At the Key Bridge
Weather was moderately warm with on-and-off light rain and fog. Jim, Andy, and I set out from the DSC docks just after noon, somehow getting our boat rigged and underway before everybody else. Wind was steady around 10 knots, and we progressed out of Northwest Harbor pretty quickly, reaching Fort McHenry before any of the other DSC boats had even reached Canton. The wind direction was ideal, allowing us to head directly toward the remnants of the bridge at a close reach, making around 5 knots the whole way there. We looped around the center bridge support from south to north, then turned back toward the fort at a shallow broad reach making between 5.5 and 6 knots, our speed peaking at 6.3 knots shortly after I took over on the helm. We returned to Northwest Harbor shortly after 3 to find most of the other DSC boats preparing to dock. We waited until the boat that was docking in front of us to finish docking, then performed a downwind/crosswind docking into our slip. We momentarily got stuck in irons while trying to turn away from the wind after dropping our mainsail, but managed to get out of it with a combination of sculling and paddling. The docking was otherwise uneventful, and we were de-rigged and off the docks by 3:45.