[Rhodes22-list] weekend cruise Re: so who is sailing this weekend?

Tue Jun 1 18:30:39 EDT 2010

Mary Lou

Thanks for sharring your sail summary.  It's fun to read how others  
are enjoying their time on the water.  I hope to make it up to rock  
hall some time this season.

Chris Cowie
Cowie Associates PC

On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:14 PM, "Mary Lou Troy" <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>  
wrote:

> Hi Lee,
> We had a great cruise in spite of a few things that could be chalked
> up to the fact that it was our first real sail of the season. We had
> tried to squeeze in an overnight between launch and this weekend but
> it hadn't happened.
>
> We left early Sat. because of the threat of t-storms in the
> afternoon. There was no wind but very little holiday traffic in the
> Chester so we had a lovely motor down the Chester (no powerboat
> wakes), around Hail Point and up the Chester to Langford Creek. Total
> of around 17 or 18 miles. First issue was with the engine which
> changed speeds several times. Finally decided it was the throttle
> cable or linkage because the motor never actually quit and moving the
> cables around seemed to affect it. We were among the first to arrive
> at the anchorage in the East branch of Langford Creek by Cacaway
> Island so we set the anchor and waited for the rest of the Swan Creek
> Sailing Association. No thunderstorms but those dawdlers who left
> later than we did found some wind and had a nice sail. Turned out we
> had a total of 11 boats show up.
>
> Had a nice Happy Hour with our friends from the SCSA. We got to play
> water taxi for a folks in a larger boat who didn't have a dink. We
> rafted up about 6 boats including Fretless on one anchor. Broke up
> the raft for dinner and delivered our passengers back to their boat.
> Found a nice spot to anchor and set about cooking our own dinner.
> That's when we discovered our next problem - we forgot to fill the
> water tank. Luckily, I had 3 gallon-size jugs of drinking water on
> board and some paper plates and we had remembered to fill the
> porta-pottie so we were fine for the weekend.
>
> Had a ham steak, cous cous salad and a green salad for dinner. After
> clean up we discovered our third issue when we tried to light the new
> anchor light. We thought we had taken care of it but we still had a
> short somewhere in the system. Fortunately we still had our old
> hoistable anchor light that we used to use with the Com-Pac 16. We've
> carried it around in case of anchor light problems.
>
> Final problem was also discovered Saturday evening - we had forgotten
> tea bags! Both Fred and I are tea drinkers and while we only drink
> decaffeinated tea, we do like our cup of tea (such as it is) in the
> morning. Luckily I had 5 tea bags in my handbag - ones that I keep
> for meetings and such where there is coffee but no one thinks to
> include decaf tea. We figured we could ration them out through the  
> weekend.
>
> Sat. night was warm but it eventually cooled off and we got a good
> night's sleep. The new pop-top enclosure works well but there are a
> few places bugs can get in. A few extra dish towels stuffed in the
> gaps between the cloth and the boat did well. The new enclosure has
> screened windows on the sides and a screened window in the door.
> Ventilation is pretty good. It has the same size zippers as our old
> PTE and the screened insert that I made for the front of the old one
> looks like it will work even better in the new one with a few  
> adjustments.
>
> Beautiful morning on Sunday. All the SCSA members had differing plans
> for the rest of the weekend so we were on our own. It was very warm
> but there was a breeze so we decided to get a morning sail in before
> stopping for lunch at the Rock Hall Yacht Club (it has a Rock Hall
> address but is actually located on the Chester) where we are members.
> Had a lovely sail and as we were coming back to the RHYC we spied Tom
> Deliberto sailing his R22 Triton wing and wing down the creek. We
> told him we were headed for lunch at the Yacht Club and he said he
> would see us there (he keeps his boat at a marina just around the
> corner from the RHYC and is also a member).
>
> We felt our way into the Yacht Club, it's mostly devoted to dinghy
> racing and is noted for the shallow water and tied up in a very large
> slip. We had to tie docklines together to make it work. They have the
> big slips but they are only about 4 ft deep at low tide. They do have
> a lovely club house with a deck and a pool. There were lots of kids
> in the pool but the water was still pretty cold. Tom found us and we
> had a lovely lunch sitting in the pavilion with Tom and some of his
> kids and grandkids. Tom and family had to head off for other
> activities so we hung around the club a bit after lunch and then
> headed out ourselves.
>
> There was still some breeze so we sailed down and then around in the
> Chester for a while before motoring into Grays Inn Creek for the
> night. Had chicken on the grill with more green salad and cous cous
> salad so there was no heating up the cabin. I'd made both salads at
> home and we had brought the boneless chicken frozen in its marinade
> so the only prep was to put it on the grill and again there was
> almost no clean-up. Lovely sunset. It was very warm but we dug out a
> 12 volt fan that we have stashed away and ran that for a while to
> help cool down the cabin after the sun went down.
>
> Again slept well but we got up at sun-up because of the heat.
> Beautiful morning though with a bald eagle perched on tree watching
> as we ate our breakfast. A couple of osprey ganged up on him or her
> and finally the eagle flapped off complaining. There was no wind but
> we decided to motor home rather than wait for a breeze so we wouldn't
> have to unload the boat in the hottest part of the day. Motor
> performed flawlessly all the way home. There was a light breeze but
> it was directly behind us as we headed home so we didn't even try to  
> sail.
>
> We were back at Swan Creek Marina just before noon. It was really
> really hot so while Fred flushed out the outboard, I threw all the
> perishables in the cooler. We left the boat open and took a cartload
> of stuff off the boat and went home for lunch. After lunch (and a bit
> of a cool down) we went back to the boat, took off the rest of our
> gear and buttoned her up properly. We were back home for good by 2  
> or 2:30.
>
> In spite of the heat and lack of wind (or our poor timing in relation
> to the wind), it was a great weekend. We overnighted in a couple of
> lovely anchorages and spent time with friends - it was a good start
> to the season.
>
> Mary Lou
> 1991 R22 Fretless
> Rock Hall, MD
>
>
>
> At 01:09 PM 6/1/2010, you wrote:
>
> >Mary Lou,
> >
> >Good cruise?  The actual weather was way better than the forecast.   
> Bet you
> >had a little boat traffic near the Narrows.  We made it out yesterday
> >afternoon.  Looked for you but assumed you and Fred were already  
> home by
> >then.
> >
> >Lee
> >
> >
> >Mary Lou Troy-2 wrote:
> > >
> > > We are!
> > >
> > > Finally got the boat out for its shakedown sail the other day. Had
> > > some problems with the furler - note that the halyard stretches  
> some
> > > when first raised. All was well once we tightened it. Like the new
> > > main with the vertical batten though didn't really have time or  
> wind
> > > enough to put it through its paces.
> > >
> > > We are off tomorrow morning for a club cruise to Langford Creek on
> > > the Chester. Taking roughly 20 - 25 nm to go from a point 3 miles
> > > from our house to a point 2 miles from the house - you'd have to  
> see
> > > a chart to understand. Lee, we'll look for you and wave as we go  
> by
> > > on Sat. morning and on our return Mon. morning. Looks like we  
> may be
> > > motoring Sat. until we make the turn up the Chester.
> > >
> > > Have a good weekend all.
> > >
> > > Mary Lou
> > > 1991 R22 Fretless
> > > Rock Hall, MD
> > >
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