Month Long Chesapeake Bay Cruise on 480 DB/Four Suns
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downeast320
New Member
Thanks for the pics gary, that is a slick setup. I assume you have a wireless keyboard stashed somewhere too?
jrirvine1
Member
Looks like St. Michaels would be perfect if you could only relocate the pools from the Cambridge Hyatt to there, or maybe move the great St. Michaels restaurants to the Hyatt! :smt017
If you run out of the 24 DVD’s you could totally bore your sons and take them on a tour of the maritime museum. BTW, I have two sons, if I can scrounge up two more, can I have a boat like yours?
If you run out of the 24 DVD’s you could totally bore your sons and take them on a tour of the maritime museum. BTW, I have two sons, if I can scrounge up two more, can I have a boat like yours?
SearayPaul
Active Member
Boys will be boys. The good news is the dogs went an entire day with out getting in trouble.
jrirvine1 said:
I guess that's one strategy to get the wife to agree to a bigger boat... have more kids so they all won't fit on the current boat. And if you want them right away, just go "scrounge" them up like you said (juvenile detention center would work) and tell your wife that they are your children but from different women from your past. That way, you could probably avoid the whole "baby" thing.
"Here honey... these 3 kids are from 3 different girls from my college days. Can I get a bigger boat now?"
Good luck. Take pictures of the expression on her face and post it here.
RiverGalsMan
Member
Hey Jim, all I did was invite two nephews for a weekend and I got a bigger boat out of that :grin:
Nehalennia II
New Member
Gary,
I need to keep my eye closer on the "Lifestyle & Cruising'' threads. I missed this one. I have to hand it to you, those are great pictures, and the water color is even pretty good...........in the pool :grin:
Keep 'em coming.
:thumbsup:
I need to keep my eye closer on the "Lifestyle & Cruising'' threads. I missed this one. I have to hand it to you, those are great pictures, and the water color is even pretty good...........in the pool :grin:
Keep 'em coming.
:thumbsup:
Today’s write-up is called “bad luck comes in threes… hopefullyâ€
(Note: I wrote this yesterday and am just now getting a chance to post it)
We had a great time in St. Michaels. We even bumped into Tim from Festivus on Friday morning at the fuel dock stinking the place up:
Everyone on the boat was in the mood for a good hamburger so we headed on up to the little steak and crab place at the end of the dock for dinner. We all needed our red meat fix for the week. I got the crab cake and fried oyster special and it was very good. I think their crab cakes were actually better than the Crab Claw place across the harbor.
After dinner, my wife and I got the kids on the boat, and the family watched a few episodes of 24. I was down gabbing with Tim on the dock as his family decided to spend the night (and I know he broke some of the pool rules that afternoon). Later on, I went and got my lovely wife to go grab a rum runner at the bar on the dock and we didn’t want to take any kids…. Yeah… right….
As soon as we are getting ready to leave, I hear this scream “HE’S BLEEDING!!!! CALL 911!!!!! My youngest had hit his head on the corner of the TV/stereo cabinet door and he had blood all over the top of his head. It ended up being fairly minor and must have just hit a spot that bled a lot. He ended up going with us… I think he was faking it. This is “bad luck number 1â€.
The weather was fairly windy on Friday night and Saturday morning and we were put in a slip that was a bit too small for the boat so it was hard to tie the boat up correctly. We had to cross lines to the bow across the boat and to pilings that were midway back on each side. Needless to say, the lines creaked and groaned all night with the wind and kept my wife and I up all night. I’m sure the crew from the Hyatt would have done better.
We went up to the store and picked up a few groceries for the rest of the trip and came across a farmers market. We got some more fresh corn, tomatoes and blackberries. Yum yum.
So here’s “bad luck number 2â€â€¦. And they get worse as the day goes by. I had gone down in the engine room and checked everything out that morning. I noticed that the sea strainer on the starboard engine did not look aligned in the glass bowl so I turned off the sea cock and opened it up and reset the thing. It was not on the pin on the bottom of the strainer assembly. Put that back together and then someone called me upstairs and I got distracted. Well… short version is I did not open the sea cock on the starboard engine.
