PropTalk December 08 Issue

Boat Show Survival Guide

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Saving Bertrams one at a time

Wake me on the Rappahannock

Are we there yet? Cruising options with kids

Buying a Cla$$ic Yacht

Where’s my Lime? Dockside dining on the Bay

Buying a Cla$$ic Yacht

Saving Bertrams one at a time

Wake me on the Rappahannock

Are we there yet? Cruising options with kids

Where’s my Lime? Dockside dining on the Bay

Poker Runs

Racing in Cambridge,

Kent Narrows, Hampton

& Port Deposit

Blue Water Tournaments

Modern Sharking

Riding theWild Side:The Esquisite Madness of Tow Sports

Speed Racer : Wheeler Baker

Slip Into Something Comfortable:Bay Resort Marinas

Bursting the Chesapeake Fireworks Scene

Chesapeake Bay Powerboating

Annapolis Beyond Ego Alley

Winter Prep

Boatshop News

Offshore Racing National Champs

Chesapeake Bay Boat Building

Holiday Shopping for PowerboatersElectric Boat Marathon Results

Fuel Efficient Boat ConceptsCold Water Fishing

Light Parades

Annapolis Beyond Ego Alley

Winter Prep

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36 Prop Person: Dick Woodard by Michael Buckley

38 Innovations and the Future of Boating by Rick Casali

48 Dream Boat: Independence 60 by Stephanie Stone

34 Southbound by Jody Reynolds

52 Boat Show Fun by Allison Blake, Ruth Christie, Carrie Gentile, J. Dirk Schwenk, and Rowenna Thorson

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DEPARTMENTS10 Editor’s Notebook

13 Dock Talk

19 Chesapeake Boating Calendar presented by The Boatyard Bar & Grill

24 Chesapeake Tide & Current Tables presented by Reed’s Almanac

29 Subscription Form

40 Club Notes

43 Cruising Club Directory

51 Fishing News and Forecasts

54 Brokerage and Classified Sections

63 Brokerage Form

63 Index of Advertisers

64 Marketplace Section

66 Chesapeake Classic

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31 Electric Boat Marathon by Charlie Iliff

34 Southbound by Jody Reynolds

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If you want to get a feel for destitu-tion, stop spending money entirely and simply let everything run out–the milk,

the bread, the beer, and the fun. It takes about two weeks.

I’d rather not. It’s much more beneficial to be like the people with Jimmy Buffett-styled aspirations and Warren Buffet inclinations who sealed up October deals at the U.S. Boat Shows in Annapolis even as it appeared that Rome and Wall Street were burning. Rumors and main-stream media reports of doom, gloom, and certain ruin didn’t stop a stream of savvy investors, intent on enjoying life.

The main squawk we heard from the odd Chicken Littles around the fringes of the show was, “Why bother shopping for a yacht when there is no money to lend.” Forgetting for the moment that the grumbling came from the same species that forever seems to have a reason to stay on shore, we set out to discover the reality.

Money to LendKim Madigan at Scott Financial Services in Baltimore says she saw higher credit scores come through than they have seen in years. “I’ve been keeping a close record of applications and loans since I started in this business. The 2008 U.S. Boat Shows in Annapolis brought the most volume and the highest caliber clients since 1986,” she says.

“Boats are luxury items, a want not a need, so it’s always been harder to obtain financing than in the real estate market. Boat loans have never been about sub-prime lending. People with bad credit in years past couldn’t buy yachts, and they still can’t. But, the buyers who want to own a nice boat and who are ready and able can do it right now,” she says.

“Rates have remained pretty steady, but you can’t expect them to go down in this

market. Boat loan rates don’t necessarily follow mortgage rates. But the rates are good. We wrote quotes for loans to buy boats costing more than a million dollars at the Annapolis shows. Altogether, we wrote more than 11 million dollars in boat loans. It was a great show,” she adds.

Dave Trostle at Sterling Acceptance in Annapolis says, “In spite of what you might be hearing in the media and on the streets, there’s money available for buy-

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Buyer’s Market“In spite of what you might be hearing in the media and on the streets, there’s

money available for buying boats.”

ing boats. There is a strong cross-section of lenders making money available for the right buyers. We are essentially at the same place in marine lending that we were a few years ago with good rates based on the es-sential standards for lending—verification of income, good credit scores, and good loan-to-value ratios. So if a buyer has good credit, solid income, and cash to put down, there’s no good reason he or she can’t buy that boat.”

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We’re AmericansIt helps to remember that this country was founded on the prospects of liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This doesn’t mean that you must take the founding fathers up on their thoughtful declaration. For some, contentment is realized in doing without. But, these people are supremely bor-ing. More interesting people see life as a limited-time offer. Buy now and get more for free.

Boat DealsWalter George at the Boat House in Gra-sonville, MD reports that they sold about $320K worth of center-console boats at the show. A demo day following the show pro-duced another $200K in sales. One incen-tive to help buyers with their decision was the offer of about $2500 in Boater’s World gift cards depending on the size of the purchase. Additionally, they partnered with Yamaha to extend the engine warranty by as much as three years. Finally, there were substantial discounts on new 2008 model-year boats. All of this combined to make it a good time to shop the dream. According to George, “The tire kickers didn’t show

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up. The people we saw were real buyers, and we didn’t have any deals bounce back because of sub-par credit.”

Boat sales teams from Virginia Beach to Philly have the go-ahead to bring in offers on new 2008 model-year boats and other inventory as dealers prepare to make room for 2009 product.

In many ways, it’s a buyer’s market.

New ProductsScott Heckard at Annapolis Sailyard is bullish. He has brought in a pair of stun-ning mahogany-trimmed cold-molded wood and epoxy boats. These Windsor Yachts, built in Turkey under the Genmar banner, are luxury boats aimed at fami-lies who desire the total yacht experience including plenty of varnish.

