Made our 3rd annual pilgrimage and did not skipper, but was crew for Richard's first overnight skippering trip on Akimbo. Anchoring and rafting up happened, and we set up close to Cantler's which made the 3 trips back and forth to ferry everyone via dinghy much more manageable than if we'd headed all the way back to our usual spot. Also there was a giant raft up of power boats over there being INCREDIBLY loud and obnoxious with karaoke or something all afternoon. Thankfully they eventually stopped. It was pretty horrible and low wind and super hot and humid on the way down, but it cooled off overnight and was overcast with good wind and just a few periods of rain but no T-storms on the way back. We did have about a 45 minute pause approaching fr mchenry as Sweet Dreams couldn't start their engine, so we hovered and prepped to tow, but as we were about to catch lines, it started. Phew.
Century Club: Rebekah Bromwell
Spent today sailing with Jason and Ulrich on Huzzah. Overcast w/light sprinkles, low wind to start but picked up decently in the early afternoon. Saw a whole pod of 10+ dolphins jumping and playing about 50yds from us for a bit as well!
We were so sloooooow... Super light wind was not good for us. Anyway, it was a beautiful night, and was fully dark by the time we came in. Excellent dinner at MYC after.
Took Jeff, Josh & James out for skipper checkout skills coaching and had a great afternoon on the water. First had them go through their own rigging coaching, reefing, departures, and the sailed up the anchorage to do POBs and heave-to's. Everyone had their quick stop down well, so we sailed back to do docking on the T-head. Did that for a bit, and the. Got a couple figure 8 POB's in, a couple more upwind dockings at the end, and Josh nailed our downwind docking into our actual slip.
Took Sandy out after the squall passed over us to give him some time to just motor around and do whatever he wanted as a refresher before his checkout on Monday. He did an awesome pivot turn inside the abandoned finger piers next door, plus a few perfect dockings on the T-head and back in the slip. He's beyond ready to check out and will be a fantastic skipper and coach for other new cruisers.
Miserably low wind, with a few bits of slight respite when we were able to do a quick stop and a couple docking practices of each type. Andrew is all set and I'm sure will breeze through his checkout whenever he gets it scheduled.
Another glorious Wednesday night on Tangent at MYC. Lots of new people crewing so we had some complications with rigging and so on but still did great and had a ton of fun. Weather held and we didn't get hit with a storm, but did have nice wind the whole time. A+
What a horrendous awful misery of a start. We sat at R2 for a couple of sad hours, and then beat to St Mary's in a wide range of wind conditions, none of which were good for Huzzah, for about 25 hours. I'm sure that has to be a record. We finished during the awards ceremony I think. Bleh. Anyway, had a fun raft up with Basta once we got there and then the return on Sunday was WAY more fun tbh. Glad to have done it, and at least one way was awesome. lol
(by awesome, of course I mean, failing to dodge the myriad lines of storm cells and getting almost knocked down by a 40kt "pink radar donut" sitting over us for several minutes...it was great haha.)
Suuuuuuuper low wind day, but it did eventually pick up enough to get some decent light sailing in. Went back and forth a bit, ended the day over by bloody point and then sailed back in.
Really fun night! Trimmed jib and spin and we were flying. Note: Jib cars need to be at the front of the portlight for best pointing. Finished about 6minures before next boats but idk if it was enough to stay in first.