Century Club: mike pitchford

Every year since 1993 the four of us (college roommates and fraternity brothers) have done some sort of a boat trip. Beginning in 2007 we expanded it a bit to include a BVI charter. We completed our fourth BVI charter in January of this year. The "Boys Sail" cruises have also included ICW transits over the last eight years to get our boat to South Florida.

This year will show us as having four Boys Sails (BVI, ICW north, Chesapeake in August and ICW south to come). When it is all said and done they will have served as crew for approaching a month!

This four day trip took us from Annapolis to Cambridge to Rock Hall and home. It included a visit to Nats Park (the Nats won). It included the reinstall of a refrigerator taken to JGordon for expert repair. And a good time was had by all!

Sometime in July and August, you just need to duck the heat and get off the Bay. Friends invited us to Lake George where they have a rustic house on an island known as Three Brothers Island. The daily boat rides, kayaking around the island and more in crystal clear water was a welcome break from the hot Chesapeake days.

One of the joys of living on the water is easy and simple boating opportunities. On Monday evening we were scheduled to have dinner with friends also on the water and nearby. We could have taken the car. But for us, if the weather is going to cooperate we always default to the boat for the short ride to see friends on the creek.
This visit was special in a way. The purpose of the dinner was to advance discussions about a week long charter in Croatia. Next June my entries will be all about that trip.

Cruising travel and weather have limited my morning rowing this year so far. Hopefully more to come in the next few months.