Rafterrancho Found!

Indian Creek - a sleepy creek off of the Chesapeake Bay's Fleet's Bay section of the Northern Neck. It's banks are dotted by nice homes of retirees, mostly from the DC area. A big event on the creek is when a grain barge moves fully loaded from the elevators next to the creek's only marina.

Some boats from the Solomon's Table started arriving on Wednesday. But they just moved to the marina. Nothing unusual there.

Then, early in the afternoon on Thursday, Orza came calling. She took up a position between green "11" and red "12." A few smaller boats were keeping station while Orza set her anchor. The locals had no idea what was about to transpire. Stargazer was moving up the river with Talisman just behind. Stargazer moved into take the port position with Orza while Casual Class taking the starboard side. The raft started taking form. Tardis moved in next to Casual Class while the recently arrived Blue Moon tied up next to Stargazer. An hour later, thirteen boats were lashed together. Then a party broke out...go figure.

Brothers from the Chesapeake, Solomon's, Savannah & Sun Coast Tables spent the afternoon swimming, eating and catching up with each others lives. The party finally broke down just before midnight. This disappointed the crew of Bumboo who were hoping to find someone still up when they arrived at 4 AM on Friday morning.