This Century Club experience is one of personal challenge and achievement. It brings friends together and also offers the opportunity to make new ones. I have constantly encouraged others to join the challenge, and have thoroughly enjoyed putting up my days with friends who are doing it as well. We keep each other motivated and "rule oriented" as we spend our time on the water.
I had hoped, just for fun and personal motivation, to actually achieve top female on the leader board status this year. It did look promising until the very end (Christmas, actually), but that's how the chips fall. That said, I am very proud of my 175 day accomplishment (my boat didn't hit the water until May 18th and I have very challenging docking circurstances as I am docked directly on the Chesapeake Bay, so I am a bit more restricted in my ability to get out.) I had a great combination of sailing and power boat days, and a ton of gorgeous photos and memories to cherish as a result.
Special thanks goes to James Ronayne for first alerting me to this fun challenge last year, and to David Sites who hosted some fun Schooner Woodwind sailing outings for a group of us, and also allowed me to join him through much of December once my boat was put away for the winter. Even through sub freezing temps, many many layers of clothing and frozen fingers, sheets of rain, pea- soup fog that literally required driving solely by radar, a few engine stalls leaving us floating and hoping for the best, a challenging ocean delivery on a 95 foot sailboat with 30 knot winds on the bow and legit 6-10 foot seas that I did in December, it has been an epic journey....
Here are today's pic as I went out with a small cadre of very special friends who have cheered us -and David especially (366 days this year, 731 conseciive days over two years - YES David, well done!!) - along on the adventure. We were permitted to be on Thomas Point Lighthouse for a few pics as well. It was a very special day and a wonderful year on the water....
