Here is Drew fixing again - the A/C today.  His head is under the floor.  Can you believe all the tool boxes, hoses, and parts spread out?  Can't start dinner until he finishes up for the day or takes a brief break so I can get in the kitchen to prepare fresh trout. 
  After renting a car for a 3 hour rate, $21.21, we shopped at West Marine and Farm Fresh for stuff to eat and to fix the boat.  Eventually I'll take a picture of the salon not full of tools.  Today Drew worked on the air conditioning, repositioning the filter that says "clean often and thoroughly" IF you can reach it and IF we are using it.  I polished all the rust off of the oxidized "stainless steel" stanchions, poles holding up the bimini and dodger = the canvas that covers the cockpit and winches.  Still looking for a fulfilling role on the boat.  Cleaning is not my life's goal.  Mazu fell into the water today, again, after backing up and stepping off the narrow finger pier.  I have to haul her out by her collar.  She thought it was funny and started running around like crazy.
  Last night we had dinner with Larry and Pat on their 2004 Island Packet 370 that is as neat as a pin.  The whole boat looks like it's brand new.  Dinner was lovely.  They filled us in on spots on the ICW that are on the charts but not there in reality.  For instance, there is an island marked on the charts but not in the river.  In order to get through that part the boat needs to follow the channel right over the "island."  They also told us about some of the southern history that we'll see along the way.  Tons to explore.  Maritime Museums, famous Huntington gardens, National monuments and forts from the Civil War.  Evidently slaves dug the entire canal system in the 1700s for tobacco, slaves, and the cotton economy.  It protects boats from the rough seas of the Atlantic allowing trade between southern states and good ports for loading cargo.
  Off the coast of Morehead City, NC  there are many schooner wrecks - a divers paradise.
  NOAA is getting rid of the "magenta line" a line that follows the ICW (Intracoastal Waterway) on all charts.  www.waterwayguide.com.  NOAA will provide free PDF charts.  The app that we are using and many others use on their ipad at the helm is Navionics.  It costs a bit, but contains all the charts, marinas detail, depths, etc. that we need and we can put in waypoints.  We are still deciding whether to go the Dismal Swamp route that has a speed limit and would be slower but interesting.  The thing that bothers me about the ICW is that we can't always use autopilot and we can't really sail; we'd have to motor miles and miles of narrow canals.  We will definitely follow it from Norfolk, VA to Beaufort, NC to avoid Cape Hatteras on the outside, then we'll see.