Mid-Atlantic
Cape Charles, Virginia
’d been to Cape Charles many times by land before sailing in, and it was worth the wait to arrive by boat. For decades, this historic little town just inside the Chesapeake Bay’s entrance has worked toward its new moment in the sun, and at last, it seems to have arrived. When we sailed in running ahead of a line of late-day squalls, ending a passage from North Carolina, I was happy to see a new marina with floating docks where before there’d been little more than broken down bulkheads. The welcome was as it always has been here—friendly, helpful, and happy to
