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24-29 Build Your Own Dinghy Chesapeake Light Craft, Annapolis. 25 Knots, Bends, and Hitches Seminar 7 to 9 p.m. Truxtun Park Recreation Center, Annapolis. Hosted by Annapolis Sail and Power Squadron. 26-29 Fort Monroe Haunted Tours 7 p.m. Hampton, VA. $20. Benefits Hampton History Museum. 27 Isaac Singer Is Born in Pittstown, NY, 1811 His invention, the sewing machine, was a boon for sailmakers everywhere. 27 Navy Day

27-30 Downrigging Weekend Chestertown, MD. For the full scoop, see page 26. 29 Free Seminar: Winterizing Your Boat’s Other Systems 10 a.m. to Noon. West Marine, 113 Hillsmere Drive, Annapolis. (410) 268-0129 29 Halloween Bash! Tim’s Rivershore Restaurant & Crabhouse, Dumfries, VA. Lively music, crazy costumes, and fun prizes. 29 Museum Madness Noon to 6 p.m. Portsmouth Museums, VA. Arts and crafts, face painting, wizardry, haunted vessels, and more fun for wee ghosts and goblins. 29 Smokey Joe’s Freaky Halloween Party! Chesapeake Beach Resort & Spa, Chesapeake Beach, MD. 30 Halloween Parade 6 p.m. Havre de Grace, MD.

30 Monster Rockfish Festival Greenwell State Park on the Patuxent River. Benefits Greenwell Foundation.

31 Halloween Rent the original “Night of the Living Dead.” We guarantee you won’t sleep a wink.

# Like withered pages of a time-worn calendar, the leaves have begun their colorful transition from green to the reds, golds, and browns of the season. Let the Bay delight your senses this fall. Photo by Eric Moseson

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31 Monster Mash Cruise Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons. For wee goblins. (410) 326-2042

October Racing

Thru Oct 1 Santa Maria Cup Eastport YC.

1Fall Invitational Havre de Grace YC, MD.

1Neptune’s Atlantic Regatta The first annual mid-Atlantic dinghy ocean challenge off Virginia Beach, VA, hosted by Broad Bay SA.

1Start of Annapolis YC Fall Series Three weekends of racing with the distance race falling on October 8.

8Good Old Boat Regatta Shearwater Sailing Club, Annapolis.

13-16 J/109 North American Championship Hosted by Annapolis YC. 15 Frigid Digit Series Glenmar SA, Phoenix, MD.

15 Hooper/Point No Point Race Southern Maryland SA, Solomons.

15-16 Chesapeake Bay Laser Masters Championship Fishing Bay YC, Deltaville, VA. 16 Tred Avon YC Round the Buoys

21-23 2011 Storm Trysail Club/IRC MidAtlantic Championship Annapolis YC. 21-23 U.S. Soling Championship Severn SA.

22 Baltimore Harbor Cup Although Baltimore City YA will not partner with Leukemia Cup in 2011, the regatta is still on! 22 Fall Invitational Southern Maryland SA, Solomons.