[Rhodes22-list] A note about outboards and Re: Chesapeake sail

[Mary Lou Troy]

We did! As Lee and Tom mentioned we had a lovely sail on Lee's boat 
At Ease out of his marina on Kent Island. Great beam reach both ways, 
mostly flat seas. This was on Friday. Earlier that day we had a great 
sail on Fretless tacking down from Rock Hall down toward Kent Island. 
The beam reach on At Ease was nicer but the close-hauled run south 
from Rock Hall was really really nice as well. Really enjoyed the 
company. It was great to see Lee and Tom and Alice again and to meet 
Lee's wife Andrea and his son. Great folks to spend some time with as 
are most Rhodies.

Saturday, we left Lee to his yardwork and motored down to Kent 
Narrows where we had a brisk ride with the tide under the opened 
drawbridge. Once we got south of Kent Narrows we did some very fine 
sailing in Eastern Bay before motoring up the Wye River to lovely 
anchorage behind Drum Point. Eight other boats from our sailing club 
attended and let me tell you nothing beats the upper bridge deck of a 
Grand Banks trawler for Happy Hour with 21 people and it was great 
that one of our members motored down in his 17 ft. Whaler and could 
play water taxi as the forecast winds made it iffy to raft up. We did 
note that with the Whaler in attendance, we are no longer the 
smallest cruising boat in our sailing club!

The next day we motored to St. Michaels through some fierce powerboat 
chop with a building wind on the nose. We could have sailed but it 
was more relaxing to spend the afternoon on one of the upper decks of 
the Maritime Museum waiting for the rest of the club to arrive.

This morning there was almost no wind and the forecast called for 
afternoon thunderstorms with unsettled weather for the rest of the 
week so we decided to head out early (7 am) for home. We motored 23 
miles in 5 hours including 25 minutes spent milling around waiting 
for the Kent Narrows drawbridge to open. One of the advantages to 
leaving early is that there were not as many powerboat wakes as later 
when everyone headed for home.

Outboard note: We did notice that compared to our old Honda, the 
Yamaha 8 HT does a much better job of dealing with powerboat wakes 
and rolly conditions. That big propeller did a great job of really 
digging in where the Honda would cavitate.

All in all a nice cruise though we would have sailed more if we 
didn't plan on meeting friends at a destination. Great sailing when we did!

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD



At 01:33 PM 5/24/2009, you wrote:

>Sailed Saturday at Rhode and West Rivers, wind 14 knots, full main and jib
>furled to 100%.  Delightful, sailed mostly flat on a long mostly beam reach,
>speed around 3.5 to 4 knots.  Later in the day while motoring lost control
>of boat for just a moment.  Keel was up and kicked up rudder in shallow
>water, spun us around in a quick circle.  Uncomfortable, but fixed quickly.
>Seems that the rudder was really doing some work and let go quickly.  Lots
>of holiday traffic.  Here's a pic of boats anchoring by High Island, long
>since submerged.  We enjoyed great sailing with Leland, Mary Lou and Fred,
>and dinner also with Leland's lovely wife and fine son.
>Tom Hogarty
>
>http://www.nabble.com/file/p23696032/HIghIsland.jpg
>
>
>
>cowie wrote:
> >
> > Did anyone sail the Chesapeake today.  Nice summer day.  Sunny, 12 kt wind
> > out of the south east, lowered the boom, 25% main reef, 70% jib reef with
> > the jib sheets at the innermost block. had a nice run from hhn to poplar
> > island.  Came about to head home as the wind picked up.  20 kt wind for
> > the ride home with a significant sea.  Got bounced around a lot, too much
> > wind and sea.
> >
>
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