We celebrated Annette’s birthday on board Magnolia on not one but two weekends. Last weekend Carol & Tony Haager joined us for an afternoon sail and lunch underway.  As you can guess we had a full house.    This weekend we were joined by Carol & Barry Reid, Lori & Mark Ragan plus Meg & Tripp Davis.

In-spite of the high temperatures,  the whole gang seemed to have a great time though!  We look forward to sharing Magnolia with more friends and family soon.

We were finally able to assemble the crew (Friend Jill from Pentagon Sailing Club and Cousin Dan McAndrews) of Magnolia for our shake-down cruise. The initial plan was to head over to St. Michaels, MD (eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay) for a late lunch and be back to our homeport of Galesville MD before night fall.

Unfortunately the wind did not cooperate as well as we hoped so we came up a bit short of St. Michaels. None the less we were able to find a pleasant little cove in the Eastern Bay which made for a great temporary anchorage to Barbeque some lunch.

Of course there needed to be a post cruise celebration. Unfortunately, Jill the responsible one needed to go and study for her doctorate exams or something. That simply left Dan, Annette and I to celebrate our conquest….which we did!

I am completely jealous! On this BEAUTIFUL NOT A CLOUD in the sky day with a slight breeze,. I just got into a car with family in route to NYC. Enjoy!

“Magnolia is Underway and Bound For Sea”, well for a ride on the bay atleast!!!

Have a happy and safe 4th, plus one wooooo-raahhhhh for our service members.

A**2