Lovely evening in spite of the continued pistachio tide in the harbor. We motored out past ft mchenry to find the wind, and then did a few POB's and a couple heave tos, and reefed. It was very pleasant weather in the mid 60s, sunny, and wind was 5-10 NNE once we got well away from the peninsula. ≈3.5 hrs
Century Club: Rebekah Bromwell
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Took Huzzah out all day for some excellent higher wind sailing. The spinnaker somehow got put away in such an incredibly twisted mess we had to drop it and deal with it back at the dock. I have never seen one that tightly twisted up with the sock lines wrapped and tied around it inside many many rotations, it looked like a messed up code zero furl or something. Crazy.
We did practice with the furling reefing and kept excellent speed. (9+ kts furled past the 3rd dot on both sails!) Jib shape looks better to me partially furled as well. Need to think about that.
Gorgeous weather, wind from the SW started in the mid teens but built to 20 later in the day. We ended up just tacking around and enjoying the day. Had some rigging/logisitcal discussion and oriented a couple new folks to the boat.
Also encountered what happens when we don't carefully manage the main sheet on both sides. Ran out of line on one side while the jib was on the other winch. Luckily it wasn't a big deal and we learned about keeping a close eye on that. It was easy to run back through once we furled the sail though.
conditions were clear 70s-80, wind was 14-20SW, 3-5ft waves pretty close together. ≈8-9 hrs (super fun, pretty ideal practice conditions if we had the spinnaker sorted out better. Making a plan for better hoists/douses now.)
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Took #6 out w/Steve & Petra with no specific intentions, but sped away from the fish kill stench as quickly as possible and found ourselves halfway to the bridge, so decided, why not? Really lovely cool weather, wind was 8-10 NW picking up as the day went on. Upwind back, but managed to get the ft mchenry on 1 tack. ≈3.5hrs
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Wind started 5-7 SW and we had some good spinnaker time and then met up with S/V Peace and buddy boated up towards Annapolis for a while, and then turned around intending to use the code zero but the wind dropped too low. Still a lovely day out.
Friday, September 26, 2025 to Saturday, September 27, 2025
Number of days:
2 days
Left Friday morning, did some sailing and some motor sailing (sunny, warm, wind was 5-7kts NE. Anchored around 2:30, had a swim (later saw lots of jelly fish so I got lucky not to get stung) and dinner. Watched MiB and then decided the anchor ride might get wrapped around a mooring ball line, so pulled up the anchor and tied on to the mooring ball. Very peaceful beautiful night except for an obnoxious fishing boat with bright green LED lighting that ran its engine or generator (sounded louder than a generator) all night, and the dudes were peeing off the back facing us. :-/ Sleeping situation was a little uncomfortable on the settee so I went up and slept in the hammock. Was mostly warm enough with the outside sleeping bag.
After a really excellent breakfast of berry pie, sharp cheddar & coffee, we set off. Motor sailed once we got out of the Magothy but was able to cut the engine about an hour later for a couple of hours. Put it back on towards FSK. (Overcast, a little drizzly with sunny patches, wind was 3-7NE) Pumped out at Clinton street fuel dock after dropping the main at the turning basin. Docked a little after 3pm.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Spent a wonderful day out on Huzzah figuring out the spinnaker. We flew it several hours and jibed a couple of times most of the way to the bay bridge, and then doused, turned around and tacked back to HH with the regular jib. Spectacular weather, cool, sunny, wind much better than forecast. Started 5-8 SW, but built up to 10-15 sustained. ≈8hrs (almost 50nm!)
Monday, September 22, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Enjoyed the fantastic weather getting out on #4 with James & Dan for a couple of hours tonight. We reefed b/c wind was supposed to build as the evening went on, but it dropped dramatically approaching sunset. We had a really beautiful sail out just past ft McHenry and back. ≈2.5 hrs, cool, wind was SE (really ESE) 8-12 most of the night.
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Spent the night over at hhsa and took Huzzah out for a great sail Sunday morning. Wind died down around 2pm but we got some excellent code zero practice in, and did get the spinnaker up but eventually gave up trying to use it with so little wind. ≈6 hrs cool and overcast to start, then warmed up and sun came out (and killed the wind) 8-12 ENE (while it lasted).
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Skippered Akimbo for team Axelerators and had a pretty awesome time. We were not competitive, and didn't even try messing with rigging a spinnaker, but I still feel good about our course and speed. Wind dropped dramatically after the first couple of hours which was a bummer and didn't help our time though. Long course was out around ft carol and back. All in, about 4.5hrs. Cool overcast but sun later. Wind was NE 4-12ish
Friday, September 19, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Took Akimbo over to get diesel and showed Steve how to use self tailing winches and hoist sails and everything. Very very low wind and quite hot. ≈2hrs wind was 0-5kts SW
Also pulled a heavy log out of the slip that had drifted in by Akimbo. Didn't want to scrape it tomorrow with higher wind pushing me around.