SUMMER SOLSTICE SAILING
JUNE 19 – 22, 2025
Early Board June 18
ROCK HALL, RHODE RIVER, HERRINGTON HARBOUR, GIBSON ISLAND
Welcome aboard for a relaxing summer solstice weekend with easy sailing and a stay at Herrington Harbor. We have submitted a request for great weather, and as usual for the summer solstice weekend, our request is sure to be granted.
Plan on arriving in Rock Hall on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 18, to stow gear and head out to dinner at one of the favorite spots in Rock Hall.
Thursday morning, after our skippers meet and give the go-ahead, we will head out on to the Chesapeake for a 25 nm sail to the Rhode River, where we will anchor and have our traditional raft up appetizer-dinner party. It’s the summer solstice weekend, so bring your best ideas for appetizers that represent the glory of the longest day of the year. Enter the contest for the best summer appetizer. Prizes are guaranteed to be useless!
Friday morning will be another early departure as we head down to our Sailing Club favorite – Herrington Harbor – where we will find an Olympic-size pool, a beach, lounge chairs, picnic areas, and more. We will decide as a group if we want to have a barbecue or go out to dinner.
Herrington Harbour South Marina
After our relaxing visit to Herrington Harbor, we will leave on Saturday for a 26 nm sail into the Magothy River and our anchorage at Gibson Island. Our summer solstice celebration will be a group dinner aboard. Laughs, good friends, and food will be in plentiful supply. Instead of each boat preparing its own dinner, we will have a potluck across both boats and have a group dinner onboard. Sunset is at 8:35 p.m. that day, so we have plenty of daylight hours to enjoy the ambience.
Sunday morning, we will pull up anchor and sail back to Rock Hall to once again say goodbye to friends until next time.
The Boats
Two identical boats have been reserved from Haven Charters. Both have three cabins and two heads and, while docked, air conditioning.
(Click the image, below, for more boat information)
The cost of this trip is $850.00 per person (Skippers and Trip Leader - $442.00). The price includes charter fees and slip fees for one night. Provisioning, fuel, pump-out, any additional mooring fees, dinners ashore, and other incidentals are additional and will be handled by each boat’s crew.
The deposit for this trip is $100.00. Please make your check payable to The Sailing Club, Inc. and mail it, along with your completed two-page Reservation/Release Form, to Eleanor Popolizio at the address below. Reservations will be processed beginning April 14, 2025 with a random draw of those received by that date. All reservations received after that date are on a first come, first served basis. A final payment of $750.00 is due on May 5, 2025. The Club’s standard thirty-day cancellation policy applies for this event. Please review the Club’s trip signup procedure and policies in the Trip Information Package.
A pre-trip meeting will be held a couple of weeks before the trip, at a time and place to be announced. All crewmembers should make every effort to attend in order to meet your crewmates, plan your meals, and make travel plans.
Trip Leader
Eleanor Popolizio
43 Mount Pleasant Pkwy
Livingston, NJ 07039
973-896-3247
elpopolizio@gmail.com
Assistant Trip Leader
Bob Rainey
2006 South Branch Drive
Whitehouse Station NJ 08889
908-872-9101
rjraineyjr@aol.com
Please note that sailing conditions are dynamic, that your safety, and that of your crewmates, depends on your good physical health and agility.
