Trip dates:
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Trip length:
1 day
Type of watercraft:
Sail
Beautiful morning with a gentle west wind to slowly carry me out into the bay. The wind was fickle all day, calm then returning, before settling into an easterly direction mid afternoon bringing me back to Norfolk and the east end of Willoughby Bay to photo the weekly race. Just after the race started, a Navy helicopter began dropping frogmen into the water a few hundred feet from me near the windward mark. As the sailboats approached I had to devide my attention between the excitement on either side of me.