MJM Yachts, represented on the Bay by North Point Yacht Sales in Annapolis, has a new 40-footer in the works based on the successful lines of Doug Zurn-designed cruisers. She features substantial improve-ments in fuel efficiency, burning just 1.65 miles per gallon at a robust 25 knots. The

MJM 34-Z displayed at the Annapolis show sold quickly. Sharp customers are moving in to own the dream, while others wait for construction backlogs to build and prices to rise. I’m imagining a bumper sticker that would say, “What Would War-ren Buffett Do?”

Regulator Boats has introduced its biggest center-console performance fish-ing boat, a 34-footer, in time for the Ft. Lauderdale Show. Bluewater Yachts in Virginia and Maryland represents this venerable line of boats purpose-built for adventurous boaters who will go whenever they can in spite of inclement weather or volatile Dow Jones averages.

People like this have the courage to seize the day because they measure a life’s true value in experiences, adventure, and memories rather than the depreciating value of dollars invested in someone else’s get-rich-quick dream. (With the money I loaned Paul Allen of Microsoft back in 1988, he bought a big ol’ boat, and my PC operating system still doesn’t work very well. So, who is the dummy?)

Active people such as Ruth (PropTalk’s

senior editor) and Jim Christie take their kids cruising up and down the Bay every weekend until the ice begins to form. Otherwise, they go camping at the beach or in the mountains, hiking along the Blue Ridge Parkway, or off to baseball games. They prefer the boat trips because, “The kids can’t really escape us, and together we explore and learn about troubleshooting, navigation, nature, getting along, and a myriad of other priceless life lessons.”

It’s about investing in things that bring you together with the people you love.

Ask yourself if you are building a stron-ger relationship with your stock broker than the one you have with your family?

If that seems wrong to you, quit squeak-ing, obtain the right boat, gather your crew, and shove off for the cruise of a lifetime.

Do it now while the getting is good.

Joe


DOCKTALK

The Call of The Grand ole osprey

No doubt, happily wintering in South America, the many fish hawks that grace the Chesapeake

between St. Patty’s Day and Labor Day probably have no clue how locals will cele-brate them this November 22. You can join in the fun with the Annapolis Maritime Museum (AMM) for the second annual Grand Ole Osprey at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts. The place will come alive with music, auctions, food, beverages, and more.

True to form, Eastern Shore artist Allen Lopez created and donated this year’s fea-tured auction item: a hand-crafted wooden osprey perched on a branch. Lopez’s osprey is one of dozens of wonderful great auction items, including cruising, travel, and golf packages; catering services; jewelry; sports and entertainment packages; a kayak kit; and fine art, all generously donated by local businesses, organizations, and friends.

Last year, more than 120 performing artists donated their time and talent for the first annual Grand Ole Osprey. That event raised $30,000 for the museum’s programs, events, and public service projects, includ-ing environmental education programs for more than 1500 area students, a maritime heritage seminar series for adults, and the Summertime Maritime Concert series.

This year, a VIP Reception (from 5 to 7 p.m.) kicks off the festivities with an open bar (beer and wine), delicious food from local restaurants and gourmet mar-kets, and silent and live auctions. The mu-sic from 7 to 9 p.m. features the Annapolis Chorale Chamber Singers, Calico Jack, the George Fox Middle School Ukulele Ensemble and Select Chorus, Mt. Zion United Methodist Church Gospel Choir, Them Eastport Oyster Boys, and actors from Remember, Inc., under the direction of Sharie Valerio.

The “production set” will include histor-ical images, including pictures from Ginger Doyel’s new book, Over the Bridge: the History of Eastport at Annapolis. The VIP tickets run $100, and general admission is $25. Proceeds from the event benefit AMM’s programs. amaritime.org, marylandhall.org, allenlopez.com

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Shady Side Winners

A s it turns out, everyone attending the West River Heritage Day Oyster Festival October 19 was a winner. The crisp fall day brought more than

1000 people outside to enjoy music under the waterside tent, seafood, crafts, Mrs. Avery’s tea, games for children, and more at the Captain Salem Avery House Museum in Shady Side, MD. Grace DeMoreland Haskins of Queen-stown, MD won the $10,000 raffle sponsored by the Shady Side Rural Heritage Society, and Shady Side resident Jane Ford won the 50/50 raffle. angelfire.com/md/ssrhs

Taking Time Out

T hroughout the boating season, people all over the Chesapeake Bay host events to give wounded veterans a break from the stress and routines of medical care.

The events take different forms, such as tour boat cruises, fish-ing trips, kayak tours, or picnics by the water. But, they all focus on giving wounded veterans time to unwind, time to connect with other people, time to see the Bay, and time to enjoy life. Here’s the story of just one of these events.

Wounded veterans and their family members were treated to a day of R&R during the U.S. Powerboat Show in An-napolis October 17 courtesy of Vets on the Bay. The day included lunch from Morton’s Steak House of Annapolis; a narrated tour on the Severn River aboard Annapolitan II, courtesy of Annapolis Landing Marina and Watermark Cruises; free tickets to the Boat Show; and Fleet Reserve Club hospitality. Vets on the Bay is a U.S. Naval Sailing Association project for wounded veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. U.S. Navy Sailing can help you plan an R&R Afloat Day in your area; simply contact LTC Bob Howe, a Vietnam vet, at [email protected]. For more information about the program and to make a donation, visit vetsonthebay.com.

Scenes from the July 26 Wish-A-Fish Foun-dation event at Bahia Marina in Ocean City, MD ((717) 661-6425, wish-a-fish.org).

