2008

January 26
Chili Cook-off & Game Night
Lohman Landing

February 23
Mt Vernon Tour/Dinner
Mt Vernon, VA

March 16
Spring Member Meeting
Hellas Restaurant, Millersville, MD

April 13
Pentagon Memorial Tour and Brunch

May 3-4
Icebreaker
Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis

May 24-26
Memorial Day Weekend
Solomons Island and Hudson Creek

June 14-29
Two-week Cruise

June 21-22
Selby Bay Raft-up
Selby Bay, South River

July 4-6
4th of July Cruise
Quarter Cove and Leeds Creek

July 25-27
Catalina Yachts Rendezvous
Solomons Island

July 26-27
Purdy Point Raft-up

August 16-17
Crab Feast
Props Restaurant, Bodkin Creek

August 30-Sep 1
Labor Day Weekend
Grays Inn Creek and Corsica River

September 17-28
Oktoberfest
Lake Ogleton

October 11
Italian Feast
Yates Landing

October 25
Mill Creek Raft-up

November 8
Veterans' Day Cruise

November 15
Fall Member Meeting
Van Tassell Landing

December 6
Holiday Party
Nemecek Landing

Two-week Cruise

June 14-29

Twelve boats participated in all or part of this year's cruise:

• Ayewash
• Brunelle
• Lucia
• Illumination
• Mugwhump II
• Pekabu 3
• Prego
• Ragtime
• Sevilla
• Walkabout
• Wind Orchid
• Nomad (Powerboat guest)

The itinerary for the main bunch was:

Cookout at Solomons Landing

Dinner the second night in Solomons was at Stoney's

Enroute from Solomons to Smith Creek, Sevilla (left) and Illumination past Point No Point

Illumination

Ayewash and Pekabu

Pekabu

Traffic on the Bay

Wind Orchid, Ragtime, Walkabout and Mugwhump in Jutland Creek, off Smith Creek

Illumination

Pekabu

Sevilla

Ayewash

Walkabout

Happy Hour aboard Ayewash

The next day, we stop at Sandy Point in the Great Wicomico River

Mike coming back from walking Copper

Pekabu

Ayewash and Ragtime

Wind Orchid

Illumination

Sevilla and Pekabu

Sevilla and Pekabu

Ayewash weighing anchor to head for Tides Inn

The Fleet at the Tides Inn

Future CCYC Commodore...

...and his Vice Commodore

The first night, we had dinner at the Chesapeake Club Restaurant in the Tides Inn

Connie, Bob Klimek's daughter, celebrates her birthday

Taking the shuttle after dinner to the boats

The second night, we had a cookout at the gazebo at the pool

S'mores, anyone?

The third day, most of the fleet left and headed for Port Kinsale Marina in the Yeocomico River. Illumination and Nomad remained behind.

Linda and Tom, aboard Nomad

The helm aboard Miss Ann (charter out of the Tides Inn)

Flag station aboard Miss Ann

Miss Ann at night

Wind Orchid enroute to Port Kinsale

A different way to leave the boat

Gathering for a tour of Kinsale

Ragtime heading down the Patuxent River after leaving Solomons Island, enroute to the Choptank River

It was a little rough heading up the Bay

Brunelle heading up the Tred Avon River to Trippe Creek

Passing the strand off Oxford

Town Creek

Marie at the helm

Brunelle entering Trippe Creek

Trippe Creek

The Fleet off Deep Water Point

Prego and Brunelle rafted with Ayewash

Sevilla

The Fleet in Trippe Creek

Prego, Brunelle, Ayewash and Ragtime

We stayed a second night but Brunelle had to leave. (All the women hitched a ride to Oxford.)

Sevilla

Mugwhump

Sevilla

Ragtime returning from Oxford, after picking up the women

Mugwhump

Sevilla

No swimming this afternoon

Elizabeth weighing anchor aboard Mugwhump

Prego approaching Thomas Point Lighthouse

Entering Annapolis Harbor

Mugwhump and Ragtime moored in Annapolis Harbor

Ragtime

Pekabu

Optimists racing through the mooring field

Pekabu

The Woodwind, ala Wedding Crashers

Jeanne aboard Ragtime

Prego

Ayewash in Ego Alley in Annapolis