Stephen flew in to DC yesterday morning and caught the Metro to the Pentagon. I gave him the 2-bit tour and after lunch I skipped out of the office early and we drove to my house. Stephen took my wife and I out to dinner...TYVM. And we watched some cool footage on "Shark Week".
But the real excitement was today's sailing. Since Stephen graced me with a visit I took a day of leave so we could hit the water. We decided since we were both early risers we would get out ahead of the DC traffic and we left the house at 5:30. We got to the marina, launched and was motoring away before 8:00. Winds were pretty breezy out of the North and despite a forecast that called for some sun it was pretty overcast and there was some rain in the area but we didn't get wet.
Sailed for about an 90 minutes with full main and genny and frequent hit over 6 knots. Then we did the "heave to" and reefed the main and were still able to maintain over 5 knots.
We stopped for lunch in Galesville, MD at Thursdays Steak and Crab House. Not too busy on a Thursday afternoon. We pulled out of the water around 2:00 since I had to get Stephen back into DC so he could get to his hotel and get cleaned up before his business dinner.
A very good day...I have now sailed with 6 members of this forum on my boat...who's next to come sailing with me on König?
Stephen at the helm:
Me on the dock at Thursdays:
And one video of us sailing: Sailign with Stephen Smith -- 4 Aug 2011
Cheers,
Jim
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