Cruise to Cobb Island, June 9-11, 2000

What a beautiful weekend for a cruise down the Potomac River to Cobb Island. A few OYCer's got an early start and met up on Friday night, and the rest trailed in on Saturday. On Friday afternoon, Walt and Susan Cheatham on Walt's on Water cruised down alongside Ned and Arleen Rhodes on Impulse, but had to make an unexpected detour to Aquia Harbour due to technical difficulties. However, they arrived Saturday morning, not looking the least bit like Bent-Prop-Award-2000 candidates!

It was a relatively tame weekend, by OYC standards. The usual suspects, and, I'm pleased to report, a few new members, were on hand to celebrate Cobb Island Days. OYC was represented by a dozen or so boats, and about 30 members and their guests. Laslo and Linda Bozoky arrived on Hot Schatz, Walt and Susan Cheatham on Walt's on Water, Tim and Beth Chaffin on their new Mutants on the Bounty, Jim and Carol Henry on Going Nowhere, Jim and Brenda Johnson on Co-Motion, Andrew and Liz Kalweit on Lizzie Bitz, Bob and Nancy Miller on Lee Anne II, Ned and Arleen Rhodes on Impulse, Rick and Teresa Sorrenti on their new Sea Duck Too, Barbara Swengel with her mom, Loretta, on T&T, Rudy and Cookie Zimpel on Cocolobo, Steve Zimpel and Gail Dinkin on Emerald Lady, plus guests, dogs, assorted critters, and some really neat kids.

OYCers spent the weekend enjoying the Cobb Island Days' celebration, boat-hopping, searching for shade (a rare commodity, unless you happen to own one of the wooded lots on the island), enjoying the local festivities, and, after sundown, doing things that I won't even mention because this is a family-oriented web-site.

Very special thanks to Walt Cheatham for organizing the event for OYC; he did a terrific job, and I hope by the time this was posted, he will have "figured out the money" (nudge to Nabil Dubraque).