Day 4 - Another Rippin Sailing Day - Into Baltimore

Fairlee creek was really a great place but we got up and going early to get Darrin back. The prediction was for almost no wind but we got out and had steady 10+ knots so Darrin sailed us back to Middle River. He has a somewhat unconventional command style at the wheel - "I am going to point the boat where I want to go and you guys fix the sails to go there". Turns out this works fine and we had a nice sail to Middle River to drop Darrin off.

Next, we headed out to the Bay to discover kicking 17 + knot winds and screamed down to the Patapsco River and turned up into Baltimore. I was consistently above the max hull speed of the boat on the way down and hit 7.1 but not quite Steve's record of 7.3. He was helpfully adjusting the sails each time I got close but for some reason we would slow a bit and I couldn't break the record.

Here is Steve at the wheel coming into Baltimore.

The Patapsco is very industrial and not nice as some of the other places we have now been but we got to sail past the Pride of Baltimore.

We also got to sail in past the guns of Ft. McHenery into the harbor.

We spent the night in the inner harbor in the shadow of the new Legg Masson building.



Steve's work buddy, John, met up with us and gave us a great tour of Fells Point including an fantastic dinner at Bertha's (Eat Bertha's Muscles) with follow on drinks at Max's.

Tomorrow we turn south towards Deale.