THE HORNPIPE VOLUME 39, NO. 8 August 2015

CCSC 2015 Board Members

Andy Monjan, Commodore (amonjan@verizon.net) 410-531-3832 John Baker, Vice Commodore (johnfbaker@comcast.net) 410-740-1488 Jan & Hank Zerhusen, Secretary/Membership (hzerhusen2@verizon.net) 410-730-9129 Barbara Barrett, Social Co-Chair (barbara_barrett@yahoo.com) 410-371-9900 Jan Zerhusen, Social Co-Chair (hzerhusen2@verizon.net) 410-730-9129 Ed Sabin, Treasurer (esabin1@comcast.net) 410-255-7362

Barb Coyle, Hornpipe Editor (matthew247@aol.com) 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

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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

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

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

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

Voting and snacking Sandy, Matt, John, Barbara Jeff Jeff and Bill

John and Barbara Dave and Hank

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.

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.

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.

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

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:

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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 (johnfbaker@comcast.net)... and plan to join one of the

upcoming cruises and attend the picnic.

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