Century Club: Eva Hill

Shooting for 100 days on the water has me going out on the kayak more often than I might otherwise.  Marginal weather, and I'll take my chances.  Now that I've embarked on this attempt to log 100 days, I realize that it's the only way I'll have a change to reach the goal.  I don't live aboard (would have done in easily in 2014!), I don't race on weeknights, I don't have any charters planned for this year, and life has a way of interfering with those long weekends I'd love to have on Calypso.

So, here I am, on a 45 degree morning, having completed a meander around Crab Creek.  The tide is high today, again, reaching the bottom of most of the non-floating docks.  Pink Moon?

Pollen, so dense it looks like you can walk on it, coats the waterways.  I guess it's the springtime analog to the clots of jellyfish we'll see in the summer.  Spring in the mid-Atlantic can be so achingly lovely (but frost warnings in late April?  WTF?), but it comes with a cost.

Stayed in Crab Creek today for my chilly kayak trip.

It wasn't the loveliest of weekends, but perfection is so overrated.  Saturday was gorgeous, if a little cool.  We got in a good sail, with plenty of wind and making over 7 kts at times; there weren't many boats out.  We didn't go far for the night -- Mill Creek off Whitehall Bay -- and we had it to ourselves.  Once at anchor, we caught some big gusts, but all calmed down overnight.

Sunday was grey and not very windy.  Pulling up the anchor was an adventure, as Rick pulled up a veritable salad of seaweed, turning this into a 15 minute operation.  We caught the 10:30 bridge.  Rick is now dealing with some electrical issues.  It's a boat - something always goes.

In the dim hope of maybe going out overnight over the weekend, it was time to move all of our stuff back on board.  Making up berths, stowing towels and clothes, taking inventory of what needs to be supplied and replaced, refilling drinking water, etc. etc.  Lots of sneezing from the dust and pollen, but now we're ready to sail away!