SpringHill Suites Norfolk Virginia Beach

A friend and neighbor of mine,...

by Kentbein

A friend and neighbor of mine, Sean Hanrahan, climbing out of the cockpit of his F-14 Tomcat after landing at Oceana Naval Air Base, Virginia. Sean flew off the U.S.S. Saratoga during the Liberation Of Kuwait.

Virginia Air and Space Center

by Jim_Eliason

This museum is run in conjunction with NASA Langely research center. Langely has focused on aircraft research. This museum has a good collection of historic aircraft, displays on space exploration and an IMAX theatre.

2004 - Heading for the Barn

by grandmaR

"30 April, 2004 continued"

Got to the steel bridge a little after 1000 and they waited for us to get there before they opened. The three power boats went through earlier of course. The place where there used to be some Navy boats in earth cradles is gone.

We went through the bridges in Norfolk , and saw various barges and other traffic.

We got to Norfolk after a trip of 11.2 miles at an average speed of 6.9 mph

After I did email at the dockmaster's office, and downloaded and added pictures from Great Bridge to Norfolk (there is a wireless network in the marina), we went up to eat. We'd never tried Joe's Crab Shack before so we thought we'd eat lunch there.

But they said it would be a 20 minute wait, and I am against waiting, so we went to Hooters. I had the Philly special and Bob had a hamburger. The bill was $19+ and he left $22.50. I gave him all the quarters I had.

Then we walked over to the ferry and went to Portsmouth for the afternoon.

"May 1, 2004"

I feel really nauseated this morning. It is probably tension.

We cast off about 0630 OK, but when I pulled the bow around so Bob could back up into the marina by hooking the boat hook onto a dock cleat, I got the boat hook jammed and couldn't get it out. I had to let go of it. Bob wasn't pleased. Then the radar detecter had a fault and wouldn't start.

Bob pulled out the main and jib and tightened the radar connections and it worked again. I changed the computer and GPS to nautical miles.

I took a photo of Navy ship 203 at Craney Island

While we were passing the Navy base the trawler SUNSHINE from Jupiter FL passed us. Another one NJORD passed near carrier #3 - they were in Waterside last night.

WANDERER II (a headboat) passed us heading into the harbor.

"1 May 2004"

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