We woke up this morning to an announcement that the heat index would be over 100. The actual temperature would be 95. It is definitely much too hot to do anything outside for long. So, knowing that we would probably run Ling-Ling all day, we changed her oil and filter.
After breakfast, we watched a Hobey Cat go over on its side. After watching the two people try to get it righted for about 15 minutes, we took our dinghy over to offer our help. They thanked us, but said that they were ok.. We headed back to the boat and continued watching them for another 45 minutes. They finally got it righted and were on their way again. They where righting it by standing on the wrong pontoon.
I pulled the computer out to start writing logs, and got sidetracked on redesigning our boat cards. Once we had a design we liked, we pulled the printer out. We printed off 2 test prints so we could decide on what colors to make the text. Then, as we were ready to print our first set of new cards, we promptly ran out of ink! We then spent several hours trying to figure out where we stored our replacement ink cartridges. Finally, locating them exactly where we put them over a year ago, which, of course wasn't where we thought we had put them; we settled down to print cards and write logs.
Next we took care of the mail we had been putting off, and then dropped our trash off at the public boat ramp.
We had been watching a storm brew since around 6:00 PM. It finally hit around 9:00 PM. We had winds up to 30 knots, but nothing excessive. Norfolk and the tall ships got hit hard. One tall ship broke loose, a temporary floating dock broke loose and several anchored boats broke loose. One boat capsized by the Berkley Bridge south of Norfolk with 4 people onboard. The boat righted itself and they managed to get back aboard. It was all over by about 10:30 or so. Because they were forecasting additional weather, we slept in the main saloon.
On June 19, we were planning to leave. However, sleeping in the main saloon takes quite a bit out you, and adds quite a bit of soreness. We decided to stay exactly where we were.
Since we weren't going anywhere, I decided to work on cleaning the stainless for a bit before the heat of the day. At 1:30, we couldn't stand it any more and turned on the generator. There was no breeze. We fixed lunch and an afternoon thunderstorm hit just as we finished eating. We stood a storm watch. We saw winds as high as 36 knots. At the end of the storm, facing an adrenaline crash, we napped.