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THE HORNPIPE VOLUME 39, NO. 8 August 2015
CCSC 2015 Board Members
Andy Monjan, Commodore ([email protected]) 410-531-3832 John
Baker, Vice Commodore ([email protected]) 410-740-1488 Jan
& Hank Zerhusen, Secretary/Membership ([email protected])
410-730-9129 Barbara Barrett, Social Co-Chair
([email protected]) 410-371-9900 Jan Zerhusen, Social
Co-Chair ([email protected]) 410-730-9129 Ed Sabin, Treasurer
([email protected]) 410-255-7362
Barb Coyle, Hornpipe Editor ([email protected])
301-633-8343
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Saturday August 22 1 PM Picnic Hammock Island Carol and Bill
Durr
Join us Saturday August 22 at Hammock Island to celebrate the
summer sailing season. The club provides hot dogs, hamburgers,
soda, beer and wine. Bring an appetizer, salad, side dish or
dessert to share. Friends who are interested in the club are
welcome to join in. The picnic should begin around 1 PM, but help
before and after the picnic is always welcome!
Saturday August 29-30 Eagle’s Nest Magothy George Alberts
Saturday September 5-13 Labor Day Cruise (Extended) Barbara and
Dave Barrett
Saturday September 19-20 Coyle’s Landing Matt and Barb Coyle
Saturday September 26-27 Grays Inn Creek, Chester Rive Bill and
Carol Durr
Saturday October 10-11 Severn River Need Volunteer
Chesapeake Corinthian Sailing Club
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]
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COMMODORE’S COMMENTS Andy Monjan s/v Impulse
The Good News: The sailing season is half over. The Bad News:
The sailing season is half
over. We now are entering into the best part of the sailing
season, IMHO, and we still have prime
time sailing into the fall, including the Labor Day cruise.
You’ll get more details on this and the
rest of the cruise schedule at the upcoming CCSC Summer Picnic
at Hammock Island. As usual,
the club will provide the hamburgers, hot dogs, and fixings,
along with drinks. We are open to
sampling any ‘goodies’ that you might bring to share with us,
before, after, or during the barbeque.
If you have any sailing friends, feel free to bring them along,
family members included. In addition
to food, we share our sailing stories and tips as we socialize
with each other. Remember,
socializing is one of the key ingredients to a healthy and long
life.
Also, it is not too early to start thinking about becoming an
officer of the club and joining
our Board. Our Board will be meeting at Hammock Island at noon,
just before our picnic. Feel
free to pop in, give us your input, and volunteer to be a Board
member next year.
CRUISE REPORTS
Captain’s Choice July 25-26 – Swan Creek Jan & Hank
Zerhusen, s/v Octavia
The cruise earlier in the season (captained by Sue and Gord
Jones) to Swan Creek only had the Jones at anchor. We decided to
redo Swan Creek, and Nancy Ann with Matt and Barbara Coyle signed
on.
For us Saturday was a motor straight over crossing the Swan
Point bar at #5! After the Coyles arrived about 4, sailing most of
the way, the ladies went swimming. Following nibbles we had planned
pot luck on Octavia – an easy summer supper.
Dinner Cruise captains Jan and Hank
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Sunset in Swan Creek
Sunday, with lots of wind the Coyles headed back to the Magothy
(that’s another story) and Octavia headed to Rock Hall Landing
Marina (and that’s another story). Monday, we had an easy sail on
the same tack back across the bay to the Bodkin.
Heading back into the Magothy – with everyone else
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Best Wine Cruise – Aug. 8-9 Robbie and Ed Sabin, s/v
Aldebaran
For an August weekend, we were blessed with outstanding weather
for the
Best Wine Cruise. Predicted N and NE winds, caused a Thursday
decision to head
south to Whitehall Bay instead or the original Worton Creek
destination. Good
following winds made the trip speedy with 8 boats safely
anchored by 4:30. The Barretts graciously
served as anchor boat for the wine tasting, with the cruise
captains Sabins’ Aldebaran, the Coyles’
Nancy Ann, the Kellehers’ Imagine and the Thompson’s Sea Bear
all nestled up to the Blue Heron.
The Zerhusens (Octavia) arrived early, dropped the hook, and
anchored a second raft with George
Alberts aboard the Admiral J and the Durrs on Griselda.
