Light wind but enough to get perfectly decent speed. Lovely evening. General recall at the first start. Had to wait fir everyone else to do theirs first then. We also touched a mark so had to do a spin.
Century Club: Rebekah Bromwell
Friday, June 6, 2025 to Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Number of days:
5 days
What an experience. I was so sure we're were going to finish super well and even get line honors. Retiring Monday morning and hobbling into the hamptons is a bit depressing. I still would do it a hundred times over. That was the most fun and intense learning I've had sailing yet. Will try to figure out a proper log with conditions and details later. Wasn't really able to keep one underway.
my opinion on Beneteau boats is totally changed btw, lol. (At least for some of them.)
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Beautiful night, but pretty crazy wind for me. Mid 20s and gusty so we didn't get the spinnaker out until the end. I got a hell of a work out on jib. Was fun, but stressful. I am noticing a pattern lol.
Also got completely soaked in spray and waves while hiking.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Spent a couple hours coaching SAFE kids and their teacher through tacking and jibing practice, did some fun follow the leader, and then talked one through docking.
Left it at the t-head briefly, and then went back out with Hunter to practice some quick stops, heave-to and docking before his checkout tomorrow. Wind dropped unfortunately as we started docking so it was really slow, but hopefully going through the motions will be a helpful base.
Monday, June 2, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Took Heather, Bhavani & Princess out for some light wind skills practice. Did rigging as skipper practice, some jibing and tacked back. Coached Bhavani through a nice downwind docking at the end.
Gorgeous evening, warm, wind was W ish with some weird shifts along the harbor. 5-10 or so.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Skippered Akimbo for the open house but ended up with no participants so did a little impromptu mentoring session for Karen w/James, Princess & Bhavani as crew. Wsw wind 15-20ish. Nice weather. Somewhat uncomfortable w/lack of instrument data displaying, particularly the awa downwind as we were heading out. Pleasantly surprised by how smooth docking went when I wasn't watching the speed dial though. I have a feeling I was going faster than I usually do, and that helped maneuverability. And it was still plenty slow for crew to step off. Also demonstrated using a single breast line twice, and it went perfectly. I like my new trick a lot. ;-)
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Did first scheduled mentoring day w/dockside instruction (plus a short pre-sail & quick stop practice) and I think it went well. We saw the storm rolling in and got to dock just as the sprinkles started, but I got soaked by the time we finished. Was freeezing cold for rest of day. Wind was pretty intense, definitely around Westerly 20 most of the time w/gusts well higher. We doubled reefed for POBs and after the squall just did motoring practice with menteees.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Great race tonight. Got soaked and chilled but had a great time. We did AWESOME at the start (see about 3.5 minutes in the footage!) but dropped down a bit at the first rounding. Other than that I think we didn't have any issues and our team worked super well together tonight. Results aren't in yet but I think we came in about 5th. (Wind was really nice, not actually sporty as expected, but a perfectly reasonable and comfy 10-13 most of the time except for a couple lulls.)
Saturday, May 24, 2025 to Monday, May 26, 2025
Number of days:
3 days
Headed out with moderately heavy wind behind us Saturday morning and took the main down after passing FSK b/c it was so shifty and keto oscillating beyond a safe run. We had the preventer on but then had to keep adjusting and it was a bit stressful. We also started double reefed on the main and with a teeny bit of jib out. When I dropped the main I put out just about half the jib, maybe a little less, and we sailed with that very comfortably making high 5s and low 6s all the way to the mouth of the Chester. Once we headed up things slowed down with that configuration, but we still managed to sail a good bit. We got a slip at Lankford Bay Marina overnight, had pizza delivered, and discussed plans for going the rest of the way to Chestertown in the morning. Ultimately decided to skip it as we'd be against the current and would have to head back down to our planned anchorage for a headstart on the way home Monday. Ended up sailing to Rock hall instead and anchored waaay far into swan creek. I was NOT happy with the depth over there but it worked out. Got a day slip at osprey point and went ashore for a couple beers and a fun party at waterman's. Caught the bus back and had a super nice bbq raft up. I slept great. Wind died down to practically nothing on the way home the next morning and had to motor. Great trip overall. Topped up diesel (4.5gal) and pumped out at rusty scupper before heading back to DSC.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Went to DSC to do this w/James today so we could avoid the gusts tomorrow if possible, but just as we parked it started pouring torrentially. Went home and had lunch, came back to DSC and caught a beautiful clear hour window that let us get to rusty scupper and do our thing and get back and out away just as another downpour started. Met a new guy at rusty scupper who will be at the June 1 open house. Will try to remember to sign up to take a cruiser out for that.