Just think how much easier it would be to plan your next cruise if you knew how hard the wind was blowing and how high the waves anywhere on the Chesapeake Bay. The answer to a boater’s prayer are some recently installed “smart†buoys. There are ten of them from the top to the bottom…
Winter on the upper regions of the Chesapeake Bay can be quite treacherous and unpredictable. Gone are the seemingly hundreds of pleasure power, sail and fishing boats of summer. The thousands of recreational craft are safely on the hard, covered by shrink wrap, or double tied in slips protected by ice eaters. However, the ships,…
Tugboats…those diminutive yet all so powerful workhorses of this nation’s deep water ports…such as those of the great Chesapeake Bay. We learned to love tugs as children; they continue to hold a certain fascination for us as adults. The tugs present a maritime cornucopia of sensory stimuli. Their size, shape, and color are as varied…
The heart of summer is a perfect time to charter a yacht and explore along the U.S. southeast coast. From the Chesapeake Bay to the Carolinas, Florida and Bahamas, there are some fantastic itineraries that will lead you to hot spots and hidden gems ripe for discovery by sea and shore. Chesapeake Bay “There are…
My partner Mike’s family and mine have long histories with the Chesapeake Bay. His family settled on the eastern shore in 1640, while mine must have been there as well, with ancestral names of Tilghman (Tilghman Island) and Emory (Emory Creek). We surmise we’re related. Mike has worked, cruised, and delivered yachts on the Bay…
As Deltaville Maritime Museum volunteers watched the last ember of the John’s pavilion and the museum building’s charred remains being extinguished, they were already thinking of their membership and community. How were they going to tell the families participating in that week’s Family Boatbuilding Week, their skiffs burned to the ground? How could they continue…
There comes a time in every mariner’s life when the sea calls – she speaks softly, inviting you to cast off the lines that tie you to land’s commotion and feel her majesty in motion – to be, on the ocean. Be it the great pond, a great lake, a river or bay – when…