Photos courtesy of Frank Goodhart, Ocean City Event Coordinator, Wish-A-Fish Delmarva

Milton Tierney of Waldorf captured the grand prize of the 2008 Maryland Natural Resources Magazine Photo Contest with “Resting Dragonfly,” after a day-long judging session of more than 1500 entries from nearly 300 Marylanders. Jennifer Figgins, John Seay, Donna Tolbert-Anderson, and Rosedale Yannayon captured first-place honors in different contest categories. Sabine Dickens, Michael Eversmier, Larry Hitchens, Edward Lowe, Sharon Pyle, and Robert Ramirez nabbed second-place honors. Winners received a total of $1250 in prizes from Boaters World Marine Centers and Ritz Camera. The winning photos will appear in the winter issue of Maryland Natural Resource Magazine, as well as DNR’s 2009 Calendar. dnr.maryland.gov/naturalresource


Boat Designers: Start Your Engines

T here’s a new design competition in town, courtesy of the American Boat and Yacht Council, Imtra

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2009 Is Right Around the Corner

U nder new leadership, New Year’s Annapolis will power into 2009 with a fun-filled day of window

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Chesapeake Bay Boat Detailing

On November 3, Darren McCarnan of Chesa-peake Bay Boat detailing

opened up a new shop in North East, MD to provide expanded services, including cleaning, wax-ing, and detailing inside and out; winterization; shrink wrapping; boat storage and repairs; spring cleanings; and more. On a clearly busy Halloween morning (if the frequent interruptions on his end of the telephone were any indication), McCarnan says, “We decided to grow our mobile detailing service by adding a home base in North East to better serve our customers. For example, in addition to winter storage, we now can provide sum-mer storage packages so boaters can get right out on the water without having to trailer their boats.”

“Covering the Middle and Up-per Bays and beyond, our 16 detail-ers undergo professional training each year so we do the job right, whether it means taking expert care of custom paint jobs on go-fast boats, handling all sizes of boats… We’ll even detail your boat and your tow vehicle at the same time. I enjoy working on boats, because you can take a heavily oxidized hull and bring it back to like-new status.”

“Our new shop is four miles off I-95 and 1.5 miles from the water. Come to our Grand Opening November 28 and ask about our specials. We also offer combo deals on all our services all year long. The more work you get done, the better the dis-count,” McCarnan adds. (443) 309-5375, chesapeakebayboatdetailing.com

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In this day and age, buying and operating a marina are a big deal. Frank Weber, who bought selby Bay Marina (formerly Selby Bay Yacht Basin) in Edgewater, MD this past May, has found a way

to mix business with pleasure while building a boating community. “I have faith the economy will come back and know that boaters will always want to go boating. I have a powerboat and help with USNA’s sailing programs. In addition to providing standard and covered slips for powerboaters and sailors, I am really excited about improving our facilities and hosting marina events. For example, we’re adding a green dimension in the form of solar power. So far, we’ve had a Slipholder Band Party, an Octoberfest, and a Halloween Party. We’re also plan-ning a chili cook-off and other parties for upcoming football Sundays, and of course, there’s the holiday parade of lights.” (443) 852-5445, [email protected]

Classic progress. Here, a new model struts her stuff during the Baltimore Jarrett Bay Yacht Sales’s Grand Banks 41EU Ride ‘N Drive October 11. Roger Mooney of Jarrett Bay Yacht Sales says, "All weekend, test drivers put the 41EU through her paces in the waters off the Baltimore Marine Center at Lighthouse Point. Grand Banks has fired up the new 41EU with Zeus propulsion, a Skyhook Electronic Anchor, E-plex wiring, a comprehensive helm display, lavish interiors, and more." [email protected], grandbanks.com

O n November 6, Mary Ewenson, owner and publisher of SpinSheet and PropTalk, was

among those who received the Top 100 Minor-ity Business Enterprise Award for 2008. More than 1400 company owners from Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC were judged for eligibility, entrepreneurship, professionalism, and community contributions.

“It’s a huge honor to be in the MBE Top 100,” says Ewenson. “When my business part-ner Dave Gendell and I started SpinSheet 13 years ago, we had no idea what an important part of the sailing community that magazine would become. As the company grew, I took classes at Anne Arundel Community College to learn more about accounting, computers, and business management. We added PropTalk Magazine in 2005, and early this year, Dave left to pursue a new career and we started the Start Sailing Now program. I have Dave to thank for his visions for SpinSheet and Prop-Talk Magazines and a terrific team to move us into the future. Every time people tell me they got into boating by reading our magazines, I am so glad my father encouraged us to start our own company.”


• Weems & plath donated 10 percent of the proceeds from its October 11 Tent Sale to the Annapolis Maritime Museum (AMM). Receiving the $1384 check, AMM’s director Jeff Holland said, “Whether it’s providing historic ar-tifacts for our exhibit on Captain Philip Van Horn Weems, the ‘grand old man of navigation,’ or a generous donation like this one, Cathie and Peter Trogdon of Weems & Plath have been there for us.” weems-plath.com, amaritime.org

• Annapolis-based Intrinsic yacht & ship recently acquired the area Albe-marle Sportfishing Boats dealership. Intrinsic also is the exclusive Maryland dealer for Ocean Yachts, Venture Marine, and Mercury (intrinsicyacht.com). Albemarle Boats is celebrating its 30th anniversary with its newest models: the new 290XF and the 288 OBXF, the company’s first model designed for outboard power. albemarleboats.com

Bill day joined Annapolis-based Crusader yacht sales in 2008. A Philadelphia-area native, Day grew up powerboating and sailing on the Chesa-peake’s Eastern Shore. He is a Certified Professional Yacht Broker (CPYB), one of fewer than 500 CPYBs in the yacht sales industry, and a member of the Yacht Broker’s Association of America. crusaderyachts.com

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NovemberSee Our Calendars of Boat Shows and Boat Parades

Thru Jan 1 lights on the Bay 5 to 10 p.m.

