Fairlee Creek, Anchor Out, 6-25 + 26, 2011

My wife and I needed to get away.
You sea it's been non-stop, bust butt, all week long working at work, doing this and that after work on the boat, club interviews for new members this week and doing Yacht Club Opening weekend stuff in Club uniforms at all the other Yacht Clubs for the past 3 months.

We're done!  Cooked!
And we needed to get away.
So we did.
We packed up the boat with some light provisions and went across the Chesapeake Bay to the eastern shore.
A nice anchor out cove where a lot of boats go that has a Tiki Bar.

The place is called Fairlee Creek and the Tiki Bar is called Jelly Fish Joel's.
They had bands that played Sat. and Sun. afternoons till 6 pm.  FREE MUSIC.
What more could you want?

We had another nice surprise as my youngest son Jonathan and his girlfriend Valerie along with John's friend Stevie met us there for the day too.
They had just bought an 18' run-a-round Go-Fast boat and were trying it out.
So they came over for the afternoon and stayed for a little while.

It all was great and just what we needed.
Nice and relaxing.
Sat. evening there was a very nice breeze all night long that cooled things off so no air conditioning was needed.
In fact, I had to close the hatch in the morning because it got cold!

Great weekend, good time.
We'll be back!

--
Lee

Bodkin Yacht Club Opening Weekend 6-19-11

We are on the left, Lee and Dawn, aboard the "Dawn Rae",
then Fred and Paulette "Cruzzin Together"
and our Fleet Captain Joe and Colleen "Nicole Rose" on the right.
And we had another boat anchored on the right side of Joe, but he left early.

Then we have our Commodore Bob and Carol,
or should I say Commodore Carol and Bob.

Either way!!!............
On "Parrot's Nest"

PC Jake and PC Dave, on "Barb Z" and Bodkin's PC Bob on V/C Andy's boat "Fuelish Pleasure" on the right.

This past weekend we went to Bodkin Yacht Club for their Opening Weekend celebrations and fun activities.
And I won the "Pool" billiards tournament along with my partner PC Dave.
Above are a few of the pictures taken that weekend.

--
Lee

We have a New To Us - New "Dawn Rae"

It is a 1998, 3870 Cruisers Yacht:

And I just put the New Name on Her,

Ain't she pretty?

We Have Sold Our 310 Sea Ray Boat

Well, it was time to part with her and give her a new home because we have upgraded to a 3870 Cruisers Yachts Inc. Congratulations to Matt and Dawn! We hope you have as much fun, if not more, as we did on this boat. She's found a new home just a little bit south of Annapolis, MD.

1999 310DA Boat is now FOR SALE

Our 1999 310DA Boat is now FOR SALE.

Thanks
Lee

Langford Bay Marina, 9-5-09

Here we are again, settled in on our almost last cruise of the 2009 season.
For some reason, Dawn wishes I would not take these pictures of her on the boat all the time......?????
Anyway, I did, I wanted to, and I'll probably do it again.......
So,..... I decided to move on and take pictures of something else.
This view is looking north out of Langford Bay Marina. Click on it to sea it better. In the center is actually an island called "Casaway Island" The locals go here and anchor out. Seams like a nice place to go and I may do that sometime?
To the left is called the "West Fork" and to the right is called the "East Fork" of "Lankford Creek". "Davis Creek" is not in view but is to the far left.
Here is the Marina store at Langford Bay Marina. They have a lot of stuff in there and it is pretty neet.

The store and some slips.

More slips. We are in the left side - center and close to the store but far from the group again. What's up with that?

Langford Bay Marina - Pool, 9-5-09

They have a nice pool here too. It goes from 3' to 5' deep and is just enough to cool you off.
Here is the beautiful entrance walkway. Notice the signs with the arrows.
The pool before we took over.

Look out, here we are again.

We all had a good time cooling off and drinkin some chillies.

Even Kippy and Nancy got in the water!

Langford Bay Marina - Cookout, 9-5-09

Sat. night we had a group pitch in cook out.
I got this group shot from across the other side of the pier.
We kinda took over the entire picnic area like we did the pool.
We are really not selfish, we share, but we did have to reserve the entire area for the size of the group we had.

Stanley with his boom box.........

Jason, the younger guy on the left, was messin with me. He was giving me faces. I'll fix him!

Jason gave me another face and decided to put something in his mouth.

So..... here he is.......

Not much to say about a cook out!

And finally, I had to ask somebody to take a picture of me with Dawn.

Langford Sunset and Moonrise, 9-5-09

You know I love Sunsets.
The whole sky was like this.....

Now behind us,..... this was going on.

It actually is the Moon rising.

With the position on the sun going across the clouds in the sky it gave it a red tint. It almost looked like the Sun coming up again behind us.

But the sky is not lit up.

And only a few minutes later it started looking more like the Moon.

But notice, it still had a red tint on the water.....

How do you splain... that... Henry???

Which leads me to my poem that I made up:

May The Wind Be At Your Backside.

To Send You Along Your Way.

And Each Day Bring A Glorious Sunset.

So Tomorrow Will Be Another Great Day!

Skipjack - Barbara Batchelder, 9-6-09

This is a beautifully restored and maintained Skipjack that was at the Marina.

Durding's Store - Ice Cream Bike Trip, 9-6-09

Dawn wanted to go for a walk........
And I said, how about a bike ride? Ok, so off we went.
We ended up going 13 miles or so and went into Rock Hall.
While you're there, you might as well go to the Ice Cream store.
MMMmmmmm, good!
Durding's Store has expanded into the other (right) side.
Good ice cream but a little pricey.

