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Memo from the Master

Ahoy Fellow Corinthians!
The big news is Annual Cruise date
Fair winds and following seas!
John

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November News

The Corinthians Annual Cruise 2025 – Maine:  The Penobscot & Acadia

How do you follow up on a “Floating Opera / Carnival Afloat“ -- the literary references I invoked when writing about the 2024 Corinthians Annual Cruise?   Simple:  A Moveable Feast.
Last November, I was quietly recovering at Mt Snow from the hubbub of getting Onward settled for the winter when I found myself thrust by as  phone call into the role of assisting 2025 Annual Cruise Chairman, Bill Burnham, in planning.   The beginnings were quite charming:  Peggy and I sharing a Thanksgiving dinner with Alice and Bill at a quiet colonial era Vermont Inn in front of a blazing fire while a blizzard obscured the mountains and forest.  Bill had formed a general idea for the cruise being centered on the Penobscot and including a time at Mount Desert Island.   From those nuclei the plan for the Cruise evolved – a bit like a drunken spiderweb. 

 
The recently conducted Corinthians Membership Preferences & Insights Survey responses gave us good insight into Members’ interests.  From this we developed a set of general goals:  (1) visit ports & anchorages that would give a wide sailing experience of quintessential Maritime Maine;  (2) provide at least three venues for group fests (at launch, finale, and enroute);  (3) provide several quiet anchorages to be be able catch up with old and make new friends during informal cocktail and dinner parties; (4)  tap into available local social and cultural events ongoing along the route; (5) enable the Fleet to be comfortable, remain coherent, and simply enjoy sailing in each other’s company in safety.  When the challenges of moving, accommodating, engaging and entertaining a fleet of about 30 boats and 90 people for a week or more were added in, the planning task was quite formidable.  We used the ClubExpress survey tool with skippers who expressed interest in the Cruise to further inform planning.  Several web-based tools were employed in both planning and cruising:  a SMS text messaging tool was used to send important information and updates to all in real time; the Cluster photos app was again used to gather photos during the cruise; a Who We Are webpage was created for each yacht and crew to provide a brief bio with photos to help break down inter-personal barriers and form a more coherent Fleet of Friends.
And then – it seems nobody was home in Maine to make business arrangements with during the winter! 
But, the intrepid planners prevailed!   The Cruise was extended to 10 days and launch moved to a Thursday to deal with several venue scheduling limitations.  The corinthianscruise.org website was used to “build” the cruise and keep participants informed with progress througout.  At first the goal of 30 boats looked to be oversubscribed.  But things happen, 4 yachts dropped out, and we became concerned with too few.  By 15 July, 29 yachts and 81 crew registered and there were 20 participants by land.  Sadly, Petter & Leigh Phillips (Hermita) and Tom and Gail Lane (Rally Point) encountered mechanical problems en route to Maine that knocked them out.
Feeder Cruise.  Alice & Andy Mutch and John and Anne Geissinger organized a Feeder Cruise to greet Corinthian Fleet members at Boothbay Harbor YC with cocktails and dinner as they wended their way East toward the Penobscot on Wednesday 29 July 2025.  The BHYC also was the site of what has become a bit of a tradition over the last decade:  the group photo of “all the usual suspects” on the clubhouse pier.
On Thursday, the Fleet then headed E toward Belfast.  Some yachts choosing to make it in one day while others paused at Tenants Harbor or other places of interest along the way.
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Memo from the Master

Ahoy Fellow Corinthians!
The big news is Annual Cruise date
Fair winds and following seas!
John

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