S/V Symphony

Hole One, Georgetown Harbor

On entering Georgetown Harbor I immediately recognized Jay of Merrimar Yacht Basin climbing off his boat into a dinghy and heading over to Eleanor M.  He welcomed us to Georgetown, pointed out a possible anchoring spot, and invited us to a barbecue on the beach that night.  Keeping up with social commitments at Georgetown can be a full time job!

The Atlantic from atop the dunes outside Georgetown Harbor

That night on the beach he invited us to partner with Marsha & Jeff, his newly arrived guests, in a game of trivial pursuit.  The next morning our neighbor, Tom, aboard an Oyster 47, was kind enough to draw us some maps and give us an orientation to the area.  We also explored holes number one, two, and three – small harbors for small groups of boats.  The shallowest harbor had catamarans and houseboats.  Hole number one has a “blue hole” in it but we couldn’t find it.  Tom told us that Jacques Cousteau had dived in the blue hole and had emerged from a grotto on the other side of the island.   Using Tom’s map we went for a hike up some high dunes overlooking the harbor and the Atlantic Ocean.

Our first official Georgetown Regatta event took place at the St. Francis Resort.  We had dinner with Jay, Debra, Marsha and Jeff and then settled down to the serious business of competition.  We quickly determined that our team had no business participating in a Trivial Pursuit contest that was geared to the theme of Georgetown Regatta Week:  Cowboy Boots & Bathing Suits.  We missed relatively easy questions like: Who wrote 27 novels about the Old West.  (Zane Grey)  I offered up Truman Capote as the answer.  We were heartened when we did get some right but we got a good laugh about most of the questions that were way beyond our limited abilities.  It turned out to be a fun night.