Century Club: Rebekah Bromwell

Headed out with moderately heavy wind behind us Saturday morning and took the main down after passing FSK b/c it was so shifty and keto oscillating beyond a safe run. We had the preventer on but then had to keep adjusting and it was a bit stressful. We also started double reefed on the main and with a teeny bit of jib out. When I dropped the main I put out just about half the jib, maybe a little less, and we sailed with that very comfortably making high 5s and low 6s all the way to the mouth of the Chester. Once we headed up things slowed down with that configuration, but we still managed to sail a good bit. We got a slip at Lankford Bay Marina overnight, had pizza delivered, and discussed plans for going the rest of the way to Chestertown in the morning. Ultimately decided to skip it as we'd be against the current and would have to head back down to our planned anchorage for a headstart on the way home Monday. Ended up sailing to Rock hall instead and anchored waaay far into swan creek. I was NOT happy with the depth over there but it worked out. Got a day slip at osprey point and went ashore for a couple beers and a fun party at waterman's. Caught the bus back and had a super nice bbq raft up. I slept great. Wind died down to practically nothing on the way home the next morning and had to motor. Great trip overall. Topped up diesel (4.5gal) and pumped out at rusty scupper before heading back to DSC.

Got back home after horrible week and funeral up in nyc. Took #4 out with Bhavani for a couple of hours in low wind just to sail around a little. 

Informal pursuit race to Curtis bay green #5 & back (start was from line between lighthouse point corner dock to port admin building) and then we anchored and had a lunch raft up w/Sun. My anchor did slip a bit which has never happened to me before there (usual spot in anchorage) but as we started getting a little too close for comfort towards the leeward dock we just started engine and separated and went home. Anchor line was kind of im big curves around the boat. I think setting it with high wind and significant oscillating between NW & SW seemed to reduce the it's bite. James said it felt set, but even using the motor to reverse to set, I was getting blown sideways enough that I think it was rotating in the ground. 
 

Had Rayned helm pretty much of the time because intended to do more sailing after lunch to give James and Jen time tomorrow drive , but wind was a little higher than I really felt would be fun for us. Even Ray had significant steering difficulties sometimes, and maintaining momentum seemed weirdly difficult especially on a starboard tack. We were double reefed but I don't think that was the issue. 

Went on Akimbo, beautiful weather. Gusting over 20. 10am-2:30pm

Took Bhavani out to work on quick stops and had a really nice 90 minutes or so of decent wind and sunny but not too hot weather. Took #11 against my better judgement b/c didn't want to bother with shifting it with #5 for dock position. The bilge was absolutely horrific with urine stench though, which also permeated the jib bag. Ugh. We kept the wash board in the whole time and had the hatch closed to not get nauseous from it while we were out. I wasn't going to stick Bhavani in there to practice SH myself. I'll do it another time. Had a good session coaching anyway and it does help me visualize it for SH too.