9am dock call for a 7 hour day on the water. The wind was hard to find...but the sites to see were breathtaking!
Century Club: Steven Birchfield
Sunday, January 1, 2023 to Monday, January 2, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Thursday, October 27, 2022 to Saturday, December 10, 2022
Number of days:
14 days
Well Im still out there! love sailing and love the water!!!
10/27- HS sail practice
10/28 - HS sail practice
10/29 - Bucctoberfest Regatta
10/30 - Frostbites Race#1 @SMSA
11/2 - Cruze with friends around Solomons Island
11/3 - Cruze with Bob Olher to get him another day on the water
11/5 - Cruze on a Friends boat out to the Chesapeake and back
11/6 - Frostbites Race #2 @SMSA
11/8 - Cruze with friends around Solomons
11/13 - Frostbites Race #3 @SMSA
11/20 - Frostbites Race #4 @SMSA
11/23 - Cruze around Solomons with my son
12/01 - Cruze around solomons with Friends
12/10 - Freeze your "Buccs" off Race w/ SMSA
Thursday, September 15, 2022 to Sunday, October 23, 2022
Number of days:
18 days
9/15 - Highschool team practice
9/16 - Highschool team Practice
9/22 - Sailing on Barba Roja around Solomons
9/23 - Highschool team practice
9/25 - Cruse on Barba Roja to Hoopers Island and back
9/27 - Highschool team practice
9/29 - Highschool team practice
10/1 - Smallboat Invitational Race Day 1
10/2 - SmallBoat Invitational RAce Day 2
10/6 - Helping a friend put her Spinnaker up for the first time
10/7 - Highschool team practice
10/11 - Cruse on Barba Roja to help Bob get to 100 days on the water!
10/12 - Cruse on Barba Roja to help Bob get to 100 days on the water
10/18 - Cruse on Barba Roja
10/20 - Highschool team practice
10/21 - Highschool team practice
10/22 - Hoopers Lighthouse/ Pt No Pt lighhouse distance race
10/23 - SMSA Keel Boat Invitational race
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Number of days:
10 days
Its been a busy month this month and its not even half way!
9/1 - Delivery of the Barba Roja to Deltaville, VA
9/2 - Stingray Pt. Distance race in Deltaville VA (third place!)
9/3 - Stingray Pt. regatta Day 1
9/4 - Stingray Pt. regatta Day 2
9/5 - Delivery home (solo...at night!)
9/7 - Wednesday evening Keelboat racing
9/8 - Sailing with my son on Hydra Beast! Thursday evening racing
9/9 - Helped a friend get her Pearson 35 off the dock, sailing and back to the dock!
9/10 - Solo cruze to the bay and back
9/14 - Last Wednesday night race of the year!
Wednesday, August 3, 2022 to Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Number of days:
15 days
This Month Ive seemed to be helping more then sailing, some days helping with RC, others were emergancy rescues from the RC boat and i had to hand the boat over to the crew. Its both fustraiting and rewarding. Its good knowing I have a crew capible of getting the boat around the race course and back to the dock safely. Anyways, here is what ive been upto in August:
Aug 3rd- Wendnesday night Keelboat racing
Aug 4th- Thursday RC for Smallboat racing
Aug 10th- Wendnesday night Keelboat racing
Aug 11th- Thursday RC for Smallboat racing
Aug 13th- Sailing with US Patriot
Aug 17th- Wendnesday night Keel boat racing
Aug 18th- Thursday RC for Smallboat racing
Aug 20th- Teaching Adult learn to sail class
Aug 24th- Wendnesday night Keel boat racing Helping on RC
Aug 26th- New Main sail test!!! Woo hoo!
Aug 27th- Delivery of friend boat from NC to MD
Aug 28th- Delivery of friend boat from NC to MD
Aug 29th- Delivery of friend boat from NC to MD
Aug 30th- Delivery of friend boat from NC to MD
Aug 31st- Wendnesday night Keelboat racing
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 to Saturday, July 30, 2022
Number of days:
30 days
June 8th - Wednesday Nite Keel boat race
June 9th - Small Boat RC
June 10th - Fishing!!!
June 11th - Small Boat invitational RC
June 12th - Broken Rudder Race... we actually broke the dang rudder!!!
