Five boats showed up at the weekend Westsail Rendezvous at Herrington Harbor South Marina on the Chesapeake. Robin, however, was not among them. (Read More…)
Foiled by the forecast
May 12th, 2008
Robin, queen of the prom
May 9th, 2008
The plan is to spend a weekend with folks who own boats built by the same company that built Robin’s hull and deck. This “rendezvous” of Westsails will be on the Chesapeake. (Read More…)
No books for liveaboards
May 8th, 2008
Just because you exist physically in a place certainly cannot be construed as evidence that you are of that place. Nor does the length of time you inhabit that locale guarantee that you will belong. (Read More…)
The view from the crow’s nest
May 2nd, 2008
An osprey came north along the bank of the Tred Avon. Clutched in its talons, like a long, slender torpedo, was a sizeable fish. Perhaps due to the weight of the fish, the osprey was flying low, just above the small waves lapping at the sandy beach. As it neared a point, the bird banked around a tall 4-by-4 fence post and alighted on its flat top, standing on the fish with both clawed feet. (Read More…)
A pair of snowbirds come home
May 1st, 2008
I went to sleep last night prepared for a May Day call, of sorts. My friends Fran and John Morrison had left Portsmouth, Va., at 7:50 a.m. and were headed up Chesapeake Bay in Chautauqua, their Allied Seawind II, after spending six months cruising to the Bahamas and back. (Read More…)
A push me, pull you of sorts
April 28th, 2008
If you are a boater, you cannot stand on the bank of the Tred Avon River every morning and each good sunset and not wonder about the Oxford-Bellevue Ferry, which crisscrosses the 0.8 of a mile every 15 to 20 minutes from spring to fall. (Read More…)
Slipping out of the slip
April 24th, 2008
The wind has been blowing strong from the east and northeast for four days now, and it has me thinking. One train of thought, of course, is what a wonderful time this would have been to be heading anywhere on the Chesapeake. You could have been beating north or running or reaching south. In four days, you could probably have done the entire Bay sailing day and night. (Read More…)
A hard day on the boat is better than a good day at …
April 23rd, 2008
It was a nearly perfect day, so instead of going home for the weekend, I was joined by my wife, Monica. I had promised her an intimate day on Robin, and I didn’t disappoint. Together, we stripped the caprails. (Read More…)
So much to do, so little time
April 22nd, 2008
It was launch day for Elf, but there was lots to yet to be done. Seventeen years ago, Rick Carrion, then a high school science teacher, began the process to restore — or, more accurately, replace — his ancient wooden sloop built by George Lawley & Sons in Boston in 1888. He created a charitable non-profit corporation to accept donations for the work. He enlisted a master shipwright, Graham Ero, to do the carpentry. And a few weeks ago, he scheduled the relaunch. (Read More…)
The light of day on the Tred Avon River
April 21st, 2008
In the light of the early morning sun, the colors are as sharply sensed as is the first rush of love. It’s the shadows, cast by the sun’s low angle, that brings the intensity. (Read More…)
