| the 2014
Chesapeake Wayfarer Cruise Crisfield, Smith Island, Tangier Island and beyond * May 24-29 Wednesday pics  |
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| AnnMarie and Allen pass
Solomon's Lump? north of Smith Island. ........ |
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| Dick and Al pass the north
tip of Smith - Deal Island on the horizon.
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| the approaches - as they
say - to Wenona on Deal Island (which is indeed a Big Deal and not to be confused with Little Deal Island) ........ |
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| Nearing the entrance to
Wenona's harbour - click here for larger image ........ |
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| Our little fleet safely
moored - click here for larger image ........ |
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| Wenona's harbour is full of
boats with character. Lovely!! ........ |
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| At Arby's Bar &
Grill, we were soon to discover that Pieceful
Cottage, the B&B we had liked so well in 2013, was closed for the time being. ........ |
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| Having gambled that we
could get away without boom tent or sleeping gear - and now lost - Hans and I bit the bullet and left for Crisfield where Captain Tyler's Motel would surely have a room for us. ........ |
| To quote from my email to our fellow Chesapeake
cruisers: Wednesday we arrived
at our day's destination, Wenona, only to find the B&B
unavailable. Having gambled by not bringing tent or sleeping gear, Hans
and I decided to sail back "home" to Crisfield after only only two
beers and half a lunch in Arby's Bar & Grill. |
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exiting
Wenona harbor,
tiller - unhooked from the retaining line to let the rudder half-way up
in occasionally shallow waters - fell out > boom gybed > Al
overboard > despite heeling efforts by Hans, Al not able to climb in
> did the Jeff thing by sailing into nearby shallow water >
lucky we did not capsize though that would likely have made re-entry
possible
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| The green track above was -
not counting the zigs and zags - the course Hans and I sailed. - click here for larger image ........ |
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lovely
port
spi broad reach headed S towards Janes Is. in perhaps 8 knots of
NNE breeze under mostly overcast skies as Al continued eating his
take-away supper of delicious Deal Island Fries from Arby's.
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some
threatening-looking clouds to the NW that we were keeping our eye on
when 15 knots of relatively cold ever more easterly breeze came out of
nowhere when we were about a mile off the north end of Janes
Is. > spi down post-haste and the Aero Foil luff spar showed its
mettle for the umpteenth time as we re-set the genoa > decided that
going downwind around the NW end of Janes was the lesser of two evils
(better than beat into steadily nastier winds and rain) > long beat
along Janes, mostly on port, and we opted for main alone > reminded
why I don't like sailing under main alone: boat stalls out after
tacking unless you are fast and bear away quite a bit
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| once past Janes we had
the condos with blue roof as a landmark and a nice starboard tack close
reach to the entrance of Somers Cove where the dead upwind fun began in
a slight adverse current > two tacks to be proud of but the third
saw us stall out: too close to the metal pilings to gybe around, so I
called in the Aero Luff cavalry as was began to go backwards > the
re-commissioned genoa was fortunately backable on the port side and we
then completed our tack smartly onto port > we thought we heard
cheering from the upstairs fish restaurant as we sailed past under full
sail (which in fact was easier than main alone provided we didn't strap
things in too tightly in the shifty cove winds) no one to admire us, but we smartly planed into E section where we had been Saturday, luffed head to wind to douse the main near mid-channel at the inside end > a very brief stint of jib alone to get the boat moving towards our chosen slip > another fast furl and SHADES coasted in to a perfect landing left boat at marina for the night > room at Capt. Tyler's where Jeff and Fran's boat was parked out front but we decided not to disturb them |
| One of the few "storm" pics that Hans got was this one which I at first rejected since it falls so far short of capturing the nasty feel of that suddeen cold and rainy blow. But upon closer examination, I am becoming increasingly fond of the intrepid mariner look that Hans captured here, to tghe extent that it is now my new profile pic on Facebook |
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