[C320-list] C320-list Digest, Vol 3739, Issue 1

[Mark Hagerty]

Scott - 

We’re on Forked Creek, off the Magothy (Belvedere Yacht Club). would love to see more 320’s at the Wednesday night MRSA races (next year!)

Mark Hagerty
S/V Arrivederci
1996, Hull #326

> On Jun 5, 2020, at 10:33 PM, Scott Thompson <surprise at thompson87.com> wrote:
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> Bev, there have been rendezvous meetings of the association several times on the Chesapeake in Solomons and Annapolis. Nothing too recent however. Last year we tried to arrange a fall 320 cruise but weather and personal schedules kept interfering.
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> Personally, my wife and I are at high risk for Covid-19 and so will be avoiding raft ups this year. However its a great idea for the future if we can do it safely and get it organized.
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> We are on Cattail Creek, just off the Magothy and there are at least two other 320s on the same creek. We are headed out this weekend for a cruise and hope to get to La Trappe (my absolute favorite place on the Chesapeake!) but will need to depart from there before you arrive in order to get back home on time to meet work commitments.
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> Scott Thompson
> Surprise, #653
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> On 6/5/2020 7:39 PM, Bev Wright wrote:
>> Thanks to Kevin Rooney and Jeff Hare respectively for bringing to our
>> attention the FB Catalina 320 Owners and the Catalina 320 International
>> Association groups. I just signed up for  both. I was not aware of them and
>> never thought to search FB for them because of the list.  I am on FB almost
>> every day for social reasons, to check on my friends and extended family
>> with whom I would not be in contact otherwise, so I appreciate the social
>> function these pages and groups can serve to bring people together and to
>> share things not appropriate for the list, e.g., recent cruises, rendezvous,
>> raftups, etc. Not everyone is a member of the email group and not everyone
>> is a member of FB, so the more methods of contact the better. The email
>> group seems to be mostly about fixing issues or technical stuff, not social
>> things. No one is forced to join either but both methods, just like boats,
>> have their place, their benefits and of course drawbacks.
>> 
>> What did occur to me from this conversation is that there are C-320 owners
>> on the Chesapeake Bay, some in neighboring marinas, like Kevin in Shipwright
>> Harbor, who I wasn't aware were there because if the threads are about a
>> problem I don't have and want nothing to do with (ha ha!), I delete it.  I'm
>> at Herrington Harbour North, as are other owners I've met who are not on
>> this list. I got s/v Whoosh (1993 #15) in 2014 so maybe prior to that there
>> was an active rendezvous group like the C-400 group on the Bay. I haven't
>> heard of any local Chesapeake Bay C-320 rendezvous or raftup weekends. I
>> only met Allan Field, C-320 Emeritus, last year on my dock when he was
>> visiting someone else.
>> 
>> So, if the FB groups are a place to chat about where people are sailing and
>> maybe find each other nearby, I think that's great.
>> 
>> Weather permitting, I'm leading a cruise to La Trappe Creek the weekend of
>> 6/13-14 with the Herrington Harbour Sailing Association if Kevin or anyone
>> is nearby and wants to drop their hook and join our party by dinghy. (See,
>> this is what I would normally post on FB, LOL!)
>> 
>> Bev Wright
>> 1993 C-320 "Whoosh" #15
>> Deale, MD (Chesapeake Bay, HHN)
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