Sandy Point State Park. (443) 481-3161

Thru Dec 7 reflections of annapolis art

exhibit Enjoy watercolors by Rosemary Freitas Williams at City Dock Coffee in Annapolis. citydockcafe.com

14-16 art Between the Creeks 11 a.m. to

6 p.m. Annapolis YC Sailing Center. See the works of 21 local artists. (410) 263-8646, artbetweenthecreeks.us

14-16 discover the Waterfowl festival

Easton will overflow with world-class art displays, decoys, memorabilia, a wine pa-vilion, contests, live music, classic Eastern Shore seafood, dock dog contests, and more. waterfowlfestival.org

15 Greenstreet Gardens social 2 to 4 p.m. Lothian, MD. Sample

Southern Maryland wines, appetizers, gourmet coffee and tea, and live jazz. Proceeds benefit the Shady Side Rural Heritage Society and the Captain Salem Avery House Museum. $7 admission is tax deductible. angelfire.com/md/ssrhs

15 show opening: andy herbick photography 6 to 9 p.m. Gallery

211, South Baltimore/Federal Hill. Andy Herbick will display some of his recent works in Portraits of Baltimore’s Industrial Waterfront through the beginning of 2009. Bring your friends to the show opening and enjoy light snacks and beverages. andyherbickphotography.com, gallery211.net

15-16 diesel engine Class Annapolis School

of Seamanship. Learn about operating theory, preventative maintenance, and basic troubleshooting and repairs. Other classes offered this month include Radar and Basic Navigation. annapolisschoolofseamanship.com

22 Cape Charles oyster roast 5 to 9 p.m. Cape Charles Museum,

VA. Hosted by the Cape Charles Historical Society, this annual event features lots of good oysters (of course) and other food, live music, and a silent auction. (757) 331-1008

22 The Grand ole osprey Maryland Hall for the Creative

Arts, Annapolis. The Annapolis Maritime Museum (AMM) invites you to a delight-ful night of music from local artists. Allen Lopez created and donated this year’s featured auction item: a hand-crafted, wooden osprey. A VIP Reception (from 5 to 7 p.m.) kicks off the fun with beer and wine, food from local establishments, and silent and live auctions. The music program runs from 7 to 9 p.m. General admission is $25; VIP tickets are $100. Proceeds benefit AMM. amaritime.org, marylandhall.org, allenlopez.com

22 Grand Illumination parade 7 p.m. Lighted floats, march-

ing bands, and Santa will kick off the holiday season as the skylines of Norfolk and Portsmouth get lit. (757) 623-1757, downtownnorfolk.org

27 Thanksgiving

27-29 food and feasts of Colonial Virginia

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center, Yorktown, VA. See how Thanksgiving foods might have been prepared in 17th- and 18th-century Virginia. (888) 593-4682, historyisfun.org

28-Dec 30 holiday festival

of Trains B&O Railroad Museum, Baltimore. (410) 752-2490, borail.org

28-30 antiques show and sale Chestertown

Middle School. Cruise the Chester River to buy gift items from 30 exhibitors. $5. All proceeds benefit the Kent Association of Riding Therapy for people with special needs. (410) 778-1857, (410) 778-0397

29 Magellan’s fleet passes into the pacific Through the straits that

now Bear his name, 1528

29 rock around the Clock Tournament Midnight to

midnight. Sea Gull Pier, Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT), Cape Charles, VA. This 24-hour fishing marathon off CBBT’s 625-foot fishing pier offers big prizes and lots of fun. (757) 331-2960, cbbt.com


December

1 Grand re-opening of the Mcnasby oyster Company Building

Annapolis Maritime Museum. amaritime.org

4 Maryland Water Monitoring Conference Maritime Institute,

North Linthicum, MD. Learn about what’s being done to protect and restore local waters. marylandwatermonitoring.org

4 Midnight Madness Downtown Annapolis merchants will stay open

till midnight to welcome holiday shop-pers. Some will offer light refreshments; some will have more. You never know what they’ll dish out for free to warm your hearts. annapolisbusinessassoc.com

5 Christmas on the Creek Oxford, MD. Enjoy caroling, homemade food,

a train exhibit, and a special visit by Santa. A special finale will feature cocktails and appetizers, candlelight, music, silent and live auctions, and more. [email protected]

6 holiday house Tour Shady Side, MD. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sponsored

by the Shady Side Rural Heritage Society. $25. Register by calling (410) 267-0654.

6-7 Marine electrical systems Class Annapolis School of

Seamanship. Learn about troubleshoot-ing simple electrical failures, preventative maintenance, and electrical theory and system design. annapolisschoolofseamanship.com

9 Trip to du pont Mansion 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Travel from Edgewater, MD

to see the holiday decorations at the du Pont Mansion at Winterthur, DE. $55 for members of the Shady Side Rural Heritage Society; $62 for non-members. Reserve your seat by calling (410) 267-0654 or emailing [email protected] by November 15. angelfire.com/md/ssrhs

11 aaaa-oooo! full Moon party Boatyard Bar & Grill, Eastport.

Food, fun, and friends, and a drink or two. boatyardbarandgrill.com

November 29Middle riverStansbury Yacht Basin, MD(Benefits local kids programs)chesapeakebaymemories.org

December 6alexandriaFrom Alexandria Marina, VA to Washington, DC (Benefits Toys for Tots) (703) 838-5005

BaltimoreInner Harbor to Fells Point fpyc.net

Carters CreekThe Tides Inn, Irvington, VA(804) 438-9371

Colonial BeachColonial Beach, VA(804) 224-8145

Lighted Boat ParadesA round these parts, December is the month with the shortest daylight hours

of the year. That’s good enough reason for a party on the water. Here are the dates when boats will get lit and parade all over the Bay this holiday season.

hampton WaterfrontDowntown Hampton, VA(757) 727-1271, hamptoncvb.com

rock hall WaterfrontRock Hall, MD (Includes Santa’s arrival)rockhallmd.com

solomonsSolomons Island YCsba.solomons.md.us

yorktownWormley Creek Marina, Yorktown, MD(757) 890-4970

December 13annapolisEastport YCeastportyclightsparade.com

James riverFrom Richmond to Henricus Historical Park, VAjamesriveradvisorycouncil.com/parade.htm


T he Eastport Yacht Club Lights Parade hits Annapolis Harbor December 13 from 6 to 8 p.m.

