Excursion to Gibson Island
Sails Up!
Our first overnight excursion was to Gibson Island, almost directly across the Chesapeake from Rock Hall. We had some good wind to get over there, so good in fact that we used reefed sails, meaning they weren’t completely unfurled. That makes them smaller for sailing in high wind. We probably could have fully unfurled them but we were being cautious with our new boat. Still, we got the Good Karma up to 6 knots, which is 6.6 mph. Doesn’t sound fast but for a 23,000 pound sailboat, we were hauling!
Gibson Island is completely private with mondo expensive houses lining the shoreline. You can’t go ashore but you can anchor anywhere you want on the water. That’s one of the cool things about sailing, you can hang out in the “backyards” of the ritziest neighborhoods, and that is true just about everywhere we’ve been around the world.
This was our first experience with our anchor system as well. The anchor is much larger and heavier than what we’ve used in the past so we’re getting used to that as well. Soon I’m sure we’ll be experts.
We anchored near what is known as the “horse farm,” see pic below. This is a large horse ranch in an urban area. How many of those do you ever see?
The “Horse Farm”
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From D.C. We drove and took ferries, didn’t sail, but C. Bay is filled with history – try Smith and Tangier Islands, and the port of Oxford.