The weather has gone from stifling hot and steamy to cold and rainy last week. So fewer weekenders seemed to come down this past weekend. But regardless, the Rock Hall Sailing Club held a wine and cheese sundowner near the pool on Saturday.
The food, provided by one of the members was awesome and it was yet another great opportunity to meet fellow boat owners, some of whom have been sailing in the Chesapeake Bay for decades.
On Sunday our dockmates invited us out on a daysail on their Beneteau 41, Beaujolais. Of course I forgot to bring a camera to capture the moments and sights, but we had great wind and a fabulous day on the water.
The captain (another Captain Bob) was gracious enough to let Bob steer, and Bob was able to catch the wind beautifully in the sails and sail us around the numerous crab pots and down a relatively active channel to a lovely anchorage in the Magathy River.
We anchored for lunch and enjoyed the relative quiet, of the anchorage watching the horses grazing by the water’s edge. The captain sailed us back and once we cleared the channel we were on a fabulous beam reach making good time and comfortable sailing back to Rock Hall.
Not only was the sailing good, but the experience was also great for us to see first hand how another couple handle the dock lines to get in and out of the small finger piers of the marina, maneuver around the fairway to make the tight turn out from where we are nestled in the back, and also how to use the pump out station (used to pump out the holding tank from the head). One of the necessary tasks when you are living on the Bay.