. He then went on to change the oil but his extracting pump failed so he borrowed a hand pump from the marina and spent the next 90 minutes hand pumping the old oil out. No fun! His arm was noticeably sore for the next two days!
That night Lynn made a very good vegetable curry for dinner and we had a lazy evening reading and watching a little TV.
The final day in Delaware City began with another long walk along the canal trail. Last time we saw a ground hog and this time a bunny!
Afterwards Jonny walked into town to mail some letters. Delaware City is small but historic and has a degree of charm with a dash of funk.
He returned to invite Lynn to go for lunch at the local waterfront seafood restaurant that had crab cakes as their Tuesday lunch special. Because we are crab cake snobs, we didn’t expect much, but we were very pleasantly surprised at how delicious they were. Quite a treat and a great bargain at $10!
The new water pump arrived and Jonny got to work installing it while Lynn did some cleaning. And yes, our roles are pretty stereotyped while cruising which is mostly OK by us! Now that all our repairs and maintenance have been completed we are ready to leave for Philly. We’re looking forward to spending a week there. We’ll stay on Zendo but spend lots of time with Stephanie and we plan to see lots of other relatives as well!
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