We had notice that just beyond Norfolk, there was work being done on a railroad bridge. The bridge, according to the charts is “normally open”, that is, unless a train is passing through, boats can go underneath. The work being done forced it to be down, with only a few scheduled openings per day. With the “great migration” going on, that was not a good thing. There were reports of up to SEVENTY boats standing by to get through. That would be bad enough (just like Amityville cut on a holiday weekend) — but keep in mind that all of those boats would then be lumped together and looking for the same docks the next night or two. We thought we would stop at Portsmouth just across the water from Norfolk — but of course all of the sail boaters had already scored the few free docks. As we were trying to decide,we saw that no one was waiting to cross through the last scheduled bridge opening, except one small sailboat. And through we went.
M/V Leap of Faith 