4th of July!!!

[Benny17441]

Our proposed trip is a go. We have reserved a slip at the Alexandria City Marina July 2nd through the 6th. We intend to be on the Potomac to watch the fireworks and partake of our capital's festivities. Our yacht, a Starwind 223, will be delivered to Virginia via trailer by a 747 captain who also happens to hold a 100 ton master's license. Among our support group we have a nephew in the USCG stationed in DC and we have already sent a portable A/C unit to his home. Making reference to another recent posting, when you get to fly in and out to a boat, it becomes a yacht. After the holiday we will navigate down river into the Chesapeake for a couple of days true sail to some nearby points before delivering the yacht to the Solomons where it will stay for the rest of the summer. We hope the Admiral's leg will heal from a fibula fracture by then (I would hate to carry her luggage to and from the airport). Are now working on refining the schedule and port of calls. I'm starting to get exited and smell an adventure.

 

[Allan R]

A True Gentleman

never refers to his own boat as a yacht. But it sounds like a great trip.

 

[Benny17441]

Allan, I agree with you but was just calling

it a yacht in jest of a recent posting about the definition of the term. The Starwind is actually a darn small boat but it adequately sleeps 4 and is a responsive tiller steered sailer. Being it a trailerable we have taken it to the Long Island Sound, Baltimore and the upper Chesapeake, the Palmico Sound, Lake Huron and various inland lakes usually for ten day trips. In our backyard, which includes the Florida Keys and the Bahamas we sail an h320. As far a gentlemanly gesture as we can muster is to secure an anchorage or transient slip by 6:00 PM every day and open up a bottle of a good Chilean Cabernet or a California Chardonay. During the day beer or grog will do.We, have had some good adventures on that little boat for the past ten years from being dismasted, to sailing into Mystic, Connecticut the morning after a storm when boats twice our size were hesitant to leave port. Riding down the Potomac looks as exciting as canal cruising in France but I'm sure (I hope) some adventure will light our way. Not sure where we are going to stop but it looks like Colonial Beach may be convenient. Not sure yet if will leave Alexandria the 5th or the 6th.