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2014 Sailing Season

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#1 ·
Well here's to the New Year and may all have a great year for sailing.

Haleakula had to be rested on land a few weeks ago as a late fall hitting a submerged object in Cornfield Creek seems to have injured the keel bolt under the mast. There was a steady filling up of the bilge over time and it wasn't safe leaving her in her normal winter berth in her slip.

The mast will be pulled in a week oe so to access the damage, but there was evidence along the leaing edge and one side of the keel. It will give us he opportunity to doing some work conditioning thru hulls as well as put a New steaming light on the mast. Donna has finished all he new cushions.

The Ultima 60 we put on 3 seasons ago was still going strong.

Well March 15 won't be far away.

Good health and New Years to all our Chessie friends.
 
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#2 ·
Sorry to hear of your troubles Chef. I am sure you will get it all sorted out soon.
2013 was a great year for us logging over 1500 Nautical Miles in a Midwestern 6 Month Season.
Here is to looking for another 1500 in 2014.
Happy New Year to all!
 
#5 ·
Dave, sorry to hear about smacking one of Cornfield Creek's many rocks and boulders - lots of em in there, though. I spend a lot of time down there and love the area for sailing, but the black flies have taken their toll on my legs over the years.

Will there be another Sailnet Rendezvous in 2014, and if so, will it be at the same location? Just would like to know so I can schedule it on my very busy calendar.

Thanks in advance, Dave,

Gary :cool:
 
#7 ·
Dave, sorry to hear about smacking one of Cornfield Creek's many rocks and boulders - lots of em in there, though. I spend a lot of time down there and love the area for sailing, but the black flies have taken their toll on my legs over the years.

Will there be another Sailnet Rendezvous in 2014, and if so, will it be at the same location? Just would like to know so I can schedule it on my very busy calendar.

Thanks in advance, Dave,

Gary :cool:
This is interesting, and valuable knowledge. It's not like the Chesapeake has many rocky areas to worry about.
 
#10 ·
I'd like to try some new launches this year. Maybe Havre de Grace? Or the ramp near Inner Harbor? Those ramps at Sandy Point are SO nice for single-handed launching though.
 
#12 ·
It's hard to beat the State launch facility at Sandy Point State Park. I believe it's one of the largest and best maintained in the nation. There are several ramps in Havre de Grace, and you should NOT use the one at Jean Roberts Park - it is silted in badly and at low tide it would be impossible to get in or our. Better off using the one at Tydings Park. That water at low tide there is about 3 feet.

There's a country ramp in the Susquehanna River just upriver of Perryville on River Road. Great ramp but can be quite crowded on weekends. There's one at Owens Marina too, which is where I keep my boat - $7 a launch.

The Rocks in Cornfield Harbor and Cornfield Creek are not natural. Just outside the mouth of the creek is Jobs Rock, which is a series of concrete chunks that were dumped there many years ago to create oyster habitat. I believe the hard stuff inside the creek is there for the same reason.

About 6 miles up the Potomac on the north shore is where I usually anchor up inside Smith Creek. I also have access to a private marina there as well, which makes it nice in summer when you need electricity for the AC. The creek is fairly deep and well protected when the weather gets nasty.

Cheers,

Gary :cool:
 
#15 ·
Gary,

We are talking about two different Cornfield Creeks. There are no rocks in the Cornfield Creek on the Magothy near Eagles Nest where I hit something.

Dave
 
#18 ·
Really haven't decided on a date or whether to even be the organizer . My wife and I have done it for 5 years now and have loved doing it. We have met and established a great circle of sailing friend by doing it

it does take some work and sometimes some attendees were less than kind or downright aggravating with their own agendas.

I was elected Rear Commo of our club and its taking a lot of my time and will for the next few years as I go up the ranks.

We are certainly up for getting together or meeting up
 
#19 ·
I managed to get out for a quick sail on Monday afternoon - 'twas quite nice with temperatures in the 50s and the wind between 10 and 15, I would guess.

It seems most days this last month or so that we've had reasonable temperatures, it's been either raining or too blustery to go out sailing. We had some ice covering the river where our pier is back around Thanksgiving, but, curiously, not when the weather dropped to the single digits recently.
 
#21 ·
Got out today for a sail with a buddy on the Severn to the route 50 bridge and back. Fluky fluky winds (0-20+?) and beautiful beautiful temperature. We actually dodged some ice floes on the way out this morning. Saw at least one other sailboat.
 
#24 ·
Good excuse to get to the Bay to check on the boat yesterday with temps in the upper 50's. Saw only one workboat on the creek leading into our marina and no sails on the Bay where visual from Rock Halls swimming beach. Great lunch at the local watering hole over looking a sea of vinyl covered boats in the towns harbour..:cool:

Clay
S/V 'Tango'
Lankford Bay marina
 
#25 ·
Clay - I was also down at Lankford Bay checking on my boat yesterday. Too bad I didn't catch you. I'm itching to start working on spring commissioning but it looks like we have another cold snap coming this week.
 
#28 ·
We saw you sold your Lippincott..that didn't take long. You keeping your new boat there this season?
Yes we really lucked out and sold the Lippincott within about two weeks of listing! The broker had a buyer who was waiting for one to come on the market. We'll keep the new boat over at Lankford Bay through mid may and hopefully use the first few weekends in May to do some upper Chester cruising. After that we'll bring her back over to Baltimore.
 
#33 ·
There's always a great wind at the mouth of the Potomac River - at least that's been my experience over the past 50 years of fishing out of Point Lookout. If it wasn't a three hour drive from my home I would keep my boat in Smith Creek, which is about 6 miles upriver from Point Lookout.

Gary :cool:
 
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