Krogen Rendezvous!!!

The Krogen Rendezvous!!  The much anticipated Krogen Party of the year for anyone who has a Krogen and the occasional SOB (some other boat).  Solomon Maryland's Calvert Marina is the site for the Rendezvous, and the destination of all the Krogens we have seen the past several days.

 
 We picked up the anchor at 7am, just behind the two Krogen whalebacks, and headed to Solomon’s.  It was a 7 hour run straight down the bay, passing the nuclear power plant, liquid gas terminal and a light house.  We were passed by several large power boats and a loaded cargo ship but stayed well out of the channel, tying up at the south dock of the two Krogen docks at Calvert Marine around 2pm. It felt really great getting K2F to the dock as this was the first time we had done the Rendezvous on our own bottom.  Dock hands were standing by to help with lines, and it helped that we did not run into anyone while approaching the dock.   A mile stone!!!  We made it!!!

K2F awaiting its neighbor

 Several hours later a Krogen 44 filled in across from us and it was our turn to belly up.  With a lot of hands, fenders and lines, we were in position in about 30 minutes.   The dockage was arranged in such a way that the stern of each boat was tied to a dock, Mediterranean style, and the bow's pointed toward each other, much like sardines in a can.We ended up docked between Papillon and Jeremiah and across from Zingara and Journey.

K2F Snuggled in for the next 5 days

The rest of the day was spent meeting people and checking in with the Krogen Cruisers group set up on the picnic tables and then to the Marina Office to pay our dock bill and pick up forwarded mail from home.  The marina has a lending library so we replenished our books and at the Rendezvous sign up, gained four more Tervis insulated mugs, 2 from John Deere and 2 from Krogen Cruisers!  Yippy!  Soon it was time for dinner but Bob kept finding people to talk to, including spending an hour with Steve Zimmerman, in whose boatyard we plan on having work done while we are in California.  Finally we had dinner, showers and to bed at 10:30.  What happened to early to bed?

The pack gets bigger