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36 Marinas for Everyone:

Finding the Right Spot To Tie Up

Photo by Gary Reich

Summer: Boats... You Can’t Live 32 Indian With ’Em or Without ’Em by Charlie Iliff

35 “A” Dock: Life on the South River by Allen J. Paltell 48 Chesapeake Ports and Destinations Planning Map 54 Farewell to Friends: David Herbig the Bandy Boats Velmachos 55 Building Express 27: Part Four by Gary Reich 64 Plugs—No, Not the Hairy Ones by Mark DeMagistris ON THE COVER:

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A patent tonger sits quietly at her slip on Kent Island Narrows. While we’re big fans of “R”- months, we’re also counting the days until crab season starts April 1. Photo by Gary Reich

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10 Editor’s Notebook 13 Out of My Mind 14 Letters 16 Dock Talk 25 Chesapeake Tides presented by the

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60 Chesapeake Fish News, Forecasts, and Fish Spots by Capt. C.D. Dollar 67 Biz Buzz presented by ALEXSEAL Yacht Coatings

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Editor’s Notebook

with Gary Reich

You’re Welcome, Lefty

ne of the pleasures of working in the marine industry, especially as a journalist, is meeting interesting characters and people. Do the job long enough, and you’ll even be lucky enough to develop some lifelong friendships and come into contact with folks who—well—amaze you. Joe Evans, Bill Griffin, Capt. Chris Dollar, Kendall Osborne, Pete Mathews, Joe Reid, Tony Tochterman, and Joe Bruce are a few on a long list of people I’ve been lucky enough to tangle with over the years.

Most everyone in the PropTalk lair was sick at some point during the month of January, and I even had my own battle, forcing me onto the couch wrapped in a blanket for a few days. When I returned the following Monday, my inbox at the office was predictably packed full of various items, but a small piece of mottled stationery with my name and PropTalk’s address typed—indeed, typed in Courier—across the front of it caught my attention. When I flipped over the envelope to open it, I found a holographic return address embossed into the lip of the envelope. The ink looked almost exactly like Krystal Flash, a commonly used, sparkly fly-tying material. On each side of the name and address were two images: one of a trout rising to a fly and one of a jumping tarpon. The note was from Bernard Kreh, better known to most of us as “Lefty,” one of the pioneers of saltwater fly fishing.

I normally rip into mail like most folks—with a random swipe of the index finger—but this one was special, so I carefully used a pair of scissors to cut into the envelope. It simply read:

Hello Gary. Thanks for that nice and unexpected Christmas gift. It is especially right for the weather we have been having. I was in Slidell, LA, last week hoping to get a shot at big redfish. After a day and a half of frigid temps, we got on an airplane and came home. Friends in the Keys say they can never remember it being this cold. All the best, Lefty

Every year at Christmas, we send out a small token of our appreciation to members of Team PropTalk. This year it was a comfy black Columbia fleece pullover with an embroidered PropTalk logo on it. I’ve seen some footage pop up on the web of one of our contributors wearing one, and apparently the Yoda of fly fishing thinks it’s great layering gear for cold-weather fishing for reds. I’ve never met Lefty Kreh, and I talked to him on the phone briefly only once. At age 85, Kreh still travels extensively and keeps a busy schedule teaching people how to cast, tie flies, and get involved in the sport. He no doubt receives handfuls of complimentary gear in the mail each month, so the fact that he took the time to put together a thank you note for some relatively unknown editor speaks volumes about the quality of the gentleman. It’s one of those moments that just makes you smile. And I did—more widely than I had in a very long time. You’re most welcome Mr. Kreh; let’s go fishing sometime.

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Out of My Mind What’s the Opposite of Boating?

by Ruth Christie

• Doing never-ending laundry in a window-less room. • Having a root canal or two. • Getting lost in the desert. • Sitting in a waiting room… anywhere… for any reason. • Paying bills. • Digging a hole in rock-infested soil. • Being stuck in an office hog-tied to a computer. • Watching bad movies with burned popcorn and warm soda. • Going on a new diet with your spouse. • Dealing with kids who have perfected the fine art of whining. • Enduring winter and cabin fever without access to rum.

hat’s the short list. Good thing Gary and Mary haven’t given me enough room to prattle on about my long list. Otherwise, we’d all get very depressed. For grins, let’s say winter is the complete opposite of boating. End o’ February can be an especially bad time; the weather gods seem to delight in conjuring up snow, ice, sleet, and other yucky raw nonsense on our poor souls. Lucky for us the Bay offers up three other seasons for some fine on-the-water fun. Winter is for planning and dreaming. Spring is for prepping and getting out there. Summer and fall are for savoring our Bay time. So, to make the best of it, winter also is time for getting around to all those indoor chores and projects that you happily avoided during boating season. Time to paint those walls and window panes, get professional help with your interior décor, if you are not a decorating diva, and cleaning out those closets so you can fill them back up with junk over the course of the year. There’s a reason why winter, work, waiting, and whining all start with the same letter. And, sure, winter brings its share of boat shows, seminars, and other activities that make us think about boating. But, let’s face it. None of them can take the place of getting out on the water. They are simply nice ways of chipping away at time until winter peters out. In my mind’s eye, winter and boating are opposites that hardly attract each other. Instead, each merely bides its time until the other one goes away, just like a vulture waiting for lions to finish up with a zebra carcass. I dread winter as much as I look forward to boating. Maybe my stalled dieting attempts, those mountains of laundry that keep calling my name, and the winter chill have all ganged up and put me in an ill temper. Maybe it’s time to move to Florida. No matter; spring will come to the Chesapeake. It always does. Just like clockwork. And, we’ll be ready to enjoy the opposite of winter. Follow us!

The antithesis of boating… PropTalk photographer Al Schreitmueller braves the cold to get just the right shot. “Where are your gloves, man?”

Beth Crabtree captured this icy image that reflects my dark mood completely. Thanks, Beth... I think.

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ave something you want to get off your chest; comments or critiques about PropTalk and what you’d like to see in the magazine; a great short story about a fishing trip, cruise, or day out on the Bay; an interesting story about a Bay character? Jot down your thoughts in 300 words or less and if we pick your letter as “PropTalk’s Letter of the Month,” we’ll send a full year of PropTalk right to your home free of charge. Even if we don’t pick your letter as the monthly winner, we may still print your note in PropTalk for all to see. Send your letters to the editor to gary@proptalk.com.

So You Want To Be in Pictures?

Most everyone has a digital camera these days, making it easy to head out and pretend you are Ansel Adams, Marion Warren, or Annie Leibovitz. We’d love to share your snapshots with our readers. PropTalk likes pictures of people having fun on the water, old Bay boats, kids on the water, water skiing and watersports, fishing pictures, Bay scenes and landscapes, Bay boatbuilding shots, Bay dogs and pets, waterskiing and wakeboarding, powerboat racing, and Bay cruising.

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What’s in it For Me?

If you send in a great photo with a caption, and we use it in the magazine, we’ll send you an official PropTalk beverage koozie and a PropTalk bumper sticker, which you can proudly display on your car, boat, or five-litre hydroplane like racer Ralph Cattaneo. If your image is good enough to grace our cover, you’ll get the aforementioned goodies plus a one-year, paid subscription to PropTalk delivered monthly to your door.

How To Take and Send a Great Image

When you send in your images via e-mail, make sure that the e-mail program you’re using hasn’t shrunk your original image behind your back. For example, in Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, when you send an image via e-mail, the default settings in the programs usually are set to send your photo at a smaller size to make it easier to send through e-mail. In Mac OS X Mail, or iPhoto, you can actually choose the resolution of the image you want to send; always select “Actual Size” or “Large.” Oh, and make sure your camera is set to the “Fine” or “Large LPEG” mode; you can find the setting in your camera’s settings menu.

We Love the Internet, Just Not Images Saved from It

Without going into a bunch of technical jargon about dots per inch, reproduction sizes, and other boring things, images from websites really don’t work in a print magazine. They look great on your screen but look lousy when laid onto a piece of paper. So if you send us a web link to an image, or drag one from your website and send it to us, chances are it won’t work. We need the original digital image before it was downsized to look nice, but load quickly on a website. So get writing and get snapping with your camera. Send all submissions to gary@proptalk.com.

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PropTalk Out and About

Don’t forget about Boatyard Bar & Grill and PropTalk’s Anglers Night Out: Fishing Flicks & Tales Every other Tuesday through March. Photo by Gary Reich

aybe it’s because our editor and publisher love to be crazy busy. Perhaps we want to get more involved in the powerboating community. And, just maybe… it’s because we’re convinced that economy-wise, the best is right around the corner. Whatever the reason, PropTalk has ramped up the number of events we are sponsoring or supporting this year, along with other like-minded locals. For example, each year, PropTalk supports the Maryland Saltwater Sportfishermen’s Association (MSSA) and the Antique & Classic Boat Society, promotes the Bay racing and cruising scenes, and mans a booth at the Bay Bridge Boat Show and U.S. Powerboat Show. New this year, we’re also sponsoring U.S. Yacht Show’s Cruisers University in Baltimore this May. Here are PropTalk’s top picks for 2011.

Slap Away the Winter Blahs

First and foremost are our dearly beloved Anglers Night Out: Fishing Flicks & Tales parties at the Boatyard Bar & Grill in Eastport. These eat, drink, and be merry Tuesday night happy hours are designed to keep you fat and happy through the deep dark winter months until March 22. The movies are carefully chosen to whet your appetite for going up against the big boys at the bottom of the Bay and beyond. Don’t miss the fine food, fun films, and friendly atmosphere; the remaining Anglers Night Out events will be March 8 and 22. PropTalk also will sponsor the Saltwater Fishing Expo of MSSA’s Annapolis Chapter at the Annapolis Elks Lodge #622 in Edgewater, MD, February 26. There, you’ll enjoy pro seminars, discounts on tackle and gear, meet-and-greets with local charter captains and guides, rod and reel raffles, and more. Kick cabin fever’s butt by listening to Capt. Charlie Sisson (live lining for stripers), Capt. Mark Hoos (trolling for tuna), Capt. Walleye Pete Dahlberg (spring rockfish on the Susquehanna Flats), and Capt. Wayne Morgan (spring trolling for trophy stripers). If this event doesn’t get you antsy to go fishing, nothing will. 16 March 2011 PropTalk

Throngs of happy hop-brewed beverage drinkers celebrate at the Boatyard Bar & Grill’s Opening Day Rockfish Tournament. PropTalk is a sponsor of the event. Photo by Gary Reich

Spring... Bring It On!

April 2-3 bring the Maryland Boatbuilders and Dealers Expo to Governors Hall at Sailwinds Park in Cambridge, MD. Locally crafted crafts, pro demos and exhibits, boating supplies, gear, local characters, and more. If it’s anything like last year, this event will have you ogling over wooden classics, drooling over hot speedsters, and simply lusting for the next vessel of your dreams. There’s nothing like standing next to a beautiful boat built in Maryland and talking to the people who made her. Go behind the scenes in boatbuilding and learn the colorful stories behind many Bay-built beauties. Be at the Boatyard Bar & Grill April 16 to celebrate the 10th running of the Opening Day Rockfish Tournament April 16. Skippers must register before April 15, and the Skippers Meeting will be April 15 from 5 to 7 p.m. Fish measure-ins must be completed by 4:30 p.m. sharp on Saturday. The results are based on catch and release only. Bring a digital camera/flash card or a print of your fish measured with an highly official 2011 Boatyard yardstick. After all the fishing, enjoy an evening party jam-packed with people and prizes, good food and drinks, and music by Misspent Youth and more! Snatch up a 10th anniversary shirt and vie for cool giveaways. During the Bay Bridge Boat Show April 28-May 1, look for PropTalk’s regular friendly booth and booth dwellers to be there. New this year, we’ll be operating a fishing pier, live with Gary Reich and other PropTalkers. In addition to letting you eyeball several fishing machines, we’ll be on hand to show you a few angling tricks up our collective sleeves. April 29-May 1 also mean it’s time for the Rod & Reel Captain’s Association Pro-Am Fishing Tournament out of Chesapeake Beach, MD. You will have no fewer than 45 chances to win fame and fortune. The grand prize rockfish will net you $7000! In all, $30,000 are guaranteed to be paid out, and you’ll have a chance at more than $6000 in door prizes. The Awards Ceremony May 4—which features a cash bar and pig pickin’—should put a nice tidy end to all that trash talk and those pesky tall tales. proptalk.com

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rganizers have added a few bells and whistles to this annual event, so you’ll really not want to miss out on the Bay Bridge Marina for the Bay Bridge Boat Show April 28-May 1. Rest assured. The usual suspects will be there in the form of friendly dealers of more than 400 shiny new and previously loved boats of many makes and models to suit any boating addiction. Also look for reps from the Kent Narrows Racing Association and the Antique & Classic Boat Society as well as many equipment and accessory vendors. Food and drinks (think icy cold beer and beverages) will abound, as always. And, yes, the free seminars and demo rides you’ve come to love will be available. If a kayak, canoe, rowing shell, or inflatable is on your wish list this season, you’ll be able to drool over a variety of small vessels, just like last year. PropTalk will be there, too. Now on to the new stuff: The Maryland Saltwater Sportfisherman Association (MSSA) will include a fishing tournament weigh station during the Show. MSSA annually produces the

Photo of last year’s Bay Bridge Boat Show by Gary Reich

largest rockfish tournament in the nation. Sponsored by AllTackle, the weigh station will be located on a floating dock off the promenade in the center of the show area. AllTackle will operate the station as well as host casting challenges, “guess the fish’s weight” competitions, and a full schedule of entertaining events for anglers of all ages. Parallel to the weigh station, the kind folks at PropTalk will have a fishing pier that will display up to 30 unique fishing machines and appease your angling ways. Don’t miss the Delmarva Dock Dog Competition sponsored by Happy Tails Pet Resort in Crownsville, MD. The Delmarva Dock Dogs will compete in three waves: speed retrieval, extreme vertical, and big air

from April 29 to May 1 (pooches must register daily at 8:30 a.m. sharp). The competition will take place at the end of the promenade near the food court at the Show. Showtimes are Thursday from noon to 6 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. One-day admission will run $12 per adult. $4 per kid ages seven to 12, and free for those age six and younger. Or, you can score a two-day combo ticket for a mere $19. Buy your tickets online at usboat.com. Plenty of parking at the Bay Bridge Marina in Stevensville, MD, will be available for a $2 donation. For more information, visit usboat.com and don’t miss the preview in the April PropTalk.

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Part of the solution… Diana Muller patrols local waters on Remedy. Photo courtesy of the South River Federation

She adds, “It’s not just a job or a career move; it’s a lifestyle. I live and breathe being a Riverkeeper. Everywhere I go, I answer questions and talk about the laws, regulations, water monitoring, restoration, and the right to clean water. I also get to teach people about the environment. I love it when kids’ faces light up when they understand an environmentally complicated

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n 1972, in response to a growing awareness of the intrinsic environmental and cultural value of our coastal waters, Congress authorized the Secretary of Commerce to designate discrete areas of coastal and ocean waters and submerged lands as national marine sanctuaries to manage their special conservation, recreation, ecological, historical, research, educational, or aesthetic resources. Sanctuaries provide food, shelter, and nursery areas for marine life. These living classrooms protect historically significant shipwrecks and prehistoric artifacts and offer recreational spots for diving and sportfishing. As part of a new federal initiative to conserve the Chesapeake Bay, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is looking for historically and culturally important vessels that are resting on the Bay’s bottom. “We hope to work with and support government agencies and concerned citizens in Maryland and Virginia and have them take the lead,” says Paul Ticco, who coordinates NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuary (NMS) program

for the East Coast and Great Lakes. “Visitors might come to learn about a shipwreck, but they can also learn about the conservation of Bay resources, pollution, and what people can do to help. Portions of a protected area could remain open for boating, diving, or fishing, including commercial harvest.” The program includes the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, which protects the wreck of the famed Civil War ironclad USS Monitor (see left), best known for its battle with the Confederate ironclad Virginia (aka Merrimac) in Hampton Roads, VA, on March 9, 1862. In addition to studying other sites off America’s coasts, NMS documents historically significant shipwrecks at various sites along America’s coasts. Closer to home, research divers off North Carolina have documented and surveyed three German U-Boats and Allied and merchant ships lost in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. To dig deeper into this topic (pun intended), visit nmsfocean.org/our-national-marinesanctuaries.

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So We’ve Heard...

ropTalk knows several Chesapeake Bay people have traveled south to the Gulf of Mexico to help with recovery operations to combat the oil spill crisis. If you know their stories or those of others, drop gary@proptalk.com a line. PropTalk would love to share them with our readers.