June 15th - Wednesday nite keel boat race
June 16th - Smallboat racing on a Bucc!
June 19th - Solo Sail in Solomons
June 23rd - Smallboat RC
June 25th - Smithpoint Distance Race
June 26th - Summer Invetational for Keel boats
June 29th - Wednesday nite Keelboat race
June 30th - Smallboat RC duty
July 2nd - Solo sail around Solomons
July 3rd - Teaching on Holder 20
July 6th - Wednesday nite Keelboat race
July 8th - Sailing on Americas cup contender boat Heritage!!!
July 13th - Wednesday nite Keel boat race
July 14th - Smallboat RC duties
July 15th - Screwpile Regatta Drifter
July 16th - Screwpile Regatta
July 17th - Screwpile Regatta
July 20th - RC for Out -n- Back keel boat race!
July 21st - RC for Smallboat racing
July 23rd - Sharps Island race....solo after an hour
July 24th - Sharps Island race... Continued...
July 27th - Wednesday evening race
July 28th - Delivery to Annapolis for Gov Cup
July 29th - Gov Cup!
July 30th - Gov Cup!
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 to Sunday, June 5, 2022
Number of days:
19 days
May 10th- Highschool sail practice
May 11th SMSA Keel boat race
May 12th - Small boat RC duties
May 14th- Racing with NERYC
May 17th- Highschool sailing practice
May 18th- Keel Boat racing
May 19th Smallboat RC
May 21st- SMSA Frost Goode Race
May 24th- HS sailing practice
May 25th- SMSA Keel boat race
May 26th Smallboat RC
May 29th- Teaching sailing on 420s to a new clubmember and there family
May 31st- Morning cruse with friend
June 1st - SMSA Keelboat race.
June 2nd- Smallboat RC
June 3rd- Fishing with friends
June 5th- Morning sail with family
June 5th- Early afternoon sail with one friend
June 5th- Late afternoon fun sail with my crew
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 to Saturday, May 7, 2022
Number of days:
11 days
April 20th - Wednesday night race... Blew up a spinnaker and still won or class and the admeration of other sailors at the club!
April 21st - RC for Smallboat racing with SMSA
April 27th - Wednesday evening Race.
April 28th - RC for Smallboat racing with SMSA
April 29th - Cruse in Solomons
May 4th - Wednesday night racing on Barba Roja
May 5th - RC for Smallboat racing with SMSA
May 6th - Delivery for HH to Cambridge race
May 7th - Delivery home in a Gale due to cancled HH to cambridge race. 12.3kts of boat speed! heck yea!
May 11th - Keelbaot race SMSA Wednesday night.
May 12th - Smallboat racing RC...again...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 to Friday, April 15, 2022
Number of days:
9 days
April 5th - Coaching Highschool sailing practice
April 7th - Coaching Highschool sailing practice
April 8th - Moved boat to short haul, clean bottom, and pump out
April 9th - Littel Choptank Race - We had a great start and a good sail up the Chesapeake to 78R befor the breeze cut off and we drifted south till it filled in again!
April 10th - Spring Invatational - Gusting 25 to 30kts.. this race was completly different from the day befor! OMG....but we won!
April 12th - Coaching Highschool sailing practice
April 13th - First Wednesday evening race - First place by 28secs! Off to a great start!
April 14th - First Smallboat race launched the boats... cancled, due to degrading weather conditions, had to sail back tot the dock...
April 15th - Coasching Highschool Sailing practice, I was one kid short a full boat... so i steped in and sailed the 420 with my son Tommy!
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 to Sunday, April 3, 2022
Number of days:
9 days
March 15th - New Spinnaker test/ crew training
March 17th - Highschool team practice
March 18th - Crew practice w/ other new Spinnaker test!
March 20th - Frostbites Race #2... We got that J111...Heck yea! LOL
March 24th - Highschool team sail practice
March 27th - Frostbites Race #3...Finished 8mins behind the B boats and 8mins infront of the rest of our own fleet...
March 31st - Highschool sail team practice
April 2nd - Opening Day / First sail with my son on his boat this year.
April 3rd - Frostbites Race #4 - 5kts of squirly breeze to a steady 20kts out of the North! We saw gusts to 28kts! REEF!!! lol