Town Creek Reunion |
I had originally planned to leave for the ICW
on September 26, but in early September old friends Ray and Marla Dils
invited all of the old Town Creek Landing slip holders to their house on the
South River for a party the weekend of Oct 2. I couldn't pass up a
chance to see old friends together again after nearly ten years. I
also wanted to see the Dils' new home they built on the South River.
I started cruising the Chesapeake with these friends from Town Creek Landing almost 30 years ago when most of us were slip-holders at Zahniser's Sailing Center in Solomons. In the late 1970s five of the couples in this group purchased a small, run-down marina across the Patuxent River from Solomons. They refurbished the marina, mostly using their own labor, and subsequently moved most of the boats on Zahniser's A dock to Town Creek Landing. I was in the process to moving to Newport, RI at the time so I was not among the original residents of the marina. However, I did move Vela Llena, my Columbia 8.7, to the marina in 1984 when I returned to the Chesapeake area. For over ten years we created an informal cruising club, sailing nearly every weekend to some Chesapeake harbor or anchorage. Most of us used the marina facilities year-round. Even in the winter we would come to our boats and have a party in the club house. By 1996 many of this group had either moved away, left boating or passed away. This party was our first reunion and hopefully not the last. |
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Pictures of the Dils' yacht can be seen at Seiki II |
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