The Dust Has Settled…

he Baltimore Boat Show January 27-30 was a great weekend, welcoming boats, bling, and plenty of happy boaters to combat winter on the Chesapeake Bay. Showgoers snapped out of their winter dulldrums, at least for a while, by dreaming of donning their bathing suits and hitting the water on a brand new boat with brand new boat toys, fishing gear, electronics, and other goodies. Boats sold, equipment and gear were bought, seminars and celebrities delighted the crowds, and people lapped up the liquid lifestyle. PropTalk’s roving photographers captured some of the fun, that is, when they weren’t busy handing out fresh copies of everybody’s favorite magazine on the Bay. Enjoy! SpongeBob SquarePants gets his groove on at the 2011 Baltimore Boat Show. Photo by Sara Proctor

Russell Newberry from Discovery Channel’s The Deadliest Catch is a PropTalk fan. He’s not so sure about Chesapeake Bay crabs, however; their Alaskan counterparts are ginormous. Photo by Gary Reich

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1Tu

ANNAPOLIS

1Tu

11:31 PM 04:55 AM 11:32 AM 05:39 PM

0.2 1.2 -0.1 1.3

12:14 AM 05:50 AM 12:33 PM 06:30 PM 12:55 AM 06:44 AM 01:32 PM 07:18 PM 01:35 AM 07:37 AM 02:31 PM 08:06 PM 02:17 AM 08:30 AM 03:30 PM 08:54 PM 02:59 AM 09:23 AM 04:29 PM 09:43 PM 03:45 AM 10:16 AM 05:29 PM 10:34 PM 04:36 AM 11:12 AM 06:31 PM 11:29 PM 05:33 AM 12:12 PM 07:33 PM

0.1 1.3 -0.2 1.3 0.0 1.4 -0.2 1.2 -0.1 1.6 -0.1 1.2 -0.1 1.6 -0.1 1.1 -0.1 1.7 0.0 1.1 -0.1 1.6 0.1 1.0 -0.1 1.6 0.2 1.0 0.0 1.5 0.2

12:28 AM 06:39 AM 26 Sa 01:17 PM

1.0 0.1 1.4 0.3 1.0 0.1 1.3 0.3 1.0 0.1 1.2 0.3 1.1 0.1 1.2 0.3 1.2 0.1 1.2 0.3 1.2 0.1 1.2

03:45 AM 10:20 AM 04:59 PM 11:32 PM 04:36 AM 11:11 AM 05:41 PM

0.8 -0.2 1.1 0.1 0.9 -0.2 1.1

17 Th

12:09 AM 05:23 AM 11:58 AM 06:17 PM 12:40 AM 06:07 AM 12:40 PM 06:49 PM 01:07 AM 06:48 AM 01:21 PM 07:19 PM 01:31 AM 07:27 AM 02:01 PM 07:50 PM 01:57 AM 08:05 AM 02:42 PM 08:22 PM 02:24 AM 08:42 AM 03:25 PM 08:57 PM 02:55 AM 09:19 AM 04:12 PM 09:35 PM 03:30 AM 10:00 AM 05:03 PM 10:18 PM 04:11 AM 10:46 AM 06:00 PM 11:07 PM 05:00 AM 11:38 AM 07:01 PM

0.1 1.0 -0.2 1.1 0.1 1.0 -0.1 1.1 0.1 1.1 -0.1 1.0 0.0 1.1 0.0 1.0 0.0 1.2 0.0 1.0 0.0 1.2 0.1 0.9 0.0 1.2 0.2 0.9 0.0 1.2 0.2 0.8 0.0 1.2 0.2 0.8 0.0 1.2 0.3

19 Sa

12:01 AM 06:59 AM 13 Su 01:36 PM

0.8 0.0 1.2 0.3 0.8 0.0 1.2 0.2 0.9 0.0 1.2 0.2

29 Tu

2W 3Th 4F 5Sa 6Su March 2011 Tides

03:58 AM 1.0 10:27 AM -0.1 16 W 04:44 PM 1.3

7M 8Tu 9W 10 Th 11 F 12 Sa

14 M 15 Tu

09:01 PM 01:59 AM 08:07 AM 02:40 PM 09:56 PM 02:59 AM 09:18 AM 03:44 PM 10:46 PM

18 F

20 Su 21 M 22 Tu 23 W 24 Th 25 F

27 Su 28 M

30 W 31 Th

08:33 PM 01:29 AM 07:52 AM 02:26 PM 09:30 PM 02:31 AM 09:04 AM 03:34 PM 10:21 PM 03:31 AM 10:11 AM 04:33 PM 11:06 PM 04:27 AM 11:10 AM 05:21 PM 11:44 PM 05:18 AM 12:02 PM 06:01 PM

DIFFERENCES Spring High Low H. Ht L. Ht Range

Sharps Island Light Havre de Grace Sevenfoot Knoll Light St Michaels, Miles River

–3:47 +3:11 –0:06 –2:14

–3:50 +3:30 –0:10 –1:58

*1.18 *1.59 *0.82 *1.08

*1.17 *1.59 *0.83 *1.08

1.5 1.9 1.1 1.4

02:28 AM 0.9 08:54 AM -0.1 16 W 03:23 PM 1.1

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05:51 AM 12:06 PM 16 W 06:15 PM

1Tu

06:07 AM 2.6 12:15 PM 0.2 06:23 PM 2.3

12:25 AM -0.2 06:49 AM 2.9 17 Th 12:58 PM -0.2

12:21 AM 06:50 AM 12:55 PM 07:03 PM 01:03 AM 07:27 AM 01:30 PM 07:40 PM 01:42 AM 08:01 AM 02:02 PM 08:14 PM 02:18 AM 08:32 AM 02:32 PM 08:47 PM 02:53 AM 09:04 AM 03:02 PM 09:19 PM 03:27 AM 09:35 AM 03:33 PM 09:53 PM 04:02 AM 10:08 AM 04:06 PM 10:27 PM 04:39 AM 10:43 AM 04:42 PM 11:05 PM 05:20 AM 11:21 AM 05:23 PM 11:47 PM 06:06 AM 12:04 PM 06:11 PM

0.0 2.6 0.1 2.4 -0.1 2.6 0.0 2.5 -0.1 2.6 0.0 2.6 -0.1 2.6 0.0 2.7 0.0 2.5 0.0 2.7 0.0 2.5 0.0 2.7 0.1 2.4 0.1 2.6 0.2 2.3 0.2 2.6 0.3 2.2 0.2 2.5 0.4 2.1 0.3

18 F

12:37 AM 07:00 AM 12 Sa 12:55 PM

2.5 0.4 2.0 0.3 2.5 0.5 2.0 0.3 2.5 0.4 2.1 0.2 2.6 0.2 2.3 0.0

28 M

02:22 AM 08:39 AM 03:30 PM 09:26 PM 03:13 AM 09:29 AM 04:10 PM 10:04 PM 03:58 AM 10:15 AM 04:45 PM 10:40 PM 04:40 AM 10:58 AM 05:18 PM 11:14 PM 05:20 AM 11:40 AM 05:49 PM 11:48 PM 05:59 AM 12:20 PM 06:20 PM

0.7 -0.2 1.0 0.1 0.8 -0.2 1.0 0.1 0.9 -0.2 1.0 0.1 0.9 -0.1 0.9 0.0 1.0 -0.1 0.9 0.0 1.0 -0.1 0.9

17 Th

12:22 AM 06:38 AM 01:01 PM 06:52 PM 12:58 AM 07:18 AM 01:42 PM 07:24 PM 01:34 AM 08:00 AM 02:26 PM 07:58 PM 02:14 AM 08:45 AM 03:12 PM 08:35 PM 02:58 AM 09:35 AM 04:03 PM 09:18 PM 03:48 AM 10:31 AM 04:58 PM 10:11 PM 05:45 AM 12:31 PM 06:56 PM

0.0 1.1 0.0 0.8 0.0 1.1 0.1 0.8 0.0 1.1 0.1 0.8 0.0 1.1 0.2 0.8 0.0 1.1 0.2 0.7 0.0 1.1 0.3 0.7 0.0 1.1 0.3

23 W

12:15 AM 06:47 AM 14 M 01:31 PM

0.8 0.0 1.1 0.3 0.8 0.0 1.1 0.2

30 W

2W 3Th 4F 5Sa 6Su 7M 8Tu 9W 10 Th 11 F 12 Sa 13 Su

15 Tu

07:52 PM 01:22 AM 07:51 AM 02:29 PM 08:45 PM

18 F 19 Sa 20 Su

09:35 PM 03:30 AM 09:55 AM 04:14 PM 10:22 PM 04:28 AM 10:53 AM 05:02 PM 11:07 PM 05:23 AM 11:49 AM 05:49 PM 11:53 PM 06:17 AM 12:44 PM 06:36 PM

0.1 1.0 -0.1 1.1 0.1 1.2 -0.1 1.1 0.0 1.3 -0.1 1.1 -0.1 1.4 -0.1 1.0

+1:24 –1:14 –3:16 –3:48

12:39 AM -0.1 07:10 AM 1.4 21 M 01:38 PM 0.0

5Sa

22 Tu

6Su

07:22 PM 01:27 AM 08:04 AM 02:32 PM 08:11 PM 02:18 AM 08:59 AM 03:27 PM 09:02 PM 03:12 AM 09:57 AM 04:23 PM 09:57 PM 04:10 AM 10:58 AM 05:21 PM 10:58 PM 05:12 AM 12:02 PM 06:20 PM

1.0 -0.2 1.5 0.1 0.9 -0.1 1.4 0.1 0.9 -0.1 1.4 0.2 0.9 0.0 1.3 0.3 0.9 0.0 1.2 0.3

12:03 AM 06:17 AM 27 Su 01:07 PM

0.9 0.1 1.1 0.3 0.9 0.1 1.1 0.3 1.0 0.1 1.1 0.3 1.1 0.1 1.1 0.3 1.1 0.2 1.0 0.2

24 Th 25 F 26 Sa

28 M 29 Tu

31 Th

07:18 PM 01:09 AM 07:22 AM 02:08 PM 08:11 PM 02:12 AM 08:25 AM 03:02 PM 08:59 PM 03:08 AM 09:22 AM 03:48 PM 09:41 PM 03:57 AM 10:13 AM 04:28 PM 10:19 PM

DIFFERENCES Spring High Low H. Ht L. Ht Range

Mtn Pt, Magothy River Chesapeake Beach Cedar Point Point Lookout

3Th

+1:40 –1:15 –3:13 –3:47

*0.88 *1.12 *1.33 *1.37

*0.88 *1.14 *1.33 *1.33

1.0 1.1 1.4 1.4

7M 8Tu 9W 10 Th 11 F

13 Su 14 M 15 Tu

07:07 PM 01:34 AM 09:02 AM 02:56 PM 09:11 PM 03:39 AM 10:06 AM 04:03 PM 10:18 PM 04:47 AM 11:09 AM 05:11 PM 11:23 PM

2.7 0.0 2.6

07:13 PM 01:22 AM 07:42 AM 01:48 PM 08:06 PM 02:17 AM 08:33 AM 02:36 PM 08:57 PM 03:10 AM 09:22 AM 03:24 PM 09:47 PM 04:02 AM 10:11 AM 04:13 PM 10:37 PM 04:55 AM 11:00 AM 05:02 PM 11:28 PM 05:49 AM 11:51 AM 05:55 PM

2.9 -0.4 3.0 -0.4 3.2 -0.5 3.1 -0.5 3.4 -0.6 3.1 -0.6 3.5 -0.6 3.0 -0.5 3.5 -0.4 2.8 -0.4 3.3 -0.3 2.7 -0.2

12:21 AM 06:46 AM 24 Th 12:45 PM

3.1 0.0 2.5 0.0 2.9 0.2 2.3 0.2 2.7 0.3 2.2 0.3 2.5 0.4 2.2 0.3 2.5 0.5 2.2 0.3 2.5 0.4 2.4

19 Sa 20 Su 21 M 22 Tu 23 W

25 F 26 Sa 27 Su

29 Tu

06:51 PM 01:19 AM 07:47 AM 01:43 PM 07:53 PM 02:23 AM 08:53 AM 02:50 PM 09:02 PM 03:34 AM 09:59 AM 04:03 PM 10:12 PM 04:45 AM 11:01 AM 05:11 PM 11:16 PM 05:47 AM 11:54 AM 06:07 PM

12:12 AM 06:37 AM 30 W 12:38 PM

31 Th

06:53 PM 12:59 AM 07:19 AM 01:16 PM 07:33 PM

0.3 2.5 0.4 2.5 0.2 2.5 0.3 2.6

DIFFERENCES Spring High Low H. Ht L. Ht Range

Onancock Creek Stingray Point Hooper Strait Light Lynnhaven Inlet

+3 :52 +2 :01 +5 :52 +0 :47

+4 :15 +2 :29 +6 :04 +1 :08

*0.70 *0.48 *0.66 *0.77

*0.83 *0.83 *0.67 *0.83

2.2 1.4 2.0 2.4

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Where First Lady Michelle Obama and Daughter Sasha dined and loved the crab cakes!

17-20

Greater Philadelphia Outdoor Sportshow Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, Oaks, PA. sportshows.com/philly

17-20

Mid-Atlantic Boat Show Charlotte Convention Center, Charlotte, NC. ncboatshows.com

17-21

Miami International Boat Show Miami Beach, FL. miamiboatshow.com

19-20

Pasadena Sportfishing Fishing Flea Market and Show Severna Park, MD. pasadenasportfishing.com

20 20-Mar 20

National Margarita Day

Sunday Conversations with Chesapeake Authors 2 p.m. Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons. Free. calvertmarinemuseum.com

17-Mar 10

18 18-19

Maritime Seminar Series Annapolis Maritime Museum. amaritime.org The Treaty of Ghent, Ending the War of 1812, Is Ratified, 1815

Chesapeake Oyster and Beer Festival National Harbor, MD. Friday’s session is sold out! nationalharbor.com

18-20

Richmond Boat Show Richmond (VA) Raceway Complex. agievents.com

18-20

Seaside Boat Show Ocean City Convention Center, MD. ocboatshow.com

18-27

Annual GW Sale Fawcett Boat Supplies, 919 Bay Ridge Road, Annapolis. Everything in the store is on sale, except the salesclerks. fawcettboat.com

19-20

Marine Electrical Systems Class Annapolis School of Seamanship. (410) 263-8848

The Great White Fleet (U.S. Navy Battle Fleet) Returns to Hampton Roads, VA, after Circling the Globe, 1909 (16 Battleships Circumnavigated from December 16, 1907, to February 22, 1909)

Anglers Night Out: Fishing Flick & Tales Boatyard Bar & Grill, Eastport. PropTalk is a sponsor. boatyardbarandgrill.com

Celebration of Maryland Seafood Boatyard Bar & Grill, Eastport. boatyardbarandgrill.com

George Washington Is Born in Westmoreland County, VA, 1732 (His Favorite Sports Were Fox Hunting and Fishing)

Free Seminar 7 p.m. Fawcett Boat Supplies, Annapolis. Bay ecology with John Page Williams. fawcettboat.com

Maritime Land and Sea Fundraiser Tidewater Grille, Havre de Grace, MD. Benefits Havre de Grace Maritime Museum. $55. (410) 939-4800

USS Ranger Is Commissioned in Newport News, VA, 1933

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February 26 Continued...

South River on the Half Shell Auction 5 to 9 p.m. Homestead Gardens, Davidsonville, MD. Benefits the South River Federation. southriverfederation.net

25-26

National Outdoor Show Golden Hill, MD. Competitions, food, and more. nationaloutdoorshow.org

25-Oct 30

Build a Model Boat 6 to 9 p.m. Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Four-weekend spring and fall sessions. cbmm.org

Bay to Ocean Writers Conference Chesapeake College, Wye Mills, MD. baytoocean.com

Bugeye Ball 6:30 p.m. Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons. $150. calvertmarinemuseum.com

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Heavy Seas Real Ale and Barbeque Fest Clipper City Brewing Company, Baltimore. hsbeer.com

Saltwater Fishing Expo Annapolis Elks Lodge #622, Edgewater, MD. Hosted by MSSA’s Annapolis Chapter. saltwaterfishingexpo.com

Tim’s Rivershore Polar Plunge Festival Tim’s Rivershore Restaurant, Dumfries, VA. polarplunge.com

26-27

Clarks Landing Open House Shady Side and Chester, MD. clarkslanding.com

26-Mar 6

New England Boat Show Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, MA. newenglandboatshow.com

Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Is Born, 1807 (He Is Best Known for “Paul Revere’s Ride,” “The Song of Hiawatha,” “In the Harbor,” and “The Wreck of the Hesperus”)

28 28-Mar 5

Public Sleeping Day?!

Build Your Own Annapolis Wherry Tandem Chesapeake Light Craft, Annapolis. For fees and more classes, call (410) 267 0137.

March

International Civil Aviation Organization Adopts Current Phonetic Alphabet, 1956 phoneticalphabets.net

Free Seminar 7 p.m. Fawcett Boat Supplies, Annapolis. Heads and plumbing tips with Al Graham. fawcettboat.com

Crocodile Dung First Used as a Contraceptive, 2000 BC; and the Movie “Hunt for Red October” Is Released, 1990 (“The Hard Part About Playing Chicken Is Knowin’ When To Flinch”)

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The best boats by the best dealers and brokers at the best prices will be at the Yacht Collection Sale.