We left St. Michaels about 11:00 am and headed out at 650 rpm’s. Everything looked ok with both engines showing coolant temps around 158 degrees. I spooled up the engines out of the harbor and the starboard engine goes to 170 degrees and I quickly bring them back down and remembered… my stomach felt like it hit the floor. I quickly went down to the engine room and opened the seacock up and then kept idling out of the area. As a side, these engines typically run around 155 degrees at idle, 166 -168 degrees at cruise and 168 at WOT and I’ve NEVER seen them hit 170. You may say that 2 degrees is not much… but I caught it before it overheated.
The starboard engine cooled back down and the temp hit 160 degrees which was still warm for idle. I spooled the engines back up and the starboard engine went back to 172… not good. I believe I smoked the water pump that has all of 30 hours on it. Chalk this one up to “stupid taxâ€. I ended up turning the boat around and idled back to the anchorage just outside of St. Michaels as I have 2 spare impellers on the boat and was hoping it was just an impeller.
I went down in the engine room, which was fairly warm by this time, and pulled the cover off the impeller. I’ll post a picture of the impeller in my next post. It just melted the thing and all the fins were there. I dropped in a new impeller and restarted the engines and the engine ran fine after that. I’m a little concerned what the heat buildup in this pump did to the rubber seals but we’ll see. I left my spare water pump at home… bad idea. Again… “bad luck number 2â€.
We headed up to the Aquapalooza on the Chester River after that. This should was about an hour trip and we had to cut through Kent Island Narrows which is well… narrow…. Here’s a few shots of the narrows:
And this looked like a nice breakfast place:
This is leaving on the north side of the narrows. Don’t even look at the depth sounder because you just don’t want to know.
We got to the Aquapalooza a little late because of my stupidity but here’s a shot of all the boats anchored on the beach. There were also two police boats and a coast guard boat there boarding boats and stopping dinghies and handing out tickets for dinghy safety violations. The funny thing about that is that the water was very shallow and people were just jumping off the boats and swimming to shore. I guess being in a dinghy without a life jacket in this case is dangerous.
So here’s bad luck number 3. Because we arrived so late, the boats were all anchored and tied up close to the beach and there wasn’t much room near the shore. Well… I found a spot and tried to wedge in and dropped my anchor but really couldn’t put that much chain out. It was a little windy and the boat was also swinging somewhat. Got the kids and dogs to shore, met some of the CSR folks and talked for awhile and then loaded the dogs and wife back up to go to the boat…. Got to the boat and noticed it wasn’t in the same spot. In fact it was about 20 feet from the big line of very expensive Sea Rays lined up and heading right into their anchor lines and bows… I got one dog on the boat but there wasn’t any time to get the other dog on so I pushed the dinghy away with my wife and dog on it and said “I have to move now… sorry…†Well… I fire up the engines and put it in gear just waiting to hear the lines from everyone’s anchor in my props… luckily there were none. I engaged the windlass and the anchor had already completely broke free of the bottom and I was bringing it up as I was moving forward. Better to run over my own chain and look like a complete amateur. I got the boat out away from the crowd and dropped the anchor and put out much more chain and it held fine. We avoided a big disaster here.
So here’s the aftermath of that… My wife can’t drive the dinghy. The starter switch started acting up and you have to back it off a little when you turn it to engage the starter. So her and the dog actually ended up going into the line of boats and the anchors and she was not happy with me. She said I chose the boat over her…. Oops… I guess my response of “I can get a new wife cheaper than a new boat†didn’t go over well. I had determined this was just a bad day in general… Here’s a shot of the boat anchored away from the trouble:
Everyone had a nice time at the party on the beach. The band was pretty good and the kids swam and dogs got to run around in a big open field. The water was that lovely “bay brown†color.. but no one seemed to care:
I wonder what my son is looking at here?