This annual festival of lights typically draws up to a zillion amps of electricity on more than 40 boats, not to mention countless hot spiced rums and 30,000 spectators along the Annapolis waterfront. As usual, one fleet will circle in front of Eastport, the Naval Academy seawall, and City Dock while the other bedecked fleet will circle the length of Spa Creek, upstream of the bridge. Every hour or so, the two fleets will swap routes. (Yes; after last year’s renovations, City Dock is back in business, people!) Roving reporters from WNAV Radio 1430 will provide live coverage of the parade. WNAV and marine radio Channel 72 will report the winners of best boat decorations at 10 p.m.

Avast ye hardy participants: December 11 is the mandatory Skipper’s Safety Meet-ing, December 14 brings EYC’s brunch for participants, and January 9 marks the Skip-per’s Appreciation Party at the Marriott Waterfront Annapolis. eastportyc.org

11 holiday dinner Cruise 7 to 10 p.m. Pintail

Yachts. Dinner, drinks, and dancing. $99. Call (410) 626-1888 in Annapolis or (410) 539-3485 in Baltimore. pintailyachts.com

11 Midnight Madness II Shop holiday sales til you

drop! annapolisbusinessassoc.com

12 Candlelight stroll Colonial guides will lead

you on a candlelight tour through Annapolis to welcome the holidays. watermarkspecialevents.com

12-13 Bluewater rock party and

Tournament Bluewater Yachting Center, Hampton, VA. Register and meet on Friday; fish and party on Saturday. (775) 723-6774

12-14 Catchin’ for Kids striper

Tournament Virginia Beach. The largest rockfish wins! This event benefits the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program. catchinforkids.com

lIGhTs, CaMeras, rUM!


12-14 Christmas in st. Michaels A black

tie gala kicks off the weekend festivities that include a parade, Breakfast with Santa, Santa’s Wonderland, tours of local historic homes and buildings, plenty of good food, seasonal music, arts, antiques, books, and more. Enter the Gingerbread House Contest by November 21, bake up a storm, and you just might win some great cash prizes. Proceeds from the weekend’s special ticketed events and gingerbread house sales support local organizations. christmasinstmichaels.org

13 santa arrives in reedville 9 a.m. Reedville Fishermans

Museum, VA. St. Nick arrives by boat at the museum’s dock. (804) 453-6529, rfmuseum.org

13 Winter Wild fowl Walk 8:30 to 10 a.m. Reed Education

Center, Edgewater, MD. Search along the trails of the Rhode River and learn how to identify different wild fowl. $4. BYOB (bring your own binoculars). serc.si.edu

14 Children’s Tree Trimming party 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Captain

Salem Avery House Museum, Shady Side, MD. Celebrate the holidays Victorian-style. Children will enjoy a surprise visit by Santa. averyhouse.org

14 Maritime Christmas 10 to 8 p.m. Havre de Grace

Maritime Museum. Enjoy an elegant wine and chocolate tasting party, music, food, and demos. All items in the museum store will be 15 percent off. (410) 939-4800, [email protected]

15-16 a Good Time To entertain

According to the Old Farmer's Almanac.

18 holiday dinner Cruise 7 to 10 p.m. Pintail Yachts.

Dining, drinks, and dancing. $99. Reserve your spot by calling (410) 626-1888 in Annapolis or (410) 539-3485 in Baltimore. pintailyachts.com

22 first day of hanukkah

24 Waterskiing santa 1 p.m. Potomac River, Washington,

DC. New location! Be at the National Harbor Marina to see Santa, Mrs. Clause, the Grinch, and all of Santa’s Special Helpers rock the waters next to the Wilson Bridge in Maryland. Every-one will love Santa, the kneeboarding reindeer, the flying elves, the jet-skiing Grinch, Frosty the Snowman in a dinghy, and the Caroling Candy Cane Kids. (703) 280-1788, waterskiingsanta.com

25 Christmas

31 Boatyard Bar & Grill's new year's eve party

Eastport will rock until 2 o'clock! boatyardbarandgrill.com

31 first night alexandria 6 p.m. to midnight. Music,

dancing, performing arts, a one-mile race up King Street, fireworks, and more to celebrate the arrival of 2009. firstnightalexandria.org

31 new year's eve

31 new year’s eve annapolis Welcome in 2009 in style, with

window performances, interactive venues, live music, two fireworks displays, and more maritime fun for the whole family. With support from ARINC, $2 of every ticket purchased online will be donated to a charity of your choice. newyearsannapolis.org

31 new year’s eve Cruise 9:30 p.m. The Duchess of Pintail

will depart Baltimore’s Pier 5. Enjoy par-ty favors, holiday appetizers by Harbor Magic, and champagne while viewing the Baltimore Harbor’s firework display. $155. (410) 626-1888, pintailyachts.com

BoaT shoWs on The Bay and Beyond

T o say that these are boat shows is an understatement. Sure, you’ll see lots of hot new boats at these events. But,

they are also great ways to check out all the cool boat toys, accessories, and expert advice you’ll need to create your own liquid lifestyle. Look for PropTalk at some of these events (you can’t spell PropTalk without “pro”).

december 4-7st. petersburg Boat show and strictly sail super showMahaffey Theater Yacht Basin and Albert Whitted Parkshowmanagement.com

