the 2009 Wayfarer Chesapeake Cruise
as recalled by Richard Watterson - 3
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We departed Tangier in OK winds only to have them drop to nothing halfway across.  Dick and Jane started rowing.
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Jim and Linda farmed out as crew on the solo boats on this day.
Here is Jim aboard André's boat MAG.  Linda joined Tony.
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Glassy water and fair weather cumulus above land.
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André and his Honda to the rescue!
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Dick finds some wind and proceeds down the east side of Watts to the rendezvous point

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Notice the end of the branch that extends up appears to be a streak of lightning coming out of this cloud.
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I tried to line this up so it would appear as if lightning was striking Blue Mist, but couldn't get the timing and perspective right.
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Crab picking on Watts Island
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Linda
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Jim and Linda's pooch is hungry, too!
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The fleet anchored head to wind in a seamanlike fashion.
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Tony,  it's crab picking!
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Notice Dick's radar reflector in the background.  It shows up well in other pictures, too.

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Let's see: cheese, olives stuffed with anchovies, multigrain snacks and beer.  All part of a well-balanced cruise diet.
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These crabs were obtained at Tangier the previous evening. A local gentleman described by Milton Parks later as "someone who can be trouble, not that he is trouble, but he has been to jail" went down the dock asking if anyone wanted crabs in exchange for beer. Jim and LInda took him up on his offer. He left to cook the crabs and delivered them a little later. He appeared to be in a lot of pain when he returned. He explained that the chain had broken on his bike while he was standing up on the pedals and umm, I leave the rest to your imagination as to what was injured.  His last comment was "... so much for my unborn children".   He cheered up quite a bit after receiving his payment.  He took the cans out of the paperboard container put them in his crab pot and discarded the container into the water.
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To continue the funny hat theme, Tony has fashioned one out of the native Watts flora ...
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