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Last weekend found us in Deltaville, Virginia at the Deltaville Maritime Museum hosting a Colonial Maritime Festival. Visting colonial maritime reenactors from the East Coast arrived Thursday and Friday, setting up camp and visiting "The Farm" where Luna is undergoing her makeover. Friday afternoon, participants learned from each other as we had a chance to show off our own abilities and projects to each other. We also hosted the local elementary school first graders for an hour as they were at the Museum on a field trip. That night we set off in the "Explorer", the museums 1600's reproduction schallop, for a row around the creek.

Saturday morning began in the museums two 13 foot skiffs for a sudden death race around the marks. the winner advanced to the next race. Sounds simple enough until we blindfolded the oarsmen, then the races took a turn for the worse as it was deemed there were no rules. Following the races, living history was the order of the day as visitors got to help make new rigging for the Explorer and our Custom House made its assembled debut (thats a Royal Custom House used to import and export goods from the colonies- not a custom built house, although it is custom built.... anyhow). The next event for the crews was a hawser relay in the afternoon. Two mariners are placed on opposite ends of a field approximately fifty feet appart. One has a hawser (100 ft of 2 inch diameter line) and the other a heaving line. The first person throws the line to the second, where they hitch the hawser and messenger together and the first pulls the whole assembly to them and finish when the whole 100 feet of line has crossed the marker. Young pups were quite proud of there times, but were soon put to rest when John Glass and John Collamore (the elder) formed the senior league at the last second and shaved MINUTES off the best time.

Our night was ended with a pig roast prepared by our own award winning ships cook, Will "cookie" Hahn and a concert perfomed by the York River Symphony Orchestra. If you were fortunate to be close by, Hatchet Megs World Famous Rum Cakes were to be had for a price as desert, but were soon gone!

Thank you to all who made this weekend a time to be had and remembered. We cannot do this without our volunteer members.

Sunday is a work day at the farm.