Now here's Dawn, and I take a picture of her.
And no kidding, she starts singing this song,
Doot, Da, Doot, Da, Doooo, Do.
Doot, Da, Doot, Da, Do........
Notice the above picture is rather centered........ and it has green foliage in the backround.

And I knew I could crop it down to this picture below.

And then Dawn says......
Let me take a picture of you......
OK........
Now she was........ on my right side and I handed off the camera to her.
And then I here this ......
Oh...... Oh,,,,,,,,
OOOOOOOOO No........
As she snapped this picture of me almost before she went off the left side of the road. Are you alright Honey????
So after she gets her balance she says, let me try another one honey......
OK...
I'm somewhere in the bottom half of the picture..... and I get this lovely "shack" in the backround!
And she says....... "you can crop that and get you better."
So here's the best I could do with that one.
Thanks honey!!!!
I'm thinkin of buying that shack and making a summer home out of it!
It's got a "water view"!

LOL.

Remind me............. next time, go for the WALK!

Susky River Grille, Port Deposit, MD, 8-16-09

Some of our club members returned back home to Middle River early on Sunday. Others hung around to enjoy the beautiful day and relax at the pool at Penn's Beach Marina. Before heading home, the people that were left decided to go up river a little bit to Port Deposit to grab some food or lunch. Talking with the locals, we decided to go to the Susky River Grille. We all took our boat, the "Dawn Rae".

The Susky River Grille is a:

"Waterfront restaurant located in historic Port Deposit, Maryland. 2000 sf outdoor deck for dining along the beautiful Susquehanna River. Over 300' of boat docks, plenty of car parking. Live music Friday thru Sunday. Live comedy shows on Friday nights".

Their web site is:
http://www.suskyrivergrille.com/
but was under construction at the time of this blog posting.
Here is a picture of the outside from the boat pier.

And a view looking S.E. along the Susquehanna River and the 3 bridges, Rt. 95, Rt. 40 and the Railroad Bridge.

The Susquehanna River drains into the Chesapeake bay and is essentially fresh water at this point. It is pretty healthy because there is plenty of sea grasses growing and the water was clear.

We had a good lunch and decided to head on home.

Now here we are, winding down a great weekend, plenty of sunshine, good food, etc., etc. Dawn and I have just rounded the starboard turn coming out of the Susquehanna River turning south to go down the Bay.

We are up on plane and enjoying the sun beginning to set to the south west. We are in an area that is next to the Aberdeen Proving grounds. This is a restricted area and they do not like or let anyone touch or go onto their grounds. There is nothing else around either. Meaning there is absolutely nothing you can essentially go to for gas on the western side from Havre de Grace all the way down to Middle River.

Low and behold.......

We are coming up on a small boat about 20' to 21' in length. I see these small children waving me down.......

Oooooo Shi........

But I have to stop.....

So I do.

A guy and his wife along with 5 children are in this boat.

We ask what is the problem? He says he ran out of gas.

OK.........

I said do you have a VHF radio? ...... No.......

Do you have tow insurance?......... No.........

Do you know anyone with a boat?....... Well, he was trying to reach somebody by cell phone...... no luck yet.

He said he had just got this boat and did some work on it and everyone wanted to take the new boat out. They went down to Hart-Miller Island and missed Bush River on the way back up. He said he thought the gas gauge was correct - but it wasn't!!!!..........

Now the sun would be going down in about an hour.

It would be turning colder, damper, buggier, etc. and being 7 PM on a Sunday night, chances of any other boats going by him that would be able to help were getting slimmer by the minute.

Darnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

I said where were you going? He said Flying Point Marina, which is at the very end of the Bush River.

That's 20 miles from here.

Darnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn, again.

I just couldn't leave him with the children there......

So, you know what Dawn and I did.

Yes, we towed him all the way back.

Several hours later after only being able to do 6-7 kts., we dropped him off about 9:50 PM at Otter Point Marina gas dock. This is across the other side from where he was suppose to go, but he could get back there to Flying Point Marina by car. It was very shallow up in there with less than 3' of water. Not enough for me.

Now, it was very buggy up there and we had previously decided to spend the night at Bush River Yacht Club.

But..........

Then I got the bright idea that I should check the tide to sea if I could get back out under the railroad bridge in the morning.

What do you think?

Well the answer is we would have been stuck there until 9:30 AM or so until the tide went out enough for us to be able to have the 11' clearance I need to get under the darn bridge.

So........

What do you think I did?

I said that since it was low tide now, and I just was able to make it under the bridge now, well....... I better go and get on the other side of the bridge now, just to be safe.

By the time I did that, the Bush River was flat. I could only sea just a little in the dark, but I still decided to keep on booking home.

Thank goodness for my GPS that I already had the route plotted on it.

40 minutes later, we were back at CYC.

That would be 10:30 PM.

Man,... we pulled the boat into the slip, grabbed our stuff, left the boat open with the canvas off and just went home.

Night, night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite.......

Just had to say that.

What a day!

Pub Crawl, Harve de Grace, MD, CYC Mystery Cruise, 8-15-09

We did a Pub Crawl Friday night after we got settled in and later Friday night.
Here's Stanley doin Karaoke at the pool hall.
Jean with her new friend "Big Jim"....

And Joy gettin a little carried away.

And Carol and Dawn.

Carol is one of my biggest blog fans....

She keeps me goin.

Thanks Carol!!

And Barbzie with her mouth open again.........

Andy and Bob.

And a Skipjack that gives Tour Rides out front of the marina.

The "Martha Lewis".