January 8-11, 2009fishing expo & Boat showMaryland State Fairgrounds, Timoniumfishingexpo.com

January 21-25Baltimore Boat showBaltimore Convention Centerbaltimoreboatshow.com

January 23-25Virginia Boat show and saleGreater Richmond Convention Center, VAagievents.com

January 30-february 1fredericksburg Boat showFredericksburg Expo & Conference Centerbmgevents.com/frederickburg/boatshow

January 31-february 1 and february 4-8Mid-atlantic sports and Boat showVirginia Beach Convention Centertargetedproductions.com/eventinfo_boat.html

february 4-8atlantic City International powerboat showAtlantic City Convention Center, NJacboatshow.com

february 12-16Miami International Boat show & strictly sailMiami Beach Convention Center, FLmiamiboatshow.com

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february 19-22Washington Boat showWashington Convention Center, DCwashingtonboatshow.com

february 20-22richmond Boat showRichmond Raceway Complex, VAagievents.com

March 13-15first state Boat expoChase Center, Wilmington, DEdmta.org

March 13-15national Capital Boat showDulles Expo Center, Chantilly, VAagievents.com

april 3-5Tidewater Boat showHampton Roads Convention Center, VAagievents.com

april 23-26Bay Bridge Boat showBay Bridge Marina, Stevensville, MDusboat.com

May 29-31 The yacht show at national harborNational Harborusboat.com

august 21-23summer Boat & rV super saleThe Showplace, Richmond, VAagievents.com

september 18-20Virginia In-Water Boat expo & sailfestDowntown Norfolk Waterfront, VAvirginiaboatexpo.com

october 8-12U.s. sailboat showAnnapolisusboat.com

october 15-18U.s. powerboat showAnnapolisusboat.com

Photos by Mark Talbott/PropTalk


DIFFERENCES Spring High Low H. Ht L. Ht Range Onancock Creek +3 :52 +4 :15 *0.70 *0.83 2.2Stingray Point +2 :01 +2 :29 *0.48 *0.83 1.4Hooper Strait Light +5 :52 +6 :04 *0.66 *0.67 2.0Lynnhaven Inlet +0 :47 +1 :08 *0.77 *0.83 2.4

DIFFERENCES Spring High Low H. Ht L. Ht RangeWindmill Point +1:56 +2:13 *0.50 *0.50 1.5Wolf Trap Light –0:07 +0:27 *0.65 *0.65 1.9Urbanna 37°39’ +3:04 *0.58 *0.58 1.7Norfolk 36°51’ +0:15 *1.12 *1.17 3.4

DIFFERENCES Spring High Low H. Ht L. Ht RangeMtn Pt, Magothy River +1:24 +1:40 *0.88 *0.88 1.0Chesapeake Beach –1:14 –1:15 *1.12 *1.14 1.1Cedar Point –3:16 –3:13 *1.33 *1.33 1.4Point Lookout –3:48 –3:47 *1.37 *1.33 1.4

DIFFERENCES Spring High Low H. Ht L. Ht RangeSharps Island Light –3:47 –3:50 *1.18 *1.17 1.5Havre de Grace +3:11 +3:30 *1.59 *1.59 1.9Sevenfoot Knoll Light –0:06 –0:10 *0.82 *0.83 1.1St Michaels, Miles River –2:14 –1:58 *1.08 *1.08 1.4

