Our dear friend and Centurian Michael-Anne picked us up at our community dock for an evening cruise after racing was cancelled due to lack of wind and power outage. It was a beautiful night!
Century Club: Dorian Haldeman
We had a great sail with Terrapin and her new sails to the Little Choptank River on Saturday. We anchored off Palm Beach Willie's and rowed in for a great orange crush and soft crab sandwich just before sunset. On Sunday we motored to our favorite anchorage on Hudson Creek and did some napping and dinghy cruising. Monday we had a great sail back to Solomon's dodging the rain squalls. A great holiday weekend cruise!
My favorite holiday in Annapolis! Two days of fun on the water with friends and an awesome air show. It is a highlight of the year for me and the official start of summer in Annapolis. Go Navy!
Jeff finished up the engine maintenance this morning and we launched the Key West for the season! We had a nice boat ride and drug a few lines through the water but there were no fish to be found. Hoping for better luck next time.
It was a beautiful sunny, breezy May Sunday when we christened Terrapin's brand new Quantum sails for a spicy day sail. The sails look great and Terrapin has never performed so beautifully under sail! Looking forward to an exciting season of sailing/cruising.
The forecast was not great for wind or sunshine four our ILCA spring invitational regatta but we managed to get in some racing. Two races in light breeze and heavy ebb current in the river on Saturday and two races off Bembe Beach on Sunday. Breeze started off better on Sunday but did die off towards the end of race four causing the RC to attempt a shortened course at the leeward gate. Unfortunately, they botched the job requiring a protest hearing for redress. After a judges decision for my redress score I won the tie breaker putting me in first place for the weekend. It was very close racing and tough competition!
TESOD stands for Tuesday Evening Sail One Design and it is an SSA tradition. Every Tuesday from late April through mid-September we run fin casual races in the Severn River. There is no scoring but it is always competitive. It is a great way to forget about your workday stress and practice your sailing skills. These are the nights I participated.
1) 4/25 - light breeze and a beautiful sunset
2) 5/2 - windy and chilly
3) 5/9 - light and sunny
4) 5/30- light breeze shifting right. I won three radial races!
5) 6/6- light westerly shifting south. Hazy sunset
6) 6/13- great southerly breeze with waves!
7) 7/11 - hot, sun, some breeze and a beautiful sunset
8) 7/18 - beautiful night, light breeze and live tunes in DTA
9) 8/1 - light breeze drifter
10) 8/22- felt rusty after several weeks off. Light breeze. Capsized once, win the last two races
11) 8/29 - light breeze
Friday and Saturday I manned the weather mark boat for this event. Breeze was light on Saturday but the clouds were amazing! Fun day on the water with my Laser friends.
1) March 31 - dewinterizing Terrapin, hooking up fresh water system
2) April 1-spring cleaning, diesel maintenance, prepping Terrapin for new sails
3) April 2- installed new reefing line, repaired anchor locker hatch, installed new engine water filter on Key West
4) April 22- up the mast of Terrapin to fix the steaming light, interior cleaning
5) April 23- fresh bottom paint on the Key West
6) May 13- Terrapin scrub!
7) Nov 11- winterize Terrapin's engine
8) Nov 12- Laser maintenance
9) Nov 18- winterize Terrapin HVAC
2/26 - Race Committee- driving the mark boat
3/5 - windier then expected. Enjoyed the tunes from Shamrock the Dock from on the water!
3/12- light wind and chilly
3/19- breezy and chilly!
3/26 - final day- warm and shifty breeze