Power, Sail, Trawlers, Downeast, New and Used 32’-74’ Chesapeake Harbour Marina in Annapolis Friday, April 15th: Afternoon Preview Saturday, April 16th: 10:00-6:00 Sunday, April 17th: 10:00-5:00 www.yachtcollectionsale.com

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Chocolate Festival Rehoboth Beach, DE. downtownrehoboth.com

Oyster Roast 2 to 5 p.m. Little River Seafood, Burgess, VA. Benefits Smith Point Sea Rescue. smithpointsearescue.com

Rock Hall Expo & Outdoor Show 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rock Hall (MD) Fire Company. (410) 639-7483

5-6

The Fly Fishing Show Valley Forge Convention Center, King of Prussia, PA. flyfishingshow.com

The National Biscuit Company Introduces Oreo Brand Cookies to Americans, 1912

6-Oct 2

Pamunkey River Bass Mini-Series 2011 Sundays. pamunkeyminiseries.com

Anglers Night Out: Fishing Flick & Tales Boatyard Bar & Grill, Eastport. Cocktails, dinner, half price bottles of wine, and fishing flicks. PropTalk is a sponsor. boatyardbarandgrill.com

Mardi Gras (New Orleans, LA, Celebrated its First One in 1826)

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The Monitor and Merrimac Make History at Hampton Roads, VA, 1862; Maryland’s State Flag Is Adopted, 1904; the Movie “Splash” Is Released, 1984; and Today Is National Crabmeat Day

Andrew Jackson, the Seventh U.S. President, Is Born, 1767 (During His Funeral in 1845, His Pet Parrot Poll Had To Be Removed from the Proceedings Because It Wouldn’t Stop Using Foul Language); and Today Is “Everything You Think Is Wrong” Day

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Worship of Tools Day

National Capital Boat Show Dulles Expo Center, Chantilly, VA. agievents.com

Free Seminar 7 p.m. Fawcett Boat Supplies, Annapolis. Air conditioning and heating with Jay Hamilton of Ocean Options. fawcettboat.com

11-13

Virginia RV and Boat Show Hampton Roads (VA) Convention Center. agievents.com

Henry “Henny” Youngman Is Born, 1906 (“When I Read about the Evils of Drinking, I Gave Up Reading”)

Dorchester County MSSA Flea Market Cambridge, MD. (443) 225-5545

St. Patrick’s Day and Full Moon Party Boatyard Bar & Grill, Eastport. Wear a spot o’ green and howl at the moooooon! boatyardbarandgrill.com

Eagle Festival Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Cambridge, MD. fws.gov/blackwater

Green Beer Races Hosted by the Eastport Democratic Club. eastportdc.com

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Catchin’ for Kids Sportfishing Show Khedive Shrine Center, Chesapeake, VA. catchinforkids.com

National Capital Angling Show Bethesda, MD. ncc-tu.org

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18-20

Charity Antiques, Jewelry, and Art Show Waterfowl Building, Easton, MD. (410) 822-0444 Saltwater Fishing Expo Somerset, NJ. sportshows.com/somerset

Annapolis Oyster Roast Annapolis Maritime Museum. amaritime.org

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Anglers Night Out: Fishing Flick & Tales Boatyard Bar & Grill, Eastport. 6 p.m. cocktails and dinner; movies start at 7 p.m. sharp. PropTalk is a sponsor. boatyardbarandgrill.com

22 23

National Goof Off Day

Weather for Mariners Course 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mid-Atlantic Maritime Academy, Virginia Beach. Register by March 18. $195. mamatrains.com

Free Seminar 7 p.m. Fawcett Boat Supplies, Annapolis. Boaters’ responsibilities with Jeffrey Cole of USCG. fawcettboat.com

Marine Weather Course Four days. Zahniser’s Yachting Center, Solomons. $395. (410) 326-4917

Boating Courses and Seminars Eight courses on fishing, electrical systems, safe boating, piloting, communications and navigation systems, and seamanship. usps.org

19-27

Boatyard Bar & Grill owner Dick Franyo joins in the tall tales being to at the PropTalk-sponsored Anglers Night Out: Fishing Flicks & Tales. Photo by Gary Reich

The American Revolution’s Last Naval Action Takes Place in the Chesapeake Bay, 1783

20 20 21

Extraterrestrial Abductions Day? Watch out, Gary! First Day of Spring

Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest Deadline 4 p.m. dnr.maryland.gov

23-12 24

Harry Houdini Is Born, 1874 (The Magician and Escape Artist Also Invented a Diver’s Suit)

English Settlers Land on St. Clements (Now Blackistone) Island in the Potomac River, 1634

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Fawcett Boat Supplies holds helpful seminars on a variety of boating subjects every Wednesday night at its Bay Ridge Annapolis store starting at 7 p.m. Photo by Gary Reich

25-27

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Maryland Day Celebration Weekend

Indoor Fly Casting Class Marriotsville, MD. cwaoutinsg@gmail.com

Marine Fire Protection and Hands-On Fire Extinguisher Training Annapolis Elks Lodge, Edgewater, MD. capca.net

26 26

PaddleFest! Annapolis Maritime Museum. annapoliscgaux.org

Rum Punch Challenge 7 to 9 p.m. Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, Alexandria, VA. apps.alexandriava. gov

26-27

Fishing Fair Solomons Firehouse. $2. mssasmc.

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Get Set for Spring! It’s Here!

Our big, new Annual Catalog is available at your favorite West Marine store, or go online to westmarine.com

26-27

Marine Diesel Engine Class Annapolis School of Seamanship. seamanshipschool.com

26-28

Tidewater Boat Show Hampton Roads Convention Center, VA. agievents.com

26-Apr 10

National Cherry Blossom Festival Washington, DC. nationalcherryblossomfestival.org

Everything to Get You Set for a Great Season!

Coke Becomes a Registered Trademark of the Coca-Cola Company, 1944

We’ve got everything from antifouling paint and anodes, to all the waxes, polishes and cleaners you need to get your pride and joy shipshape.

Free Seminar 7 p.m. Fawcett Boat Supplies, Annapolis. Preseason system checks with Bob Noyce of Noyce Yachts. fawcettboat.com

Let our experts help you choose the right products to suit your boat and your boating style, and get you ready to hit the water this spring.

30-Sep 10

Safe Powerboat Handling Certification Courses Downtown Sailing Center, Baltimore. Six 16-hour courses. downtownsailing.org

Deadline for Douglas Hanks Oxford Preservation Award Nominations Oxford Museum, MD. (410) 226-0191

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Indian Summer

“Arrr” is my middle initial. So says Pirate First Class Bohdie.

Is nothing sacred!? Can’t a guy have some privacy.

Story by Charlie Iliff

Boats... You Can’t Live With ‘Em or Without ‘Em ohdie, Lucy’s and my oldest grandchild, lives in Jackson, WY. At age five, he’s a pretty good skier and can describe the day the moose was in the family’s flower bed. But, with grandparents on Cape Cod, MA, and in Maryland, he knows a little about boats. He can recount, for instance, boating on the Severn River near Annapolis when he was three. My Albemarle 24 wouldn’t start, so Bohdie, his mother Elizabeth, and I loaded into the 14-foot jon boat

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and cranked up the eight-horsepower outboard. We got about even with the Winchester dock—almost a half mile under power—when the outboard slowed and stopped. Clearly hot, it refused to relight. So, we paddled to the Winchester dock and called Bohdie’s Aunt Mary, PropTalk’s publisher. Mary launched the SpinSheet/PropTalk Protector and sped up the river to the rescue. Actually, she sped part way up the river before being flagged down by a Mary-

We wanted Bohdie to see the reliable, relaxing, and restful aspects of marine recreation... While I cranked up the engines (even the starboard main made appropriate noises despite its aversion to cold), Lucy showed Elizabeth and Bohdie the comfortable furniture, bunks, and attractive rugs. land Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Police Boston Whaler. The occupants of the Whaler advised that they’d noticed the Protector and moved closer because it was one of the boats DNR was considering for new patrol boats. When they got closer, however, they also noticed that the Protector’s number boards weren’t on display. The boards were promptly grabbed and reattached, but the DNR did its duty, and Mary completed the rescue mission with a fine and ticket for the infraction. The original purpose of the original trip across the river was to see John Bradbury’s pile driver in action. Bohdie likes machinery, but close up, the pile driver was pretty intimidating. So, Bohdie has the early understanding that boats, particularly little boats, are things that malfunction and require rescue, and boating objectives are maybe not as much fun as anticipated. Actually, Bohdie’s experience in Jackson is not just about mountains and wildlife. His mother and stepfather have a whitewater craft for the Snake River, which does not resemble the Severn. The boat goes only one direction: downstream. Bohdie wasn’t aboard, but he heard about the boat being caught under a deadfall log one day and emerging downstream upside down, bereft of passengers. He reports a breakdown while on a small boat with an uncle in Cape Cod, so with boats, he knows things don’t proptalk.com

always go as planned. Trips on the Annapolis pirate vessel and a whale-watching excursion out of Kennebunkport, ME, have demonstrated larger craft to be reliable, however, so he climbed aboard Indian Summer without trepidation. It was just after Christmas that Bohdie and his mother came to visit, not having seen Indian Summer except in pictures. They left a few feet of snow behind, to find only a little dusting on the ground in Maryland. On the water, there was ice here and there, but we were determined not just to show them the boat, but to get out on the water. We wanted Bohdie to see the reliable, relaxing, and restful aspects of marine recreation. Those who have followed the Indian Summer series in PropTalk are now quite aware that no plans involving the boat are executed exactly as drawn, and despite our resolve, this was no exception. We loaded the boat with people on Luce Creek for a short run downriver to Annapolis and back up to Jerry West’s dock on Chase Creek. While I cranked up the engines—even the starboard main made appropriate noises despite its aversion to cold—Lucy showed

Elizabeth and Bohdie the comfortable furniture, bunks, and attractive rugs. Bohdie’s three-year-old cousin Ginevra showed him all the great ladders and steps to run up and down, while adults held their collective breath. His uncles Geoff and Chas cast off the lines, and Indian Summer rumbled toward the Severn and then toward shallow water and a beach to port. As the depth alarm sounded on the fly bridge, the assembled group in the salon continued to marvel at the comfort of the furnishings and the space for kids to play. “Uh, Geoff, would you mind trying the helm in the main salon? The one up here doesn’t seem to be connected to anything.” Fortunately, both engines were running, and with reverse on the starboard and a burst of forward on the port, Indian Summer was induced to turn back toward the Severn. When it became clear that Geoff could steer from the salon, the topside controls were abandoned: emergency averted. We were careful not to tell Bohdie that anything was amiss. We don’t want him to think that even big boats can malfunction, now do we?

Bohdie navigates for his mother, Elizabeth Prax, and grandfather, Charlie Illiff.

The rest of our voyage was uneventful. The kids took turns steering, and the salon wheel retained its connection to the rudders. On the way back up the river, an outbound sportfish boat threw a substantial wake, which caused a bit of pitch and roll. The kids wanted us to get him to come back and do it again. The excitement of steering a ponderous beast of a boat had

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One tug, two tug, orange tug, blue tug... Bohdie beaches his boats.

been short-lived, and boredom had set in. But, snacks and drinks held their interest for a while. Then there was an inquiry when the new television will be mounted. It is clear that Indian Summer will require

some supplemental entertainment for the under-six crowd on future expeditions. On arrival at Chase Creek, Chas and Geoff draped a tarp under the bow to protect the paint, and a hundred yards of ice breaking was noisy, but not a problem. Getting the boat in the slip was uneventful, and as we buttoned her up, bleeding air from the topside helm hydraulics was added to the to-do list. We’re hopeful that will cure the problem, but preliminary investigation has not revealed any leaks or places air could be getting in. Right now, snow and ice on the decks and cold temps are our excuse not to be working through the list. We still haven’t decided on the configuration of the additional holding tank, a necessity since our current 21-gallon capacity is inadequate. And there’s still some wiring that needs to be refreshed, the radar moved, and a system devised to lower the mast to reduce the air draft, and… Last week, we actually learned a valuable lesson without any damage whatsoever. We ran the main engines just to get them up to

temperature and fired up the generator to exercise the heating system. After a while, we shut everything down and plugged the shore power back in. Fortunately, I glanced at the meter on the inverter/charger, which did not show the expected 13.8-volt battery float. It said that the inverter was running and consuming 90 amps of battery current. One of the three 120-volt heaters we had aboard was running, not on shore power, but on battery power through the inverter. We installed the inverter to run a 300-watt refrigerator while at anchor, not a bunch of 1200-watt heaters. It wouldn’t take long for that to flatten all four of our relatively new batteries, possibly permanently. So, we fixed the bad plug connection on the dock, but then ran separate extensions from the dock to the heaters, instead of plugging them to the boat circuits where the inverter would try to keep them going if shore power failed. We resolved to check the boat more often and celebrated actually learning a lesson without breaking, burning, or ruining anything—a rare and satisfying occurrence.

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“A” Dock: Life on the South River

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Gunther, also pulled into the yard with his young helper. Tom has never disappointed me on a number of engine projects, including installing a remanufactured starboard engine a while ago. Island Girl looked tiny compared to the larger, newer powerboats beside her on the hard. Her classic flybridge cruiser profile seemed antiquated compared to the sleek lines of the other vessels. I walked over to inspect her. I’ll have the yard open up one small spot of osmotic blistering and fill it in the spring. I’ll remove a trim-tab that came loose and re-bed it in the spring. The underwater running gear looks fine, and the bottom paint has held up remarkably. The old gelcoat is a little chalky, but some compound and wax

” Dock at Holiday Point Marina is to marinas what Alice’s Restaurant was to hippies or Nick’s was to Casablanca. I love “A” Dock. This morning, it was too cold to walk Sonic, our rat terrier, to the marina, so we drove our old green Ford pickup truck. Sonic knows the route by smell and sight and knows the dogs who live there. Freddy, a black lab, is his favorite. Freddy belongs to Tom Fleck and Michele Mershon-Fleck, who help operate the marina and serve as “campground hosts.” When we pulled in, Joe Reid, boatbuilder extraordinaire and owner of Mast & Mallet Boatworks, was already at work. Our favorite marine engine guy, Tom

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will work wonders in the spring. I walked back to the truck, breaking a layer of ice on the shallow, frozen puddles. Sonic licked my face, as if to say, “I know you miss the boat... she’ll be fine here at the marina.” I can’t think of a single time in my long life when I have failed to return from a visit with Island Girl without a feeling of hope and anticipation about our next journey. About the Author: Every other month, Allen J. Paltell will share stories of characters who live and work at Holiday Point Marina, where he keeps Island Girl, a 1978 Bertram 28 Flybridge Cruiser. He says, “There’s no sweeter sound than when her engines run right.”

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Marinas for Everyone Finding the Right Spot To Tie Up

Campbell’s Bachelor Point Yacht Company in Oxford, MD. This type of marina offers comfy protection inside its basin. Photo by Gary Reich

ucky you. The Chesapeake Bay boasts more marinas of all shapes, sizes, and dispositions than anywhere else in the galaxy. To help you figure out where to go this year, PropTalk has done the heavy lifting and come up with fantastic suggestions about what to look for in marinas if: you are traveling with pets, kids, or other life forms; you have a big or small boat; or you don’t even own a boat. We’ve also gone to all the trouble of identifying the key marina amenities you must have to maintain your sanity this season. As you cruise this year, keep PropTalk posted with fun photos; we promise to do the same.

Check Out the Big Boat on Brett

K, that’s the last time we’ll play around with quotes from Quentin Tarantino films. But seriously, if you are lucky enough to own a boat over 60 feet in length, you probably already know that you can’t just pull up to any marina and expect to be accommodated. You (or your captain) will need to make sure the marina meets the shore power, water, pumpout, fuel, and dockage requirements of your vessel. Many larger boats can be accommodated at a face dock, and some marinas make a specialty of accommodating floating monsters. National Harbor, near Washington, DC, is a good example of a facility that caters to boats 60 feet in length or longer. The facility takes boats up to 60 feet in length at comfy floating piers, and can handle megayachts up to 200 feet in length at its face pier. In Annapolis, you’ll find most of the expensive toys at the Yacht Basin Company during the summer months, as it has an extensive face dock and can take floating palaces upward of 240 feet long. Johnny Depp, Malcolm Forbes, and Oliver North are among some of last year’s visitors.

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A beautiful view over the Potomac River from National Harbor near Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of National Harbor

If yours is a really large boat, consider shore power, too. Most marinas max out with 50amp 125/250-volt shore power receptacles, and some only go as high as 30-amp 125-volt systems. Megayachters with 100-amp onboard AC systems need to find a marina with the right power or plan on running the generator. Fill ‘er up! If you plan on taking on fuel, especially if your tankage is over 1000 gallons, check first with your destination marina to find out if it has the capacity to fill a tall order like that. If not, the facility may be able to arrange trucking the fuel in, and you can often arrange a quantity discount. If you don’t have an onboard waste treatment system, also consider your destination facility’s pump out capabilities. Last but not least, you want to make sure you can actually get to the facility. For example, if your air draft is more than 50 feet, then you won’t be visiting the Hyatt resort in Cambridge without the Route 50 Bridge making permanent modifications to your superstructure. Bridge clearances are clearly marked on all NOAA charts. Also, if you draw more than five feet, make sure the approach to the marina and the marina slips are deep enough. Be in the mindset of checking ahead. Waterway Guide’s Chesapeake Bay edition and Chesapeake Bay Magazine’s Guide to Cruising the Chesapeake Bay have extensive updated listings on marina facilities and all of the amenities they offer, as do many guides to cruising the Bay. Grab a copy and start planning your adventure. proptalk.com

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What If Your Boat Doesn’t Want You To Sleep on Her?

f you are lucky enough to be the proud owner of a runabout, bowrider, or center-console boat, consider yourself a genius. These boats are the perfect, lighter-weight, lower-maintenance boats for getting to and from your watery destination fast, comfortably, relatively cheaply, and in style. Here are a few things to consider when looking for a marina to accommodate your small boating ways, especially if you plan to overnight. First, your hand-selected marina should have reasonably priced and clean hotel/motel rooms on the premises or nearby. No matter how many passengers are onboard, believe PropTalk: you will want to have comfy accommodations on land, rather than trying to camp out on deck at your slip. Second, your marina should be a comfortable distance away from your homeport and give you access to new ports to discover (big or small), new sightseeing opportunities, and new boating fun. Is there a long river nearby that is ideal for tubing, wakeboarding, waterskiing, or just touring on your way to a dock bar eatery? Is your destination near some great fishing grounds to fulfill your trolling, casting, and bottom-fishing addictions? Is it close to good crabbing grounds? Think about how you want to use (or not use) your boat during your visit, and choose a marina that has these types of activities onsite or a short walk away. Third, make sure the marina has slips with plenty of room for your boat and enough pilings and finger piers for easy tie-ups and

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land access. Ask if your slip: (1) is near the dumpster or other noisy, foul-smelling structures; (2) is tucked way up in between tall walls of boats or buildings; or (3) has a nice, open view of the harbor and/or surrounding docks and vessels. In all likelihood, your slip will be party central before you head indoors for dinner, drinks, and bed; it should be in a great spot to maximize your boat time and that of your passengers. Fourth, your marina should have many amenities within an easy walk to and from your slip and hotel room. For example, nobody wants to have to hire a Sherpa to get to the marina’s pool, bikes, ice, or other accoutrements.

