Good Evening, Still Pond Creek!

Aaahh!! The first really nice sunset of Chesapeake 2010.

Ya' never know..........

What you'll find in an off the track anchorage. Yup, here she is Alacrity a 48 foot Dick Newick tri. She has an offshore pedigree and certainly looks fast!

Television???

Does anyone have a clue? All we wanted to do is watch the Philly's game.... and we ended up having a great happy hour with Mike & Grace ............. they are just the BEST!!!!!!!!!!

what a view from the front porch!

Kismet calls!!!

Kismet is in the Bay!!!!!!

Grey Hound will always give chase to "Kissey"

and once again GH sails upwind. We're on a mission. Grey Hound arrives in Still Pond Creek around noon and we are with our friends. ----- now , keep in mind Kissy has been stylin' at a dock here! Thanks to really good people!

The Magothy River

After kicking Gazelle's butt ;-), GH spent the night in a small bay north of Gibson Island. A beautiful spot, very protected with good holding.

Out cruising

We decided to head north. Why?!? We're not really sure but just like our friend, Otium, we seem to like sailing upwind..........

We sailed north for the Bay Bridge and that's when we encountered some stiff competition........YIKES!!!! a Gunboat 62! at somewhere north of $2.5mil (with a mast as tall as the Empire State building ;-0 ) she tacks for us to give chase. Good 'ol Grey Hound was far more motivated and the Gunboat never crossed our bow. Sorry Peter J, maybe next time.

Beautiful 'Naptown

Such a nice town and sooo much history!!

Annapolis Boat Show 2010

One of our long range goals has been to have our boat on a mooring ball in Spa Creek for the boat show. We finally succeeded and scored ball #45 for Grey Hound and us!! We've not had the opportunity to have GH in the Chesapeake in time for the show but this year it's different! We finally had good timing! Selfishly, we think we won the the "best boat in show" award........and there were alot of people expressing the same thoughts as they yelled to us from on the bridge.

ps Thanks to Ian Farrier and Keals Marine Grey Hound can't be denied!!!!

Naptown, here we come

It was great to arrive in Annapolis! It was quite a drive in the rain down here (tropical storm remnant of some sort) but we arrived at Holiday Hill Marina and left GH there on the trailer to go and say our "hi's" to Amy & Jason and prepare for the arrival of our new grandson! The whole family really pitched in!!!!!........... and Evan James has a really cool room to start off in!!

So........ OK, OK,OK!!!!!

Things have been going fast and we've been very bad at posting. We'll try to bring ya up to speed.

We said "Adios" to our friends at Fair Point on Little Sodus Bay on Lake Ontario on September 22, from there Grey Hound went to her new upstate New York home base. Bob and Steph and Teagan have a beautiful new home and they have included us and GH in the plan. The grounds are absolutely beautiful!!!! and there's also plenty of room for Grey Hound to hang!

Crossing Lake Ontario

Heading south one more time.....

The season is close to ending up north as it's getting pretty cold at night. We still had to get GH back to Fair Haven and things were a little crazy with the house selling, and 204 duty. We saw a window and we went for it.

Now "we" on this trip is defined as the Dick & Dick show. Yep, for the first time in over 9,000 miles (Anne and I crossed that milestone on the way to Binnacle) we had a new crew. I enlisted the Chief to help me bring GH back across the lake and we took advantage of a couple of nice days.

We pulled out of Clayton with little wind but by the time we hit 40 acres we had 8-9 knots in boat speed so we were happy. By the time we hit Cold Bath Shoal (not literally) we had 10-12 kts of speed so things were good. A wall in Confed basis was nice and we had a good night in Kingston.

The next day we headed west with a good west wind on our nose. GH powered up and the sail on the north side of Amherst Island was nice. Heading south on the east side of the island the Chief had her going at 17+ kts and she was looking very nice. Nobody was on the east side of Waupoos Island so we had a very quiet night.

The next day we headed across the lake and it was a pretty fast ride. With a tuck in the main we still went past 16 kts in pretty big seas..........yep, we got a little wet also. But, 4 and half hours later we were in Fair Haven.

So Dad, you have your 125 miles on Grey Hound in 2010! Hope you had fun!!!

A few missed posts..........the flying pontoon boat!

Ok, we're almost going to get back to normal soon. House........GONE. One thing out of the way.

When we were waiting for Bob, Steph and "T" we anchored out in front of Gan... and had a grandstand seat to a poker run start. Not having much of a clue what they were doing (other than kicking us off the public dock) we witnessed a start of one of the runs. CRAZY is what I'd say it is as all the boats took off with a roar and water flying everywhere! But wait.........what the heck is in the middle of all the Donzi's, Cigarette boats and other hot shot gas guzzlers.....yep, a good ole pontoon boat with everyone sitting in a row. Best of all.......they were keeping up with the best of them. Now that is one "cool" toaster!!

Hooray!!!!!

As of today we are free of "dry land"!!!!! It's been a summer of changes....... the end result is we are now eligible for the "homeless" flag. What the heck Grey Hound has been home for the last 2 years anyway. Pix and more ............ coming your way!

ps... WE ARE CELEBRATING TONIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Binnacle 2010

The crowd wasn't as big as last year but we had a great time. We especially missed the N'town crew and OMP & Cathy.

Teagan kept us all busy and the weather was great! Teagan is now one of the few 20 month old girls that has done 13.5 kts on a sailboat!!