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This month’s issue of the Dickerson Owner’s Association Newsletter is dedicated to welcoming a new Dickerson owner and listings of a few beautiful Dickersons that are looking for new homes. If you want to be the proud owner of a Dickerson yacht or know someone who does, browse the newsletter and share it with your friends.  

If you know of other Dickersons looking for forever homes, let me know and I’ll add them next time.

Chris Burry

Editor,

Dickerson Newsletter

P.S.  PLOVER has just returned from a 2-week counter-clockwise circumnavigation of the DELMARVA peninsula. On the way back south down the Chesapeake Bay, we visited with Jim Hontz of TROUBADOUR in Chesapeake City and Commodore Ken of MORNING LIGHT at the Oak Harbor Marina on Rock Creek, MD.  We also had a wonderful few days in Tangier VA where we hadn’t been in three years.  It’s well worth a visit.  PLOVER is definitely not for sale.  

Hello again Dickerson and Classic owners and fanciers. Attached is a registration and payment form for our 2023 Rendezvous and Regatta in Oxford, MD.

If you desire dockage at the traditional Safe Harbor Oxford (Mears) location, make your reservation now as Jeff at Safe Harbor advises that they are near full, but will accommodate Dickersons at the marina and boat yard as well as they can. You may reserve at Dockwa or by phone, 410-226-5450.

The schedule of events is:
Friday June 16 – 14:30 – Boats assemble at the Choptank River Light (AKA Spider, 38-39N 076-11W) for our boat parade in to Oxford, Monitor VHF 68 & 16

~ 17:00 – Commodore’s Cookout and pot luck at Safe Harbor Oxford (Mears)
Marina, Pre-race meeting, race directions

Saturday June 17 – 11:00 – 53rd Annual Dickerson Regatta

18:00 – Meet and greet at the Robert Morris Inn, 314 N. Morris St Oxford,
Cash bar

19:00 – Dinner, followed by awards and presentation. Please jot down any
food allergies on the registration form. Also please note that the dinner
charges you pay include taxes and gratuity, there is no need for you to tip.

Sunday June 18 – D41 PLOVER leads the post-rendezvous cruise.

We would appreciate your prompt response.
See you there!

D & Don Wogaman, aboard D41 Southern Cross

 Spring is sprung! Time to make plans and mark your calendar to attend the 58th annual Dickerson Rendezvous in Oxford, MD on Fathers Day weekend, June 16-18 2023. Plans include a
very special Saturday night surf and turf dinner at the famous Robert Morris Inn followed by a surprise guest speaker. Seating is limited, mark your calendars now!

More Rendezvous information to come…
Cheers!
D & Don, Co-Commodores
Dickerson Association
Currently on land travel in Ecuador

A few quick updates on Dickerson 41s:

1.  BEAU SOLEIL has returned from Europe.  Son Falcon sailed her across the Atlantic Ocean and made landfall in the U.S. in late February.  Mike and Karen Riley are living aboard in New Bern, NC.  Welcome back BEAU!  

2.  COMPASS ROSE is sailing home to the U.S.  Currently, in Falmouth Harbor, Antigua, Eric & Jackie White report that all is well on board.
 

Commodores Don & D Wogaman welcomed all attendees to the Annual Dickerson Owner’s Association Business lunch on Saturday 14 January 2023 11AM to 3PM at the Red Lobster, 183 Jennifer Road, Annapolis, MD, 21401. Twenty-three members attended in person and eight attended via ZOOM. This was the largest attendance in some time.  

Plan Now to Attend the Dickerson Owners Association Classic Sailboat Rendezvous June 16-18, 2023 Oxford, Maryland hosted by Commodores Don & D Wogaman 

Events will include a Boat Parade on Friday afternoon June 16 followed by a Commodores’ Cookout at 6 pm at the Safe Harbor Marina grounds. Highlights of the Rendezvous will include the Dickerson Classic Boat Regatta on Saturday morning followed by Dinner at 6 pm at the Robert Morris Inn. Dockage is available at Oxford’s Safe Harbor Marina and the Tred Avon Yacht Club or boats can anchor out in Town Creek.

Read all about it and more in the February 2023 DOA Newsletter!

Chris Burry
DOA Newsletter Editor

JANUARY 2023 UPDATE
Annual Business Lunch
14 January

Happy New Year to all Dickerson owners and friends! Mark your calendars now to attend the  1st Dickerson event of 2023. The annual business lunch will be held on Saturday 14 January 2023 11AM to 3PM at the Red Lobster, 183 Jennifer Road, Annapolis, MD, 21401.

See more details in our latest newsletter.

Enclosed is your  January 2022 NEWSLETTER to help rid the winter blahs and start dreaming about spring commissioning of your beloved Dickerson!  The days are already starting to get a bit longer.  

Enclosed is your November 2021 NEWSLETTER with news about upcoming events to include the Business Lunch in January and next year’s Rendezvous in Oxford, MD. See attached agenda for the Business Lunch.

I am delighted to announce we are holding the Western shore Roundup once again after a year of no racing.  It will be held at the West River Sailing Club September 24 and 25.  Sailors can meet at the West River Cookout on Friday evening where you can purchase food and drink and have a nice evening with all of us together again. 

Racing on Saturday is open to all Dickersons as well as other vintage single hull cruising boats whose first hull was laid down prior to 1990.  The race starts at High Noon at WR G1 and features a rabbit start type of race.  Rabbit starts make it easy for all competitors to get a good windward start.  The winner of the race is declared the Sheriff of the Western Shore with a perpetual trophy. We will have a dinner at Pirates Cove that evening. Some sailors continue on Sunday following the race to cruise around together.

There is plenty of water for anchoring off the Club for short dinghying to the Club docks. I am checking on the viability of the Club moorings so stay tuned.  If the docks are free of members two boats could tie up.

If you plan to attend let me know by 20 September and I will email you several pages of Race Instructions and suggestions on starting.  Also let me know if you and your crew plan to attend the cookout; helps the kitchen staff plan.

Of course all this is subject to virus restrictions. The Club has been very conservative on this issue.

Randy Bruns  rbbruns@verizon.net; 443-994-8844

On June 18 – 20, 2021 Commodores Don & D Wogaman, D41 SOUTHERN CROSS, hosted the 56^th annual Dickerson Owners Association Rendezvous at the home of Chris & Bill Burry, D41 PLOVER, on Queens Creek in Mathews, VA. This was the 1^st year that the Rendezvous was held on the Southern Chesapeake Bay. See details in Dickerson Newsletter June 24 2021.