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Fifth, your facility should have a dock bar, restaurant, or snack hut that serves good food and cold (or warm) beverages. Bonus points if the grounds and the surrounding area have taken on a Tiki motif, offering up steel drum music, fine waterfront views, and a “getting-away-from-itall” island atmosphere. Finally, your destination should have access to a ship’s store and experienced marine technicians. The only known about a boat trip is the unknown; things break, hoses come loose, and any manner of mechanized marine mayhem can occur. You’ll want help close by… Better safe than sorry.

The Top Ten Marina Amenities PropTalk Can’t Live Without

rom top to bottom in decreasing level of importance, here are the top amenities PropTalk requires from marinas and some of our reasons why:

1. Electrical hookups for heat in cooler months and air conditioning in hot months to extend the boating season, PropTalk’s top priority 2. Watchful, responsive, experienced, and friendly dockhands to save PropTalk’s sanity and protect our vessels when docking and de-docking 3. Clean facilities, including showers, bathrooms, and pools, to make PropTalk happy and likely to return again and again (Notice we didn’t say anything about laundry facilities; on boat trips, PropTalk avoids them like the plague) 4. Well-maintained docks, piers, and pilings (run away from piecemeal docks and wobbly pilings)

5. Walking distance to restaurants, pubs, shops, spas, markets, and/or other attractions; PropTalk isn’t getting any younger, you know 6. Nicely landscaped marina grounds make for great photo ops and kick PropTalk into stroll mode 7. Secure facilities to safeguard PropTalk’s pride and joy and engender peace of mind 8. Easy access to and from the Chesapeake Bay 9. Onsite marine technicians and ship’s stores create an atmosphere where PropTalk can relax in knowing experienced help is a stone’s throw away 10. Working and accessible fueling and pumpout stations that are well-maintained and easy to operate; bonus points if dockhands readily do the dirty work for PropTalk

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Traveling with Ankle-Biters: What To Look for in a Marina

What’s on the end of your line? Fishing is just one of the many activities available at the Rivermarsh Marina in Cambridge, MD.

aking kids on boating adventures requires a little more creative thinking and destination planning than traveling with “regular people.” If your kids are like PropTalk’s, they will care little about the journey and the beautiful scenery along the way. Instead, they will obsess over their next meal/snack and the estimated time of arrival at your destination. First, consider the weather and the season and how best to keep the little critters comfortable and relaxed. If it’s hot or cold outside and you plan to sleep on the boat, you will need to plug into the marina’s electricity for air conditioning or heating. If you don’t plan to sleep on the boat, look for marinas with reasonably priced hotel rooms onsite or close by. Second, your marina must have a pool. Many have outdoor pools for summer relief. A few also have indoor pools to entertain your kids during the cooler months. Next, you must have easy access to ice cream or hot cocoa, depending on the weather. These two concoctions are excellent behavior-adjustment tools. The fourth consideration is what else your destination has to offer. Marinas all over the place offer a wide array of activities. Hands-on, interactive museums, movie theatres, and kid-friendly restaurants provide a welcome break from the sun and heat of summer and the chill of cooler months as well as the monotony (at least to kids) of life onboard. Countless facilities offer easy access to fun festivals, farmers markets, and firework displays; simply visit our Calendar at proptalk.com for hot links and more details about these types of events. Finally, look for marinas that are within walking distance to outdoor parks, picnic areas, public swing sets, and tot lots, where the little wonders can run around like crazy. Before making a transient reservation, ask about kid-friendly activities and events onsite or nearby, make sure the pool is open, and take notes.

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During your stay, your key objective is to exhaust the young ones, whether by repeated exposure to the excitement of bright lights and big cities, or access to a range of outdoor activities, such as swimming until their skin is beyond pruny, netting crabs along the dock until their arms ache, or taking long wildlife-seeking strolls along the waterfront. If you have done your job well, by the end of the day, they will beg you to take them back to the boat (or hotel room) so they (and you) can just take a break… or better yet, a nap.

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Marinas and Pets

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We found Bay Creek Marina is especially welcoming to dogs. “We’re definitely pet friendly,” says Nicole Gladden. “Dogs are welcome on our grounds and docks and in our marina store. We have a large inner area where guests bring their dogs to play together, and we have a private beach where dogs can run and play.” 301 Fourth St. Eastport, Annapolis, MD Even at a marina that welcomes pups, (Across Spa Creek from AYC) you’ll want to be a good slip neighbor. Please proof carefully, sign and return today. www.pier4annapolis.com Don’t bring Fido if he tends to howl at the moon or barkwithin at every A signed approval publication of your ad. Please return the proof 24passerby. And, 30 slips,of 20'this - 40'proof is required on-site for parking leave Fluffy at home if you know hours. You may make as many changes as you like to this proof. However, after this point changes will be she yaps 4 shower baths deck with a grill incessantly charged ($70/hour). Our errors will, of course, be corrected at any point without charge. or gets agitated by new people laundry room each slip with individual water and electric and surroundings. And, just to be sure your pooch is welcome, Don't delay--we only have a couple of slips left! Completed ad is copyrighted material and property of Chesapeake Bay Communications, Inc. call ahead or visit the marina’s website before you leave the dock. info@pier4annapolis.com 410-990-9515 Olivia McCleary Q Approved Q Approved with changes 410.758.2394 *410.490.0810 info@kennersleypoint.com

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What To Look for in a Marina If You Don’t Have a Boat

hoa. Wait a minute. The first question you may be asking is, “Why go to a marina if you don’t own a boat?” For starters, marinas all over the Bay give you access to the water. Think relaxing waterfront scenery and fun activities afloat. The landlubber in you will peel away and review your true inner waterman. So, first, look for marinas with hotels or other types of accommodations onsite or nearby that give you access to all of the facility’s pools, grounds, golf and tennis courses, manicured lawns, docks, and other amenities. The marina is your destination; forget you have a car. Second, seek out marinas that have small boats for their visitors to use. These vessels usually include paddleboats, canoes, kayaks, and other boats that are ideal for beginners or adventurers. Some marinas offer guided tours on these vessels. Others offer tour boat rides around the harbor and/or in waters nearby. Countless faciliproptalk_ad_Layout 1 12/8/10 1:42 PM Page 1

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ties offer supplies for crabbing and fishing fun and wildlife exploration along the docks and surrounding shorelines. Third, your chosen marina should have a party pavilion and/or Tiki bar, a restaurant or two, and live music. Bonus points if it serves hot steamed crabs outdoors. It’s hard to beat sipping a cold beverage under a thatched Tiki roof while looking out over beautiful riverfront scenery and swaying to the sounds of beachin’ music. Fourth, look for marinas with plenty of year-round slipholders. They are great places for people watching and vessel envy. Impromptu parties sprout up along the docks, with slip mates swapping appetizers, drinks, and tall tales. Walk the docks and chat them up; they are always happy to talk about their vessels, cruising adventures, and local waters. If you ask the right questions, they might even share a boat drink with you. Live vicariously and get a taste of the boating lifestyle. Talk is cheap; you don’t have to own a boat to enjoy talking about boating.

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Next, if you crave night life, investigate marinas that are in safe urban settings with nice accommodations on land. Think harbor lights reflecting in the water, as the echoes of nearby music, voices, and city noises bounce around darkened shorelines. You won’t really be able to see the water at night; it will be a black shiny creature that has many hidden stories to tell. The atmosphere will be magical. Some marinas have boat sales facilities and salespeople onsite. Could it be the right time to crawl all over their vessels and perhaps find your next boat? It’s up to you. And, finally, marinas are fantastic places for photo ops. You’ll find shimmering sunsets and sunrises, shiny vessels of all makes and models in the water and on the hard, mysterious watery wave patterns, funny boat names, and unique shoreline scenery and wildlife. The sights and sounds will soothe your soul.

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Ten Great Gadgets Image courtesy of Simrad

Image courtesy of Garmin

Image courtesy of Si-Tex

Image courtesy of SPOT

Image courtesy of Digital Yacht

March is an excellent time to consider—and reconsider— the new gear you’ll need or want for the coming season. Here is PropTalk’s list of the top 10 things we can’t do without:

Bottom’s Up

irmar supplies transducers for many of the recreational fish finders in today’s market and now has developed an affordable product that uses what engineers call “frequency sweeping pulse compression” technology, also known as “CHIRP.” This use of continually changing frequencies within a single pulse—hence the “broadband” marketing nomenclature—produces images of what lies beneath the keel in higher resolution, at deeper depths, and with less noise, including “fish holding tight to the bottom” compared to other technologies. Simrad, the first manufacturer to incorporate the new Airmar transducer, boasts that its broadband BSM-2 module now displays five times better target resolution than comparable “performance echo sounders.” The package retails for $2495. Visit simrad-yachting.com or airmartechnology.com for more information.

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Smoke On the Water

ast year, GOST—then known as Paradox—began selling an onboard anti-theft system that included a noisemaker. Inferno’s siren was so loud that it was guaranteed to physically sicken any intruder who triggered the alarm. Now the Florida security and monitoring company has redefined klepto-hell with GOST Cloak. Triggering the alarm releases a cloak or dense cloud of non-corrosive smoke throughout the boat, reducing visibility to less than a foot and thus freaking out the robbers. The smoke is made of glycol solution, a component of deodorants and toothpaste, and does no harm to the vessel. The GOST system costs $4999. gostglobal.com proptalk.com

& Gizmos for 2011 by H. Bart Hodge

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Timely Refreshments

eonav has made an impressive U.S. debut with its G Series multi-function displays (MFDs). Founded in Italy in 1983 and acquired by U.S.-based Johnson Outdoors in 2007, Geonav offers 10- and 12-inch models that cost $3299 and $4299, respectively (add $400 for integrated side-imaging sonar). Geonavs are the first MFDs capable of displaying the new C-Map 4D cartography (in addition to electronic charts from the other industry leader, Navionics). Geonav MFDs are preloaded with reference charts from both C-MAP and Navionics, and highly detailed charts are available from their respective worldwide chart catalogs. The fourth dimension implied in the C-MAP 4D? That’s time. Customers may download fresh revisions of the cartography whenever, not just at prescribed intervals, because the database is continually updated. Visit geonavmarine.com and c-map.com for more information.

Pandora Plotter

tandard Horizon has gone ahead and taken the first step toward marrying a personal computer (PC) and chartplotter in a single marinized unit. Though best known for its VHF radios, the company also makes plotters and has now launched the industry’s first wireless Internet-enabled MFDs: the touch-screen CPN 700i and CPN 1010i. This brings to the helm a growing number of web-based features for navigation and weather forecasting, as well as popular streaming music and video. For example, the plotters can overlay XM Radio weather from Baron Weather Service forecast graphics when wireless Internet is available, as well as receive XM Radio’s satellite weather with an optional separate receiver when out of range. The PC functions of the processor are accomplished using a Bluetooth keyboard and Universal Serial Bus (USB) connections. The seven-inch model is priced at $1500, and the 10-inch at $2300. standardhorizon.com

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Spin Zone

armin has brought two attractively priced open-array scanners to market. Both transmit at four kilowatts and boast a 72-nautical-mile range and advanced signal processing and presentation of returns. The four-foot GMR 404 xHD lists for $3700, and the six-foot GMR 406 xHD goes for $4500. For optimal situational awareness, the GMRs incorporate a dual-range feature that allows compatible MFDs to display two ranges simultaneously, so a helmsman can see both close and distant targets simultaneously. With an optional heading sensor, these new units also support MARPA (Mini Automatic Radar Plotting Aid) for collision avoidance, which tracks the course, speed, and predicted closest approach of multiple targets. garmin.com

Matter of Degrees

nglers know that just a few degrees of water temperature can make a big difference in their fishing day. So does SI-TEX, which has just released its new SST-110 smart temperature readout. Measuring 4.1 by 4.3 by 3.5 inches, the four-digit LCD display costs $289, excluding temperature probes sold separately. The SST-110 is more than a digital thermometer; it lets fishermen set high and low temperature alarms for audible alerts to temperature fluctuations or hard temperature “edges.” A temperature trend arrow on the display tells the user at a glance if water temperatures are getting warmer, or cooler, or remaining constant. si-tex.com

AIS to iPad

he British company Digital Yacht is a relative newcomer to the U.S. electronics market, but it’s beginning to make its mark with a core of AIS (Automatic Identification System) and PC

products. It has released a neat black box product, which, when connected to a VHF radio antenna, will wirelessly transmit AIS information to your iPad. AIS info is shown using Digital Yacht’s own application or overlaid on the Apple-compatible iNavX navigation software, transforming the iPad into a fully functional chartplotter. The same black box ($499) can be interfaced with the ship’s standard National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) system, so your iPad plotter benefits from the greater accuracy of data from the ship’s GPS, not to mention soundings and other NMEA feeds. digitalyacht.co.uk

Small Miracle

ave WiFi, manufacturer of wireless solutions for megayachts on downward, is now shipping its smallest and least expensive bridge/router yet. The Rogue Wave, which retails for $395, pulls in signals from wireless Internet hotspots up to seven miles away but is portable enough to be stowed in a drawer or carried in a laptop bag. The module measures six by one and a half inches in diameter, plus a “rubber duck” antenna. Output is a full 800 milliwatts, and like all of the larger Wave WiFi EC units, the Rogue requires no software installation and uses a standard Ethernet connection. For boats, Rogue also works with an optional, remote-mount, omni-directional antenna. landandseawifi.com

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Night Moves

he accompanying image says it better than words. FLIR night-vision technology has been integrated into navigation software by Furuno partner MaxSea. This allows a user to control the sweep of the camera in chart mode and view the target area on the same display. The irony is that FLIR now owns Raymarine, a Furuno competitor, but had partnered with Furuno on this project before acquiring Raymarine last May. Furuno’s thermal camera says FLIR on it, while Raymarine’s has been relabeled Raymarine. For its part, Raymarine lets navigators use a sweep of the finger to aim the camera using Raymarine’s E-Series “HybridTouch” displays. G-Series owners can control the cameras using the display’s remote keyboard. An optional joystick control will work with either system. Visit furunousa.com and raymarine.com for more information.

HUG Tied

he SPOT satellite messenger people have devised a pricepoint vessel monitoring system using the same GPS and satellite communications technology. HUG, short for Hybrid Universal Guardian, sets up a 1500-foot “geo-fence” around your boat and notifies you by e-mail or text messageand local law enforcementwhen that line is crossed (i.e. when someone besides you moves your boat); then continues to relay the vessel’s position. Also, up to four sensor cables can be connected to the HUG Base Station gateway; typically, two of those would connect to a bilge alarm and battery monitor. An owner in Baltimore, for example, would be alerted in case of high water or low voltage on his boat at Solomons. The HUG system performs all the same functions as the SPOT messenger. Hardware costs $450, activated with a $150 annual subscription. If you want a tracking function that posts the boat’s location on the Internet in a Google Earth format, that’s an additional $50 a year. findmespot.com

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Hang onto this issue of PropTalk, because you’ll want this handy-dandy, chart-like apparatus for planning purposes throughout the season. Feel free to make notes all over it, laminate it, poke it with stick pins to mark places you’ve visited or plan to visit, and treat it like your own, because it is. Each destination holds something different. It’s your job to explore some of them this season. After you do, send your marina stories and photos to gary@proptalk.com.

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Cruising Club Notes Seeking a Long-Distance Adventure?

hile you plan your cruising season for 2011, think about this: Cape May, NJ, and its surrounding area boast a wellappointed harbor and clean, guarded beaches; Victorian architecture and fine restaurants and pubs; unique shopping opportunities; a rich and diverse history, including a lighthouse, nature center, World War II lookout tower, and the World War II Air Museum; three golf courses nearby; arts and theatres; wineries; and more. The “B” Dock at South Jersey Marina, for example, is dedicated to transient docking and is designed to accommodate large and small groups and clubs. Visitors enjoy dockside refreshments under the hospitality tent for groups of 11 boats or more, souvenir gift packages upon check-in, complimentary fruit and newspaper delivered to each boat daily, wireless Internet access at your vessel, and concierge services. The 2011 season might be just the right time for a club cruise up the Northern Bay through the C&D Canal and into the Delaware Bay and beyond. A long, long, time ago, my husband and I made the trip from below Annapolis to above Cape May in one day on a 21-foot Renken. If you prefer a more leisurely pace, plan to stop in Chesapeake City, or at Summit North Marina. For group rates and more details, call (609) 884-2400, or email cbooth@southjerseymarina.com. By March 25, send ruth@proptalk.com your Club Notes, Directory updates, and fudge pie (find.myrecipes.com).

Maryanne Gomme is “dreamin’ o’ her Grady.”

