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<\/a>The harbor between Hampton and Norfolk is often filled with many different types of vessels. \u00a0Today we saw a US Navy submarine approaching.<\/p>\nRadio broadcasts alerted us to this and they requested all vessels keep a distance of at least 500 yards\/450 meters from the submarine. \u00a0Two US Navy boats were escorting the submarine through the harbor.<\/p>\n
We don’t know what he thought of us, and he must have assessed we were no real threat. \u00a0We waved as we passed by and\u00a0it was kind of cool to have a heavily armed friendly USN sailor wave back to us.<\/p>\n We made our way to Deltaville, Virginia where we would spend 2 nights because …. you guessed it…. rain and cold was in the forecast for the next day.<\/p>\n But because we were here for a second night we were able to enjoy this beautiful sunset.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 9 May 2016 – Hampton, VA – Deltaville, VA … and our near encounter with the US Navy The harbor between Hampton and Norfolk is often filled with many different types of vessels. \u00a0Today we saw a US Navy submarine approaching. Radio broadcasts alerted us to this and they requested all vessels keep a distance … Continue reading Back in the Chesapeake Bay….<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>We think we got a little closer than they may have been comfortable with\u00a0and this nice Navy boat made sure he was between us and the sub. \u00a0Yes, that is a big gun he is holding.<\/p>\n<\/a>After this we then officially re-entered the Chesapeake Bay and celebrated the\u00a0fact that there was wind and space to sail as we unrolled the genoa and enjoyed some motorsailing. \u00a0Our friends were near us and were able to take a photo of us underway – it is very rare when we\u00a0are able to get a photo of us under sail.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n