Captain Joe's Birthday Party

This was the week of one of the worst heat waves (especially in the central US) we have had.  

I had Thursday and Friday off to work on another project (you'll see more on that later on), so we headed down to Rock Hall in the middle of Friday afternoon, aiming to avoid the hottest part of the day, yet still get there in time for Captain Joe's 50th birthday party.  His wife, Angie, had sent us all invitations a few weeks earlier.  The event was to take place at the picnic tables just off the A/B dock.

We got there to find it was basically a B-Dock party.  Yes, it was hot, but we had a wonderful breeze and with the shade trees, it was pleasant.  Angie had designed a great spread that didn't require either any grilling nor any ice.  There were gallon jugs of rum and a cooler filled with ginger beer so Dark and Stormy was the drink of the evening (I think there was a vodka punch as well).

Captain Gary had returned for the festivities and tagging along with him was Brian Winters (who had sold most of us boats).

The only problem was that there was this one dude who was clearly making moves on Vicky... flashing his smile, etc. ... next thing I look over and she's feeding him... then they absconded away to go play around the kayaks together.

Anyway....

After the party we retired to Seas The Day to first sleep off the Dark and Stormys and then headed to bed for the night.

We originally had plans to have a couple of Vicky's friends from her International Women's Group go sailing with us on Saturday but that fell through due to a twisted ankle and some other issues.  Given the expected heat index, that turned out to be good.

Upon waking up on Saturday morning a quick check of the weather confirmed that the heat index/"real feel" temp was heading north of 95 by mid-morning.  So I went for my sunrise walk, wrote an email to an old colleague and then after breakfast we packed up and headed home.

I was not upset about not being able to sail in this heat.  For the past few weeks i've been working in the background to acquire an old Allen GW4 Theater Organ (I took years of pop organ lessons as a kid) and convert my photo studio sunroom into a nicer space.  It had finally been installed Thursday, so this gave me the weekend to dig into the new instrument.