BluwHeron Raft Up (Dave Barrett) Octavia Raft Up
Dave the photographer
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With no sea nettles in sight, Dave Barrett, Barb Coyle, Sue and
John Kelleher, Jeff and
Sandy Thompson, Jan Zerhusen and Robbie Sabin enjoyed a
delightful swim with good exercise
between the 2 rafts. We also enjoyed a short visit with former
members Elise and Jesse Delanoy as
they motored in to anchor nearby.
Barb, Robbie and Dave Sue and John Sandy and Jeff
At 5:30, the Barretts welcomed the largest group (15) to ever
grace--or invade--their salon at
one time. Six wines were bagged and sampled by the cozy
participants. In an effort to curb recent
irregularities at past Best Wine events, voting (simplified to a
1 to 5 Likert scale, with 5 being best
taste) was semi-secret with rating cards being displayed
simultaneously and no change of vote
allowed. Robbie rigorously enforced compliance from the
increasingly happy group.
Robbie Sue, Robbie, Jan, Dave
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Voting and snacking Sandy, Matt, John, Barbara Jeff Jeff and
Bill
John and Barbara Dave and Hank
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The contestant wines were all good with total votes from 14
participants ranging from 41 to
50. First place went to Hank and Jan’s Radius (Washington
State), a red blend, with the prize of a
new set of flares. With a close score of 49, George’s Chateau
St. Jean (Sonoma), a pinot noir, took
the second place prize: an apron with sailboats, which looks
great on George. The race to the
bottom was won by Sue and John who received the coveted “Up the
Creek with a Paddle” award, a
3 inch wooden paddle.
George and his prize apron Cheers, Ed
No significant statistical analysis was done on the ratings; in
fact just adding the individual
ratings was challenging for Robbie, who had been sampling the
contestant wines (probably a bad
idea), causing an arithmetic error and the initial incorrect
award of the paddle. Examining the
scores did indicate though that ratings generally increased as
the tastings went on: the first and
second place wines were the 5th and 6th entries
respectively.
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After lots of nibbles, finishing off bottles, and good
conversation, we returned to our boats.
The second raft broke up to anchor separately, and, after some
initial rocking and rolling, things
settled down by 11 to a very smooth and quiet night. Sunday’s
trip north was largely motor sailing
with little wind initially and gradually building from the east,
just right to blow us up the Bodkin to
our dock by 2PM.
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NOTES AND NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERS
Octavia’s Little Vacation July 3 – 15, 2015 Jan and Hank
Zerhusen s/v Octavia
Our goal was to sail to Urbanna, VA on the Rappahannock River
and return within 2 weeks. It took 13 days with a lot of motoring –
several 8 hour days, some great sailing and a little motor sailing.
We left from Henderson’s Wharf Marina Sun, 7/5, having stayed there
the previous 2 nights for the 4th of July cruise. Thence south to
the Rhode River, Solomons Island, Great Wicomico River, Deltaville
and then Urbanna. Along the way we saw porpoises, brown pelicans,
cow nose rays and lots of ospreys. The unique experience of sailing
in the pouring rain on the Rappahannock – no chop, slight heel
putting 1 inch of water in the cockpit corners does not need to be
repeated.
The weather was hot and sunny with a promise of afternoon
showers and thunder storms most days. One morning as we traveled
north there was a huge cloud bank to the east with several water
spouts (a long way off).
A few of our favorite stops were Spring Cove Marina in Solomons
(great pool and friendly staff), Dozier’s Regatta Point Marina in
Deltaville (great pool, lounge and courtesy car) and of course, the
Crazy Crab Restaurant in Reedville, VA. For those of you who used
to make our summer cruises, this place is still a great stop – new
docks, restaurant going on 17 years and even overnight dockage.
Nearby is a little ice cream shop that was doing a very brisk
business when we were there.
On this trip we traveled 303 nautical miles. Octavia carried us
safely – everything worked and nothing broke! Along the way our GPS
trip log rolled over to 9000 nautical miles – it had been reset
October 2007 (upon our return from our first cruise to the
Bahamas.)
After returning to Hammock Island we took a closer look at our
GPS mileage. Since the summer of 2005 when we bought Octavia we’ve
traveled 13,285 nautical miles and put 2376 engine hours on our
reliable Yanmar diesel.