We Can Dream Can’t We?

hesapeake Bay Grady-White Club members spent the winter holed up dreaming of cruises gone by, of fish yet to be caught, and of rendezvous to come (above). But now it’s time to get out from under the covers, get the boats out of wraps, and gear up for the new season. Our February meeting will start things off with election of officers, followed by a presentation on spring commissioning, as well as what equipment to have onboard to complete emergency repairs while underway. Holding the meeting at the Calypso Bay Restaurant in Deale, MD, is a great way to warm up for the seafaring days ahead. As we get closer to the beginning of the season, we’ll gather for a potluck dinner at our meeting March 22 and learn about light-tackle fishing on the Bay. We’ll be out testing the waters, the boats, and ourselves to be sure we’re ready for all the activities planned for spring and summer. Hope to see you out there! To join us, e-mail cbgradyclub@yahoo.com. —by Maryanne Gomme

Legends of the Fall?

he Chesapeake Bay Grand Banks Owners Association will launch its season during a members’ brunch at the Severn Inn overlooking the Severn River and U.S. Naval Academy March 20. Take this opportunity to meet with old friends and welcome new members. The complete cruising schedule will be posted soon at cbgboa. org. Members are also gearing up for the Fall Rendezvous in Deltaville, VA, September 21-25 to take in the Wings and Wheels Air and Car Show, travel to the Yorktown Battlefield, enjoy a dinner dance Saturday, and savor Sunday brunch. 50 March 2011 PropTalk

And You Thought You Had a Busy Schedule

he yearly calendar for the Chesapeake Women Anglers (CWA) is filled with many different activities and outings, including monthly fish, lunch, and learn sessions; casting clinics; local and destination fishing trips; and fun activities, such as fly tying and kayaking. CWA hosts a booth at several local fly fishing shows during the winter to spread the word and raise donations for CWA’s Casting For Recovery retreat. Members will travel to the Fly Fishing Show in Valley Forge, PA, March 5-6 and the National Capital Angling Show in Bethesda, MD March 12, hosted by the National Capital Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Each September, members, families, and friends gather for the Fall Fling Picnic, and December brings a wonderful holiday party to end the fishing year (chesapeakewomenanglers.org).

Thing Are Going Swimmingly

fter cooling their jets during the Polar Bear Plunge at Sandy Point State Park January 29—not to mention raising some cold hard cash for a good cause—members of the Chesapeake Bay Power Boat Association are training for the March of Dimes Great Bay Swim June 12 near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge (cbpba.com).

Switching Gears

embers of the Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the Antique & Classic Society are no doubt polishing up their wooden beauties, especially the racers and pre-war head turners they showed off during the Baltimore Boat Show this past January. March 12 brings a new member social and the St. Patrick’s Day Party at Sarles Boatyard & Marina in Annapolis (chesapeakebayacbs.org). proptalk.com

As District Commodore Robert J. Birrane, Sr., watches, USCG captain Mark O’Malley swears in new Division vice commander Marjorie A. Voith and commander Daniel McConnell. Photo by Caryl P. Weiss

Hmm… Very Interesting

ivision 23 of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Auxiliary District 5 South recently held its Change of Watch at Renditions Golf Club in Davidsonville, MD (above). The keynote speaker was Lt. David Lewald of USCG Sector Baltimore, who took the buoy tender CGC James Rankin to the Gulf of Mexico last summer to help with oil skimming operations following the massive oil spill there. His slide presentation kept the more than 60 attendees riveted, as he spoke of the difficulties and small victories in this operation (caryl51p@yahoo.com). —by Caryl P. Weiss

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he Stingray Harbor Yacht Club (SHYC) hasn’t been dreaming of a warm tropical beach this winter; we’ve been planning a schedule of great events for 2011. The year started with the Winter Doldrums Party January 22 at the Capital Ale House in Richmond, VA. A land cruise to Beaufort, NC, February 11-13 will feature visits to the North Carolina Maritime Museum and Fort Macon USCG base, a great group dinner, the lovely town of Beaufort, nautical activities, and the company of friends. The only thing better this February would be… a warm tropical beach. From the better-late-than-never files, member Pat Anderson says, “For my New Year’s resolution, I want to get to the C&D Canal from our Southern Bay berth. We’ve been trying for years and always get distracted by Annapolis or some sweet anchorage and lose our momentum. And, I want to spend at least one night every month at anchor.” Established in 1977 at Stingray Point Marina in Deltaville, VA, SHYC advances the sports of sailing and powerboating and enhances members’ social enjoyment and good fellowship. SHYC boasts more than 100 membership families. All are welcome to join (stingrayhyc.com). —by Sherry Davis

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CRUISING CLUB NOTES Some of the action from last year’s Commodore Ball held at the Kent Island Yacht Club.

Around the Americas

arch 19 brings adventurer Herb McCormick to the Severn School in Severna Park, MD, as part of the winter lecture series of the Windjammers of the Chesapeake. McCormick will discuss his voyage on a 64-footer from Seattle, WA, to draw attention to the health of our oceans. The voyage cast North America and South America as a singular island surrounded by a common sea. After 382 days and 27,000 nautical miles, he returned to Seattle following a passage that circled the continents via the once-impassable Northwest Passage and Cape Horn (windjammers-chesapeake.org).

Weekend Wonderland

ack Creek Yacht Club members (above) shook off the cold weather by celebrating our new officers at the 2011 Commodore’s Ball held January 29 at the Kent Island Yacht Club. Starting with a Friday dinner on Kent Island, MD, Saturday’s annual formal dinner dance and installation of officers were followed by Sunday breakfast. It was a welcome escape from the weather, and the thoughts of a great season to come warmed the spirit of the weekend. February events include a mid-week dinner party in Annapolis on the 10th, an Italian night dinner on the 12th, and a Winter Happy Hour on the 25th. The first on-the-water event will occur April 16 (gobcyc.com). —by Otto Hetzel

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ower in the Park” will kick off the American Power Boat Association Region 4 season April 16-17 at Portsmouth City Park in Portsmouth, VA, with both inboard and outboard hydroplane racing, and finish off with the Clarksville Hydroplane Challenge September 24-25 on Clarksville Lake, VA. Kent Narrows Racing Association’s ever-popular “Thunder on the Narrows” races will be held in late June this year, a change from its usual August. Remember: no coolers and no onsite parking. Shuttles operate from the county parking lots on both sides of the Kent Narrows high-rise bridge, and there are food and beverage options at the race. The Offshore Powerboat Association’s 2011 schedule was not available at press time, but it has been confirmed that the Solomons Offshore Grand Prix will take place in October again this year. PropTalk will attend many of these events, so keep an eye out for us on the water and on land taking pictures of you, your boat, and the frenzied racers. Check out proptalk.com after each race, where you can enjoy and purchase images of the water-splitting action for a nominal price. See you out there!

Photos by Gary Reich

APBA Region 4 Tentative 2011 Racing Schedule Portsmouth, VA (Power in the Park) April 16-17 Elizabeth City, NC (Elizabeth City International Cup) June 4-5 Kent Island, MD (Thunder on the Narrows) June 25-26 Cambridge, MD (Cambridge Classic) July 23-24 Hampton, VA (Hampton Cup Regatta) August 5-7 Clarksville, MD (Clarksville Hydroplane Challenge) September 24-25

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Farewell to Friends Jerry West’s 26-foot Chris-Craft, Arthur. She was lovingly restored by Dave Herbig after lying neglected in a cow pasture for many years. Photo courtesy of Charlie Iliff

David M. Herbig

July 5, 1933 - January 27, 2011

ave Herbig served in the United States Air Force, as an Anne Arundel County Police Officer, and as an engineer in construction operations for the State of Maryland. We knew him, however, as a superb boatwright. He rebuilt a number of antique and classic boats, concentrating primarily on ChrisCraft runabouts and small cruisers. It was Herbig who retrieved Jerry West’s 26-foot Chris-Craft Arthur from a cow pasture and painstakingly restored it to show condition. That process was featured in the PropTalk series “Old Boat Disease.” In our February 2011 issue, we discussed the project Herbig was working on when he died: West’s 21-foot triple-cockpit Chris-Craft. From a sunken wreck lifted from the creek in July, Herbig already had completed a beautiful solid hull and was fashioning and installing a new deck. A visit to Herbig’s shop, in his garage at home, was always a treat. He worked alone, so only one or two projects were usually on scene. Herbig’s enthusiasm was infectious—he would cheerfully answer questions, and point out the details of original construction, or of his modifications where needed. What he didn’t already know about Chris-Craft runabouts, he could find in a stack of reference books by the door, and he enjoyed sharing his knowledge with visitors.

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The 21-foot triple-cockpit Chris-Craft that Dave Herbig was in the process of restoring for Jerry West. She was salvaged from underneath a collapsed boat house, having been half-sunken for years.

Herbig didn’t work to deadlines. He took the time that each project deserved and did each boat well—from minor rehabilitations to complete reconstructions. He rebuilt boats because he loved doing it. His customers and friends loved his skill, his enthusiasm, and the projects that they shared with him.

Herbig died on the snowy Thursday when much of Anne Arundel County was without electricity. Officials concluded that he was most likely overcome by carbon monoxide from a generator in his shop. Team PropTalk offers its sincere condolences to Herbig’s wife Gail, to his family, and to his many friends in the boating community. proptalk.com

Dynamic duo Reid Bandy and Doug Anderson doing what they do best: laminating. Photo by Gary Reich

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Doug Anderson and Reid Bandy laminate new web forms in to place. Photo by Gary Reich

he title is a small play on the David Bowie classic “Changes,” released as a single in 1971, but we’re here to talk about boats; let’s hop to it. I snuck in the back door of Reid Bandy’s shop in January to find that he and his assistant Doug Anderson had applied most of the inner fiberglass skin to the composite hull, had installed CoreCell stringers (Bandy corrected me, telling me they were technically “web forms”), and were preparing to laminate the integral structures into place. The web forms will strengthen the hull, a bit like ribs on a wooden boat do. Lots of progress is stirring, which in the last installment, took a ride into the air for a right-side-up flip. Bandy’s method for installing the web forms is a bit of a trade secret, but once they are in place, a fillet of colloidal-silicaFollow us!

thickened epoxy (about the consistency of petroleum jelly) is applied with the backside of a spoon at the hard angle where the web forms meet the inside of the hull. This is done so the fiberglass laminate applied over them has a nice curved radius to follow, versus a hard edge, which fiberglass cloth is reluctant to shape to. I spent about two hours in the shop while Bandy and Anderson applied two huge, 26-foot sheets of biaxial fiberglass to the new structural supports, pouring bucket after bucket of high-grade epoxy resin onto the cloth while hand massaging, rolling, and pressing the material into place. I thought it looked a bit like the boat was getting a massage. This tender-loving care ensures there are no voids, bubbles, or wrinkles in the laminate. Bandy’s goal was to have them cured by the next day, so he could lay plywood atop them. His client, George Velmachos, was scheduled in town the next day to walk around and discuss deck layout possibilities and confirm the next stages of the project with Bandy. While the guys were busy laminating, Bandy told me that Velmachos has a plywood mockup of the boat in his barn in Sag Harbor, NY, which he has been “toying” around with to make final decisions about deck layout, settee placement, helm location, etc. Bandy says, “It’s pretty impressive that he mocked that up in his barn; he’s really involved in the intricate details going into the boat. We will make final decisions together tomorrow; I’ll draw

them up and then have Velmachos sign off on the final design so we can move on to the next steps.” I left Bandy and Anderson to their job a couple of hours later, as it started to turn dark outside, and I felt I was holding up progress with my pestering questions. About a week or two later, I contacted Bandy, and he informed me that Velmachos had a great visit to the shop and was very happy with the progress. With his notebook in hand, Velmachos dictated several changes to the final deck design (based on his plywood mockup), which we will cover in the next installment of this series. Stay tuned. Every last detail is taken into account, but PropTalk did some Photoshop work to protect Bandy’s intellectual hard work. Photo by Gary Reich

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New fasteners go into the bottom of Temma, a 1928 42-foot Rand & Thompson at Sarles Boatyard & Marina in Annapolis. Photo courtesy of Tom Weaver

field, and Chance along the way. We made it back to Annapolis in time for supper, having had a great day pressing the flesh with a great group of builders who were nice enough to take time out and show us their shops and handy work. On a different note, make sure to put the Maryland Boatbuilders and Dealers Expo in Cambridge, April 2-3 on your social calendar. This is a fine time to meet and greet Bay Country boatbuilders and see their latest creations. PropTalk is a sponsor.

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hile it’s hard to think about summer fun and boatbuilding as I look out over the ice-locked and snow-covered Back Creek fleet from my office window, I’ve come to realize that I’m working on our March issue. That’s right—March—when we celebrate the sun crossing the Equator on its journey closer to Chesapeake Country. On March 21, we’ll be treated to our first 12 hours of sunlight since September 22 last year. Things are stirring frenetically at many Bay Country boatbuilders. David Mason’s Chesapeake Boats Inc. shop in Crisfield, MD, is literally packed to the walls with new builds; Eugene Evans of Evans Boats in Crisfield just launched a new catamaran destined for water taxi service in Baltimore with another on order. Composite Yachts in Cambridge, MD, has a couple of new builds well underway, and Pete Mathews of Mathews Brothers in Denton, MD, is excited about a new order simmering on the burner. That fun group of folks some people call “crazy” is having the last laugh. Classic boat restorers on the Bay are busier than ever. “I just keep moving the boats 56 March 2011 PropTalk

closer and closer together,” says George Hazzard of Wooden Boat Restoration in Millington, MD, about his huge shop floor. Jerry LeCompte, another wellknown classic boat wizard, is also busy with a number of restorations in his new Easton, MD, location. I recently met up with Bill Griffin, who travels the Bay providing services to Fawcett Boat Supplies customers, on a cold January morning for a road trip out of the office. Griffin and I met at Fawcett’s Bay Ridge Annapolis location promptly at 7:30 a.m. for what promised to be a long and interesting day on Maryland’s Middle and Lower Eastern shores. While Griffin made room for me in his travel vehicle, I spent time catching up with old colleague George Moose, who does splicing and custom rigging. We talked and laughed about the old stories Moose used to share with me about Tilghman Island oystermen Stanley Larrimore and Wade Murphy and their “interesting” encounters on the Bay while “drudging fer arsters.” Griffin and I traveled all the way to Wenona, MD, stopping in Denton, Cris-

Looking toward the pointy end of Chesapeake Boats’ latest pirate ship, a 65-footer destined for Virginia Beach, VA. Photo by Gary Reich

ake Glover of Composite Yacht in Cambridge tells PropTalk that the Composite 37CB build is moving along well. Glover says, “All major system rough-ins are complete with all soles down and interior construction well under way. Her vacuum-bagged Divinycell washboards and cabin have been faired and are currently primed and awaiting paintwork.” Glover adds, “The latest Composite 46CB’s vacuum-bagged Nida-Core cockpit sole has been installed. Her custom hydraulic power steering system is being plumbed in now, and her sanitation, water systems, and an 11.5-kW Onan generator have all been installed. We’ve got her Caterpillar C-15 in place on aluminum engine beds with a Racor fuel treatment system and a PYI PSS dripless shaft seal.” Glover also tells PropTalk that a 60-foot Hatteras is in the spray tent for an Imron paint job. A second will go in right behind her. The crew just finished an AwlGrip job on a 24-foot center-console Pursuit, with a 1969 21-foot Donzi now scheduled for an all-new Imron topcoat. Composite Yacht’s fiberglass fabrication shop also is staying busy building some more fiberglass parts for one of its many industrial customers. proptalk.com

ichard Scofield of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels says, “Things are picking up, except when we have to stop to shovel snow off of our historic floating fleet. Deck repairs on the bugeye Edna Lockwood continue. Her new decking is all down and is ready to be caulked. The decking is Douglas fir, and it is fastened to the deck beams with number 14, fourinch long silicon bronze wood screws.” Scofield adds, “We have started a new 16-foot Rushton rowing skiff for our public

om Weaver of Sarles Boatyard & Marina in Annapolis says, “Sarles is hopping. We have now finished refastening Temma, and next week, we have a Lowel 43 named Blue Feather coming up the railway for repairs and maintenance. In the fiberglass shop, we have Joe Young repairing the hull of a rescue boat that had some damage caused by a collision. The small boat shop is filling up with detail work, and there are plenty of other projects around the yard, including five Eastport 32s in for winter service.”