We ended up following Festivus back to Rock Hall for the night to stay at the Sailing Emporium. Tim seemed to have some problems with his anchor and here’s a nice shot of him trying to fix that while his 9 year old was driving the boat into the shore line:
And his boat Festivus underway:
Tim arranged for us to stay on their fuel dock for the night. I figured dealing with a bunch of sailboaters for the night would be a good end of the day. (It was actually a very nice marina)
And a view over the harbor from the boat:
Tim and his wife stopped by after we arrived and were taking a dinghy on over to a “locals†restaurant and we followed them with our dinghy and family. Here’s a few shots of that....
Arriving by dinghy:
I think the restroom needed to be upgraded:
As well as the gift shop:
And a view of the famous Rock Hall Pig Vane:
Here’s a nice shot of Tim’s son describing our waitress:
Our kids played on a little beach there while we waited for our food. Nice thing about it being dark is you can’t tell what color the water is:
And my son’s Pelican imitation:
We stayed a little bit and listened to the band… they were pretty good and as someone said in our party “They sound better than they look.â€
Had a great time there and went back to Festivus and had a few beers and then retired for the night.
We arrived at Baltimore today.
More on that tomorrow. Hopefully no more bad luck days.
(Note: I wrote this yesterday and am just now getting a chance to post it)
We had a great time in St. Michaels. We even bumped into Tim from Festivus on Friday morning at the fuel dock stinking the place up:
Everyone on the boat was in the mood for a good hamburger so we headed on up to the little steak and crab place at the end of the dock for dinner. We all needed our red meat fix for the week. I got the crab cake and fried oyster special and it was very good. I think their crab cakes were actually better than the Crab Claw place across the harbor.
After dinner, my wife and I got the kids on the boat, and the family watched a few episodes of 24. I was down gabbing with Tim on the dock as his family decided to spend the night (and I know he broke some of the pool rules that afternoon). Later on, I went and got my lovely wife to go grab a rum runner at the bar on the dock and we didn’t want to take any kids…. Yeah… right….
As soon as we are getting ready to leave, I hear this scream “HE’S BLEEDING!!!! CALL 911!!!!! My youngest had hit his head on the corner of the TV/stereo cabinet door and he had blood all over the top of his head. It ended up being fairly minor and must have just hit a spot that bled a lot. He ended up going with us… I think he was faking it. This is “bad luck number 1â€.
The weather was fairly windy on Friday night and Saturday morning and we were put in a slip that was a bit too small for the boat so it was hard to tie the boat up correctly. We had to cross lines to the bow across the boat and to pilings that were midway back on each side. Needless to say, the lines creaked and groaned all night with the wind and kept my wife and I up all night. I’m sure the crew from the Hyatt would have done better.
We went up to the store and picked up a few groceries for the rest of the trip and came across a farmers market. We got some more fresh corn, tomatoes and blackberries. Yum yum.
So here’s “bad luck number 2â€â€¦. And they get worse as the day goes by. I had gone down in the engine room and checked everything out that morning. I noticed that the sea strainer on the starboard engine did not look aligned in the glass bowl so I turned off the sea cock and opened it up and reset the thing. It was not on the pin on the bottom of the strainer assembly. Put that back together and then someone called me upstairs and I got distracted. Well… short version is I did not open the sea cock on the starboard engine.
We left St. Michaels about 11:00 am and headed out at 650 rpm’s. Everything looked ok with both engines showing coolant temps around 158 degrees. I spooled up the engines out of the harbor and the starboard engine goes to 170 degrees and I quickly bring them back down and remembered… my stomach felt like it hit the floor. I quickly went down to the engine room and opened the seacock up and then kept idling out of the area. As a side, these engines typically run around 155 degrees at idle, 166 -168 degrees at cruise and 168 at WOT and I’ve NEVER seen them hit 170. You may say that 2 degrees is not much… but I caught it before it overheated.
The starboard engine cooled back down and the temp hit 160 degrees which was still warm for idle. I spooled the engines back up and the starboard engine went back to 172… not good. I believe I smoked the water pump that has all of 30 hours on it. Chalk this one up to “stupid taxâ€. I ended up turning the boat around and idled back to the anchorage just outside of St. Michaels as I have 2 spare impellers on the boat and was hoping it was just an impeller.
