Day two we made our way out of bodkin and did some light air sailing down the bay making for Harness Creek on the South River. We failed to take into account the holiday weekend and when we arrived found no room. We turned around and motored for the rhode River which frankly looked like a mooring field. There were easily 50 big sailboats anchored behind flat island.
After anchoring in sheep’s head cove the rest of the fleet arrived and we were persuaded to move behind big island, where we were treated to a three hour water skiing and tube towing bonanza by the locals. During the night we had some weather roll through and one of our boats dragged anchor twice.
In the morning we learned that the large groups of fifty or so sailboats are the members of the Chesapeake sailing club, a group that exists on paper only and meets up like this a couple of times a year. They even have flag officers for some reason.
One boat from our club caught up with us but lost their transmission on the way in and had to sail as far up as they could. Our group met up with them to plan how they would get home without getting towed. They seemed in good spirits over all in spite of their suffering.
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