Sean Messick of Scotts Cove Marina in Chance, MD, applies a layer of biaxial fiberglass to a newly installed cutwater on a 35-foot Bruno Stillman. Photo by Gary Reich

Evans Boats’ latest project, a 46-foot catamaran, which will be put to work as a Baltimore water taxi. Photo courtesy of Evans Boats

boatbuilding classes. She will be white cedar planking over slippery steam-bent elm frames. We started in early January, and she will be launched at the end of May. The classes run every Saturday and Sunday, and the public is welcome to be part of the class.”

ick Biles of Swain BoatBuilders in Millington is busy with restoration work on Annie D., a buyboat built in 1957 at Deltaville, VA, by Johnny C. Weston. She measures 44.4 feet in length with a 14.4-foot beam, drawing only 3.9 feet. She was originally owned by Thomas Asbury Pruitt and was active in Chesapeake Bay’s fisheries until being purchased by the Echo Hill Outdoor School in Worton, MD. She is used as an educational platform for teaching kids about the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Biles says his shop has completed a new pilothouse for the buyboat, which he will truck to the school for installation. The base and framing of the new pilothouse are pressuretreated pine, which is sheathed with 1/4inch fir plywood and sided with 5/8-inch fir wainscotting. The deck and roof are plywood sheathed in fiberglass set in West System epoxy. The trim is Atlantic white cedar. Biles adds, “Our next projects include a new trunk cabin for Annie D., a new cockpit and deck repairs for a Friendship sloop, and the restoration of two lapstrake tenders built in the 1930s for a Trumpy yacht. Thankfully, we are staying busy.”

ete Mathews of Mathews Brothers in Denton, reports a couple of Awlgrip jobs and an insurance job are underway. The insurance work entails a partially sunken boat. Mathews says, “We now are finishing a Hampton onedesign mold, with another Hampton hull almost finished. We also are building some fiberglass parts in the fiberglass shop for various projects and have been talking to the Comet class about building a boat for them. Spring commissioning work will start in full very soon.” Mathews adds, “Hopefully, we will see some more activity this year on new projects. We are currently in the design stage of a new 40-footer. This model will have more interior space for long-range cruising. We will also continue offering the standard Mathews 40 that people around the Bay and beyond know and love. The hull is based on the popular Cecil Robbins design.” Follow us!

om Weaver of the Eastport Yacht Company in Annapolis is industriously working on the development of the Eastport 26 and 43. Weaver says, “Both projects are getting detailed attention so that we get these boats right when they hit the water.”

usan Campbell of Campbell’s Custom Yachts and Boatyards in Oxford, MD, sent in the latest on an interesting aluminum project they

Dan Cada of Ruark BoatWorks in Cambridge, MD, shakes hands with “Mr. Jim” Richardson as Jolly Dolphin is launched. Photo courtesy of the Richardson Maritime Museum

are working on. Hanna Brown is a 1990 33-footer owned by George MacLeod. MacLeod has sailed this boat extensively over the past 15 years and has visited 37 countries during six trips across the Atlantic Ocean and two years in the Arctic Ocean. He has put approximately 125,000 miles under her keel. Campbell’s is in the process of updating most of her systems to ready her for continued exploration of the planet’s waters. Theses upgrades include but are not limited to: an upgraded galley with new stove, plumbing and additional storage, allnew electric panel and wiring, and upgraded instruments and wiring.

erry LeCompte of Dockside BoatWorks in Easton is staying busy with a variety of hand-crafted restoration projects. One of the boats in LeCompte’s new Easton shop is a 1959 17-foot ChrisCraft Sportsman, which had some frames replaced and a new bottom installed. She is currently being sanded and stained. Another project involves the complete restoration of a 1941 16-foot Chris-Craft Deluxe. LeCompte says, “We replaced a lot of the frames in both the bottom and transom. PropTalk March 2011 57

Now we are working on putting her new bottom on.” LeCompte adds, “We also have a 1962 23-foot Chris-Craft Holiday that we’re putting a new bottom on, and we also will strip the hull and refinish it. Last but not least, we have a new Chris-Craft kit boat that Robert Finnin built, and we are doing the finish work on.”

ladys Taylor of the Richardson Maritime Museum in Cambridge e-mailed news of the

A composite Markley 46 hull sits on her side at Composite Yachts in Cambridge, MD. Photo by Bill Griffin

triumphant re-launch of Jolly Dolphin, a 63-foot, three-sail bateau, which has been under repair for almost three years at Ruark BoatWorks, which is part of the museum. She underwent a major restoration effort with the assistance of many volunteers. Jolly Dolphin was built by “Mr. Jim” Richardson in 1958. Over the years, normal deterioration took place, which necessitated a significant amount of restoration. The 63-foot hull was originally turned over to allow removal

and replacement of the cedar bottom planking, white oak chines, cedar starter planks, and inner stem. Once that work was completed, the Yacht Maintenance Company Inc. of Cambridge turned her right-side up to facilitate restoration of the outer stem, side timbers, and most of the side planking. New laminated oak deck beams were fashioned using Richardson’s method for determining the arc. A pattern of her original transom was used to fashion an oak replacement.

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Her centerboard and rudder also showed their age, and new oak replacements were made. Several of the original pieces will stay at Ruark BoatWorks to become permanent displays. After a week in the water at a hospitable neighborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slip, her new wood planks swelled tight enough for the trip to her new Magothy River berth. She is now powered by a rebuilt 76-horsepower Cummins diesel with a restored 18-inch bronze propeller. The 48-mile trip north took seven hours, and

Paul Jones of PL Jones Boatyard in Hoopers Island, MD, makes some sparks while crafting a patent tong rig for a Jones 50. Photo by Bill Griffin

restoration of her cabin is planned by her current stewards.

ill Judge and his crew at Judge Yachts in Denton, MD, have worked their way through most of the new boat backlog of Judge 27s and have received two more orders for the popular fishing machines. The justcompeted boats are both center console models. A Chesapeake 36 has been sold and is in the shop for modifications to

Ebby DuPontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1928 22-foot Chris-Craft Model 1 project takes shape in his Bozman, MD, garage. Photo by Bill Griffin

make her even more comfortable as a cruiser. The picnic version of the 36 is still on hold in the spatial drawing stage, as Judge continues to work with Cummins on using its new Zeus pod drive for single-screw boats. Judge has assembled just about one of every model for his annual open house on March 5, which will run from noon. to 5 p.m. All are invited, but please RSVP to Judge at (410) 479-9770, or info@ judgeyachts.com.

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Fish News

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Virginia Anglers Notch 5000-Plus Citations

irginia anglers’ reputation for catching big fish was validated during the 53rd annual Virginia Saltwater Fishing Tournament, which ran January 1 through December 31 last year. Fishermen registered 5069 trophy-size fish to earn colorful citations, marking the 11th straight year in which anglers broke the 5000 fish threshold. White marlin topped the list of most registered gamefish for the second year in a row, with offshore anglers registering a record 1253 whites in 2010. The prior all-time mark for the tournament, 775, was set in 2009. The other top fish registered were as follows: Red drum, with 717 citations representing 14 percent of the year’s total number, and the third highest number of awards issued for reds in tournament history. Speckled trout, with 702 citations, though slightly down from the recordsetting total of 849 in 2009. Among the speckled trout citations registered for weight, five speckled trout topped the magic 10-pound mark, while 29 fish weighed eight pounds or more. Striped bass, with 552 citations, of which 40 percent (219) were for released fish, meeting or exceeding the 44-inch requirement. The 2010 season produced a total of 40 striped bass weighing 50 pounds or more, with three stripers topping the 60-pound mark. Earning honorable mention was the “man in the brown suit,” cobia, which showed up in strong numbers in 2010. Anglers registered 331 cobia, with the biggest weighing in a mere two pounds shy of the 109-pound state record. For more information, contact Lewis S. Gillingham, Virginia Saltwater Fishing Tournament, 2600 Washington Ave., Third Floor, Newport News, VA 23607, (757) 491-5160, vswft@mrc.virginia.gov.

Capt. C.D. Dollar holds a plump yellow perch caught on the fly. Ned lovers are celebrating Yellow Perch Appreciation Day on March 5 in North East, MD. Photo by Joe Evans

Yellow Perch Appreciation Day Returns March 5

any fishermen have already got a jump on catching yellow perch in the Upper Bay weeks before the second annual “Yellow Perch Appreciation Day” hosted by the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) MD-Upper Bay Chapter on March 5 at North East Park, North East, MD. According to Scott Carlson, CCA MD’s Upper Bay Chapter president, the event celebrates the return of the yellow perch fishery, which has rebounded since restrictions were placed on commercial nets in spawning tributaries. “Last year’s celebration was a great success,” says Carlson. “The pier was filled with children and their families fishing.” Running from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., the event boasts angling contests for children and adults, a CCA Calcutta tournament, food, and drinks. Plus, ‘Yellow Neddy’ is scheduled to make an appearance. Find more information at ccamd.org.

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Maryland Saltwater Sportfishermen’s Association (MSSA) Annapolis’ Saltwater Fishing Expo

veryone looks for value for their dollar, and one of the best bangs for your buck is the MSSA Annapolis Chapter’s annual Saltwater Fishing Expo, co-sponsored by PropTalk and the Boatyard Bar & Grill. The popular event will be held on February 26 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Annapolis Elks Lodge #622, located at 2517 Solomons Island Road, just outside Annapolis. The one-day event features fishing seminars, discounted Bay and offshore tackle, local charter captains and guides, and much more. Speakers will include Capt. Charlie Sisson on “Live Lining for Stripers,” Capt. Pete Dahlberg talking about “Early Season Stripers on the Flats and Mid Bay,” Capt. Wayne Morgan discussing “Spring Trolling for Trophy Stripers” and Capt. Mark Hoos and his tactics for “Trolling for Tuna.” “This is a great event to shake off cabin fever while stocking your tackle locker and learning new techniques for the 2011 fishing season,” says event organizer Kevin McMenamin. For details, click on saltwaterfishingexpo.com or call McMenamin at (410) 340-5030. proptalk.com

Fish F o rec a s t s

by Capt. C.D. Dollar

bout this time of year, most Bay fishermen are licking their chops in anticipation of the trophy striper season, but the Chesapeake Bay’s almost innumerable tidal creeks and freshwater lakes and reservoirs offer excellent fishing for crappie, yellow perch, pickerel, and bluegills. Already, fishermen have enjoyed some fast action on neds in the Upper Bay rivers. The yellow perch run in February and March will be followed by the whites, and the stripers and shad will follow suit as spring bounces back into our angling lives. On the fishing front, someone is always chasing some finned quarry. January’s Arctic blast forced most stripers south to the North Carolina coast, and those anglers who went out did well. But too many sportfishermen went out-of-bounds and caught rock in illegal waters. The beach-haul seines didn’t give the stock a break either. Be on the lookout for PropTalk’s April fishing issue, which will hit the docks on March 15. Inside you’ll find 2011 fishing previews for Maryland and Virginia waters, a complete 2011 tournament schedule, how-to articles on catching rockfish and hickory shad, and a complete primer on getting your gear ready for the season.

“Six days, Same Fly, 47 Bonefish.” Photo of photo by Gary Reich

apt. Walt of Light Tackle Charters will be ready to get back at it this spring after conducting some fishing seminars, including February 26 when he’ll speak on “Catching Rockfish and Cobia in the Chesapeake Bay” at the Quarryville, PA, Fishing Workshop. Call (717) 940-1513 for more information. Capt. Walt says, “From February through mid-March, I’ll guide clients using ultralight tackle (four- to six-pound gear) on the Pocomoke River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore for yellow perch, crappie, and pickerel. From the middle of March through April, I’ll switch gears and head to the Susquehanna Flats for the “Catch and Release Rockfish Season.” We use light tackle (15-pound gear) and lures as well as fly rods. We’ll likely drift live herring as well.” Follow us!

Bob Carson with two fine Pokomoke River sweetwater crappie. Photo courtesy of Capt. Walt, Light Tackle Charters

apt. Kevin Josenhans of Josenhans Fly Fishing says, “It’s perch time on the shore!” Capt. Kevin adds, “The spring ritual begins around mid-February with the annual yellow perch run, which has become one of the Chesapeake Bay’s biggest fishery success stories. Through the hard work of organizations like the Coastal Conservation Association of Maryland (CCA MD) and its volunteers, along with strict catch regulations enacted by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR), yellow perch have made an amazing comeback in many Bay tributaries.” Capt. Kevin likes shad darts tipped with bull minnows (killifish) or grass shrimp fished in the upper reaches of the Nanticoke and Pocomoke rivers. These baits will produce many yellow neds as they move toward the headwaters to spawn. Fly fishermen can entice the yellows with small Clouser Deep Minnows. Not too far behind will be the white perch run, an even bigger deal on the Nanticoke. “Locals from all over the Eastern Shore converge on this scenic river to cast hooks baited with bits of bloodworm, bringing home some of the biggest perch of the year. Catches of 100-plus whites per person are commonplace in early March out of places like Sharptown, MD, and Vienna, MD.” Capt. Kevin will run perch trips on the Nanticoke River during February and March, so call or e-mail for details. Also, check out his new blog at josenhansflyfishing.wordpress.com. PropTalk March 2011 61

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V A fat Pocomoke River white perch. Photo courtesy of Capt. Kevin Josenhans

apt. Mark Galasso on the charter boat Tuna the Tide reports the yellow perch are thick in the deeper holes of the Upper Bay rivers. As soon as the weather breaks a bit, fishermen will chase the neds in tributaries. Stripers are also in the deeper holes waiting for the coastal migrants to show up following the herring runs. “Usually a hard winter means good spring fishing,” Capt. Mark says. “First the yellow perch run, and then whites, with the stripers bringing up the rear by mid-March. We’ll start targeting the stripers in early April, running back and forth between the Susquehanna Flats and Kent Island,” Capt. Mark adds. On a more somber note, Capt. Mark is worried about the East Coast striper fishery. Capt. Mark says, “Maybe the long cold winter has given me too much time to ponder this. The 2010 fishing season was interesting. With a few exceptions, fishing was tough. Small pockets of fish would show up and were quickly decimated as everyone within 20 miles flocked to the area. Other historically good areas were devoid of stripers. Whether overfishing and/or disease cut the Bay population this past summer, I can only guess.” Capt. Mark cautions that an illegal fishery past the three-mile boundary for coastal stripers, which make up much of the brood stock, has “exploded and the number of rockfish being killed is horrendous.” Capt. Mark wants to see existing conservation laws enforced while permanently revoking, with no transfers allowed, the licenses of repeat offenders—both for commercial and recreational fishermen. “We need to police our own ranks on every side of the fishery,” Capt. Mark adds. Catch Capt. Mark’s talk at Tim Sherman’s “Striper School” on March 5. 62 March 2011 PropTalk

irginia Beach, VA, Capt. Jim Brincefield is looking ahead to better weather conditions, calmer seas, and warmer air and water temperatures to lure fishermen back to Virginia Beach waters. As Atlantic Ocean waters warm, Capt. Jim says the “Beasts From the East will return to Cape Henry, VA, and then migrate up the Bay. Just like in winter, look for diving northern gannets and large herring gulls. They are usually in a hurry so “‘runnin’ and gunnin’” is a good technique to keep up with them. You can also locate large schools of fish by using your fish finder.” Capt. Jim reports that Lynnhaven and Rudee inlets and the Elizabeth River will also provide opportunities for speckled trout through February and March. Capt. Jim recommends trying MirrOlures and small plastic grubs. By the end of March, Capt. Jim hopes flounder will begin to show up at the mouth of the Bay. Squid/minnow combos are a good bet for March doormats. “When sea conditions permit, deep dropping in Norfolk Canyon is good for grouper, wreckfish, blackbelly rosefish, and cod. The geniuses managing our black sea bass fishery have put another moratorium on them this season. Funny how the commercial catch of black sea bass is okay, but the charter and recreational catch is not,” Capt. Jim adds.

Jared Smeltzer shows off a winter-run linesider. Photo courtesy of Capt. Walt, Light Tackle Charters

apt. Jeff Popp will continue to chase yellow perch on the Susquehanna and North East rivers through February into March and then will switch over to chasing rockfish on the Susquehanna Flats during the “Catch and Release” season.

Nick Matha holds a crappie caught on the Pocomoke River, a great winter sweetwater fishery. Photo courtesy of Capt. Walt, Light Tackle Charters

ropTalk contributor Ric Burnley of fishcrazy.info will be fishing like crazy through late winter and early spring. Burnley reports that Capt. Blake Hayden expects the Elizabeth River’s Hot Ditch to be en fuego for trophy speckled trout, yearling drum, and big striper until area waters warm in spring. “Fish the moons,” Capt. Blake recommends, explaining that the best bite will be around the new and full moons. In colder water, Capt. Blake has been using cut bait fished on the bottom or MirrOlure MR17s fished very slowly around the discharge of the Dominion Power Plant. On the wrecks and reefs of the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, longer days and warmer temperatures will wake up tautog. Look for the bite to start up offshore and then move into the Bay as the water warms above 45 degrees. “Tidewater tog expert Dr. Ken Neill points out that early season tog seem to favor soft baits, such as chowder clam, but will also take chunks of blue or green crab. As the marshes warm, anglers will score fiddler crabs—tog candy,” Burnley says. “Some of the best late-winter action goes down off Hatteras where anglers will chase bluefin, yellowfin, and blackfin tuna with rigged baits or vertical jigs,” Burnley adds. Burnley says that Capt. Andy on Goodtimes suggests looking for 66-degree water that crosses the edge of the Continental Shelf at 60 to 100 fathoms. proptalk.com

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Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant

by Capt. C.D. Dollar

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ith Opening Day still a couple months away, anglers in the Middle-Chesapeake Bay may need to scratch that rockfish itch. Good thing for The Rips, slang for the warm water discharge at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant. Located on the Western Shore between Solomons and Chesapeake Beach, MD, the place is perhaps the best known of all the warm-water discharges in Maryland waters. For years, fishermen have enjoyed good winter fishing for stripers here, where resident rockfish and staging migrant stripers gather to feed on the forage fish, taking refuge in the warm water released from the power plant. In its heyday, light-tackle and fly fishermen could catch and release scores of stripers, most of which were, and continue to be, under 30 inches.

