Tag: Family

The 2021 Season Opens

April 24th – Our 1st sail of the year and what a great day it was! Melissa and Leo drove up from Delaware, Jacob drove down from Baltimore and Laura and I took them all out.

Leo was a great 1st time sailor and with Capt. Ron (our Autopilot), in control Leo took a hand at sailing by push button.

The winds were light and the bay was also, in fact at one point when the boat was rocking it turned out to be Leo dancing back and forth to make it rock.

We finished up the day as it started to get cool and a front started coming in. So we did what any sailor in the Annapolis area does, we went to the Boatyard Grill for an early dinner.

Happy Sailors

Christmas Week 2020

With Covid keeping us locked down, I took a chance and chartered a 52′ Lagoon out of St Thomas for the week after Christmas and invited family to come along.

We were joined by the Lee’s and Lance for an exciting week on the water. Honestly the boat could have been better prepared and lacked some of things I had come to expect from basic sailing but we did ok with what we had.

The sails were really not rigged but she did have two nice motors and we were only bay hopping around St John and we were in 70-80 degree weather with beautiful waters so we made due.

The BVI’s were locked down with a $ 100,000 fine for coming in so we made sure not to wander into their waters (one night trip brought up fears of fines more than rocks!).

New Years Eve brought a floating concert to our Caneel Bay anchorage  while most of the crew was in St John Town, Pat and I just hung out and enjoyed the music.

All in all it was a fun trip and we learned a lot about close quarters with family, so good some not. But that is what life is like, and I am sure the grand kids who went will not forget it.