Overcast and warm with a breeze 3-5 kts from nw. The SULTANA is at anchor off the harbor. Other than that one stinkpot, a cormorant and a couple of osprey. Everyone else slept in.
Century Club: Greg Brennan
I missed official dawn but got to watch the sunrise over the eastern cloud bank.
Not much going on, two naval academy launches and a handful of cormorants, osprey, and heron flying over a few boils of forage fish.
Nothing too exciting this morning. Good average speed due to rowing in time to whatever torture the mids were suffering through.
Too tired to fight the waves in the Severn this morning so I checked out the new dock by the new pavilion aft Annapolis maritime museum's east campus. No cleats but otherwise splendid.
Very still and warm. Many full size sea nettles and many balls of forage fish. I might have seen a lone porpoise break the surface a few hundred yards away.
There's a 57' wooden Hereshoff ketch at Horn Point CATRIONA out of Mattapoiset, MA.
Christina and I went out on ELF with Steve and Kate around noon today. There was a tall ship anchored in the roads that we were able to sail towards. We lost the wind before we're got close enough to see the name but I looked her up on marinetraffic.com when I got home. Libertad is Argentina's tall ship.
Yes, again.
Pretty smooth out there and barely a breath of wind. Saw a cormorant and some fish broke the surface near me. I got a late start so there were a few fisherman out and a couple of paddleboarders and trotliners. I originally typed frotliners but that is a completely different thing.
Went out on a full ebb tide with haze from the Canadian fires and pretty lumpy seas (Sophie didn't mind at all). Saw a couple of watermen and a fishing boat out early. There were a lot of forage fish at the mouth of Back Creek.
I temporarily lost my phone in the car, so no documentation for this one unfortunately. But it's the same triangle as the last six months. Didn't see any fun sea creatures but cormorant, osprey, a big flock of gulls, and a great blue heron. I got a late start and came over the river after a couple of the YPs had moved over to the USNA seawall.
Soggy but fun. It's the best view of the boat collection. I'm presenting Sophie Coste at the "I built it Myself' exhibit.