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Tactics and tackle are fairly straight forward. Depending on tide, wind, and boat traffic, most fishermen anchor near or drift across the roiling water generated by the millions of gallons released by the nuclear facility. This is generally the most productive spot to hook stripers, though occasionally near the shore you can score. Note that buoys clearly delineate the sections of water out-of-bounds to fishermen. Twelve-pound test line—I prefer braid—with a 30-inch mono leader spooled to a 3000- or 4000-series reel matched to a medium-fast, 6-1/2-foot rod works just fine. For fly anglers, an eight-weight outfit with a sinking line or sink tip works well. Jigging lures like Bass Assassins, Tsunamis, and BKDs are favorites, rigged to 1/2- to 1-1/2-ounce jig heads. Note this is a boat fishery only, and in March, it’s strictly catch-and-release until the season starts in April. Check the Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ 2011 regulations for full details. dnr.state.md.us/fisheries

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Plugs—No, Not the Hairy Ones by Mark DeMagistris

plug, or wooden lure, is used to imitate a particular species of baitfish present in the water at a certain time of the season. Plugs are used to attract predatory fish by their shape or color pattern, or the way they swim in the water. The idea is to try to “trick” a fish into believing it is seeing actual baitfish and not a hunk of wood. It’s quite different than “bait and wait,” where you bait a hook with spot, peelers, clams, or squid; toss it out in the water; and wait for a hit. With wooden lures, you actually have to “work the lure” to make it react and imitate the baitfish. For me, this has always been a much more challenging and enjoyable style of fishing. I began making my own lures at home for a couple of reasons. What started out as a simple hobby has turned into an obsession that makes winter a little easier to take. Plus the thought of catching a fish on a lure that I made myself is an added bonus. Having my own tools and materials allows me to make any lure that I want to my own specifications. Whether it is shape, weight, or color, I can customize any lure that I want to suit the particular conditions, bait, target species, etc. 64 March 2011 PropTalk

More Styles and Shapes than a Spring Fashion Show lugs come in many different types and shapes. Floating plugs float on or near the surface. Sinking plugs sink below or through the water column, depending on their shape or weight. Swimming plugs swim near the surface or slightly below it. Each style of plug action is affected by its shape, weight, and action imparted by the angler and fishing rod. The styles I use most often are needlefish, poppers, pikies, darters, dannies, and bottleshaped plugs. Poppers get their name from the “popping” action that they create. A popper will generally have a head (front) shape that is cupped slightly. When the plug is retrieved, this cup shape creates a popping action. Fishing rod action also influences the plug’s action. Whether it’s a side-to-side retrieve or a “walking the dog” retrieve, the popper will react differently. The idea is to imitate an injured or dying baitfish that looks like an easy meal to an apex predator like striped bass.

Take a Turn on the Lathe lugs can be hand-carved or turned on a lathe. Hand carving takes much more time than turning on a lathe, but you can get shapes and styles that you can’t on a machine. Basic plug building tools include a lathe, turning tools, a drill press, and sanding drum attachments. If you really want to get into the art, you can also get a band saw, bench-top sander, and all kinds of attachments, but the basic tools will allow you to make just about any plug shape.

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There are many different turning tools for the lathe. The two most common that I use are the roughing gauge and a skew. You can do just about any shape of plug with just those two tools. The roughing gauge takes down the excess wood, and the skew shapes and details the plug. These tools must be kept sharp at all times, or they will pull or tear the wood. Next you have to select the wood. Cedar is naturally buoyant and is great for floating or surface plugs. Birch and maple are harder and denser and are ideal for sinking plugs. Once the plug is turned and shaped, it must be sealed to prevent water intrusion. It then must be primed and finished with paint and a clear coat. Because I don’t want flammable vapors to build up in my basement, where I work, I use acrylic or water-based finishes. And when I make a plug, I don’t

make it to survive the Apocalypse. If it gets damaged, the best part is that I can quickly produce another one whenever I need. For colors, stick with the basics: all white, olive and white, silver and blue, purple and black (purple for night), and menhaden/bunker patterns and shades for the fall run. If you ask 20 plug makers what they use for sealer, you’ll get 20 different answers. For sealer, I use a 50/50 mix of spar urethane and mineral spirits. Cutting with mineral spirits allows the urethane to penetrate the wood better and also helps it to evaporate and dry faster. Once the plug has been turned and completely drilled, I do a quick dunk in the mixture. You don’t want to do any drilling after it’s sealed, or you have to reseal it. I do this process outside in my tool shed to avoid vapors in my house. Acrylic sealers aren’t as durable.

Painting paint my plugs with an airbrush. You can also use spray cans, which are great for a beginner. I would suggest this before investing in an airbrush/ compressor setup. Airbrushing gives you much more control over the finish paint. It also allows for fading and blending and different patterns. I use all acrylic paints for a couple of reasons. Safety, first and foremost. I want to avoid flammable urethane vapors. Second, the ease of water cleanup. There are many brands, but Createx is one of the most common. It’s ready to spray out of the bottle, and no thinning is required. I recommend that for a beginner. I have since switched over to Delta Ceramcoat craft paint, which is widely available and less expensive than Createx, but it does need to be thinned before spraying.

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Once the paint is dry, any eyes are put on, and a clear coat is applied over the paint. A good way for beginners would be to get a can of clear coat and spray it on. You can also use two-part epoxy, but it is fussy and difficult to work with. Hardware through-drill all my plugs, but you can use screw eyes to eliminate throughdrilling. I then insert a wire—with a nose loop at one end—through the length of the plug. Nose and tail grommets are used to prevent the wire from “digging” into the

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wood and causing the sealer to be penetrated. At this time, any swivels are put in place as the wire is slid through the length of the plug. The end wire is tail wrapped to hold it in place nice and tight up against the tail grommet. For hooks, I use VMC. I’ve found them to be the most durable. They are either dressed with some hair or flash, or left plain. I usually use open-end hooks to eliminate the use of a split ring. Some plug makers prefer split rings for ease of removal. The Season’s the Reason lthough most of my experience is in the New England surf, for the Chesapeake Bay, I would bring an assortment of plugs from floaters to sinkers. What to use depends on the time of year and where the fish reside in the water column. Spring rockfish season on the Susquehanna Flats is a great time to catch a trophy striper on a floating plug once the water warms up a bit (usually April) and the fish move into shallower water. Once summer rolls around, floating plugs on a calm morning or evening can often attract a lot of attention from roaming stripers near drop-offs and shallows. I would also take along some smaller sized plugs in the one-ounce range for any smaller sized fish in the area that may not be attracted to a three- or four-ounce plug. Fall marks the time for blitzing schools of frenzied stripers and blues. Floating plugs work well here, but a sinking plug can also be used to get down to the bigger fish that generally hang a bit deeper in the water column. During the Chesapeake Bay BridgeTunnel action in December with migrating stripers, it’s all about trolling. Look for the flocks of gannets and troll your plug(s) through the feeding school. For this type of plug fishing, don’t use anything smaller than four ounces, and preferably use a design with a metal lip to impart action on the plug and get it down in the water a bit. Get popping!

About the Author: Mark DeMagistris has been an avid saltwater fisherman for over 30 years. Born and raised in the Boston, MA, area, he has fished different areas of New England, but primarily the North Shore of Massachusetts. He enjoys anything nautical. proptalk.com

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23’ Pacific Skiff ’04 Boat is fully powered by 225 Yamaha OB, with trailer, underwater lights, spray curtain enclosures, trim tabs, LOW HRS on this popular aluminum alloy boat. REDUCED TO $39,000. At our office on Kent Island. Contact BOEMARINE, 866-735-5926, boats@boemarine.com, www.boemarine.com 25’ Sun Runner ’83 Classic express cruiser, 260-hp Merc I/O w/less than 450 original hrs, sleeps 4, stove, sink, pressurized water, refrigerator, hydraulic trim tabs, Sea Scouts, $4200, James Klimek, 240-271-4631 jk3043@ aol.com, Steve Alexander 301 6460805, stevedalex@msn.com 26’ Sea Ray Sundancer ‘99 Immaculate cond.! Single 5.7 EFI w/ Mercruiser Bravo III O/D w/only 366 hrs. Forward berth w/hideaway table, and aft cabin. Fully equipped galley. New Clarion radio w/CD-MP3 player. GPS, fishfinder, VHF radio. Spacious cockpit. $25,000 Sassafras Harbor Marina Yacht Sales (888) 221-5022

27’ Ranger Tug ’11 Inventory boat w/full warranty. Trailerable, inboard dsl. Fully equipped including a/c, genset, electronics, much more. Contact Chuck Wistar 410-280-5688, chuck@chesranger.com. 27’ Sea Ray Sundancer 270 ’92 Soft Breeze needs a new home! 330-hp MerCruiser 7.4 L, Bravo 3 Engine. Located near AYS Office. Priced to sell! $12,000. Call Charles 410-267-8181 or charles@annapolisyachtsales.com

27’ SeaPro Walk Around ‘06 Separate head, fish rigged, with T/200-hp Mercury Verados, low hrs, no bottom paint, aluminum dual axle trailer. ASK $52,000. At our Office on Kent Island. Contact BOEMARINE, 866-735-5926, boats@boemarine.com, www.boemarine.com 27’ Tiara Open ’87 New Flag Blue AwlGrip, great cond., meticulous maintenance. Owner moving up to larger boat. $34,900. Call Ned Dozier, The Yacht Group, (800) 827-8089.

28’ Albin TE Newport ’09 Fishing offshore or weekending with the family. Pilothouse w/canvas enclosure, A/C, re-circulating bait well, custom lockers, deluxe helm seat, swim platform w/ladder. S-Cummins 5.9 CSB, 330hp. Dealer Demo Sassafras Harbor Marina Yacht Sales (888)221-5022.

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39’ Intrepid ’07 $369,000 48’ Chris Craft ’87 $179,000 www.theyachtgroup.com • email info @the yachtgroup.com 48’ Californian ’90 $179,000 39’ Tiara Sovran ’07 IPS500, Loaded $395,000 47’ Riviera M470 Excalibur ’03 $238,500 37’ Formula PC ’06 T/DSLS $259,000 46’ Grand Banks Europa ’01 SOLD 37’ Formula SS ’06 T/496s $182,000 45’ Riviera/Excalibur ’01 $179,000 36’ Luhrs FB ’03 SOLD Yacht45’ Group BBP 5.08.indd 1 35’ Cigarette ’87 T700s, like new $69,000 Riviera FB ’08 LOADED $920,000 45’ Californian ’90 SOLD 35’ Marlago ’07, Verados, loaded $138,000 42’ Navigator ’96 $154,900 35’ Marlago ’06, Verados, like new $119,500 42’ Riviera FB ’05 FAST $449,000 35’ Marlago ’05, Verados SOLD 40’ Carver 404 ’99 $165,000 35’ Marlago ’04, 300 Yamahas SOLD 40’ Gorbon Custom Downeast FB ’07 $374,900 35’ Marlago ’03, 4-Strokes $75,000 35’ Marlago ’02, 4 Strokes, 98 hrs, Trlr $84,900 40’ Riviera FB ’05, LOADED $398,000

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28’ Sea Ray Sundancer 280 ‘04 $59,900 Excellent Cond., high and dry stored, low hrs, Air, full canvas, and more Call Tony Tumas: day or evening (443) 553-5046. email: tony@ greatblueyachts.com, Visit our web: www.greatblueyachts.com,

28' Bertram Sportfisher ‘74, 225 twin Mercruisers, new gas tank, flybridge and cockpit steering, outriggers, well maintained, $22,500, 410-544-4854, bsachse@msn.com.

Cape Dory 28 Flybridge Fast Trawler ‘89. 30 ft. l.o.a. Very clean boat, lightly used by a retired couple. Yard maintained, hauled & shrink wrapped in winters. Single engine w/bowthruster, AP. Fuel tanks & prop shaft are ready for diesel conversion. Prior to conversion, enjoy the lean, quiet, economical 5 y.o Mercruiser V8 installation which has very low hrs. lllness forces a quick sale. Asking $41,000; offers encouraged. Boat is available for viewing all winter. Jerry at (410) 440-9882. 28’ Legacy ’05 Great electronics and very low hrs. In Oxford. Asking only $122,900. Call Dan at 410-267-8181 or dan@annapolisyachtsales.com. Photos at www.annapolisyachtsales. com

28’ Albemarle 280 ’05 Wow! Exceptionally clean. Spacious with V-berth forward, compact galley and stand up head with shower. Raymarine E80 GPS Plotter with Radar, Furuno GPS system, Raymarine Tri-Data and VHF Radio. Cockpit amenities include padded bolsters, raw and fresh water washdown, transom fish box, cockpit sole fishbox, tackle cabinets, livewell with bait prep, Lee outriggers, plenty of rod holders and cabin rod storage. A dry ride is assured with 24 deadrise aft. Merc 350 Mag T-300hp will cruise at 28-29 knots. $84,000 Contact Paul Lash at 410.867.9550. Stock #BB433\

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31’ Marlago Open CC ’02 $59,500, 157 one-owner hrs on 200 HPDI Yamahas, perfect shape and recently detailed. Owner moving up. Call Ned Dozier, The Yacht Group (800) 8278089.

29' Century 2900 CC ‘06, NEW Garmin GPS 3210 w/large display. Transport included to East coast including FL. Low hrs on the Twin 25-hp Yamaha 4-strokes. New electronics. ASK $65,000. Contact BOEMARINE, 866-735-5926, boats@boemarine.com, www.boemarine.com

29’ MJM 29z ’08 3 mpg at 24 knots will ease the pain at the gas dock. Wrap around seating for more people than you probably want to take out. PRICE REDUCTION. Offered at $279,900. Contact Ken at (410) 991-1511 or Ken@northpointyachtsales.com 29’ Robbins Chesapeake Bay ’99 This is the last 29 built for Cecil Robbins. She is powered with a 225 chevy block with 500 hrs, Raytheon Radar, Fishfinder, VHF, Garmin GPS, dual helm stations, large cockpit for crabbing or fishing or just cruising with friends. Asking $40,000 OBYS 410-226-0100

29’ Ranger Tug ’11 Inventory boat w/full warranty and factory sales incentive. Fully equipped including A/C, genset, Garmin electronics and much more. Contact Chuck Wistar 410280-5688, chuck@chesranger.com

29’ SeaRay SLX sport day boat model, w/bow seating, swim platform, tow pkg, head, refrigerator, tons of room & clean. Sitting at our office on Kent Island ASK $55,000.Contact BOEMARINE, 866-735-5926, boats@boemarine.com, www.boemarine.com

29’ Dyer 29 ‘91 Hard top model w/new dsl engine & full canvas cockpit cover. Professionally maintained & continuously upgraded. Reduced to $84,000. Call Denise at Annapolis Yacht Sales 410-267-8181 or denise@annapolisyachtsales.com.

29’ Sea Ray 290 SUNDANCER ‘07 ergonomic dash (smart Craft Diagnostics), walk through windshield, cockpit wetbar and integral swim platform w/ hide away ladder. Only 101 hours, engine warranty until November 2013. Well maintained, perfectly appointed. Twin Mercruiser 5.0 MPIs with Bravo III drives, Full Camper Package, Northstar Electronics, Windlass, Remote Spotlight and much more. $91,900. Call Kellie Moody at 410.604.4300. Stock #BB459 30’ Mainship Pilot ’98 $59,900 – Priced to sell! Yanmar 230hp dsl, bow thruster, reverse cycle heat/Air, plotter, full cockpit canvas, excellent cond.! Call Tony Tumas: day or evening (443) 5535046. email: tony@greatblueyachts. com, Visit our web: www. greatblueyachts.com 31’ Formula PC ‘05 LOW HOURS, Top of the line, cherry finished cabinets, ultra leather upholstery. Cockpit and foredeck sun pads, full galley w/corian counter top. Sleeps 5, A/C and generator. $145,000 Sassafras Harbor Marina Yacht Sales (888) 221-5022

31’ Sea Ray Sundancer ’00 Only 250 hrs on this boat with new canvas, fully loaded, with gen set. New listing in Edgewood, MD Ask $74,900. Contact BOEMARINE, 866-735-5926, boats@boemarine.com, www.boemarine.com 32’ Carver Montego 32 ‘87 $18,900 Twin Merc inboards, Full canvas, Affordable family cruiser Call Tony Tumas: day or evening (443) 553-5046. email: tony@greatblueyachts.com, Visit our web: www.greatblueyachts.com,

32’ Topaz Express ’05 Very clean, T-Cats, exceptionally equipped, fish ready. Comfortable interior. An integrated entertainment system, flat panel television, DVD player, and AM/FM Stereo/CD player. $239,000 Sassafras Harbor Marina Yacht Sales (888)221-5022. 32’ Ches. Deadrise ’00 PRICE REDUCED TO $42,500!!! No engine or gear, Ready to drop in gas or dsl, Finished to fish, Full electronics, Fresh Awlgrip, (410) 476-4414, www. compositeyacht.biz 32’ Island Gypsy “Gourmet Cruiser” ’03 32 feet of pure enjoyment. Newer electronics, very low hrs. No use in 2 years. Bring reasonable offer soon! Call Dan at Annapolis Yacht Sales 410-267-8181. 32’ Kinnamon Bay Boat ’97 John Deere dsl, custom hardtop, Rocker launcher & More, $42,500, 410-4764414, www.compositeyacht.biz

29’ Hydra Sport Vector ’06 Twin Yamaha F250s, electronics, Gen, A/C & More!, $100,000, 410-476-4414, www. compositeyacht.biz 29’ Mathews Brothers Patriot ’02 JWB Fiberglass hull. Yanmar 315hp dsl engine. Kept in top cond. at MathewsBros IndoorBoatStorage facility. $150,000 Purchase today! Call Mathews Brothers at (410) 479-9720.

