Expected to be gusty - small craft advisory out and it was gusty! Winds out of the west everywhere from 8 to 18 knots. Left the marina about 11:30 and got the sails up quickly for a nice run down Langford creek and out into the Chester. Stayed on a starboard tack all the way down to where eastern neck island juts out into the Chester. Decided to heave to when I tacked so I could eat a bit of lunch. One of the Maryland sailing school boats had hove to up the river a ways - but I guess we were both moving forward a bit - as, if I had not taken evasive action, we would have collided. Was kind of weird since we were meeting and they were windward - figured they should have taken the action (being s sailing school and all) but no harm, and I continued my sail back up the Chester which seemed to be a bit more of a slog. I did reef the headsail on the way out, but ended up reefing the main once into the Chester - especially after seeing some of the sailing school boats being knocked down a bit ( they were under full sail for the most part...) all in all a chilly, but fun and informative sail!