Took out #4 with James and Zsombor and we came in 3rd!!! About 10 seconds behind Priscilla!! I think we might have overtaken her actually if we had hit that last gust a little earlier. It was amazing. I might be a racer.
it was insanely stressful at the beginning trying to deal with the crowding and stand on rules and stuff.
Absolutely gorgeous night also. Not too cool or hot, cloudless and better than expected wind. Just right.
Had a nice morning out with Robert, Steve, and Susan.
#4 is back up and running and sailed wonderfully. We did some downwind docking practice, heave to experiments, and some fun tacking.
Sailed out to red #9 and raced back to DSC from 12-4. Amazing wind. Was reefed (#8 thankfully had grommets so could tie up the reefed sail and keep good visibility) but still zipped along so fast our wake looked like a speedboat! Then kept boat rigged and went back out with more friends and toodled around between DSC and the turning basin, went down into the marina by fells point and checked out some boats. Great day.
Went to WoW to skipper a J but didn't have crew, so hopped on Sun but they needed longer to orient new crew so jumped over onto Akimbo as the full moon group started getting ready. It was FANTASTIC. The clouds unfortunately blocked what should have been a really great full moon, but the wind and weather made up for it. Got up to 6.3 a few times heading back upwind after the bridge. Had to motor eventually through b/c the wind was just shooting straight down the channel at us.
Great weekend sail to Annapolis on Sun. Sailed out on 1st reef, prepared to bail at various sheltered spots in case of storms but none came. We did go to the 2nd reef around sparrows point and it's a good thing because around the bay bridge the wind picked up even more (again). Got a mooring ball in Annapoli ($35) and water taxi to the dock ($4 each person each way) to have dinner at the boatyard restaurant. Anchored at Magothy River sheltered area after the bridge on the way back to make coffee and have a quick swim. Lovely morning. Pretty low wind coming back so had to motor the whole time with practically an ornamental jib. Got back early enough to see a couple of J's out for member sail and did our pump out and refilled the diesel. Great weekend overall.
Did some POBs and backing up to the t-head.
Did some POB's with Bob, and just sailed around to ft McHenry and back for a bit. Managed a really lovely downwind dock in the same spot as Monday. Also wind was weird getting out, pretty strong cross wind pushing into the dock, but the save the Chesapeake boat anchor sticks out the back on the other side so had to get help holding us off it while hoisting. Could not have really done it with only 1 crew.
Great member sail on sweet dreams but we were having such a nice time we lost track of time and got back pretty late.
Took James, Maggie, and Elliott out for a spin past Ft McHenry.