So yesterdayday I sailed from Baltimore most of the way to Annapolis with a new acquisition. A Bayliner Buccaneer 240. Twenty-four feet of fiberglass. A freebie. It was a good sail. For a while. Then, in some semblance of chronological order:

Jibed in the middle of the Patapsco, almost capsized
Entire crew of large US Navy vessel watching and laughing
Wind and seas were twice what the NWS predicted and announced
Motor died at Smallwood Strait
Grounded at White Rocks
Towed off rocks by Riviera Beach VFD Fire Boat
Turned custody over to Coast Guard
Boarded and searched
Multiple federal citations for missing safety equipment
Looked like a moron
My son will likely never go sailing with me again
Left boat at yacht club on Stoney Creek, MIGHT go back and get it today...

Nah, I will.

But a piece of advice kiddos: Never set foot on a boat unless there are approved flotation devices for each person, some sort of hailing device, a fire extinguisher, and if you go more than 2 miles from any shore, aerial flares, the proper notification placards, and a waste management plan.

I am so boned. But all in all not a bad day! Cheers!


Baltimore Skyline Leaving Fells Point

dahahahaha

What type of fine are you looking at ?

Dunno, they issue a boarding report and let the local Magistrate issue the citations. Could be a correct and inspect order, could be $10K and suspension of my boating license. Time will tell.

Fuck.

Hope the magistrate doesnt have the whole trip report...and you dont have priors that relate.

Is that a hat from Australia?

The lawmakers in your neck of the woods have no sense of adventure!

Yup, it's a Barmah from Mosh's last trip. My favorite sailing hat. And it ain't my neck of the woods, these are Coast Guard regs. No priors so we'll see. At least they didn't randomly board me, if they had they would have terminated my voyage and pulled my card. And they were pretty cool, if it had been SoFL I'd have likely lost my boat. So I'm not too concerned.

Well then, woods in the global sense, I suppose.

Good luck with the fight against the man, cheese brother.

If anyone's interested, I used Google Maps to track the roads next to what I think was
Aaron's progress.

How close did I get, sir?

Aaron's progress is, by the way, nothing like Pilgrim's Progress.

I would have liked to see him sailing down Fort Smallwood Rd

I would have liked to see him sailing down Fort Smallwood Rd

I will punch you in the face, Nick!

made 'ya edit

I will punch you in the face, Nick!

Close. Start at the "Y" in "Little Italy". Follow it down the water, over the Ft McHenry tunnel, over the Harbor Tunnel Thruway, under the Key Bridge, and then to the letter "C" at White Rocks. If you follow the beach from White Rocks back into Rock Creek, the first north facing point is where I left her. If you follow the beach around White Rocks  and up the middle branch of Bodkin Creek, all the way at the end on Maywood Road is where I needed to go. Basically just across Ft Smallwood road.

So close...

 When a friend of mine was in the Coast Guard his ship's crew used to receive many generous donations of freshly captured sea-life. Apparently this works wonders regarding random inspections.

 ...unless you're a one-handed heroin-addicted Russian, with strange ideas about how to maintain a ship's propeller shaft, I guess.

I now hang my head in shame....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33306877/ns/local_news-baltimore_md/

My mom has been dead for 10 years, towing me off of some rocks hardly constitutes a rescue, but the rest is pretty much true...

ZOMG! This is what the rescue looked like, isn't it...

Cant be, they have saftey gear.

Zoomie, feel lucky that that the write up does not paint you as sailing dope of the week.

or

Good thing you live in such a voilent area; on a slow day here, you would have had the TV crews waiting for you onshore and city councilors would be screaming for you to pay all costs.

No no, go ahead everyone. I earned this. It was the supreme bonehead move to go out underpowered and without PFDs...

I've already gotten two phone calls from friends to bust my balls. That's how I found out about the write up.

Journalism: False, but accurate.

So if your mom is dead, who called the Coast Guard?

Oh man. Time to start selling your asshole.

Detroit sends his condolences. Keep us updated

Jeez Zoomie, you look like Robert Englund in that pic....cover Sakhi's eyes or take the pic down unless you wanna start giving the kids nightmares.

One... two... Zoomie's comin' for you...

From now on, I shall call you distressed boater.

One... two... Zoomie's comin' for you...

Hahaha....that was pretty funny, I must admit.

From now on, I shall call you distressed boater.

That's my native American name...

Wow dude! First Cops, now this! You're famous!

I was on COPS? Wow, how'd I look?

Bear in mind I have the memory of a flea...