It's a small world. Here we are at Solomon’s Island up the Back Creek of the Pawtuxent River. A remote place for many people, but not so for cruisers. Barbara and Dave our friends on an Island Packet 420 from NEB told us about their friends who were in the Port Washington area (a few weeks ago) cruising south also. They told us in an email the name of their boat was Rigamarole. Since we didn’t go to Port Washington, Michele read the email and forgot about it because she thought, “we’ll probably never see them.” After Jenni reminded her that the Frost’s friends were cruising south too, she thought she should look at the email again and check out the name of the boat. When she mentioned it to Steve, he said, “We’ve seen that boat a bunch of times. As a matter of fact, they keep beating us to anchorages.” So when we pulled into Back Creek who do we see (again just beating us to the anchorage J) Rigamarole. So we introduced ourselves as we drove by them since we couldn’t anchor at the same spot (no room at the inn and our anchor wasn’t holding in the only tight spot we found.) Later that afternoon, Ray and Helen came by our boat and we had a glass of wine. The next night we went to their boat for wine and appetizers. As it turns out, Helen and Michele are both school teachers (with Master’s in Technology and Education from Lesley University) and Steve and Ray are both Technology/Software Engineers. It was really great meeting them and we look forward to seeing them again along the way – and we won’t mind if they beat us to the anchorage.
Well, that’s not even all. When we went ashore, we started chatting with a couple of guys outside the Laundromat and after a couple of minutes Steve realized that his friend Danny Sullivan had mentioned this guy to Steve before – and not even his name. He only mentioned that this guy at the Lynn Marina, used to have a Benneteau but sold it and bought a catamaran. This guy says he’s on the catamaran, Whisper and he’s from Boston area. Steve then asked him if he used to own a Benneteau and he did. So turns out to be the same guy and Ray also retired from the MBTA. Ray’s wife Patti is also a teacher. She took a leave last year to cruise, but is working this year. It’s all just very ironic. This cruising stuff is great! It’s funny how we keep bumping into familiar people along the way.
Today we will go ashore again and head out tomorrow to The Great Wicomico River approximately 35 south of here. I hope you will return to read our next adventure! Until next time…
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