We took out CAPER a J32 from Chesapeake Boating Club for a few hours this afternoon. Busy out there and a little choppy but the wind was perfect.
Century Club: Greg Brennan
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
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1 day
Reminded today why I try to row early. Had to give way to four sailboats leaving Spa Creek under power and then had to listen to a thundering powerboat roaring all the way from the Bay Bridge to Round Bay. I think he was doing his best to create a sonic boom. I did get to see a few cormorants and gulls and the hazy morning let me see some juvenile fish by the maritime museum. Oh also got to see Living Classrooms' MILDRED BELLE and SIGSBEE who apparently overnighted in Back Creek.
Friday, June 2, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Quel belle mere! What a harbinger of summer. Not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind in the river. Buckets of cormorants and ospreys out fishing. Gentle swells driven by the incoming tide and the occasional early fisherman.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Rowed through gentle mesmerizing swell from greenbury point. Saw a single male cormorant flying by. There is a ginormous James Bond style evil doer power catamaran heading in towards Back Creek.
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Kinda cloudy but warm with some sporty waves from the north. Kept be too busy trying to keep on course to look for wildlife.
Saturday, May 27, 2023
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1 day
My parents are in town so we took LADY SARAH from city dock to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime museum.
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
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1 day
Conditions were much more blustery than what was suggested by the buoy data so I rowed up the creek. Still not too many summer mooring residents in my path. Saw a couple of ospreys carrying nesting material, maybe they're late arrivals. Also saw an egret and a heron.
Also there was a lone paddlboarder who was a bit faster than I was, not that we were racing oh no.
Sunday, May 21, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
It's windy out there but the waves were well behaved. Again I misjudged the heading to the "A" buoy and had to do the last 20m dead upstream then make a 180. A hand full of other boats were out including a catamaran going for an early sail. The brown water snake that lives at the maritime museum was very busy scuttling back and forth from the dock to the Spartina.
Oh, I painted the seats and transom since I never liked the weathering pattern showing under the boat sauce I first applied. I'll get a second coat on this afternoon and it ought to look pretty spiffy.
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Quite sporty on the Severn. Windy and confused waves. I had the wind behind me on the way to the shallows of our creek and got a bit of exercise on the way back. Saw swifts and cormorants, herons and ospreys, ducks and geese. Not a human out there besides the crew of the LADY SARAH at the fuel dock.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Number of days:
1 day
Gentle breeze threw up a light roller as the tide ebbed this morning. Got close to one female cormorant but not much fauna.