I went down in the engine room, which was fairly warm by this time, and pulled the cover off the impeller. I’ll post a picture of the impeller in my next post. It just melted the thing and all the fins were there. I dropped in a new impeller and restarted the engines and the engine ran fine after that. I’m a little concerned what the heat buildup in this pump did to the rubber seals but we’ll see. I left my spare water pump at home… bad idea. Again… “bad luck number 2â€.
We headed up to the Aquapalooza on the Chester River after that. This should was about an hour trip and we had to cut through Kent Island Narrows which is well… narrow…. Here’s a few shots of the narrows:
And this looked like a nice breakfast place:
This is leaving on the north side of the narrows. Don’t even look at the depth sounder because you just don’t want to know.
We got to the Aquapalooza a little late because of my stupidity but here’s a shot of all the boats anchored on the beach. There were also two police boats and a coast guard boat there boarding boats and stopping dinghies and handing out tickets for dinghy safety violations. The funny thing about that is that the water was very shallow and people were just jumping off the boats and swimming to shore. I guess being in a dinghy without a life jacket in this case is dangerous.
So here’s bad luck number 3. Because we arrived so late, the boats were all anchored and tied up close to the beach and there wasn’t much room near the shore. Well… I found a spot and tried to wedge in and dropped my anchor but really couldn’t put that much chain out. It was a little windy and the boat was also swinging somewhat. Got the kids and dogs to shore, met some of the CSR folks and talked for awhile and then loaded the dogs and wife back up to go to the boat…. Got to the boat and noticed it wasn’t in the same spot. In fact it was about 20 feet from the big line of very expensive Sea Rays lined up and heading right into their anchor lines and bows… I got one dog on the boat but there wasn’t any time to get the other dog on so I pushed the dinghy away with my wife and dog on it and said “I have to move now… sorry…†Well… I fire up the engines and put it in gear just waiting to hear the lines from everyone’s anchor in my props… luckily there were none. I engaged the windlass and the anchor had already completely broke free of the bottom and I was bringing it up as I was moving forward. Better to run over my own chain and look like a complete amateur. I got the boat out away from the crowd and dropped the anchor and put out much more chain and it held fine. We avoided a big disaster here.
So here’s the aftermath of that… My wife can’t drive the dinghy. The starter switch started acting up and you have to back it off a little when you turn it to engage the starter. So her and the dog actually ended up going into the line of boats and the anchors and she was not happy with me. She said I chose the boat over her…. Oops… I guess my response of “I can get a new wife cheaper than a new boat†didn’t go over well. I had determined this was just a bad day in general… Here’s a shot of the boat anchored away from the trouble:
Everyone had a nice time at the party on the beach. The band was pretty good and the kids swam and dogs got to run around in a big open field. The water was that lovely “bay brown†color.. but no one seemed to care:
I wonder what my son is looking at here?
We ended up following Festivus back to Rock Hall for the night to stay at the Sailing Emporium. Tim seemed to have some problems with his anchor and here’s a nice shot of him trying to fix that while his 9 year old was driving the boat into the shore line:
And his boat Festivus underway:
Tim arranged for us to stay on their fuel dock for the night. I figured dealing with a bunch of sailboaters for the night would be a good end of the day. (It was actually a very nice marina)
And a view over the harbor from the boat:
Tim and his wife stopped by after we arrived and were taking a dinghy on over to a “locals†restaurant and we followed them with our dinghy and family. Here’s a few shots of that....
Arriving by dinghy:
I think the restroom needed to be upgraded:
As well as the gift shop:
And a view of the famous Rock Hall Pig Vane:
Here’s a nice shot of Tim’s son describing our waitress:
Our kids played on a little beach there while we waited for our food. Nice thing about it being dark is you can’t tell what color the water is:
And my son’s Pelican imitation:
We stayed a little bit and listened to the band… they were pretty good and as someone said in our party “They sound better than they look.â€
Had a great time there and went back to Festivus and had a few beers and then retired for the night.
We arrived at Baltimore today.
