Century Club: Abby Postle Salkin

3SOB + 1pup

Lauren called dibs on the perfect weekend for a St Michaels trip. This was one of the bucket list items for Menage a Trois (MAT). This trip was the real test of all the perks of the shallow draft (centerboard up) and fast speeds that MAT can make. The wind was stiff (20-30kts all weekend) and the waves were ~3ft, some of the bigger ones I've experience in the bay. We absolutely FLEW down to Kent Narrows on Friday. We got to the bridge in about 2.5 hrs and anchored just on the far side. We grounded her accidentally in the soft sand and just pulled up the centerboard and rudder, all was fine! The lack of concern was so lovely after years of worrking abour grounding a keel. I took Frank into land on the new TakaCat base for which he was not very good at yet... but we'll get there. In the morning we pulled anchor and sailed all the way up to St Michaels. We hit up the Maritime Museum and lots of the little shops. Concluded that the Blue Crab Cafe is the best coffee in town. Good a bit tipsy on wine and beer and went to bed early. In the morning we explored town a bit more and then took off for home. It was an upwind sail but we still made great time to the Narrows bridge. Once under we went to raise the main again and noticed so wearing on the baton ends so we decided not to risk it and sailed with just the jib making 7KTS!!! at about 40 degrees of 35-30kt wind into 3ft waves!!!! It shocked us how well she handled. All in all an amazing weekend. 

3 SOB + 1pup

Took Mark out to show him the fun of the boat he speant so much time on. He was such a key contributer to the sucess of this project and had never been on a multihull before. Seems like he enjoyed it and can't wait to have him out more. 

2 SOB + 1pup

We finally did the whole ceremony and revealed the trimaran's name: Menage a Trois. We had a huge group of friends out to Youngs Yard to celebrate with the official ceremony, a beutiful poem by Jeremy, and lots of wine and food. On Friday we took off for Annapolis for our first weekend cruise. We were having so much fun that we sailed into the dark and pulled up on a mooring at 11:30pm. Saturday was spent wandering around Annapolis and doing a few boat projects. Put up the screecher on Sunday and Kelly joined us for a fast sail home. 

3 SOB + 1 pup

We almost know what we're doing now.