Burntside Adventures: St.Michaels, Oxford, Cambridge

We left our pleasant anchorage on Monday morning and moved 3 hours or so to St. Michaels, Maryland. It is up the shore on the Choptank River, Santo Domingo Creek. This allowed us access to St. Michaels from the south side. There is a dinghy dock there and the hike to town is only 3 blocks. Enroute we had some engine temperature issues with normal running temps 185, we were 10 degrees above that. I stopped and changed the impeller for the second time in 10 days, although it looked ok. The temps stayed the same and weren't dangerous for the engine, but weren't right either. Once we anchored, I took the main engine zincs out and inspected them, and indeed they had change a lot in a week since we started. The zinc on the upstream side of the raw water heat exchanger was plugged with zinc pieces and debris, so I plucked the crap out of there and flushed it with a hose, solving the problem. We explored and hiked St. Michaels for a couple of days, at out where I got a whole soft blue crab on a bun, and went to the Maritime Museum, which was pretty interesting. Watched them working on a boat building project from the felled trees on up. Cindy got a great picture of a praying mantis. I'll add it when she gets it to me. Our anchorage there was a little busier, with a bunch of sail boats and a Krogen 42 that had been at the rendezvoux with us. Wednesday morning after a 4 mile hike, we pulled out and moved to Goldsborough Creek just past Oxford Maryland. Nice quiet anchorage all to ourselves and a crab fisherman. We managed to piss him off when unbeknownst to us, he had set a crab trot line before we set the anchor and got tangled up with it. He couldn't get his line up so we had to pull the anchor to free it and re-set. The biggest issue became the weather with the remains of Hurricane Michael now bearing down on us. We know the weather is going to change, supposed to get 3 inches of rain and winds out of the NNW at 30+MPH, so despite a pretty nice anchorage, we pulled out this morning and moved 15 miles SE to Cambridge MD where there is a free town wall we have tied up to. 2 other sailboats are here as well, hiding from the weather. It is extremely protected and we are tied up, so no worries. We have already hiked the town and know where we want to eat tonight. Cindy found a thrift store, bought a mink cape and two wedding dresses along with some other vintage clothes for her store. Then tonight Wild vs Blackhawks at 8 our time -- GO WILD!!
Engine hours 5152.5
Genset hours 5626.8