More on that tomorrow. Hopefully no more bad luck days.
Quite a posting Gary.......enjoy the rest of the trip. :thumbsup:
Converse48
Well-Known Member
Great write up and pics (again) Gary, and it was great to meet you and your family. Please note, however, that Jack was doing a fine job keeping the boat parallel to the shore as I tried to fix the windlass. We were able to unjam the jam on Sunday, but it did require some dis-assembly. If only I had the allen wrench handy on Saturday!
I look forward to reading your write up from Baltimore.
I look forward to reading your write up from Baltimore.
At least I didn't tell them about the really big fight you and your wife got in about if there was really a knot in the line... :wink:
Nehalennia II
New Member
Gary Well done
Great pictures and storytelling.
Tim keep him in line will ya?
Great pictures and storytelling.
Tim keep him in line will ya?
I had a real snappy title for today’s write-up but I forgot it this morning… so I guess I’ll call this one “I’m getting oldâ€
To complete my “stupid water pump story†from a few days ago, here are the pictures of what happens to an impeller when you leave the sea cock closed on an engine for about 10 minutes. Big blob of melted rubber:
We are about at the end of our trip now and the last “big thing†for us was a few days in Baltimore at the Inner Harbor. We also met about 11 other Sea Rays here from Club Sea Ray. I must say that this was a great group of people that hooked up here in Baltimore. My wife and I were talking about it and I think the thing that everyone had in common was we all “like to boat and do it a lot†and it’s not people that just “bought a boatâ€. The experience and friendship of the people that met us here was great without exception.
The other nice thing about this get together was the number of kids that came along. I think the last number showed something like 24 adults and 16 kids and the kids ranged in age from 16 down to about 3. It’s always hard to keep a few kids entertained on these trips but a group like this turned out to be very good.
However… I can’t have a post that is all mushy gushy so let’s get on with the stuff I’ve collected on everyone over the last few days.
The Inner Harbor Marina and the Inner Harbor itself is very nice. The marina has been redone over the last few years and just reopened this summer and the docks are probably the best I’ve ever been on. They are concrete floating docks with great utilities and they even have built-in boat side pump outs. Here’s a shot of Full Circle, Chessie, and Four Suns at the dock:
And another shot of a sailboat with cannons… glad they don’t give sailboaters cannons anymore as us powerboaters might be in trouble:
And another shot… old submarine and an old ship lighthouse… Why would you turn a ship into a lighthouse? I think this may have been the beginning of “lowest bidder†in our government.
The water is about as clear as the stuff in the Pacific Northwest now (this is my smoking eel shot):
Actually, the water quality in the Inner Harbor is much better than it was a few years ago when I was here. They have these boats that travel around and just suck up any garbage or debris that falls in the water. I still wouldn’t want to fall into it though.
The first night we all arrived, which was Sunday, everyone docked and then around 6 pm set out a dish for dinner. The food was really good and there was more than enough for the crowd. After dinner, everyone just hung out on the docks or back of the boats and talked to about midnight. I spilled some beer on the back carpet of Impulse III (Frank’s boat) so I guess I’m on one of his lists after that. The Four Suns ended up being a “kid boat†and the younger kids watched movies and the teenagers hung out on the bridge talking about whatever teenagers talk about.
Yesterday, a few of the boats left but most of the people stayed and just explored the town on their own. Our family all went to the Science Center, Aquarium, and some of the shops around the area. I actually stayed back at the boat and had to fix a leaking vacuflush toilet… I knew I wouldn’t be able to get by on this whole trip without fixing something on the sewage system. However, I also took a nice nap with the peace and quiet.
Dominic came over and with some “special chips†for the Raymarine chartplotter I have and said he could upgrade the software on it… I let him do it… I know I’m going to get lost going home today:
Every time I turn on the chartplotter now, the toilet flushes….
