SIGMACHI... Views from the Crew-- Return from Absence: Cruise Contemplated for Lower Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay and Crisfield...Etc.

Greetings from Alan aboard SIGMACHI at Nabbs Creek Marinia near the mouth of the Patapsico River in Chesapeake Bay Country!

Sept 29 was a day of memories!  It was both my 75th birthday and our 4th  anniversary of Jeanne & my public wedding ceremony. (We legally were married on the 28th in the Anne Arundel County Court House Chapel.)

The third memorial event was a visit to my neurosurgeon,  Dr. Charles Sansur, at the Univ of Maryland Medical Center.   

I slipped on the ice last Feb or March attempting to put bird seed in our bird feeder.  My back has been agitating me ever since..."No good deed goes unpunished!"

We were supposed to leave for a month cruise yesterday (Friday) but it will be Monday now. Jeanne has a bunch of real estate paper work to do...

I'm at the boat getting ready to cast off on Monday with Jeanne for Crisfield, MD for the J. Millard Tawes Memorial Crab Feast on the 13th of Oct.  That should take about three days to get there from our slip near Baltimore.  However, we always allow for weather days  and side trips! 

After Crisfield we are going to cruise various Eastern Shore rivers of the Chesapeake Bay for a few weeks before heading back to Nabbs Creek Marina.

Our highlights, so far, this cruising season, have included  a late Spring cruise to an AGLCA sanctioned and Curtis Stokes  sponsored "cruise-in" at the beautiful St. Michael's Marina.  Both before and after that two day destination we anchored in classical scenic Chesapeake Bay Country spots that included the Wye River, Langford Creek, and the Corsica River.

A second cruise this Summer took us to the predictably hospitable Olverson's Lodge Creek Marina located on the Northern Neck of Virginia...just 14 miles up the Potomac River from Smith Point.  The Lodge Creek Yacht Club's annual crab feast was the first ever without Olverson's and LCYC "front man," Fred Olverson.  "Freddy Bear " passed away this year suddenly...

A third member of the SIGMACHI crew was with us on both the St. Michael's and Olverson's cruise; native of  Chestertown heritage... Eloise Hudson masterfully organized the vessel and did yeoman deck and line handling!

September Jeanne and I took a short voyage of five miles to the Maryland Yacht Club which hosted the National Rendezvous of the MTOA.  Over 40 member boats were there! Cherri Thornton Connor, Don Connor, Sue Bartlet and co-captain Chuck Bartlett  along with so many other MTOA volunteers (and MYC volunteers [including Carl Treff]) made this memorable event possible! A surprise visitor for the Crew of SIGMACHI during the Rendezvous was Capt. Holly Stahle of the Bodkin Creek Yacht Club!

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I just found out on Thursday (my birthday) that my slip and  "crash fall" on ice... back in Feb or March of this year broke the bottom sections of the two titanium rods in my back and the neurosurgeon (tops in his field!) will repair them on Nov 3rd.  That will end my boating for this year!  3-5 days at University of Maryland Medical Center  and maybe a couple of weeks at the Univ of Maryland Kernan  Rehabilitation Center.

I have to get mobil by Feb 2nd 'cause Jeanne has back surgery with the same neurosurgeon!

We shall see what we shall see about going to the 1,000 Islands and Canada (and farther?) next Springtime and Summer to expand our America's Great Loop aspirations.  Hope the Erie Canal opens early and that the Canadian border is letting American yachts enter!

All for now...

Tight Lines!

Alan
Alan & Jeanne Cecil
M/V SIGMACHI 
(AGLCA, MTOA, LCYC, & RMHYC)

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