The three-day event centered around the resources of the museum. Nonsuch sailors from various parts of the U.S. and Canada enjoyed a cruise on the Patuxent River on the museum’s skipjack Dee of St. Mary’s. At the same time, a group was taking a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum conducted by David Moyer, CMM’s curator of estuarine biology. Al Suydam, boat owner, gave tours of the Patuxent Small Craft Center. Other activities enjoyed on the museum grounds included a pizza party and a sloppy joe luncheon.
Saturday’s schedule featured a 5.4-mile competitive sailing event on the Patuxent River with 19 participating boats from as far away as North Carolina and 80 visiting boaters. First place winners included our own Butch and Karen Garren with their Nonsuch 22 Whiskers and Ed and Mary Bahniuk in their Nonsuch 26 Cat-tastic. Jim and Barb Hauser from West River also placed first in their Nonsuch 30 Rauch.
These unique vessels conducted a sunflower raft-up during lunch. With boat sterns facing each other, the boats form a circle and their unusual boom, called a wishbone, creates the look of a sunflower petal.