Later in the afternoon, most people hung out on the boats and had a few beers before dinner. I didn’t spill any beer on Frank’s boat this time (I think Skip did though). Here’s a few shots of that:
And:
And here’s a shot of my wife talking to Skip’s wife about getting a bigger boat. I think Skip slipped my wife 50 bucks or something:
Another piece of good news is that I think we found someone to finally play with Mr. Squeaking-Butt-Elvis-Chicken Man:
Here’s another shot of the pre-dinner gab session… I’m not sure what to even call this picture other than “If you are a guy and married, you understand what this man is going throughâ€:
Here’s a nice shot of Dom singing opera on the dock:
After this, a few of us went up to Hard Rock to get some dinner. I think some of the other people went to get Italian but we wanted BURGERS…
Our lovely hostesses:
I opened up the menu and immediately had to ask myself two things: 1) Is this “ok for kids†and 2) “do you sell these for doggy chew toysâ€:
The kids also were wondering what this was:
Had a good meal and walked back to the boat about 9:30 pm.. The lights in the harbor overshadowing the boats are impressive:
I also noticed that someone had toilet papered up Skip’s boat “Truly Blessed IIâ€â€¦ How childish… haven’t seen this since high school:
We start our trek back to Williamsburg today and will probably stop somewhere along the Rappahannock River (Tides Inn?) and then get back to our real home on Wednesday afternoon… Hopefully the weather will hold out for us.
To complete my “stupid water pump story†from a few days ago, here are the pictures of what happens to an impeller when you leave the sea cock closed on an engine for about 10 minutes. Big blob of melted rubber:
We are about at the end of our trip now and the last “big thing†for us was a few days in Baltimore at the Inner Harbor. We also met about 11 other Sea Rays here from Club Sea Ray. I must say that this was a great group of people that hooked up here in Baltimore. My wife and I were talking about it and I think the thing that everyone had in common was we all “like to boat and do it a lot†and it’s not people that just “bought a boatâ€. The experience and friendship of the people that met us here was great without exception.
The other nice thing about this get together was the number of kids that came along. I think the last number showed something like 24 adults and 16 kids and the kids ranged in age from 16 down to about 3. It’s always hard to keep a few kids entertained on these trips but a group like this turned out to be very good.
However… I can’t have a post that is all mushy gushy so let’s get on with the stuff I’ve collected on everyone over the last few days.
The Inner Harbor Marina and the Inner Harbor itself is very nice. The marina has been redone over the last few years and just reopened this summer and the docks are probably the best I’ve ever been on. They are concrete floating docks with great utilities and they even have built-in boat side pump outs. Here’s a shot of Full Circle, Chessie, and Four Suns at the dock:
And another shot of a sailboat with cannons… glad they don’t give sailboaters cannons anymore as us powerboaters might be in trouble:
And another shot… old submarine and an old ship lighthouse… Why would you turn a ship into a lighthouse? I think this may have been the beginning of “lowest bidder†in our government.
The water is about as clear as the stuff in the Pacific Northwest now (this is my smoking eel shot):
Actually, the water quality in the Inner Harbor is much better than it was a few years ago when I was here. They have these boats that travel around and just suck up any garbage or debris that falls in the water. I still wouldn’t want to fall into it though.
The first night we all arrived, which was Sunday, everyone docked and then around 6 pm set out a dish for dinner. The food was really good and there was more than enough for the crowd. After dinner, everyone just hung out on the docks or back of the boats and talked to about midnight. I spilled some beer on the back carpet of Impulse III (Frank’s boat) so I guess I’m on one of his lists after that. The Four Suns ended up being a “kid boat†and the younger kids watched movies and the teenagers hung out on the bridge talking about whatever teenagers talk about.
Yesterday, a few of the boats left but most of the people stayed and just explored the town on their own. Our family all went to the Science Center, Aquarium, and some of the shops around the area. I actually stayed back at the boat and had to fix a leaking vacuflush toilet… I knew I wouldn’t be able to get by on this whole trip without fixing something on the sewage system. However, I also took a nice nap with the peace and quiet.
Dominic came over and with some “special chips†for the Raymarine chartplotter I have and said he could upgrade the software on it… I let him do it… I know I’m going to get lost going home today:
Every time I turn on the chartplotter now, the toilet flushes….