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Sa 1316 -0.1 2016 1.9

16 0343 0.3 0818 1.0

Su 1413 -0.1 2112 1.8

17 0437 0.3 0917 1.0

M 1517 -0.0 2210 1.7

18 0531 0.3 1019 1.0

Tu 1627 0.0 2310 1.6

19 0624 0.3 1125 1.1

W 1743 0.1 C

20 0010 1.5 0716 0.2

Th 1233 1.1 1901 0.2

21 0107 1.3 0803 0.2

F 1342 1.2 2016 0.2

22 0159 1.2 0846 0.1

Sa 1448 1.3 2127 0.3

23 0248 1.1 0925 0.0

Su 1547 1.4 2232 0.3

24 0333 1.0 1000 -0.0

M 1639 1.5 2332 0.3

25 0416 0.9 1032 -0.1

Tu 1725 1.5

26 0026 0.3 0459 0.9

W 1103 -0.1 1806 1.6

27 0114 0.3 0541 0.8

Th 1136 -0.1 D 1843 1.6

28 0157 0.3 0623 0.8

F 1211 -0.1 1919 1.5

29 0236 0.3 0705 0.8

Sa 1250 -0.1 1955 1.5

30 0313 0.3 0748 0.8

Su 1331 -0.0 2031 1.4

1 0348 0.3 0831 0.8

M 1414 0.0 2109 1.4

2 0424 0.3 0915 0.8

Tu 1459 0.0 2149 1.3

3 0501 0.2 1003 0.8

W 1548 0.1 2230 1.3

4 0539 0.2 1055 0.8

Th 1643 0.2 2313 1.2

5 0616 0.1 1150 0.9

F 1747 0.2 E 2358 1.2

6 0653 0.0 1248 1.0

Sa 1901 0.3

7 0045 1.1 0730 -0.1

Su 1346 1.1 2021 0.3

8 0135 1.0 0808 -0.1

M 1442 1.3 2139 0.3

9 0227 0.9 0848 -0.2

Tu 1537 1.5 2249 0.2

10 0322 0.8 0932 -0.3

W 1630 1.6 2352 0.1

11 0418 0.7 1021 -0.4

Th 1723 1.7

12 0048 0.1 0515 0.7

F 1114 -0.4 A 1817 1.7

13 0141 0.0 0611 0.7

Sa 1210 -0.4 1911 1.7

14 0231 0.0 0708 0.8

Su 1310 -0.4 2005 1.6


PropTalk’sTide & Current Tables

Provided by

DIFFERENCES slack before floodmax flood slack before ebb max ebb flood speed ratio ebb speed ratio food dir. ebb dir. flood knots ebb knots ON CHESAPEAKE BAY ENTRANCE: Wolf Trap Light, 0.5 mi west of +1:43 +2:00 +1:34 +1:36 1.2 1.0 015° 190° 1.0 1.2 Stingray Point, 12.5 mi east of +2:18 +3:00 +2:09 +2:36 1.2 0.6 030° 175° 1.0 0.8 Point Lookout, 5.9 nm ESE of +3:45 +4:53 +4:57 +4:15 0.5 0.3 340° 161° 0.4 0.4 ON BALTIMORE APPROACH:Poplar Island, 2.2 nm WSW of –0:44 –1:26 –0:57 –0:49 0.6 0.8 359° 185° 0.5 0.6 Thomas Point Shoal Lt, 0.5 nm SE of –0:25 –0:09 –0:43 –0:41 1.0 1.3 033° 191° 0.8 1.0 Chesapeake Bay Bridge, main chan +0:16 +0:08 –0:17 +0:13 0.9 1.1 025° 230° 0.7 0.9

CHESAPEAKE BAY ENTRANCE

BALTIMORE APPROACH

C & DCANAL

December 5 December 12 November 19 November 27

November 15 - December 14 CurrentsCurrent tables show location, day of the week, day of the month, event (Slack, max Flood, max Ebb), time, and current speed in knots.

