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Voyage 2009: Chapter 1

The Fall Cruises

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21 Sep 2009, A haul, a splash, and a family daysail, 38 46.5 N/ 076 33.8 W

The haul for the transducer 'fix' was a little more complicated than originally envisioned. We wanted to get a new stuffing box installed at the same time but that didn't work out. They splashed us before we could sand the transducers. So they gave us a free short-haul so we could sand the 'ducers. Then back to Shipwright we went. Doesn't look much better! We'll see how they perform during the family daysail.
Our daysail was originally going to be a weekend trip to St. Michael's but the weather was forecast on the nose at 15-25 kts. As we have stated before, Gentlemen do not go to windward and we did not want to subject Lilli to a bumpy ride on her first cruise. To keep the crew busy, Bob drove Chris and the kids around the harbor in the dinghy. Everything worked including the outboard. Last night, the gang slept in Jule. It was a bit crowded but it was great having them on board.
Weather today is light SE with waves less than one foot. Not bad. We headed out around 1200 ET and passed Herring Bay #1 by 1245. At 1246, Lilli decided she wanted to go home. Gina seconded the thought. After a few futile minutes of coaxing them that sailing was fun, we turned Jule around and arrived back at the dock at 1430. Oh, the transducers still are not working. So we will schedule yet another haul but only after we sail to the SSCA Annapolis Gam in the Rhode River next weekend.

28 Sep 2009, Heading for the SSCA Gam at 'Annapolis', 38 53.00 N/ 076 31.40 W

Though our depth sounders were not working very well, we decided to head for the SSCA Gam on the Rhode River. It was advertised as an informative gathering where folks like Beth Leonard would discuss their adventures, techniques, and discoveries. The motor sail was uneventful other than we were having continuing problems with our Garmin radar. We arrived at the anchorage at 1430 ET where 50+ other SSCAers had already arrived.
We were invited to a pot luck on a sliver of a beach on Flat Island. We towed Luisa and Jay of SV Airborne in their engineless dinghy to the pot luck as their dinghy engine was broken. First time we towed anybody in quite a while.
We met lots of folks as we pushed the dinghies to shore in the falling tide. We saw Joanne and Frank of SV Fantasy Island who we have seen many times up and down the Waterway. There must have been at least 60 people on this little spit of sand. After a couple of hours of eating and talking we headed back to Jule III as darkness was falling on the anchorage.

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