31' Camano Trawler '97 - New listing! One owner; excellent condition; only 557 hrs on 200 hp Volvo diesel; thruster; windlass; A/c-heat; inverter; new bimini. Asking $124,500. Call Rick Casali 410-279-5309 or Rick@NorthPointYachtSales.com

32’ Mabry ‘03 Yanmar 315HP, Electronics, Full Equipment, Beautifully Finished, $110,000. (410)476-4414 www.compositeyacht.biz

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34’ Cruisers 3375 ’98 Twin Mercruiser 7.4L 310hp gas engines, 1 head, 2 strm vessel. Lovingly cared for & shows well. All the electronics, ac, generator! Asking $55,000. Call Tim 410-267-8181. or tim@ annapolisyachtsales.com 32’ Mast & Mallet ’08 315 Yanmar offers 16 knot cruise; bow thruster; A/C; dark green hull; inverter; varnished transom; like new. Asking $230,000. Bring offers. Rick Casali 410-279-5309 or Rick@NothPointYachtSales.com

32’ PDQ Catamaran ’01 Economical & roomy cruiser. Two cabin layout, reliable twin Yanmar power, generator and A/C. Asking $149,000. Contact John Dennison 443-995-8670, john@seleneannapolis.com

34’ Linstrom Trawler ’84 made in Finland. Fiberglass hull, mahogany interior, house and toerail. 4-cyl. Perkins dsl, 85 hp. Economical. Good weekender/liveaboard/cruiser. $46,000 obo (757) 718-2415. bclare@cox.net 34’ Rinker 340 FV ’00 Spacious interior with 2 strms. and convertible dinette makes sleeping for 6. Walk-thru windshield provides easy access to bow. A/C-Reverse cycle heat replaced in 2010 with new duct. T-Merc/BIII, Port side manifold & riser replaced in Sept. 2010. $59,000 Sassafras Harbor Marina Yacht Sales (888) 221-5022.

32’ Sea Ray Sundancer 320 ’04 T/ Merc V-drives, clean w/navy hull and gen. Only 230 hrs. In RockHall MD. Just reduced to $105,900. Contact BOEMARINE, 866-735-5926, boats@boemarine.com, www.boemarine.com 32’ . Senator Trawler ’87 $39,900 Aft cabin, sun deck, upper& lower helm station, Air/Heat, Perkins dsl. Call Tony Tumas: day or evening (443) 553-5046. email: tony@greatblueyachts.com, Visit our web: www.greatblueyachts.com

32’ Sea Ray 320 SUNDANCER ’07 Very clean! Shows pride of ownership and will make a great boat for your family and friends to enjoy! Powered by Mercruiser 350 MAG Horizons T-300hp, she has more than enough power to take you and your friends and family out for a day trip or for a long weekend cruise. $152,500 Call Kim Ewing at 410.604.4300 for more information. Stock #BB487. 34’ Sabre Express ‘07 Twin 380-hp Yanmar dsls with 280hrs, Custom blue hull color, excellent Raymarine electronics, galley up configuration, convertible dinette below, 9KW genset, AC&HT below and on helm deck, Nibral props, anchor windlass, custom dinghy rack, Stidd chairs and so much more! Ready & waiting to take you cruising & exploring. Asking $355,000 OBYS 410-226-0100

34’ Sea Ray 340 SUNDANCER ’06 Simply irresistible. Powered by your choice of stern drive or inboard propulsion. Dual bucket helm seats, extra-large control station, cockpit wet bar, awesome sound system, wide open cabin, and much more. Mercruiser TVD 8.1 S Horizons, Kohler 5.0kw Generator with only 7 hours. $141,500 Call Mike Skreptack at 410.867.9550. Stock #BB493

35’ Sonic SS ’99 Repowered with 500-hp Mercruisers and owner has kept her in "like new" cond.. Shows like a new boat, with trailer & new canvas, Lying on South River, MD. PRICE REDUCED TO $59,000. Contact BOEMARINE, 866boats@boemarine.com, 735-5926, www.boemarine.com

2008 T 44 MY LUCKY LUCY Reduced to $1,150,000

MARAKATA IV 1995 36’ Picnic Boat Classic A Real Gem!!

2010 Picnic Boat MK III GRACE at $825,000 Only MK III for Sale

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40’ Robbins by MathewsBros ’07 Madeline, Fiberglass hull. 540 Cummins dsl eng. Delivered in May of ’08, this highly customized boat is practically new! Available for immediate purchase. Asking $485,000 call MathewsBros at (410) 479-9720.

35’ Viking Express Sport Fish 85’ This is a must see boat that is in wonderful condition. This is the perfect boat for anyone looking for a boat to enjoy with the family or go out and fish with the guys. Please call David at our Annapolis North Point Office at 410-280-2038 Ext. 15 or Email him at David@NorthPointYachtSales.com 36’ Albin Trawler ’79 Single Volvo 129-hp, generator, new bimini, interior & exterior helm stations & instrumentation, two en-suite strms, side galley. Reduced to $45,000 Deltaville, VA Call Jonathan (804) 776-7575 Photos at www. annapolisyachtsales.com 36’ Cape Dory Flybridge Sedan ’91 Repowered in ’02 w/370-hp Cummins dsls w/140hrs, cruise 22 knots & tops 28 knots with her deep V plaining hull design, 2 strms, dual helm stations, 8KW genset w/AC&HT, upper & lower electronics, GPS, anchor windlass, swim platform, transom door, large cockpit & lovely, traditional good looks. She has just reduced her asking price $20,000 to $140,000 OBYS 410-2260100

36’ Carman ‘10: 500HP Cat C9, BRAND NEW!!! Built on spec, Ready to Go Now! Or Equip as you wish, New Price $179,900. www.compositeyacht.biz 410-4764414 36’ Egg Harbor ’83 This is a great classic EGG design w/2 strms to accommodate family & friends. This family has taken wonderful care of this vessel and it shows. She has been maintained & upgraded as needed. Onan genset w/Ac& Ht, Ideal windlass, Rupp outriggers & much more! She is powered with the well known and respected Twin-Crusader engines (350HP) that are fresh water cooled. She will cruise at 18kts & top out at 25 kts. Here the family can have some fun cruising or fishing with a minimal investment. Where else can you purchase a 2nd home for under $40,000 OBYS 410-226-0100

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36’ Jarvis Newman Pettegrow ’88 None nicer. Repowered in ’05 w/ 370 Yanmar; 15 knot cruise; thruster; genset; A/C; Espar; A/P; radar; 3 GPS/plotters. Price Reduction down to $179,500. Call Rick Casali 410-279-5309 or Rick@NorthPointYachtSales.com 36’ Monk 36 Trawler ’05 Modern version of classic Monk 36 built in Nova Scotia… single engine 2 cabin trawler has everything needed for extended cruising. $249,000 Call Tim 410-2678181 or tim@annapolisyachtsales.com

37’ Silverton Motor Yacht ’96 Meticulously maintained! Loaded with electronics, including Satellite KVH system. Interior refit. Double berths fore and aft with stall showers. Flybridge with wetbar and refrigerator. Easily accessible molded steps to swim platform. Powered with 320HP Crusaders, only 589 hrs, 6.5 Kohler gen. $89,900 Sassafras Harbor Marina Yacht Sales (888)221-5022.

37’ Lord Nelson Victory Tug ’86 Traditional full displacement pilothouse long range trawler, Cummins 150, Northern Lights generator, well equipped, outstanding cond. $175,000 Mathews, VA. Call Jonathan (804) 776-7575 Photos at www.annapolisyachtsales.com

37’ Nordic Tug ’99 Blue hulled semi-displacement trawler. Single Cummins 330-hp, Northern Lights generator, Heat/Air, Dinghy and Davit system. Excellent cond.. $279,000 Call Jonathan (804)436-4484 Photos at www.annapolisyachtsales.com

38’ Fountain TE ‘08, Sold new in 2010, Trip 300 Verados w/ warranty until 2015, Yellow Hull, Garmin 7212, new trailer, full covers, kept in heated building. Boat is perfect. $175,000 Call Ned Dozier, 443-9950732, ned@theyachtgroup.com. www.theyachtgroup.com 38’ True North 38 ’02 True adventure boat w/huge opening reverse transom. Galley up, plenty of power, lots of extras. $249,000 Call Tim Wilbricht at Annapolis Yacht Sales 410-267-8181 or tim@annapolisyachtsales.com 40’ Robbins by Mathews ‘02 Ready to name, Ready to fish! Custom tackle, baitwell, 35 rod holders,500-hp Yanmar dsl & many options complement this ultimate cruising boat! JUST REDUCED to $312,500. Call MathewsBros at 410-479-9720.

40’ Gorbon Custom Downeast Flybridge ’07 $374,900. Volvo common rail dsls give 1 MPG at cruise, 30 knots top. Entire boat is Awlgripped, even the interior fiberglass. Beautiful woodwork, EZ2CY enclosure, all modern systems in a classic package. Call Ned Dozier, 443-9950732, ned@theyachtgroup.com. www.theyachtgroup.com 40’ Kha Shing ’89 This meticulously maintained 40’ Trawler has everything you need. Full size refrigerator, stove, oven & microwave, washer/dryer. Flat screen TV and stereo. Dsl powered for economical cruising, Port engine new May 2010. Raymarine Electronics, Onan generator. 1500 Watt inverter-75A Charger. $112,500 Sassafras Harbor Marina Yacht Sales (888) 221-5022

40’ Legacy ‘00 Down East FBMY-best on the market; single Cummins provides 17 knot cruise; bow & stern thrusters; new varnish; flag blue hull; brightwork on transom; excellent canvas; Bristol inside & out. Two staterooms; galley down. For the discriminating yachtsman. $379,500. Rick Casali; Rick@NorthPointYachtSales.com 410-279-5309.

40’ Sea Ray Sedan Bridge ’96 $99,000 Twin 454s w/low hrs. Surveyed 6/30/10 with excellent results, survey available. Owner moving up, bring offers! Call Ned Dozier, 443-995-0732, ned@theyachtgroup.com. www. theyachtgroup.com 42’ Beneteau Swift 42 ’07 The cleanest, best maintained & equipped Swift 42 available anywhere. Asking only $349,000! Bring any reasonable offer after viewing her. Call Dan 410267-8181 or dan@annapolisyachtsales.com

42’ Jones ‘00 575 HP Diesel, Genset, A/C & Heat, Full Electronics, 6 Pack, Ready to Fish or Cruise, “Double A” New Price $225,000 www.compositeyacht.biz. (410) 476-4414

43 Grandbanks Eastbay 43 EX 00’ KELLY'S CATCH is a well cared example of the rare Eastbay 43 Express Cruiser. In 2006 her Flag Blue hull was AWLgripped and new Moondust non skid on her cabin trunk. She was a custom order from the Grand Banks factory when new providing and has been Professionally maintained and stored inside each winter. Please call Ken Comerford to talk about our New Listing 410-991-1511 0r Email at Ken@NorthPointYachtSales.com

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43’ Wellcraft ’87 Portofino Express, twin 454 Chevys w/360 hrs, new radar w/ GPS & depth, new canvas, 7.5-Kw genset, many other upgrades, call for more details, Sea Scouts, Price slashed to $39,000, James Klimek, (240) 2714631, jk3043@aol.com.

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50’ Ocean Alexander MK 1 ’79 Classic Monk design, Portuguese bridge/flybridge combo, twin Caterpillar 3208s, tri-cabin, new plumbing/ electrical, new decks. $185,000 Deltaville, VA Call Jonathan (804) 7767575 Photos at www. annapolisyachtsales.com 45’ North Island ‘10 $680,000 This luxury crusier is beautifully finished and even better equipped. Built by one of Canada's most reputable builders they have brought the quality commercial heritage and yacht quality luxury together. Please contact us for information. www.compositeyacht.biz 410-476-4414

45’ Riviera ’08, $920,000. Over $300k in custom upgrades, 1.4million+ replacement value, davit with jet tender, Stidds, Stars and Stripes Awlgrip, T/700 Cats with warranties. Nicest 45 FB on the market, owner moving up. Call Ned Dozier, 443-995-0732, ned@theyachtgroup.com. www.theyachtgroup.com

45’ Searay Sundancer 450 ’96 Powered by T/CAT3126s. Full electronics package w/ KVH sat tv, underwater lights, and new carpets, CLEAN,CLEAN,CLEAN. In Pasadena, MD. Price reduced to $133,900. Contact BOEMARINE, 866-735-5926, boats@boemarine.com, www.boemarine.com

46’ Markley ’05 Built to fish and charter ready, Full electronics, John Deere diesel, Fishing gear goes with sale, Make Offer – Must Go, 410-476-4414, www.compositeyacht.biz 46’ Sea Ray Express ’89 Must sell, Make offer! Extra clean, ever popular Sea Ray express. This boat is mint cond. extremely low hrs (300), on the durable 3208 Cats. She is in the water and located in Seaford Delaware. One hour from our office. The Yacht Group (800) 827-8089. 46’ Sea Ray Sundancer ’01 Twin Cummins, full electronics, well equipped & comfortable, Too much to list, $225,000, 410-476-4414, www. compositeyacht.biz

47’ Riviera FB ’08, Fighting Lady Yellow, Cat C12s w/warranty until 2013, Furuno sonar, davit, tender, just serviced by Riviera and turnkey. $885,000 Call Ned Dozier, 443-9950732, ned@theyachtgroup.com. www.theyachtgroup.com

47’ Riviera M470 Excalibur, ’02, ’05, 496 Mercs, both lift kept, both in amazing condition. 50 mph speed in utmost luxury. The perfect move into cruising for the fast boat enthusiast. Call Ned Dozier, The Yacht Group. 443-995-0732, ned@theyachtgroup.com 46' Carman '01 TWIN John Deere 375HP, USCG Cert. 36 Passenger + 2 Crew, Fully Equipped Inside & Out, No Expense Spared, Make Offer – Must Go (410) 476-4414 www.compositeyacht.biz 48’ Selene ’04 Price reduced. A turnkey vessel. Lovingly maintained. Fully equipped for long range cruising and a comfortable live-aboard lifestyle. This is a must see vessel. John Dennison 443-995-8670, john@seleneannapolis.com 48’ Selene ’04 Price reduced. A turnkey vessel. Lovingly maintained. Fully equipped for long range cruising and Follow us! a comfortable live-aboard lifestyle. This is a must see vessel. Selene Annapolis (410) 280-0006, john@seleneannapolis.com

53’ Navigator Pilothouse ’99 Upgraded 430-hp Volvos, 10’ Avon RIB with 15-hp Mercury. This is the most well maintained and the cleanest on the market! Lying in Severna Park, MD. REDUCED to $359,000. Contact BOEMARINE, 866-735-5926, boats@boemarine.com, www.boemarine.com

53’ Selene ’09 Extensively equipped w/twin Cummins dsls w/props protected w/skegs. Beautiful cherry interior & with a long list of options. Contact Chuck Wistar 410-280-0006, chuck@seleneannapolis.com, www.seleneannapolis.com 55’ Sea Ray Sedan ’05 With only 288 hrs $589,900. The 550 Sedan is a 3 strm, 2 head, and only 285 hrs - and fully loaded : Bridge AC, Hydraulic davit, bow thruster, stern thruster, Raymarine C80 color GPS plotter, Sea Ray Navigator GPS plotter, AP, flat screens - . Including spare propellers. Call Kellie Moody for more details 443-867-0065 OR 410604-4300

Allied Boat Works WB-20 2010 Dealer Demo Modified skiff, 20’x 8’10”. 2010 Evenrude E-Tec 90HP, under 30 hrs, large center console, casting platform, rear seats, nav. lights, compass, trim tabs and heavy duty rub rails. FMI www.alliedboatworks.com. All original warranties. $21,995. Call Gene: (207) 418-0387. 36’ Hinckley Picnic Boat EP ’05 SHADOW is a fine example of a late model EP. She boasts a wonderful entertaining platform with a built in BBQ and sink in the cockpit and plenty of seating in the pilothouse. $379,000 Offered by Hinckley Yachts, contact Peter Howard (410) 263-0095 or phoward@hinckleyyachts.com 37’ Hinckley Picnic Boat MK III, 2010 model, GRACE is the only MK III on the market at this time. She has the larger Volvo 370’s, teak decks, upgraded electronics, Dual zone AC and generator. $825,000 Offered by Hinckley Yachts, contact Peter Howard (410) 263-0095 or phoward@ hinckleyyachts.com

Edgewater MD slips. On Cadle Creek. Boats 25 to 50 feet. Protected 19-slip marina. Clean quiet and relaxing with great amenities and events. Must see. Call Max for details 301-203-4450.

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Chesapeake Classic Spring Is in the Air Oyster, fishing, and crab boats tie up at City Dock in Annapolis in 1946. Photo by A. Aubrey Bodine

t least it is in this photo… A. Aubrey Bodine is one of the finest photographers of the 20th century. His award-winning images have been exhibited in museums and featured in numerous books and magazines. The world-renowned photojournalist worked at The Baltimore Sun from 1923 until his death in 1970. He travelled the region documenting all aspects of Chesapeake Bay life with artistic and compelling photographs. He was able to learn about every tide, wind, weather, and season.

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Constantly manipulating and experimenting with the medium, he “made” photographs rather than “took” them. Some of his best pictures were literally composed in the viewfinder of the camera. In other cases, he worked on the negative with dyes and intensifiers, pencil marking, and even scraping to produce a desired effect. He added clouds photographically and made other even more elaborate manipulations. That he was a romantic pictorialist is evident in his choice of subjects—old times and

old things, the beauties of nature, man as an individual, and similar ideas. To view more than 4000 images spanning Bodine’s 50-year career, visit aaubreybodine.com. The images have been digitally restored by Bodine’s daughter, Jennifer. Bodine once said, “Photographing the United States was a big thrill. But I always get a bigger thrill when I make a picture of a fleet of dredge boats moving over an oyster bed on a beautiful autumn day.”

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