Nothing too exciting this morning. Good average speed due to rowing in time to whatever torture the mids were suffering through.
Century Club: Greg Brennan
Sunday, July 9, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
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.
Thursday, July 6, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
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.
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
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.
Sunday, July 2, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
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.
Friday, June 30, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
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.
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
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.
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Soggy but fun. It's the best view of the boat collection. I'm presenting Sophie Coste at the "I built it Myself' exhibit.
Monday, June 19, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Happy Juneteenth! It is a morning marred only by the incessant buzzing of fair weather fishermen in an awful hurry.
I saw an osprey overhead and finally rowed through a ball of forage fish at the mouth of Back Creek.
Tide is dead high and it is nearly windless. I threw in my anchor off the maritime museum beach and Sophie is still floating next to the slack line.
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
What a glass smooth morning! It was so quiet the predominant noises were the traffic on the rt 50 bridge and some cadre doing push-ups at the naval academy.
It's a morning for ducks and black backed gulls, though I did hear an osprey chirping somewhere.
Despite the quiet I almost ran into a big trawler who was gliding out of Back Creek. Sneaky bugger.