Century Club: Terry Slattery

8/1 Kayaking Clearing, 74f, S@5 Paddled to Minnow cr to take crabpot float to the waterman's pier. Some plastic. Two guys fishing and a sailboat anchored. A quad copter expored the creek, then flew north to land.

8/2 Kayaking Clear, 74f, calm Paddled to the mount of Whitehall cr. two pieces of plastic. Some boats out towing riders.

8/3 Kayaking Cloudy, 74f, calm Paddled up Whitehall to the big houses. Found a green resin chair. There was a tire on a rim in the creek - a jetski stopped and picked it up.

8/5 Kayaking Clear, 78f, S@10 Paddled up the canal to investigate a fisherman who went there. He reported catching snakeheads in the creek. Then paddled into Ridout cr. Found a few pieces of plastic.

8/6 Dinghy sailing Clear, 84f, S@15 Sailed to 1/3 of the way across Whitehall Bay. The chop made me work for the distance. Much better after turning and running downwind.

8/14 Kayaking Sunny, 92f, N@5 Paddled down the creek. Found a water bottle, mylar balloon, and various plastic. Two outboards with only young women aboard - a somewhat unusual instance. It's good that they are comfortable handling a boat.

8/15 Kayaking Sunny, 80f, calm Paddled up Whitehall to the Grand Banks. Several boats and SUPs out. Only one piece of plastic.

8/20 Kayaking Sunny, 80f, calm Paddled to Whitehall Bay. One guy fishing from a kayak. Several ospreys and blue herons about. One piece of plastic.

8/21 Rowing Sunny, 84f, N@5 Rowed the fatty knees dinghy up Ridout cr. Picked up a few pieces of plastic.

8/22 Kayaking Cloudy, 84f, calm Paddled to Whitehall Bay. A few boats out. Saw an eagle - the ospreys didn't chase it. Some plastic and a can of beer.

8/23 Lux motor outing Partly cloudy, 88f, calm No wind but we wanted to take Lux out. Went out to R2 and back.

8/24 Kayaking Clear, 88f, calm Paddled up Ridout cr to the red sailboat. Not many people out in the heat and humidity. Found a piece of plastic and a sharpie. 

8/28 Kayaking Partly cloudy, 85f, calm Paddled to Whitehall Bay. Two crabbers running trot lines. Two pieces of plastic.

8/29 Kayaking Sunny, 84f, calm Paddled to Whitehall Bay. Picked up an old tire and a piece of plastic. I'm sure the kayak looks weird with all the junk on board. Saw an eagle.

7/11 Sunny, 88f, S@15 Lux to Herrington Harbor South. Set reefed sails at Tolly point. It took four tacks to get to Bloody Pt light, then one more to Herrington Harbor entrance. We stopped off Herrington Harbor to check if a dismasted Hobie16 cat needed assistance - they didn't and help was already on its way to them.

7/13 Sunny, 86f, S@5-10 Lux Herrington Harbor to St. Michaels. Set main and spinnaker, but then the wind died. It filled in again and we set just the spinnaker and held it to the northern point of Tilghman Island. Then motored the remaining distance to St. Michaels Maritime Museum.

7/14 Sunny, 86f, S@5 Fatty Knees dinghy sailing around St. Michaels harbor.

7/15 Sunny, 84f, S@5 Lux St. Michaels to Lippincott Marine, Kent Narrows. Motored all the way. Very hot and humid - kept the aircon running for the entire trip.

7/16 Sunny, 88f, S@3-4 Lux Kent Narrows to Rock Hall Haven Harbor. No problems getting through the channel north of Kent Narrows. We just barely fit the service slip at Haven Harbor.

7/17 Sunny, 87f, S@15 Fatty Knees dinghy sailing around Haven Harbor. Gusty winds make it challenging.

7/18 Sunny, 75f, W@15-20 T-storms blew through last night. Cooler today. It was challenging leaving the slip - could have done better. Stbd tack all the way home.

7/19 Sunny, 86f, S@10 Dinghy sailing on Whitehall. Hot and hazy. Tacked down Whitehall to Whitehall Bay, then back. Several boats anchored in the creek.

7/20 Hazy, humid, 86f, S@4 Kayaking up Ridout cr. Hazy due to fires out west. Several pieces of plastic. Only one boat out.

6/27 Sunny, 84f, S@15 Paddled up Ridout Cr. Windy. Lots of boats out. Ospreys are chasing a bald eagle. Picked up a chum net from a neighbor's dock that had a small water snake entangled. I cut the net away so the snake could escape. Picked up a mylar balloon and some plastic.

6/28 Sunny, 84f, S@15 Took the electric dinghy for another run. Found some plastic. It doesn't do well into a strong wind and waves.

6/29 Sunny, 78f, S@10 Took Lux to Jabin's Yacht Yard for the summer haulout. The bottom looks reasonably good for 3 years in the water. Missed the haulout last year - the year of pandemic isolation.

6/30 Sunny, 89f, S@10 Electric dinghy to rescue a boat lift pole from a neighbor's lift. Examined the abandoned goose nest on an osprey nesting pole - the eggs hadn't fully developed. Probably due to lack of insultion under them.

6/17 - sunny, 80f, SW@10 Paddled up Whitehall past the marina. Several boats are out. Found a beer bottle floating; no plastic. The water is very murky, probably from algae and the decaying cicadias.

6/18 - mostly sunny, 85f, S@15-18 Paddled up Ridout cr to the shallows. Several boats out. Surprised another big fish. No trash to pick up.

6/19 - Cloudy, 84f, S@5 Single handed Lux into Whitehall Bay to get radar screenshots for the Anchor Watch (newsletter of the America's Boating Club of Annapolis). Lots of boats out, both sail and power. Almost too many radar targets to be educational for the article.

6/20 - Sunny, 88f, S@5 Paddled to the mouth of Whitehall, finding some small plastic bits. Father's day and not many boats out. The water is getting warm.