I made it!

Trip dates: 
Thursday, January 11, 2024 to Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Trip length: 
100 days
Type of watercraft: 
Sail

# Days    Date    Approximate Distance    
1    3/3/2024      5     short sail Annapolis Cindy and I
2    16-Mar      16     Saunday Sail w/Judah & Cindy 8-15knots up past bridge and back
3    31-Mar      5     Renaming-Christening of Xiberger³ followed by Beautiful Sail
4    13-Apr      25     Depart for St Michael with Bill, Jay, Andy, Dave Cindy and I.  25+ knots from west…weeeee
5    14-Apr      25     Return from CBMM Log canue move-Birthday Trip 10-20 knots
6    17-Apr      5     Day sail about Annapolis
7    24-Apr      8     WNR
8    27-Apr      18     Sail with Mark and Helmut Lindner.  Beautiful day sail
9    28-Apr      15     First clean boat and run thru systems followed by Sail with Mark and Helmut Lindner.  Beautiful day sail
10    1-May      8     WNR
11    8-May      8     WNR
12    15-May      8     WNR
13    16-May      10     Engine: 306.7hours - CCA Spring Cruise Annapolis to Gibson Island Cindy & I
14    17-May      15     Gibson Island to Langford Creek CCA Raft up after Race.  We won the race.
15    18-May      20     Lanford to Annapolis home from CCA Spring Cruise
16    22-May      8     WNR
17    24-May      2     Annapolis - Whitehull Bay overnight w/Jay & Carolyn
18    25-May      -       Wwhitehull Bay Raftup with Don's LillyPad, August Moon…quite the party
19    26-May      25     Sailed to Pickery Creek on Why River Raft with  Julian, Jim, Bill
20    27-May      25     Back to Annapolis with Cindy Jay and Carolyn
21    8-Jun      10     Daysail with John, Po and Cindy around Annapolis-past Baybridge and back
22    12-Jun      8     WNR w/JT
23    19-Jun      8     WNR w/JT
24    3-Jul      160     Begin of Trip to New England w/Judah, Don & Malinda Engine:328.4 hours
25    4-Jul      162     Thru Del Canal around Cape May to Block in 48 hours
26    5-Jul      -       Arrive in Block Island
27    6-Jul      -       Block
28    7-Jul        Block
29    8-Jul      50     Block -Newport for pickup of Cindy's Braces and on to Cutty Hunk arrived by 20:00
30    9-Jul      25     Cuttyhunk to Martha's Vinyard - Edgartown
31    10-Jul      -       Edgartown YC…Day trip to Oak Bluff
32    11-Jul      -       Big Wind Day 20-30..staying one more day @EYC
33    12-Jul      50     Depart Edgartown for Newport. Stayed @Ida Lewis YC
34    13-Jul      -       Ida Lewis Wish Delivery Crew a safe trip back home
35    14-Jul      25     Just Cindy & I now…Had a fun day sailing from Ida Lewis to Cuttyhunk
36    15-Jul      8     Cuttyhunk to Harley Harbour ~ 8miles
37    16-Jul      32     Hadley Harbout to Nantucket
38    17-Jul      -       Nantucket land excursions -  hike/bike/swin to Great Point Light and back 26 miles
39    18-Jul      -       Nantucket Cisco Beach etc. Laundry, food…
40    19-Jul      44     Nantucket to Cuttyhunk
41    20-Jul      36     Cuttyhunk to Block Island; Raft with Matt & Lori at CCA Mooring
42    21-Jul      18     Block to Stonington sail all the way into breakwaters and grabbed Bob Rogers Mooring
43    22-Jul      -       Stonington to Watch Hill Land Excursion
44    23-Jul      5     Stonington to Mystic.  Picked up My best friend Clemens and son Emil
45    24-Jul      25     Mystic to Daring Harbour @Shelter Island. Explored Greenport
46    25-Jul      20     Sailed From Shelter Island to Fishers Island
47    26-Jul      5     Fisher back to Mystic
48    27-Jul      -       Mystic X-Yacht Ralley
49    28-Jul      25     After Dropping Clemens @ Train left Mystic to Shelter via Fisher to Coecles Harbor
50    29-Jul      -       Coecles Harbour
51    30-Jul      50     Coecles to Port Jeff
52    31-Jul      -       Explore Port Jeff with Bikes to Mt. Sinai
53    1-Aug      28     Sailed from Port Jeff to Oyster Bay - CCA mooring @ Seawanhaka Corinthian YC
54    2-Aug      -       Land excursions walked from Center Island to Oyster Bay and got ride from Oakcliff back to boat
55    3-Aug      12     Dept. Seawanhaka to Norwalk (Mooring at NYC)
56    4-Aug      20     Norwalk past Sheffields to Charles Island
57    5-Aug      39     Charles Island to Black Point
58    6-Aug      45     Black Point to Stonington
59    7-Aug      22     Stonington to Block Is. Super fun sail
60    8-Aug      -       Block Fun
61    9-Aug      -       Block Fun
62    10-Aug      22     Block to Newport Ida Lewis
63    11-Aug      -       Day in Newport Hiking and getting boat ready for trip back to Annapolis
64    12-Aug      50     Newport to City Island with Mike and Dave
65    13-Aug      80     Continued thru the night to City Island total 14 hour trip FUN SAIL
66    14-Aug      127     City Island to Cape May 95% motored
67    15-Aug      60     Arrived at 2:00 AM in Cape May and Stayed the entire day
68    16-Aug      50     Cape May to Worton Creek inside Bay
69    17-Aug      20     Woton Creek to Annapolis - WE ARE BACK
70    21-Aug      8     WNR
71    25-Aug      9     Sail with Po & John
72    28-Aug      8     WNR
73    31-Aug      25     Labor Day Cruise to Corsica River
74    1-Sep      -       Corsica
75    2-Sep      25     Corsica - Annapolis
76    4-Sep      6     VOST Coaching
77    6-Sep      2     Raft @Whitehaul Bay with Jon & Karen
78    7-Sep      22     Whitehaul to Shaw Bay for Oyster Boy Raftup
79    8-Sep      24     Whitehaul back to Annapolis
80    10-Sep      6     VOST Coaching
81    16-Sep      6     VOST Coaching
82    20-Sep      6     Evening sail & anchor overnight off USNA seawall
83    21-Sep      1     Back to Slip motor
84    23-Sep      6     VOST Coaching
85    1-Oct      6     VOST Coaching
86    9-Oct      6     VOST Coaching
87    16-Oct      6     VOST Coaching
88    18-Oct      1     CCA Cruise - Lake Ogleton Motorboat ride to Parkers Home & back
89    19-Oct      30     CCA Fall Cruise w/Po, John Cindy and I. Annapolis to Wye River North Fork
90    20-Oct      10     North fork to St. Michael CBMM
91    21-Oct      25     CCA Final Day St. Michael back to Annapolis Sail
92    23-Oct      6     VOST Coaching
93    25-Oct      0.1     Motored to Easport Yacht Center for Haul and new Boat bottom
94    29-Oct      6     VOST Coaching
95    30-Oct      6     Practice Starts w/VOST
96    8-Nov      3     Xiberger³ back into water….test sail. All new bottom
97    16-Nov      20     Sail in 16-23 to bridge-around TPLH-Rhode River Raft with Jay, Julian & Bill +
98    17-Nov      15     Rhode River back to Annapolis.  Engine hours at end: 492.8
99    13-Dec      1     5 O'Clock to Ego Alley
100    15-Dec      1     5 O'Clock back to slip
          194     Total Engine hours Begin: 299 End:493
          1,887     Approximate Total Nautical Miles sailed in 2024