Saturday, September 8, 2018

Day 1 of the Fall Cruise

Winds out of the north east with following chop of a fairly short wave interval made it a wild ride south. Lots of helm work required. The wind built all day until it was pretty crazy and we were flying just the main. 





Dropped the anchor on broad creek on the magothy to wait out the rain and high winds. We all hunkered down and just waited, watching the wind readings fluctuate. We also saw some people swimming naked in broad daylight. 



Today’s mishaps: last night there was a cicada killer wasp in the boat. I killed it but it was scary. Today Gannett lost their dinghy and outboard. Gem ran aground for two hours, and Tipsea had a fuel clog and had to sail to Annapolis for parts. We dragged anchor after being at anchor for hours. Tapped Sugaree with the grill and seem to have escaped major damage. 

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