the Chesapeake: Harness Creek and La Trappe Creek, by Jack

Posted by Jack

 10/5/19

 Yesterday (the 4th) we were in Harness Creek, a real cool little harbor with three small coves in the harbor.  We paddle-boarded around the coves.  In the biggest one, there was a derelict sailboat with the name Decoy.  It wasn't anchored; it was aground. In the middle of the night it broke loose and drifted across the cove only to run aground again. 
        We made our stand-up paddle board into a sail boat.  We went pretty fast when we got a gust of wind, and then we would have to paddle the boat upwind (the mast was the paddle) since it would only sail downwind.  After padding upwind, then we would put up the mast and sails up again and sail downwind.

Yesterday, we did a rough sail to La Trappe Creek.  We broke the personal record for speed on our boat- we did eleven knots!  That's double how fast we go while motoring and that's also about double a mono-hull can go in those winds.  The wind was blowing at twenty knots with gusts to thirty. For the last hour I got pretty sea sick, which is odd because I'm the one who normally never gets sea sick. 

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