Wednesday Feb 23rd - IT was 73 deg. Outside and I just had to get on the water! I invited a few friends, but only one could make it. So it ended up being him, my son Tommy and myself. The sunset wasn skyline that night were absoliutly breathtaking!
Century Club: Steven Birchfield
Feb.12th - Sailing around Solomons. Trip one, with almost a full crew!!! We got the spinnaker up, had a MAJOR windshift and ended up sailing down wind in both directions...!
Feb. 12th - Double handed - After dropping off almost everyone at the dock around 3pm, Johnathan and myself, went back out for a puffy sail into the Chesapeake Bay with 18kts of fresh breeze!
Feb. 21th - Late Solo sail in solomons... it was 60deg out side... I couldnt resist!
1/1/22 - First Day of 2022 Sailed around Solomons
1/8/22 - Took crew out for training. Teaching a helmsmen so i can run tactics for the upcoming year.
1/9/22 - Cruze around solomons Solo
1/22/22 - Sail with friends! Always a good time!
November 21st - Frostbites Race #4 @ SMSA
November 28th - Cruze around Solomons area
December 4th - Small boat run to take pictures at sunset... :)
December 4th - Solomons lighted boat parade!
December 10th - Cruze with friends in the dark around solomons.
October 19th - Practice for PAX highschool sailing - Im a coach
October 22nd - Solo Cruse around Solomons
October 24th - Sailing on the Dee of St. Marys
October 28th - Delivery of friends new J33 from Annapolis to Solomons
October 31st - Frostbite race #1 SMSA
November 4th - Practice for PAX highschool sailing - Im a coach
November 7th - Frostbite race #2 SMSA
November 14th - Frostbite race #3 SMSA
Friday Octover 8th- helped teach the highschool sail team. light air tachtics
Saturday October 9th - Distance Race from Solomons to Hoopers point lighthouse to Pt. No Pt. Lighthouse and back
Sunday October 10th - Fall invitational with SMSA. W/L race. Took 2nd. Loads of fun short handed in 20kts! My son helmed the boat on all the down wind legs!
Tuesday October 5th and Tuesday October 12th - Went for a short cruse to watch Tommy practice racing.
Thursday 09/23 - Taught the Highschool kids for the evening.
Friday 09/24 - Delivered Barba Roja to Annapolis for AYC to Solomons
Saturday 09/25 - Fall Race to Solomons / AYC event
Sunday 09/26 - Screwpile Regatta Day 1
Monday 09/27 - Screwpile Regatta Race day #2
Wednesday eveing we had a fun race where my crew got to practice working on our starts and tacking. We ended up doing well in the race and got 1st in our class by 11secs.
Thursday thru Sunday I helped with the on the water activities as Support boat 2 for the Bucc 18 Nationals, which was held at our club this year.
I had a blast this weekend sailing with my son on his Muttineer Hydra Beast. We had 3 classes of boats racing, Lasers, Bucc's and Portsmith. We sailed in the Portsmith fleet with 8 other boats. As ive said on previous occations, Tommy is the helsmen when on his boat even at 12yrs old! We didnt win, but we did a hell of a job keeping the compatition on there toes! We placed 5th over all for the 2 days. Not too bad considering we were faced off agaist 2 VX's, 2 I20 Scows, an Albacor, a Flying Scott, a "Flat top" Laser and a Club 420! I m super proud of our performance and took a TON of pictures for the club and our Facebook page.