[Alberg30] Valency On The Hard

[R C Alley]

mmeinhold at toadmail.com wrote:

>   My brother-in-law and I took Valency down to Herrington Harbor in Deale this 
>past Saturday.  The sail was great- on a 20 mile beam reach with 14-19 knots, 
>we averaged more than 7 knots. That average leaves out the time we were stuck 
>on the bottom at both ends! 
>
>   The tide was midway up when we left Podickory, but because of the days of 
>west wind, it was still 2 feet or more below normal low. I knew we would have 
>trouble getting out, and we were on the bottom for an hour. When the tide came 
>up, we were able to sail off.
>
>   In Deale, we first went to HH South to pump the holding tank. Getting up to 
>Deale harbor we hit bottom in the channel, but got through. At the mouth of the 
>harbor we got stuck hard, in the channel. A powerboat pulled us off, and we 
>poked in the rest of the way. 
>
>  We made several approaches to the alley the slip was in and kept running out 
>of water.  We finally found a deeper channel, and were cruising along at 3 
>knots when we abruptly hit something hard and passed over it - I think it was a 
>piling on the bottom. I will be interested in seeing the keel!
>
>Did anyone else go sailing on the Chesapeake this weekend and do some sounding?
>
>Mike
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Naaaah. I couldn't get out of the slip--dredged to 6 feet.

Rob

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