Boys Sail, Chesapeake edition, part II

Trip dates: 
Thursday, September 23, 2021 to Sunday, September 26, 2021
Trip length: 
4 days
Type of watercraft: 
Power
  • last Orioles game of the season, by boat of course

Back in college (the 70s) our Boys Sails were on a friends Cape Dory 25 or another borrowed boat, in the southern Bay.  They were mostly day sails with maybe an overnight for adventure.  By the late 80s the four of us were finding long weekends once a year to "recreate" our college fun. Every year since, 30+ years, we have had some sort of a Boys Sail.

The years have included three week long charters in the BVI and several long legs on the ICW.  We have a fourth trip to the BVI scheduled for early 2022.

This year we got a long ICW trip in May bringing the boat home from Florida.  We also enjoyed a storm interrupted long weekend on the Bay in late August. Becasue one of us missed those trips in 2021 and because of the weather shortened August trip, we decided to do a long weekend in late September to cap the season.

What we got for our troubles was a beautiful weather window, after Thursdays storms, and a visit to a new port for us. The trip included Annalpolis, Harve De Grace and Baltimore.  While in Baltimore we managed to catch the last Saturday evening game of the Orioles season.  $12 tickets got us almost any seat we wanted as the ballpark was maybe 15% full and the ushers were easy going.