News and Articles Contributed by HPYC Members
By Joann and Seth Sheriff -HPYC Members
Our Cruise to Rhode Island and Encounter with Hurricane Irene
We left HPYC at 4:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 in order to catch a favorable current through the C & D Canal and then down the Delaware Bay. We arrived at Cape May late that evening. The next day we sailed up the New Jersey coast, into Absecon Inlet (Atlantic City) and motored through the ICW and anchored behind Surf City. Friday morning we sailed out Barnegat Inlet. Read Full Article and view photos
Contributed by Rollyn Trueblood -HPYC Member
Boat Handling: Taking a Boat into Open Water is Serious Business
A person said, “running down wind in up to six foot seas in a 30 foot cruiser we encountering the problem that the boat for no overt reason, would turn violently parallel to the trough and almost tip over." Clearly what they were describing is what is known as "broaching," a condition in which a boat runs down the crest of wave, gathering speed, and as it meets the backside of the next wave ahead, buries its bow in that wave. Read Full Article and view photos
Jeffrey S. Wettig -Harrisburg Sailing Examiner & HPYC Member
I love a good story about saving a neglected boat.
It warms my heart that someone, somewhere, is taking the time and effort to bring a decaying, dilapidated, water logged, long forgotten vessel back from the land of the lost. Somebody, at some point, had grand visions of dashing adventure upon the open seas on their new, or at least new to them, floating paradise in the sun.