Arrgghhh! August 9-10 Pirates in Rock Hall

We went and had a great time... but certainly not without our share of fun.

To begin with, just before we left a 420DA came down our fairway at our marnia, and lost both engines and hit our anchor. No damage to us, but my anchor left a bit of damage to him.

Then we (Rebbel Yell) and us left BMC (Baltimore Marine Center) at 7:30pm, to try to get there to enjoy all the festivities on Saturday. Long story short, I ran aground coming into Rock Hall. (insert laugh track here, but it sucked, but I am over it now, but boy was I pissed at myself Friday Night!)

Thanks to the kindness and help from Tim (Festivus), who saw me coming in, Tim, his friend and his brother pulled me off and fortunately no real damage was done.

I had the boat hauled today, and it looks like 1 or 2 blades are a little off, like a quarter of an inch. But just to be safe since the boat was already hauled, I had them sent off to the prop shop to be fine tuned, and get ready for Cape May, we will see what I can hit on the way there:thumbsup:.

We had a good time seeing Tim and his family, and I will let Todd give you the much better details about all the partying, with 2 young kids, our version of partying is not quite as wild as it used to be...

Thanks again Tim for the help!
 
Ryan-

Let me guess what happened - You came into RH and decided to take the little short cut through rather than all the way around from the left side. You made a slight turn to starboard passing red marker. Then your eye caught the red marker straight ahead and you locked on ... not realizing that wasn't the correct marker (Am I close to reality?) as you should have been going more to port.

If that's what you did, it's a repeat of my 2006 episode in there when I thought I'd lead the way to Waterman's! :smt038 Glad to hear you did no significant damage.
 
It was a nice event. My favorite moment was watching a redneck launch - reversing his pickup at high speed, jamming on his brakes and letting the rowboat fly out the bed of the pickup.
 
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Ryan-

Let me guess what happened - You came into RH and decided to take the little short cut through rather than all the way around from the left side. You made a slight turn to starboard passing red marker. Then your eye caught the red marker straight ahead and you locked on ... not realizing that wasn't the correct marker (Am I close to reality?) as you should have been going more to port.

If that's what you did, it's a repeat of my 2006 episode in there when I thought I'd lead the way to Waterman's! :smt038 Glad to hear you did no significant damage.
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Stan-
As an eye witness, I will answer for Ryan... yes that's exactly what happened! And I did the EXACT same thing upon my first entry into the harbor.

Of course, that was 1993 and my LORAN did not have a chart plotter:thumbsup:. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
 
festivus44 said:
Stan-
As an eye witness, I will answer for Ryan... yes that's exactly what happened! And I did the EXACT same thing upon my first entry into the harbor.

Of course, that was 1993 and my LORAN did not have a chart plotter:thumbsup:. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
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Yes.. exactly... a few other distractions at the same time and boom. But all is well that ends with you going home under you own power :grin: (right?)
 
Ryan - good to hear the damage was minimal.

I've been thinking about taking this shortcut because everyone seems to do it...after reading all the groundings everybody's had I think I'm going to continue to go around the loop.
 
Boatingfool said:
Ryan - good to hear the damage was minimal.

I've been thinking about taking this shortcut because everyone seems to do it...after reading all the groundings everybody's had I think I'm going to continue to go around the loop.
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For the record, the "short cut" is plenty deep and very straightforward, it's just if you get distracted by the wrong red daymarker you can be led astray. My advice is seek out the Green over Red day marker "RH" and keep it to your left. The rest of the daymarkers in the harbor are ALL red, so it's not that hard to pick out the wrong one.

See the chart below... people come in the harbor go around "2E" and then see "6E" and start heading for it... planning to place it to starboard, when in fact they should be heading to split "RH" and "4E". It really isn't a big deal... as long as your kids aren't screaming!:grin:

I've also seen people run aground by missing 10, 12 or 14 while going around the loop, so pick your poison:smt013.

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I second making this an annual event. FUN! Great people, great weather and a really cool event. Some of the costumes were really good some were, um, interesting. This was people watching extrordinaire! Costumes ranged from Capt. Morgan to Jack Sparrow and oh the wenches...

The dinghy parade was really cool. Lots of creativity. We partied in the staging area at Harbor Shack. Waterman's hosted the pirate's Ball which was a lot of fun too (I think) they made me leave early.

Would love to see more CSRs at next year's event...
 
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Okay I'm an idiot tonight I was thinking people were talking about out in the bay where the chanel goes way out down the coast (like your going to head up to Kent Narrows) but some people come more or less straight out of Rock Hall if their going to go accross the bay or North up the bay.
 
Boatingfool said:
Okay I'm an idiot tonight I was thinking people were talking about out in the bay where the chanel goes way out down the coast (like your going to head up to Kent Narrows) but some people come more or less straight out of Rock Hall if their going to go accross the bay or North up the bay.
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Mike- that's another whole ball of cheese altogether... the so-called "Swan Point Bar" is a myth. When heading across the bay or to points north, one can place the Brewerton Channel range light to the south side of the boat and just cruise right over what will show up on the charts as very shallow water. I used to take my sailboat with a 5' 7" draft over that thing all the time and never as much as touched bottom. Via this route, it's about 7' deep at the shallowest point.

Gotta love local knowledge!
 
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