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

Wed Jun 2 11:09:56 EDT 2010

Lee,
We are certainly lazy cruisers - most of the time. And we are 
anything but purists. We motored two thirds of this trip and 
thoroughly enjoyed it. We might not have enjoyed all that motoring if 
we had encountered big wakes in your section of the Chester but it 
was pretty benign both up and back. Got a bit rolly on our way up 
towards Rock Hall but not really uncomfortable. The only time we got 
really waked was approaching Hail Point from upriver on Monday. As 
all the boats are converging there a big powerboat came up fast 
behind and cut between us and the mark. We had time and space grab a 
hand hold and to turn toward his wake but barely. It was easily a 
four foot wave and went right up to the cabin top. Also buried the 
bow in a wake and got water over the cabin top and down the sides of 
the cockpit on our way up to Rock Hall but we had the cabin slider 
closed and the cockpit pretty clear so we were the only things that 
got wet and in that heat, it felt good. I do like how the Yamaha 8HT 
handles wakes and waves. It doesn't seem to come out of the water 
nearly as much as our old Honda 8.

As for the tea bags, we survived on lean rations. Actually, with the 
decaf tea we drink, if you make a second cup with the same teabag you 
can hardly tell the difference. It's pretty pathetic. And for 
everything else we seem to have accumulated backups and workarounds 
to the backups over all these years of cruising.

Hope to see you out there some time!

Mary Lou

At 10:42 AM 6/2/2010, you wrote:
>Mary Lou,
>
>Great story!  Even with the minor mishaps (major if you include the 
>tea bags) you make me want to go cruising.  You certainly know how 
>to do it right.
>
>Lee
>
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
>
>From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org on behalf of Mary Lou Troy
>Sent: Tue 6/1/2010 3:02 PM
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>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] weekend cruise Re: so who is sailing this weekend?
>
>
>
>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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