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
Century Club: Rebekah Bromwell
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.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Number of days:
1 day
Took a cruiser out for member sail but got trapped by the navy resupply ship that took an hour to pivot around blocking the entire harbor. :-/
Ended up ping ponging back and forth between the inner harbor and UA for ages. Eventually got out to ft McHenry and then called it a night and headed to the turning basin to get the sails in. 5:30-8:30 Wind was NE (actually really just N) 5-12ish
Thursday, September 11, 2025 to Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Number of days:
5 days
Possibly my best trip yet. Really really special due to meeting new good friends, a super comfortable and fast boat, and gorgeous conditions. We went counter clockwise in an attempt to maximize sailing opportunities, which didn't quite work the way we planned, but we did get some fabulous sailing in anyway. I learned a ton, stood watches (as captain, and some unintentional solo when my buddy dozed off lol) and got to sail us out of the bay into the Atlantic at sunrise. That evening we hove-to out in the ocean at sunset and ate my tray of stuffed shells which wil be a standard passage meal from now on. We stopped once for dinner and and overnight at Chesapeake city, then got the rest of the way out of the canal and sailed the entire rest of the way down to Harrington Harbor. I'm totally sold on the quantum code zero btw. Felt kind of emotional coming back into harbor at sunset. Really wanted to just keep going and do it again. (We probably could have with the amount of provisions we had left hah.)