Century Club: Bob Ohler

We took advantage of the weather and our scheduled time on the boat to take a shake-down cruise. On Tuesday, we hit 7 knots under just the jib!  We sailed up the river, before tacking once more and headed into one of our favorite anchorages... Folks Cove 2.  On Thursday morning we took it easy while on the hook to do some maintenance.  After lunch, we pulled the hook and sailed out of Mill Creek under main only, hitting 5+ knots. We popped the yankee, and tacked multiple times before running out of wind just off St. Leonard Creek. Pulled in to the slip at 4:00. 

Wednesday night racing.  The RC had a good chance to shorten the course but didn't do it, and instead we sailed into the dark, in calm breezes, before the wind came back up and we sailed home under spinnaker. 

“Next to Christmas, it’s the happiest day of the year!” Bob Ohler

There is still a list of tasks to do before we sail, but Aloha Spirit got launched yesterday! We changed the bottom paint color to green this year, and the new green canvas will really set her off. With a full schedule of cruising on the calendar, we’re excited!

Mother Nature and the Chesapeake Bay teamed up to provide good, challenging conditions yesterday for the first distance race of the year. We were seeing 31+ knots of wind with gusts as high as 49! We had big wind and waves in the middle of the Bay! I’ll admit that it wasn’t for everyone, but for the few boats that showed up, there was a sense of accomplishment. We did not break or lose anything. Another, much larger boat tore their main sail lost the battens in their jib.