I sewed on some more leather to protect the cedar gunnels from the roof rack and installed the new super fancy compass. I don't need it for the Severn but might out in the coastal bays. It's mounted on a block of marine plywood with two pegs under it that fit into holes drilled in the aft thwart.
Century Club: Greg Brennan
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
The boat show fleet anchored off Horn Point is down to about a third of it's strength so I had a straight shot to David Taylor, except I misjudged the current and way overshot. There were plenty of herons above me and there are starting to be more rafts of ducks - or maybe it was just because it was so calm out there.
I included the CBIBS wind graph from later in the morning to show why I row so early.
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Serious rowing in the dark. I had to turn off the stern facing white nav light to keep my night vision. Wind from the northwest creating a bit of a short chop. Navigating around the anchored boats in the dark I fell far short of my first buoy so I went further east than usual on the way home to try and pick up the #6 nun. Missed that too. C'est la nuit I guess.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Another day of dodging anchored Boat Show sloops and catamarans, but it wasn't so bad since I got out in the daylight today. Sadly that means I missed the heron hour and just had seagulls and cormorants overhead.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Long slow rollers this morning coming... wait, where did all these boats come from? The anchorage was chock full of sailboats I had to thread my way through in the dark. The group was even so far east that I had to swing around them to return to Back Creek from buoy 7. Other than that the usual cormorants and herons overhead at this time of the morning. Once again I was back at the Maritime Museum before the sun came up and the YPs came out.
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
It was as smooth and calm as I've ever seen it. I rowed out through the sleeping ducks with the heron gliding overhead, only having to dodge a couple of work boats. Managed to dead reckon to my first buoy in almost full darkness.
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Got out in the dark this morning. Fishing time for the Blue and the Black Crowned Night Herons. Low rollers with a 2-5 knt breeze. We were back in port long before the YPs came out to play.
Friday, September 29, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Gray and moist and breezy. Wind maybe 10 from the north and waves 0.5' with a 2ft period. Guessing because cbibs Annapolis is offline. There was a flight of ducks running low over the water and higher up at least a couple of great blue heron. A couple of fishing boats working the river and a couple of sport boats in addition to the usual YPs.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Bit of a breeze but quite flat enough in the Severn. Seagulls and a cormorant but not a peep of ospreys. The chatter from the YP yard made up for it.
One stinkpot out of Annapolis Harbor was making slow wide circles through my route, which was a little distracting but okay in the end.
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Breezy but calm water. A few seagulls but I didn't hear any osprey. I got out a bit late so I had to dodge three YPs on my route.