Later in the afternoon, most people hung out on the boats and had a few beers before dinner. I didn’t spill any beer on Frank’s boat this time (I think Skip did though). Here’s a few shots of that:
And:
And here’s a shot of my wife talking to Skip’s wife about getting a bigger boat. I think Skip slipped my wife 50 bucks or something:
Another piece of good news is that I think we found someone to finally play with Mr. Squeaking-Butt-Elvis-Chicken Man:
Here’s another shot of the pre-dinner gab session… I’m not sure what to even call this picture other than “If you are a guy and married, you understand what this man is going throughâ€:
Here’s a nice shot of Dom singing opera on the dock:
After this, a few of us went up to Hard Rock to get some dinner. I think some of the other people went to get Italian but we wanted BURGERS…
Our lovely hostesses:
I opened up the menu and immediately had to ask myself two things: 1) Is this “ok for kids†and 2) “do you sell these for doggy chew toysâ€:
The kids also were wondering what this was:
Had a good meal and walked back to the boat about 9:30 pm.. The lights in the harbor overshadowing the boats are impressive:
I also noticed that someone had toilet papered up Skip’s boat “Truly Blessed IIâ€â€¦ How childish… haven’t seen this since high school:
We start our trek back to Williamsburg today and will probably stop somewhere along the Rappahannock River (Tides Inn?) and then get back to our real home on Wednesday afternoon… Hopefully the weather will hold out for us.
Converse48
Well-Known Member
Darn, I wish I was there! Looks like a great time, and my kids would've loved it... next time! Safe travels home to all!
Gary - have a safe trip back home...This has been one impressive posting. :thumbsup:
Wesley
Wesley
Nehalennia II
New Member
I agree, nice stuff Gary, I like your sense of humor too.First Born said:
Safe travels.
Maybe you can turn that bad impeller into a Nice Beer Coozie :thumbsup:
Are you live online while you're running?
Asureyez
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Have enjoyed your travels, Thanks!
Hey Gary, I've enjoyed the cruise along with you. I love to see boaters get out there and off their lines!
On a more somber note:
When you get home you just might want to take a look at that aftercooler again eh? :smt013
Hey Gary, I've enjoyed the cruise along with you. I love to see boaters get out there and off their lines!
On a more somber note:
When you get home you just might want to take a look at that aftercooler again eh? :smt013
Tonight’s write-up is “Meteorologists are Stupidâ€
Today was the day to begin the trek back to Williamsburg. I got up early this morning and said goodbye to Dom and his wife and then the rest of us drank coffee around the dock for a few hours and got our boats ready for the journeys home. The weather report looked pretty good for the whole bay with 5-10 knot winds out of the south in the morning and increasing to 10-15 knots later in the day…. Mostly sunny… waves 1 foot then increasing to 1-2 feet…. Doesn’t get better than that… right?
As we left Baltimore we passed Full Circle at the fuel dock. I think Frank was down there and actually picked up the fuel tab for them… nice guy.
Here’s the boat Chessie following us out of the Inner Harbor:
Just past Fort McHenry, we passed Truly Blessed II… wonder how Skip liked the wake…
So here’s the scoop on the weather… We got out in the bay and the weather looked great. The waves were about 1 foot and the wind was blowing out of the SE at about 10-15 knots. We got down to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and the winds on my wind gauge were picking up to 15-20 knots and the waves were about 2 feet around the bridge but things were starting to pick up with all the “ripples†on the water. I then noticed that NOAA had updated the weather forecast and were now put a small craft warning on the bay starting at 4 pm with winds going to 20 – 25 knots out of the south…. The Doppler radar also showed storms starting to build over West Virginia… WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FORECAST FROM 2 HOURS AGO?! Got down to the Patuxent and noticed the wind gauge on the boat now showing 20-23 knots and I got a few gusts up around 32 knots out of the south. The forecast was updated again and it now said 3-4 foot waves (which we started to see) down to the Potomac and now I start wondering what the south bay will be like… 5-6 feet? Who knows. The weatherman just doesn’t know what is going on today…. And to top it all off… my youngest son is getting sea sick:
I also needed fuel… We pull into Spring Cove Marina at Soloman’s Island for the night. We cook out burgers on the grill along with some fresh corn from St. Michaels and everyone just chills for the afternoon.
