Century Club: George Hernandez

Local sail. Had hoped to do an overnight but the forecast called for showers and thunderstorms by evening and again the following day.

With my marina neighbor and sailing student Eris we motored down and back to see the tall ships. The west wind was on our nose leaving Willoughby Bay and then died off once on the Elizabeth River so we continued motoring. By the time we were headed back the wind had swung around to the north. Good workout for the Westerbeke...

Arriving at the marina late morning I was a little dissapointed with less than 3 knots a the Willoughby Degaussing Station and almost glass like water in the bay. Motoring out with the sail still covered I planned on doing a little fishing and relaxing. Within 5 minutes Windy's forecast of decreasing wind speed into the afternoon proved wrong as a nice NE breeze arrived.

I sailed out to the main channel then around Willoughby Bay when I realized the sails were up on the Gorch Fock at the Naval Station. Making good speed to Swells Point hoping to get a better angle for pictures from the Elizabeth River, that was stopped by the departure of the Eisenhower. I turned back around and called it a day.

On my Aqua Map Sail 250 it appeared the Gorch Fock was anchored to the west of the channel on the Elizabeth River. I had hoped to sail aound it taking pictures. It was docked at the Norfolk naval station. Still very exciting to see this beautiful ship!