Wind was quite shifty and difficult around dominoes, but more steady out by the turning basin. There were definite whitecaps to some degree and actual 1st waves. Wind was probably 9-14 or so, ESE. Mostly overcast and cool in the low 50s. I didn't let us get out beyond ft mchenry because it looked and felt like conditions would be much more significant out there, but we had a good couple of hours bouncing back and forth along the inner harbor and turning basin. Dan got in a textbook perfect POB on the first try with no warning as well, so very successful evening. ≈2.5hrs
Century Club: Rebekah Bromwell
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Took James and Bhavani out for a gorgeous afternoon sail halfway to the bridge to warm up, and then back for a bunch of docking coaching. I didn't realize that James had never done it before, but after today he seems good on an upwind docking at the T-head on A dock. Conditions were ideal, 70s F, sunny, wind was 5-10 E ish.
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Lovely sunny warm day on the water. Wind was awfully flakey and shifty, but when we caught a puff it was awesome. 5-12N ish, with a good amount of lulls. Just a couple of hours before our big cruising kickoff meeting.
Friday, March 20, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Wind was 10-13SW but we reefed because it was projected to go much higher. Was gusty and shifty until we got out past ft mchenry. Wind mostly petered out by the time we back to dominoes though. I needed another half hour to get my 4+hrs on the water so we headed to rusty scupper around the dredging barge and sailed around a bit there before docking. Lovely overcast day.
Sunday, March 15, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Out and back in less than 3hrs! Richard, Josh &I had a great (reefed) time getting a sail in before the tornado watch. Wind was 10-20s E ish. Very very shifty and gusty in the inner harbor but steadied a bit out past ft mchenry. Was very glad I went out, as I've been hesitant in windier days after being off the water for so long. It was great fun and a confidence boost. I haven't completely forgotten how to handle a j22 over the winter, haha. My driving topped out at around 7.5kts during a downwind leg back.
Monday, March 9, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Gorgeous sunny warm day for a change. :-D
wind was 6-11S. Made docking a bit of a pain as it was pushing us on, and the old main didn't drop easily. Steve and I got it together in the end though and had a great day. I can't wait until we can swap back the newer sails though.
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Just the 2 boats out in quite low wind, but we had a great day anyway. Lovely first sail of the year for me. 3 short L2 races. We won the middle one.
Saturday, January 3, 2026
Number of days:
1 day
Spent morning at DSC checking cruisers (battery 2 on Akimbo not registering? but it does have charge.) , retying after gale winds, and took mainsail off Sun.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 to Sunday, December 21, 2025
Number of days:
19 days
Longest delivery yet (1902.31nm according to my Garmin), dodged the biggest storm, got caught by a smaller one. Dealt with snowstorms and ice on the ICW, then squalls and big seas for days south of Bermuda. Had to manage night watches and approaching land with no radar, and flakey AIS, foul water tanks, groundings, and more. It was...an experience. There were dolphins and my first encounter with bioluminescence though.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 to Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Number of days:
8 days
SO close to 1000nm! Aghh. We even thought about overshooting just a teensy bit and stopping in Guadeloupe first to get our ocean cruising club requirement in. So sad. Just didn't have time to make it happen though and had to get to Antigua right away. Will add a bunch of pics and more detail later.
St. George's Bermuda to first Falmouth harbor to test out our anchor set up, and then English Harbor Antigua. Nelson's Dockyard wasn't ready when we got there, so anchored in the back harbor, got the dinghy ready, then Nelson's radioed (eye roll) and we headed over to do a med mooring.
Hardly saw any other boats out there during the passage, but the first one we did see was a container ship out of Baltimore headed for Indonesia. When we were a few miles apart, suddenly a couple of birds came over to check us out, and then they flew off. I'm sure they must have been hanging out in the cargo ship because of how far out we were.