Here’s “Mostly Sunnyâ€
My youngest looks much happier now:
And everyone went to the pool before the rain:
Except my oldest who wants to dink around with his computer:
There were a bunch of sailboats coming in also from a race. When I docked, I had some guy come up to my boat and started bashing my dinghy… Said he had driven one and couldn’t steer it or dock it and it was a POS…. Why do people feel the need to come insult my dinghy?
I should have told him to dinghy on over to Cambridge and he wouldn’t need to know how to dock it.
After the sailboats came in, several of them put their sails on the grass to dry… and my Golden Retrievers really needed to take a dump.
Tomorrow is the last day of the trip. Should take about 5 hours to get home.
Today was the day to begin the trek back to Williamsburg. I got up early this morning and said goodbye to Dom and his wife and then the rest of us drank coffee around the dock for a few hours and got our boats ready for the journeys home. The weather report looked pretty good for the whole bay with 5-10 knot winds out of the south in the morning and increasing to 10-15 knots later in the day…. Mostly sunny… waves 1 foot then increasing to 1-2 feet…. Doesn’t get better than that… right?
As we left Baltimore we passed Full Circle at the fuel dock. I think Frank was down there and actually picked up the fuel tab for them… nice guy.
Here’s the boat Chessie following us out of the Inner Harbor:
Just past Fort McHenry, we passed Truly Blessed II… wonder how Skip liked the wake…
So here’s the scoop on the weather… We got out in the bay and the weather looked great. The waves were about 1 foot and the wind was blowing out of the SE at about 10-15 knots. We got down to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and the winds on my wind gauge were picking up to 15-20 knots and the waves were about 2 feet around the bridge but things were starting to pick up with all the “ripples†on the water. I then noticed that NOAA had updated the weather forecast and were now put a small craft warning on the bay starting at 4 pm with winds going to 20 – 25 knots out of the south…. The Doppler radar also showed storms starting to build over West Virginia… WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FORECAST FROM 2 HOURS AGO?! Got down to the Patuxent and noticed the wind gauge on the boat now showing 20-23 knots and I got a few gusts up around 32 knots out of the south. The forecast was updated again and it now said 3-4 foot waves (which we started to see) down to the Potomac and now I start wondering what the south bay will be like… 5-6 feet? Who knows. The weatherman just doesn’t know what is going on today…. And to top it all off… my youngest son is getting sea sick:
I also needed fuel… We pull into Spring Cove Marina at Soloman’s Island for the night. We cook out burgers on the grill along with some fresh corn from St. Michaels and everyone just chills for the afternoon.
Here’s “Mostly Sunnyâ€
My youngest looks much happier now:
And everyone went to the pool before the rain:
Except my oldest who wants to dink around with his computer:
There were a bunch of sailboats coming in also from a race. When I docked, I had some guy come up to my boat and started bashing my dinghy… Said he had driven one and couldn’t steer it or dock it and it was a POS…. Why do people feel the need to come insult my dinghy?
I should have told him to dinghy on over to Cambridge and he wouldn’t need to know how to dock it.
After the sailboats came in, several of them put their sails on the grass to dry… and my Golden Retrievers really needed to take a dump.
Tomorrow is the last day of the trip. Should take about 5 hours to get home.
islandhopper00
Active Member
Gary, I enjoy people with character and I believe you are one. I look forward to reading your updates, they make me laugh. I know your family has had a great trip and I will miss your posts when ya'll complete it. Can't wait for your next one! :thumbsup:
SeaRide
Active Member
Gary,
Great posts! I loved the retriever/sailboat remark :grin: . Someone on the board has a 420 DA that is always getting dinged by blobotes....Skip maybe???
Great posts! I loved the retriever/sailboat remark :grin: . Someone on the board has a 420 DA that is always getting dinged by blobotes....Skip maybe???
