Century Club: Mark Witte

We knew it was going to be breezy, but the weather forecasters were off the mark, way off the mark.

What should have been sustained winds in the upper teens, turned into the mid to upper 20's with gusts to 50+.  Only 3 boats on the starting line, we were first up to the Choptank mark and then the "fun" happened.  Needless to say, we tore the mainsail, one large hole and several small ones and lost all the battens in the jib.  We sailed downwind to PR1, where we took down the main to salvage the sail, turned into the Patuxent River and finished under jib alone.

The bi-weekly boat cleaning begins.

4/1

4/15

4/29

5/15 (Moved the boat to SMSA, but the diver has equipment issues, so returned to our dock)

A beautiful day for sailing, but your phone goes overboard in the slip before the race.  So you call the local diver, get your phone back, miss the start of the race by 20 minutes, but go out sailing anyway.  Why?  Because it's a beautiful day to just sail.

With Rakali still on the hard and getting her yearly maintenance, we were invited to join Jim and Barb Whited for an afternoon of sailing on their boat on a beautiful February day.