Month: October 2016

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Sailing To Hampton

Headed for the ICW

We’re finally starting the trip down the coast. We left the Magothy on the 20th of October and today we pulled into Hampton River, just a hop skip and a jump from the start of the ICW.

We’ve had quite the adventure getting here already, I can’t imagine what’s in store for us the rest of the way down. I look at the distance we’ve covered and it seems pretty remarkable, this little boat has taken us all this way. It was really neat south of the Potomac to realize that we’d crossed into Virginia, the first time we’d crossed a state line in Hiraeth.

We’re already missing our friends from the Annapolis area, but we know that we’ll be back some day. We got to visit my sister while in the Newport News area. She joined us for the trip from Chisman Creek to Hampton River. It was great to see her and to have her aboard!

Sunrise on Chisman Creek
Sunrise on Chisman Creek
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Alberg 30 Fall Cruise

We’ve just returned from the Alberg 30 Fall Cruise. We had some amazing weather and were able to sail most of the cruise. When we started we had twelve boats on Hopkins Creek. I think eight of them were Albergs. Here’s a map of our cruise, By the time we finished the GPS started overlapping with the start of the log so I don’t have our first day and part of the second but you’ll get the idea.

Since the wind was so cooperative we got to do a lot of sailing. Here’s Sara at the helm on a tack up the Bay. She look comfortable in her slippers!

Sara Tacking North
Sara tacking north up the Chesapeake Bay

Here’s one of me as we’re going down to Knapps Narrows.

Down to Knapps Narrows
Down to Knapps Narrows

One of the exciting things about this trip was a race from the mouth of the down to Knapps Narrows. It was so exciting to participate in a race on Hiraeth for the first time! We has a great start but about half an hour into the race I heard a ping, looked behind me and sure enough our dinghy had slipped off the painter carabiner again! Well I didn’t want to be disqualified from the race so we contacted the “race committee” and informed them of our issue. Loretta and Cabot of Gendarme who were coming up behind us managed to snag the dinghy with a boat hook as we were turning around to go back. They met us and released the dinghy allowing us to practice our man overboard maneuver. We finally managed to get the dinghy and tie it back up, this time with a line rather than the carabiner. We started back on our way and somehow still managed to come in fourth out of five boats!