Over the weekend of July 23rd, we will be moving our site to a new location. Starting Monday, July 25th, you should be able to access our site using 'yryc.org'. In the meantime, you can use the old url to access this site directly: http://www.foxfamily.typepad.com/yryc/
Email will be sent to the membership when this move is complete.
UPDATE: Move didn't go as smoothly as expected this week. I've made changes so that you'll see the 'old' site until the the ethernet catches up with us.
Three boats left the York River on Sunday the 19'th of June heading for Nantucket, MA -- "Delphinus", "Camden", and "Elixir". Delphinus left at 9am with George Jones, Rich Watkins, and Tucker VanDyck. Camden and Elixir left around 3pm with Larry and Maureen Davis and with Joran and Lin Gendell.
Delphinus left early enough on Sunday that we had to contend with a Gale blowing 60 to 75 miles off the Del Marva peninsula. We went inside the gale just off the coast in 25 - 30 knots of wind on the starboard beam in 3 - 5 foot seas and made excellent time up to the New Jersey boarder. We then crossed dead calm waters under motor until we picked up a good SE breeze near Atlantic City, NJ. We spent most of the day on Tuesday running along the outside of Long Island trolling for bluefin tuna and listening to radio Margaritaville on satellite radio. In the end, all we managed to get on the boat were several large bluefish in the 20 - 40 lb. range -- these we threw back. We had a nice easy run Tuesday night and found ourselves at the harbor entrance to Nantucket at 7:45am Wednesday morning. We took down our sails and made our final scheduled SSB radio contact with Joran aboard "Elixir" at 8am. Captain and crew arrived happy and hungry for breakfast at our mooring ball at 8:30am. The initial gale and then the location of the SE breeze off Long Island kept us pretty close to shore so our actual track to Nantucket was 470 nautical miles vs. the rhumb line distance of 430 nm. Total trip time was 71 hours. In the harbor, we met a couple of Larry's friends from Annapolis and we all enjoyed the town while waiting for Camden and Elixir to arrive.
Camden and Elixir left in the middle of the afternoon on Sunday the 19'th and had to deal with winds a bit more on the nose than we had. The pounding caused Camden some fuel problems and they had to put into the Harbor of Refuge at the northern tip of Delaware. They spent two days waiting out weather and fixing a fuel system problem before heading North once more and arriving safe and sound in Nantucket on Friday afternoon, the 24'th of June.
Starting Friday evening, my wife Denise arrived and we all spent a couple great days together on Nantucket before Camden and Elixir headed off once more. Denise and I stayed in Nantucket until the 5'th of July and then sailed to Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard which is where we are now. We plan to slowly make our way back to Williamsburg sometime in the last week of July. It's been a great trip so far and we're still looking forward to Newport, Block Island, Mystic Seaport, and New York City. See you all soon.
George Jones
"Delphinus"
Congratulations to John Haracivet on Midnight Rider and Anne Racel on 4 Degrees who took 3rd and 5th, respectively, in their divisions at the Cock Island Race.
Congratulations are due to Ben Weeks and Michele Cochran for again placing in the Southern Bay Race Week Black Seal Cup, taking 3rd in their division.
This month's meeting will be held on Friday June 10th because of the cruise contingent leaving on the 19th and racers leaving the 17th for Cock Island. This will be a "do-over" of the May meeting that was interrupted by the tornado and resulting power outage, which caused us to cancel the Mediterranean cruising presentation. We will also do-over the ethnic dish pot luck part, so bring your favorite foreign dish. Salad and beverages will be provided by the club, $5 per person.
Kathy Bowen
Rear Commodore
804-832-0471
Click here to download a special edition of the Beacon for the Blessing of the Fleet.
Date Destination
May 7 Blessing of Fleet: Crown Pointe Marina
May 28–30 Mobjack Bay Cruise
June 18-July 4 New England Cruise: Newport, Nantucket, Block Island, Martha’s Vineyard, Cuttyhunk
July 9–10 Deltaville/Windmill point or other port of call
August 6–7 Governor’s Cup – Ware River Yacht Club
September 3-5 Annual Cape Charles Cruise, Labor Day Weekend
September 24-25 Cruise to anywhere – Go where the wind blows (i.e. concrete ships, Seaford, Goodwin island, Poquson)
October 6-11 Urbanna/Tides Inn/ Turkey Shoot Regatta
NOTE: Long cruises can be easily shortened if time does not permit.
Any questions, comments, concerns, please advise...
Fair winds!
Larry Davis
YRYC Cruise Captain
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