My Century Club Log is starting to sound like the movie Groundhog Day. Late morning / early afternoon sail on Mattox Creek. I went back in the Creek past Stepp’s Marina. Pretty solid wind, maybe 8 mph?
Century Club: Alan Batcheller
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Sailed around Mattox Creek for about an hour. Not much wind.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Just enough wind to keep me moving around Mattox Creek for a couple of hours late morning.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Beautiful morning for a sail. Sailed to almost the entrance to Monroe Bay.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
A late morning paddle to the sunken sailboat. First Kayak outing for me this season.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
My photographer doing some tricky stuff to make me look like I’m going down a waterfall.
Karen took her kayak, and I took my paddleboard out on Mattox Creek this morning. First paddleboard of the season for me.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
A pleasant April day with a gentle breeze that pushed me to marker 1 in Mattox Creek and back.
Monday, April 8, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Great day on the Potomac
Not a cloud in the sky.
First real good day for saling this year. Went out to the marker 2 in the Potomac then to marker 11 in Mattox Creek. Spent about 2 1/2 hours on the water.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Short sail on Mattox Creek with Karen around marker # 4 and back.home.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
Back to the dock without getting too wet.
First sail of the season on Mattox Creek
I guess I could count this as 5 days on the water, but I’ll put the first 4 days in my back pocket in the unlikely event I need to qualify for Century Club 2024. On Friday, March 29th a friend helped me take down my mast and on Saturday I put some spikes on the top of the mast to discourage the Osprey’s from perching on it. I don’t dislike Ospreys but last year in addition to using my boat as a lookout they also used it as a latrine. Sunday another friend helped me step the mast. Monday I used an amazing product called Roll Off that pretty easily helped me remove the Osprey dropping from the boat. I also put my 3.5 HP outboard back on, and it started in about 10 pulls. Today I finished getting the boat ready to sail and decided to take her out. Got maybe a ¼ mile from my dock when it started raining. Down with the sail and motored back home. Not the first sailing of the season that I wanted but I did get out.