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Boat Blogging

This evening’s blog entry comes to you from the Deltaville Yachting Center in lovely Deltaville, Virginia — right by the Chesapeake Bay.

At this very moment I am, in fact, on board our boat in the DYC marina. They have wireless internet! How cool is that? Pretty damn cool.

The picture above is of our boat’s “salon”. There’s Mark with his computer. Here’s a picture facing the other direction towards the “galley” and the “aft berth”. There’s also a “head” to the left but not in this picture. For those of you who haven’t been initiated into the strange world of nautical lingo: “salon” = livingroom, “galley”=kitchen, “aft berth”=back bedroom, “head”=bathroom.

It’s all pretty swell, as you might imagine. We went out onto the Chesapeake earlier today. We’ll spend the night on the boat tonight and then head back home to Fairfax tomorrow.

I really want to say some nice things about Deltaville Yachting Center.

We bought our boat through these folks and it’s where we’re keeping it. In the grand scheme of boating on the Chesapeake, we’re pretty small potatoes. There are lots of MUCH bigger and more expensive boats here at DYC. They have treated us so incredibly well here, though, you’d think we were million-dollar customers. The level of service has been amazing and wonderful. When our boat was still being built and after it had been delivered but was still awaiting the completion of some extra things we were having done, DYC would call us every week just to let us know what the status was. Their responsiveness, concern, and just plain kindness has been absolutely great. I just can’t say enough about how swell these folks are. They’ve created customers-for-life with us.

Anyway. So we’re here on the boat… computing, listening to the iPod with the external speaker system I got Mark for Christmas, drinking wine. Later on we’ll probably watch some episodes of “Lost” on ABC’s streaming video site.

Technology is good.

These pictures, by the way, were just taken using the built-in camera on my MacBook. We brought a digital camera and I have a bunch of other pictures on that, but we forgot the cable for downloading them to the computer. Oops.