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Again a delightful experience. [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] enjoys it all immediately [[strikethrough]] Water calm [[/strikethrough]] and helps picking out our course among buoys and light houses, [[red underline]] occasionally takes a turn [[/red underline]] at the wheel or prepares us some meal. Arrived at [[red underline]] Testing Laboratory of Annapolis at 2:00 P.M. Admiral Kincaid [[/red underline]] is dead and Commander [[red underline]] Paul Edward Dampman [[/red underline]] is his successor. [[red underline]] Bullard [[/red underline]] gone so all the others I knew
Anchored near Stearn boat wharf. Good anchorage everywhere here. Still better shelter beyond bridge in (Spa Creek)?
Went ashore with [[red underline]] Celine to visit Annapolis Academy. [[/red underline]] Excellent concert by Marine band. Then had supper together at Carvel Hall and at 7 P.M [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] left with train for
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Washington whence she took night train for New York
Oct 14. Again beautiful weather
Took in gasoline to fill all our tanks (at 35¢ a gal.) and drinking water at a well protected and easily accessible wharf near ill smelling oyster and crab canning shed. Small repairs and supplies. Is also station No. 2 of Capital Yacht Club and is a "Rudder" Station.
[[red underline]] George Roll [[/red underline]] came aboard from Yonkers, about 9 AM. He and Lewis went sightseeing till 1 P.M. when lifted anchor and proceeded down the bay. Magnificent weather
Made [[red underline]] Drum Point Light, near Solomon's Island [[/red underline]] after dark and had to steer cautiously after red and white sectors according to chart indications