3 days sailing with Dad on his boat
3 Thursday evening races on my boat Hydra Beast
21 days Practicing on the Highschool team with Club420s
2 HS regattas
2 days racing in the Smallboat Fall invitational at SMSA
Century Club: Thomas Birchfield
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Number of days:
39 days
June 8th sailing on dads boat for keelboat racing
June 9th racing on Hydra Beast!
June 10th Fishing with my dad and my Godfather. We caught our limit in 15 mins!
June 11th racing Hydra Beast in the Smallboat invitational with SMSA
June 12th Broken Rudder race... dad and I actually broke the rudder!
June 15th Kellbkat racing with dad
June 18th small boat race on a club 420
June 23rd small boat racing on Hydra beast
June 25th Smithpoint race with dad on Barba Roja
June 26th Summer invitational race on dads boat
June 29th Wednesday nite race with dad
June 30th Smallboat race on Hydra Beast
July 3rd Teaching on a Club 420
July 4th I sailed solo around Solomons Island on my boat! It was awesome!!!
July 6th Wednesday nite race with dad
July 7th rode on a small boat at my grand moms lake house in NJ
July 13th Wednesday nite race with dad
July 14th Raced Hydra Beast with new crew
July 15th Screwpile with dad
July 16th Screwpile regatta with dad
July 17th Screwpile with...yup you guessed it dad...lol
July 18th SMSA sailing camp
July 19th SMSA sailing camp
July 20th Out n Back race. I got to sail my boat against the big boats, won the back race
July 21st raced Hydra Beast
July 22nd SMSA Sailing camp
July 23rd Sharps island race
July 24th Sharps island race contined
July 25th SMSA sail camp
July 26th SMSA sail camp
July 27th SMSA Sailcamp
July 28th delivery with dad and crew of Barba Roma to Annapolis
July 29th Gov Cup
July 30th Gov Cup
Aug 1st SMSA sail camp
Aug 2nd SMSA sailcamp
Aug 3rd SMSA sail camp ' racing with dad on Barba Roja
Aug 4th Racing Hydra Beast
August 5 Last day of SMSA sail camp
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 to Sunday, June 5, 2022
Number of days:
16 days
This is a dad update for Tommy!
May10th HS team practice
May 11th Racing with dad on Barba Roja
May12th Racing Hydra beast
May 13th HS team practice
May 21st HS championship- gets a first place in one of the races and 4th over all!
'May 24th HS team practice
May 25th - get to helm Elecyum a J33 around the course! Brags about beating dads old tired boat...lol
May 26th Hydra Beast racing
May 27th HS team practice
May 29th helping dad teach. Got to do 5 dry walk overs!
June 1st racing with dad on Barba Roja
June 2nd racing Hydra Beast
June 3rd Fishing... and more importantly catching!
June 5th sailing with dad in the AM
June 5th paddle boarding with friends
June 5th got towed by dads boat as "shark bate" lol swim call in the Chesapeake while sailing!
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 to Saturday, May 14, 2022
Number of days:
8 days
May 3rd Highschool sailing Practice
May 4th Racing with Dad on Barba Roja
May 5th Racing on my boat Hydra Beast!
May 6th Helping Dad deliver his boat to Herrington Harbor North
May 7th Race was Cancled and so we delivered the boat back down to Solomons in some AWESOME winds!
May 12th Hydra Beast Race
May 13th Highschool sailing practice
May 14th Highschool Regatta at NERYC
Saturday, January 8, 2022 to Saturday, April 30, 2022
Number of days:
40 days
So... Mr. Birchfield has been busy sailing with me on the Barba Roja, PAX Highschool sail team and recently on his own boat Hydra Beast! A busy 12yr apparently don't have scheduling time to enter his own data in! Lol... so dad to the rescue. A list of dates and a brief discription is listed below. I swear this kids is going to beat me again for days o the water again this year!
