Northeast Again for the Summer

Our plan for going north this summer was to participate in Chesapeake Bay fleet of The Corinthians Spring South cruise and then split off for Hampton where we would pick up crew and then head for Block Island directly from the mouth of the Bay.

I departed Annapolis on Owl Moon June 4 with fellow Corinthian John Gardner aboard as crew (Diane stayed in Annapolis to attend a planning commission meeting). Diane joined me aboard Owl Moon on Friday evening, and John G drove her car home. Thursday, June 13 we went to Mathews as our last stop with The Corinthians.

Corinthian ladies at MYC

We made good time coming down the Bay from Mathews Yacht Club, covering the 45 miles in about 7.5 hours. We had NW 20 knots with gusts to 25 when we started, that moderated to a comfortable 15 knots. Top SOG we saw was 9.6 knots (the ebb current helped).

During The Corinthians Spring South cruise, I had been continuing with preparations for our ocean passage to Block Island. Now was the time to take care of the last items on the list.  This included putting our liferaft aboard. It had been shipped to Hampton Yacht Club from the service facility in Florida and had only arrived two days earlier...cut that timing close.

This guy was hanging out near our dock much of the time we were at HYC