July 2, 2005

Hard to believe this is the last report for Long cruise 2005.
Our scouts had a great day of sailing today. They had great winds and 
sailed up to Langford Creek, a spot we really liked last year. Lat 39 
08' Long 76 11'.

They are moored out for the night, and they have been swimming and 
otherwise having a great time. All I could hear in the background was 
laughing and carrying on... Longrider stayed on with our crew for one 
more night. I understand they will be heading home from the Chester 
River tomorrow.

They saved the jambalaya and chocolate pie for tonight, so Skip feels 
fairly certain they'll be jet powered tomorrow. The sky was beautiful 
this evening, and the sunset was wonderful. I hope they got some 
pictures. 

A little friendly sailing competition occurred today with the good ship 
Delphinus crew deciding to steal the wind away from the good ship 
Resolute. Skip said he told them it wasn't a good idea to do this (yeah, 
right). However, the crew of the Resolute decided to respond with 
papertowel-wad gunfire as Delphinus went by. I guess they took the PVC pipe 
used for the bimini top and made blow guns out of it. Wouldn't have been 
much, but I gathered Jarod and Josh were actually able to hit Ezra with 
one of these paper towel wads...

 When I asked about advancement, Skip said that he's been signing off on 
advancement at almost every free moment. So it sounds like we'll have 
some great progress on ranks. 
 
Tomorrow they will be leaving early in the morning, but they likely 
won't arrive till mid to late afternoon. Once they arrive there will be 
quite a bit of work to clear the boats and then clean them before the 
scouts can leave.