Compac Fleet assault on Tangier Island

[Mas]

We have a festival that we have been attending for the past 30+ years the weekend before but we could get turned around quickly and be on the water by Monday. Will keep those next few days open for Tangier. Bob23, I am sure PeterG will be on board to help with logistics. It is a shame that the "work" thing is a factor since you have been thinking about a Chesapeake cruise for a while and this could be a leg of it!

[HeaveToo]

Again, if you check Active Captain, there is a marina in Chrisfield.  There is also a public boat ramp! 
http://www.somerscovemarina.com/

If you are coming from the North but want to be on the West side of the Bay there are a few options.  Solomons Island has a bunch of Excellent marinas.  There is also a boat ramp at Point Lookout State Park (great little place to tuck into if you are looking to get near Point Lookout).  You could make Tangier Island from there in a day really easily (if it was a northern wind it could be a fun downwind ride).

So far we are saying that we will meet in Tangier on May 25.  We may meet up with other boats in the Great Wicimico on Tuesday, May 24.  Either which way we would sail over on May 25 to Tangier and take a slip in Parks Marina.

I need input from others who are interested.  So far I have NoMas and Saga going over.  Anyone else interested?

[Bob23]

Rick:  Work does  seems to spoil a lot of my fun plans.    I would llike to do this trip aboard my own ship or with somene else. I may just stoww away aboard Peter's boat if Becky doesn't go. In any event, I'm totally interested but I have no   local knowledge of the area. But I do bring to the table some wonderful rums!
Bob23

[HeaveToo]

Bob, I have plenty of the local knowledge.  Someone should be able to point you in the right direction for a marina etc. 

We would be glad to have you along!

[Mas]

Rick:  Work does  seems to spoil a lot of my fun plans.    I would llike to do this trip aboard my own ship or with somene else. I may just stoww away aboard Peter's boat if Becky doesn't go. In any event, I'm totally interested but I have no   local knowledge of the area. But I do bring to the table some wonderful rums!
Bob23

Hey Bob, I am sure we can figure something out. I am also sure that more folks will be chiming in as the spring weather arrives. Right now am up early with power flickering, hoping the truckload of bottles due yesterday makes it early today as we are bottling and will run out well before noon if not. Heave is the one along with
PeterG that have the best knowledge of the lower bay as it has been over two decades since we last had a boat there. Many things have not changed but many have and my old charts are well... old! New chart book on the way, not that I wasn't famous, much to Susan's dismay, for sailing off the chart at times. It was my I wanna be Christopher Columbus kinda thing, well actually he made a 2,500 miles navigational mistake. Anyway got plenty of time to figure this and I certain you will enjoy the lower Bay. Much more remote and unspoiled than the more traveled upper bay.

[Bob23]

Rick: Whatcha bottling?

[Tim Gardner]

Some damn Norwegian  sa da fra foam an bitter  la.

Snicker

[Mas]

Some damn Norwegian  sa da fra foam an bitter  la.

Snicker

Well Heave may have to weigh in on Norwegian brews as he has the Nordic ancestry! As far as our little brewery we make beer sometimes but that is just for us. We brew a fermented product known as Kombucha. Goggle, Mountain Culture Kombucha if interested. Bottles made it, all 10,000 of them!

Been hiding up on the mountain for the past week. Catching the Alpine sports before spring arrives and i get distracted by this boat thing!

[Bob23]

You are bringing some to Tangier, I assume!

[Mas]

Working out the details on installing taps with gimbaled kegs!

[Bob23]

I'm sure you'll figure out the solution to this most crucial of details.

[Mas]

Maybe instead of towing a dinghy i should construct a floating beer barge!

[HeaveToo]

He could always empty out the water tank and fill it with beer, or rum, or something good!

It would be nice to have a few of us going over to Tangier. 

If some of you all could get more time off we could always run up to Smith Island too!

[Bob23]

Restarting this a bit: Matt: How long do you envision this excursion will last? I would need to schedule time off from work. Are we talking about hanging out there for a while before sailing back? Where would we be starting from? I'm to the point that I'd like to do this but I do need to work it around other things that could interfere.
Bob23

[HeaveToo]

Bob, I am hoping some of the Deltaville Folks chime in for locations in the area of Deltaville. 

I was talking with meeting them in the Great Wicimico River the day before we head over and maybe raft up.  After that we would head over to Tangier Island.  This isn't a super long sail so we should get there mid-day.  I think the others were talking about staying the rest of that day and the next day in Tangier. 

I am open for heading over to Smith Island as a possibility after Tangier. 

You could also elect to launch out of Chrisfield, MD.  There are good marinas there and it is a short trip over to Tangier Island.  Heck, depending on how the wind blows me on my trip I could up over there at some point. 

So far the plans is to meet in Tangier on May 25.  We would be gathering in the area May 24.

If anyone wants to weigh in on this one I would throw out there the possibility of hitting Smith Island on May 26.

It depends on how you want to schedule it and plan it.  I will be drifting around the Chesapeake for 2-3 weeks during that time period so you want to spend longer time out there you can always follow along.