Sailing in the Chesapeake and Beyond
| Vessel Name: | Haleakula |
| Vessel Make/Model: | C&C 35 MKIII k/cb Hull #46 |
| Hailing Port: | Whitehall Creek, Annapolis, Maryland |
| Crew: | Donna and Dave |
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| Extra: | Haleakula logs 2500-3000 nm per year. Her cruises include the Long Island Sound, Newport, Block Island, Long Island Forks and the whole Chesapeake to its mouth. |
10 September 2018 | Goldsboro Creek off Tred Avon and Choptank near Oxford , Md
Been a few years
We are reactivating our blog site with new travels and adventures.
29 April 2013
Spring on the Chesapeake
What a gorgeous weekend. Temps both days in the mid to upper 60s during the day 49 at night.
17 April 2013
Eagles Nest Horse Farm- Magothy River
Had a great sail last weekend down the Bay to the Magothy River again. The Magothy has so many nice anchorages and places to gunkhole all by itself. Winds gusting to 30 out of the west gave us the perfect beam reach. Temps low 60 so we were buttoned up with wind pants, layers and layers. I enjoy sailing [...]
10 April 2013
First anchorage of the season
So we put the small 120 on the furler and headed out of the slip Saturday for our first anchorage of the season. Air temps were 54 degrees, water temp 48 degrees and winds light at 10-12. Was a 3 hot chocolate day with peppermint schnapps. Beautiful shakedown sail out the Patapsco down the Chesapeake [...]
25 March 2013
OK what the hell happened to spring
So Saturday we really start our boating season. Head down to the MYC where Haleakula has rested quietly in the water all winter for our first overnight of the season, though in the slip. We are cleaning and putting things back in the boat we took home in the late fall. Stocking water, wiping down surfaces, [...]
12 March 2013 | MYC
Fired up the Iron Genny
De winterized, replaced the impeller on Haleakula partially and fired up the trusty Yanmar 30GMF on Sunday and she took immediately. Thanked g'd and then kissed Haleakula/ Always a ggod sign. Took down the cushions which Donna had redone over the winter and the new dark blue fabric looks great against [...]
First anchorage of the season
We found a really cool place to tuck into at Ross Cove which offered 280 degree protection except from the north. We anchored in mud in 7 feet of water with an Osprey nest ( the bird squawked for an hour) and some private docks around us.
We scrambled below and fire up the portable propane heater and relaxed. Dinner was a tri tip steak grilled with portabella mushrooms and a nice butter lettuce salad with heirloom tomatoes, fresh buffalo mozzarella, English cucumbers and a nice Titus California Old Vines Red Zinfandel. Food tastes so much better after being out sailing.
We hung out, watched the DVD film Lincoln on our flat screen. and just talked the night away.
Sunday after lox and bagels and Kona coffee we started back home earlier than normal as the forecast was for building winds and possible gale warnings.. As we turned out into the Magothy we were in the teeth of a 20-30 knot day with gusts to 35.
We tacked our way out of the River into the Bay and were swept north by the 3-5 short choppy waves and the 120 all alone at over 6.5 knots.
When we got to our slip the normally quite placid lagoon had a 20 knot tailwind driving us into the slip. This is the worst possible direction for wind. Donna was able to catch our blue spring line which get put over the mid sip cleat on the jib track and acts as a preventer from being driven into the dock and dock box in front of us at the head of the slip. Others have targets painted on their boxes. We tied up uneventfully and enjoyed lunch in the club.
I forgot to mention we only saw two boats on Saturday and one was the pride of Baltimore making her way up the Bay to the Inner harbor.