Jan 8th- Barba Roja
Jan 22- Barba Roja
Feb 25th- Barba Roja
March 1st HS practice
March 3rd - Hs practice
March 4th HS practice
March 8th - hs practice
March 10th hs practice
March 11th - hs practice
March 13th - Frostbites on Barba Roja
March 15th - hs practice
March 17th hs practice
March 18th hs practice
March 20th hs practice
march 22nd hs practice
March 24th hs practice
March 25th hs practice
March 26th hs regatta
March 29th hs practice
March 31st hs practice
April 1st hs practice
April 2nd SMSA opening day
April 5th hs practice
April 7th hs practice
April 8th hs practice
April 9th Hs regatta
April 12th hs practice
April 14th- SMSA Smallboat race
April 15th - hs practice
April 19th - hs practice
April 21st - Hydra Beast Race
April 22nd hs practice
April 23 hs regatta
April 24- Spinsheet crew party / out 3 times one day
April 26th - hs practice
April 28th Hydra Beast race
April 29th hs practice
April 30th hs regatta
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 to Friday, December 10, 2021
Number of days:
17 days
Update for the past few months!
Oct. 5th - PAX team practice
Oct. 8th - PAX team practice
Oct.10th - Fall invitational on dads boat. I got the drive on the downwind legs!
Oct. 12th - PAX Practice
Oct. 19th - PAX Practice
Oct. 23rd - Race at St. Mary Ryken
Oct. 24th - Sailing on the Dee of St. Marys
Oct. 28th - PAX Practice
Oct. 31st - Frostbites SMSA race #1 on dads boat
Nov. 4th - PAX Practice
Nov. 6th - Race at West River, I got first place in one of my races and the team got 2nd over all!
Nov. 7th - Frostbites race #2 on dads boat
Nov. 14th - Frostbites race #3 on dads boat
Nov. 21st - Frostbites race #4 on dad boat
Nov. 28th - Cruze with dad on his boat
Dec. 4th - lights boat parade
Dec. 10th - Cruze with dad on his boat
Saturday, September 11, 2021 to Thursday, October 28, 2021
Number of days:
10 days
September 11th Small boat invitational with SMSA
September 12th - Small boat invitational with SMSA
September 14th - Highshool sail team practice
September 18th - SCC high school team regatta
September 21st and 23rd - high school team practice
September 24th - Helped dad deliver his boat to Annapolis
September 25th - AYC fall race to Solomons (We got first)
September 26th - KIYC high school regatta
September 28th - high school team practice
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Number of days:
5 days
September 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 9th and 10th - all practice days for the high school team. They have me driving the boats and helping less experienced sailors. Yesterday evening we had big breeze and we ended up taking a dip after we got into a death role... lol.
Wednesday, August 11, 2021 to Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Number of days:
8 days
Aug 11th - racing on Dads boat
Aug 12th - racing on my boat
August 18 - racing on Dads boat
August 19 - racing on my boat
August 25th - racing on dads boat with out him! He was RC for the night.
August 26th - racing on my boat
August 29th - high school sailing team!
August 31st - High school sailing team
Thursday, July 22, 2021 to Thursday, August 5, 2021
Number of days:
22 days
7/21 - Helped dad with RC duties
7/22 - Raced my boat and beat everyone on race one! I got second place over all for the evening.
7/23 - helped dad move his boat back to the slip from being in dry dock for a new bottom.
7/24 - Racing on dads boat on the Sharps island race.
7/25 - went with dad and our extended family for the day sailing. I got to go swimming with the jellies!
7/28 - fishing on my uncle Seth's canoe. It started to sink, luckily dad was out on his boat and came to the rescue
7/28 - racing Wednesday evening with dad. We got 2nd place
7/29 - delivery to Annapolis with dad and his friends for GOV CUP.
7/30 - Started Gov Cup! One of dads crew got hurt and I became the medical officer onboard ;)
7/31 - we finished Gov Cup at 3:24 in the morning... I was soooo tired!!!!!
8/2 thru 8/6 - Last week of sail camp. We went out 2 times per day stopping back at the club house for lunch.
8/4 - race with dad on his boat again.
8/5 - race on my boat. Dad and I did some rig modifications befor the race and we can point higher now!