Jamestown and River's Rest Marina

Our Fearless Leader, Steve on Osprey (C-Dory 22) led us out of Smithfield station and then we passed the Jamestown Settlement. 

Then, off in the distance we saw a tall ship.  From our visit to Jamestown awhile back, we think this is one of the replicas of John Smith's three ships.  Here we see Osprey approaching the tall ship.

This tall ship looks huge, (especially compared to a C-Dory!) but Rob can attest to how very small and tight the quarters were as he took of tour of this boat.  Unbelieveable to think that people crossed the Atlantic and spent so many days aboard these ships.

Then we stopped for lunch where we rafted up and shared a few treats.

6 C-Dorys rafted for lunch

And then there were 4 (we took this after we had left the rafting formation)

We arrived a River's Rest Marina and resort in Charles City, Virginia on the Chickahominy River.  River's Rest has an old style motel, a very nice pool and a restaurant.  We spent two nights there and really enjoyed ourselves.

 Immediately after docking we took to the pool to cool off!  No, I take that back.  Immediately upon docking, we all installed our air conditioners!  Then a few of us went to the pool.

Each evening before dinner, we would have an informal cocktail hour.  At Rivers Rest Marina the shadiest spot, with the greenest lawn and beautiful flowers happened to be next to the pump out... Huh..

 We spoiled our dinner with all the goodies from the cocktail hour!

That night we were treated to a full moon that was bright orange (our camera didn't quite catch the orange).  And of course there was after dinner cocktail time at the end of the dock.