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Spa Creek Beyond the Bridge Carol Durr m/v Griselda
On leaving the raft up with the Corinthians after the Best Wine
Contest on Whitehall Bay the first week end of August, we had a
plan to take Griselda to Spa Creek in Annapolis, (where we knew
some fellow sailors had anchored their Katie Krogen Manatee for an
extended period last summer and the summer before. Some of you may
remember them from the picnic - Jeremy and Elizabeth from Hawaii,
Australia and Phoenix.
Arriving in the harbor early on a beautiful Sunday afternoon we
noted the Annapolis harbor was as usual bustling with water traffic
of all kinds.
We proceeded to the Spa Creek Bridge (which opens on the hour
and half hour) and coasted easily beneath the 37’ bridge clearance.
It was a lovely August day, not too hot, and lots of people were
out on the water in and on all types of crafts. Our destination was
near the headwaters of Spa Creek alongside Truxton Park, an
Annapolis City Park which has launch ramps, canoe and paddle board
rentals and lots of waterfront. For the land bound there are woods,
paths and picnic sites. Also there were no Keep Off signs along the
waters edge so I would see no reason one could not dinghy ashore
and enjoy that site too. Admiring the beautiful (and strange) homes
along the waterfront made us remember our years of living in
downtown Annapolis before buying Hammock Island in 1972. My how
things have changed!!! Homes are MUCH bigger and impressive than
way back when… We had a bit of a problem recognizing exactly where
we were. And we wondered where Historic Annapolis was when they
were being built! We anchored just past the split in the creek
where there is a sign for a cable crossing. Not having noted the
sign until we had dropped the anchor, we could only hope that when
we pulled it up we would not darken all of Eastport! (Apparently we
did not.)
This spot was the most interesting anchorage we’ve seen in a
long time! Because there is a 6 mph speed limit there were no
annoying wakes or speed boats. Lots of people were out on the creek
enjoying every kind of water activity - fishing, kayaking, paddle
boarding. There is even a Historic Annapolis Paddle Boat tour that
was operating as well as the electric boat tours that come from
downtown Annapolis. Water taxi service is also available. It was
quite amusing to watch all this water related activity - especially
on calm waters!
As we enjoyed watching the water traffic and taking a bit of a
dinghy tour ourselves toward
the bridge, I began thinking “WHY COULD THIS NOT BE A
DESTINATION FOR A CCSC RAFT UP?” The biggest hassle would likely be
the bridge between Annapolis and Eastport. A raft up spot would be
tight but still doable. And as there are many free landings for
dinghies at the ends of streets along the creek on the historic
district side - Market Street, Conduit Street, Southgate Avenue and
Taney Street - shopping and dinner ashore are definitely options. A
walk to Main
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Street would be about 3 blocks from most of them. And we all
know the variety of things to do and see in our capital city.
There are some moorings on Spa Creek but they are either first
come/first served or by annual contract. Small rafts or individual
anchoring would likely work well. It is definitely a protected and
serene location.
We think it’s another place along the Severn River that has been
overlooked by the
Corinthians. Truly we think it would be well worth the effort of
dealing with the Eastport Bridge. We’ll even volunteer to be cruise
captain!
WORDS ON WATER Susan Kelleher s/v Imagine
From Sue: “I am forwarding you more writing workshops that I
hope are close to some of our members, Gwen does an amazing job of
finding some very interesting spots for these workshops. Take care,
enjoy the rest of the summer. Sorry I will miss everyone at the
picnic on the 23rd, but John should be there.”
"All I Have to Do is Dream" . . . on the Severn Words on Water
Added by Gwen Mayes Wednesday, August 26, 2015 6:30 PM Dreams
Landing Community Center, Annapolis, MD
For details and to RSVP, go to:
http://www.meetup.com/Annapolis-Words-on-Water/events/224524984/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1
Plug for Oak Harbor Marina Ed and Robbie Sabin s/v Aldebaran
We'd just like to put in a plug for the Oak Harbor Marina at the
top of Rock Creek. We hauled our boat there last month and they
were very helpful and reasonably priced. Only $500 to haul, wash,
block and put our 32' boat back into the water. The price included
a week's (actually 9 days) stay on the shore. We have not compared
prices lately but I can't think of a time when we were charged
less.
WE NEED YOU!
Only 5 more cruises with CCSC this season – join in the fun!
Only one more cruise needs a captain –October 10-11 Severn
River. Please consider
volunteering – contact John Baker ([email protected])...
and plan to join one of the
upcoming cruises and attend the picnic.
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