4th of July Round-up

A huge turnout for the annual Kid’s Fishing Tournament kicked off our 4th of July Nautical holiday events, and the Nautical/PatrioticTheme Scavenger Hunt created great family fun! We had 14 teams participate to complete 21 “missions” in 90 minutes, while braving brutally hot conditions! Smiles all around though! The teams competing in the hunt, found items around Wexford, answered questions regarding US history and nautical lore, and did sometimes-silly performances! Great fun for the whole family, check it out next year!

The winning teams were:

1 — “Nova” with 6170 points

2 — “We Thought This Was Bingo” with 5980

3 — “SeaCasa” with 5745

Team Nova (the Tokarski family) gets the name-on-the-trophy 1st prize! The Sewells and Hallorans (Team We Thought This Was Bingo) came at #2 were very creative, and SeaCasa (the Casagrande family) came in third, just missing a 3-peat performance, having won the past two years!

Special shout-out to Commodore Steve Duvall for creating all the content for the hunt!

Savannah Yacht Club Excursion

Happy Wexford boaters at the Savannah Yacht Club! The group docked here overnight and enjoyed the Club’s amenities before heading to Jekyll Island for a twonight stay.

Bohicket Weekend Excursion

Six stalwart boats (and crews) braved stormy skies, rain showers, and strong tides to make their way to Bohicket Marina, a “3-hour tour” up the Intracoastal Waterway to near Kiawah Island (OK, the sun came out too...). Their adventurism was rewarded with great camaraderie, delicious food and copious shopping in a really neat out-of-the-way place!

Bohicket sits on a lovely creek off of the Edisto River, and includes Fresh Fields Village that has shops and restaurants. There are also condos, inns and houses to rent, some of which were used by Wexford members who either rode along on one of the boats going up or drove there. True to the Wexford Yacht Club mantra: You don’t need a boat to participate in your Yacht Club’s activities!

The six boats were:

To The Max (John and Amy Presley)

Worth The Wait (Marty and Cheryl Hahn)

Run A Muck (Kevin and Carol Franklin)

Now and Zen (Graham and Carolyn Dillaway)

Hattrick (Mark and Jean Garrell)

Dynamite III (Joe and Nancy Walsh)

Grant and Peggy Saunders, Andy and Whitney Wilson and John and Kathy Patterson hitched a ride on a boat, while Mark and Midge Crist drove up to meet the flotilla at the dock. Paul and Karen Klasing drove up as well.

Those not staying on boats had great accommodations at The Andell Inn in Fresh Fields Village. Sunday evening was the highlight of the trip with dinner at the 48 Wine Bar & Kitchen, which took great care of the WYC!

(See photos on Page 20)