Century Club: mike pitchford

The daycare for our 15 month old grandaughter was closed for the week due to a positive COVID test for one of the kids.  We had the pleasure of her company for two days as backup daycare.  On the first day we entertined her with a short dinghy row and took her on a longer creek cruise on our runabout on the second. 

not many left in this season (fair weather rower)

Ten boats joined up in Cambridge at the Cambridge Yacht Club (CYC), for the weekend. The cruisers enjoyed happy hour at the CYC Tiki bar both Friday and Saturday evening.  On Saturday several of us also took the Harriett Tubman tour (she was born in Dorchester County). 

During the Saturday happy hour PC Jim Ellis presenter CYC GM with an AYC burgee. It was a very nice touch.

Saturday evening 26 of us gathered in the CYC dining room for a group dinner.   

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We have all experienced a cool Labor Day weekend; the one that sneaks up on you with cooler weather after a hot summer and foretells the fall to come.  Early forecasts indeed suggested a cooler weekend but updated forecasts showed this Labor Day Weekend to be a continuation of August’s warm days. And so it was.

Fortunately the assembled members of the AYC Cruising Fleet had a hot weather ace.  The cruisers anchored for the long weekend near the Wye River home of Dick and Karen Kimberly.  While the Wye was well stocked with jellyfish, which eliminated the idea of a swim off the boat, the Kimberly’s invited all to their pool to cool off.  It was a perfect match for the hot weekend days.

The cruisers also enjoyed a poolside happy hour, a Sunday morning kayak and SUP trek along the Wye and another evening happy hour aboard cruiser Bob Smith’s 58’ Hatteras LRC, Mary Kathryn. What could be better?

The late summer cruise revealed more than a few boat maintenance issues.  We had house battery charging issues, a generator that would not stay lit, some AC fault codes and a few dinghy engines denying their owners a ride.  All in, the cruisers worked around the problems and banked a great long weekend on the boat.  The sunsets were especially sweet, and the rain stayed away until all were home safely on Monday.       

We have all experienced a cool Labor Day weekend; the one that sneaks up on you with cooler weather after a hot summer and foretells the fall to come.  Early forecasts indeed suggested a cooler weekend but updated forecasts showed this Labor Day Weekend to be a continuation of August’s warm days. And so it was.

Fortunately the assembled members of the AYC Cruising Fleet had a hot weather ace.  The cruisers anchored for the long weekend near the Wye River home of Dick and Karen Kimberly.  While the Wye was well stocked with jellyfish, which eliminated the idea of a swim off the boat, the Kimberly’s invited all to their pool to cool off.  It was a perfect match for the hot weekend days.

The cruisers also enjoyed a poolside happy hour, a Sunday morning kayak and SUP trek along the Wye and another evening happy hour aboard cruiser Bob Smith’s 58’ Hatteras LRC. What could be better?

The late summer cruise revealed more than a few boat maintenance issues.  We had house battery charging issues, a generator that would not stay lit, some AC fault codes and a few dinghy engines denying their owners a ride.  All in, the cruisers worked around the problems and banked a great long weekend on the boat.  The sunsets were especially sweet, and the rain stayed away until all were home safely on Monday.