Harve De Grace

Harve De Grace

Yep, it is actually the name of a town in Maryland. A really nice town. It was only a short 22 miles from the anchorage we were at in the Sassafras River at George Town. We actually ran into some folks at our port today at a Tiki bar that lives on the Sassafras River. Small world. On the way to Harve de Grace, we ran into a convoy of three other Looper boats headed to the same location. More on them later. 

We anchored up right in front of the lighthouse at the end of town. A short dinghy ride, and we mounted up on the bikes and went exploring. There were a lot of antique stores, some of which were actually nice. Although Sue did not find anything, I actually scored! I bought a used replacement 9/16 socket that I had been missing. Oh, the simple things in life! 

The picture to the right is a coffee mill from the late 1800s. Some of you may remember we had a much larger one in our kitchen that was made by the same 

company. This was about half that size but complete. They wanted a mere $1250 for this fine example! 

Through the town were beautiful restored Victorian-style houses, some of which have been converted to inns and B&Bs. 

As it got closer to happy hour, we went into the Tidewater Inn on the water. Well, don’t you know we ran into the other group of loopers. We wound up staying as it was trivia night. Had lots of laughs and enjoyed hearing about some of their challenges along the way. What was also interesting was hearing what caused them to want to do the loop. Most of these folks were retired from law enforcement communications in California. All of them had migrated to the East Coast. Maybe they finally saw the light! 

Unfortunately, we did not have a restful night at anchor. We were awoken to our anchor alarm at 1:30 a.m. After wiping the sleep out of our eyes, we thought we were dragging anchor. After 2 1/2 hours, we had reset the anchor. Yes, it was windy and rainy. We share this so you all don’t think this looping stuff is all butterflies and rainbows. Needless to say, we slept in a bit and had a late departure in the a.m. I know, Jim, I can hear you saying it right now. LOL. 

I was not totally convinced we were dragging. Turns out after playing with the app, we use it appears it is not working properly. Great. We pulled anchor and headed up the Elk River for Chesapeake City.