15 0310 1.7 0611 0900 1.5

Sa 1237 1603 1.6 1918 2138 1.0

16 0029 0402 1.6 0709 0952 1.3

Su 1330 1700 1.5 2014 2232 0.9

17 0128 0502 1.5 0809 1049 1.2

M 1425 1803 1.4 2112 2334 0.8

18 0231 0610 1.3 0913 1151 1.0

Tu 1524 1905 1.3 2215

19 0039 0.8 0344 0718 1.2

W 1024 1255 0.8 C 1629 2005 1.3 2319

20 0144 0.7 0504 0827 1.2

Th 1140 1403 0.6 1732 2109 1.2

21 0019 0300 0.7 0616 0942 1.1

F 1256 1530 0.5 1829 2210 1.2

22 0114 0413 0.8 0720 1049 1.2

Sa 1407 1640 0.5 1920 2303 1.2

23 0204 0501 0.9 0817 1145 1.2

Su 1508 1724 0.5 2006 2349 1.1

24 0249 0538 0.9 0906 1236 1.3

M 1557 1801 0.5 2048

25 0032 1.1 0329 0613 1.0

Tu 0949 1323 1.3 1639 1840 0.5 2126

26 0112 1.1 0407 0651 1.0

W 1027 1404 1.3 1717 1921 0.5 2200

27 0148 1.1 0445 0732 1.0

Th 1103 1440 1.2 D 1756 2002 0.5 2234

28 0222 1.1 0524 0814 1.0

F 1141 1512 1.2 1835 2042 0.5 2310

29 0254 1.1 0605 0855 0.9

Sa 1219 1542 1.1 1915 2120 0.5 2348

30 0327 1.1 0648 0934 0.9

Su 1257 1615 1.0 1956 2200 0.5

1 0027 0404 1.0 0731 1015 0.8

M 1335 1654 1.0 2039 2243 0.4

2 0108 0448 1.0 0814 1058 0.7

Tu 1412 1740 0.9 2123 2331 0.4

3 0151 0542 0.9 0900 1145 0.6

W 1448 1827 0.9 2208

4 0020 0.4 0242 0638 0.8

Th 0952 1232 0.6 1526 1911 1.0 2251

5 0107 0.4 0356 0733 0.8

F 1053 1320 0.5 E 1610 1954 1.0 2331

6 0155 0.5 0515 0833 0.8

Sa 1158 1414 0.4 1659 2043 1.0

7 0011 0250 0.6 0617 0941 0.9

Su 1302 1518 0.5 1749 2137 1.1

8 0054 0346 0.8 0713 1041 1.1

M 1401 1617 0.5 1840 2231 1.3

9 0139 0434 1.1 0807 1134 1.3

Tu 1454 1705 0.7 1934 2322 1.4

10 0228 0519 1.3 0859 1226 1.4

W 1542 1752 0.8 2031

11 0014 1.5 0319 0606 1.4

Th 0949 1319 1.6 1628 1841 0.9 2128

12 0109 1.6 0409 0657 1.5

F 1040 1410 1.7 A 1715 1935 1.0 2223

13 0204 1.7 0502 0751 1.5

Sa 1130 1458 1.7 1805 2029 1.0 2320

14 0256 1.8 0557 0845 1.5

Su 1222 1547 1.7 1858 2121 1.0

15 0027 1.2 0420 0633 0.4

Sa 0856 1151 0.6 1426 1819 1.3 2153

16 0115 1.2 0506 0724 0.5

Su 0954 1247 0.6 1520 1910 1.2 2241

17 0204 1.1 0551 0819 0.5

M 1100 1348 0.6 1622 2006 1.1 2331

18 0255 1.1 0635 0915 0.6

Tu 1210 1455 0.5 1733 2106 0.9

19 0023 0347 1.0 0719 1014 0.7

W 1322 1608 0.6 C 1852 2210 0.8

20 0116 0440 0.9 0803 1112 0.8

Th 1431 1721 0.6 2017 2318 0.6

21 0211 0534 0.8 0847 1208 0.9

F 1534 1832 0.7 2142

22 0026 0.5 0307 0626 0.8

Sa 0930 1301 1.0 1632 1936 0.8 2259

23 0130 0.5 0402 0717 0.7

Su 1012 1351 1.1 1724 2034 0.9

24 0008 0230 0.4 0456 0806 0.7

M 1054 1438 1.1 1812 2126 1.0

25 0108 0325 0.4 0549 0853 0.6

Tu 1134 1522 1.2 1856 2214 1.0

26 0202 0416 0.4 0639 0937 0.6

W 1213 1604 1.2 1938 2259 1.0

27 0251 0504 0.4 0729 1020 0.5

Th 1251 1645 1.2 D 2018 2341 1.1

28 0336 0550 0.4 0817 1103 0.5

F 1330 1725 1.1 2056

29 0022 1.1 0418 0635 0.4

Sa 0906 1146 0.4 1409 1805 1.1 2135

30 0102 1.0 0459 0719 0.4

Su 0956 1231 0.4 1451 1846 1.0 2213

1 0142 1.0 0537 0803 0.4

M 1049 1319 0.4 1537 1929 0.9 2253

2 0223 1.0 0614 0848 0.5

Tu 1143 1411 0.4 1630 2015 0.8 2333

3 0304 0.9 0649 0933 0.5

W 1238 1507 0.4 1731 2105 0.7

4 0015 0346 0.8 0721 1018 0.6

Th 1334 1608 0.4 1842 2159 0.6

5 0058 0428 0.8 0753 1103 0.7

F 1428 1711 0.5 E 2001 2257 0.5

6 0142 0510 0.7 0824 1148 0.8

Sa 1520 1813 0.6 2123 2357 0.4

7 0227 0553 0.7 0856 1232 0.9

Su 1609 1912 0.7 2241

8 0058 0.3 0314 0637 0.6

M 0930 1317 1.0 1657 2008 0.8 2352

9 0156 0.3 0403 0722 0.6

Tu 1008 1403 1.2 1744 2100 0.9

10 0054 0252 0.3 0454 0809 0.6

W 1049 1448 1.3 1830 2149 1.0

11 0148 0345 0.3 0548 0858 0.6

Th 1135 1535 1.3 1916 2236 1.1

12 0235 0436 0.4 0645 0949 0.6

F 1224 1623 1.4 A 2001 2322 1.2

13 0318 0526 0.4 0744 1043 0.6

Sa 1317 1712 1.3 2047

14 0008 1.2 0358 0616 0.5

Su 0845 1139 0.6 1414 1803 1.3 2132

15 0006 0159 0.9 0424 0739 2.1

Sa 1032 1346 2.1 1739 2054 2.6

16 0101 0254 0.9 0523 0832 2.1

Su 1130 1442 2.0 1835 2147 2.5

17 0152 0348 1.0 0624 0927 2.1

M 1235 1540 1.9 1930 2243 2.4

18 0240 0447 1.0 0726 1027 2.0

Tu 1345 1645 1.7 2026 2339 2.2

19 0328 0544 1.1 0832 1132 1.9

W 1500 1751 1.5 C 2122

20 0031 2.1 0416 0639 1.2

Th 0941 1238 1.9 1619 1853 1.3 2216

21 0121 1.9 0502 0733 1.3

F 1048 1347 1.9 1734 1955 1.1 2306

22 0210 1.8 0546 0829 1.4

Sa 1151 1504 1.9 1842 2058 1.0 2351

23 0256 1.7 0627 0921 1.5

Su 1249 1613 1.9 1946 2153 0.9

24 0033 0338 1.7 0705 1004 1.6

M 1342 1707 2.0 2045 2238 0.8

25 0112 0415 1.6 0739 1040 1.7

Tu 1429 1756 2.0 2138 2320 0.7

26 0151 0451 1.6 0809 1114 1.7

W 1510 1840 2.1 2227

27 0005 0.7 0230 0530 1.5

Th 0838 1149 1.7 D 1546 1917 2.1 2313

28 0052 0.6 0311 0611 1.5

F 0909 1228 1.8 1621 1948 2.2 2355

29 0138 0.7 0354 0656 1.5

Sa 0944 1310 1.8 1655 2019 2.3

30 0035 0221 0.8 0440 0742 1.6

Su 1025 1354 1.8 1731 2052 2.4

1 0111 0302 0.8 0528 0828 1.7

M 1112 1438 1.8 1808 2129 2.4

2 0145 0344 0.9 0617 0915 1.7

Tu 1203 1525 1.7 1848 2210 2.4

3 0217 0429 1.0 0707 1005 1.7

W 1259 1616 1.6 1929 2254 2.4

4 0250 0514 1.1 0758 1100 1.7

Th 1358 1710 1.5 2012 2340 2.3

5 0325 0559 1.2 0854 1157 1.7

F 1503 1805 1.3 E 2058

6 0026 2.2 0401 0643 1.3

Sa 0954 1254 1.7 1617 1900 1.2 2147

7 0112 2.2 0440 0729 1.4

Su 1054 1353 1.7 1734 1958 1.0 2237

8 0202 2.1 0521 0818 1.6

M 1153 1458 1.8 1848 2059 0.9 2327

9 0254 2.1 0603 0909 1.7

Tu 1251 1602 2.0 1959 2158 0.9

10 0019 0346 2.1 0648 1000 1.9

W 1350 1701 2.2 2106 2253 0.8

11 0114 0438 2.1 0738 1049 2.0

Th 1448 1801 2.3 2205 2349 0.8

12 0213 0531 2.1 0833 1142 2.1

F 1543 1901 2.5 A 2300

13 0049 0.8 0313 0628 2.1

Sa 0930 1240 2.1 1638 1955 2.6 2351

14 0147 0.9 0413 0725 2.2

Su 1030 1340 2.0 1733 2044 2.6


Hot Gifts for You and tHe CrewPropTalk is always testing new products. So, when the U.S. Powerboat Show came to town, we were in heaven. Joe Evans, our editor, has an inordinate fondness for marine tools. After checking out the 5.5-inch ClampTite Tool (below), he said, “Every once in a while, a product comes along that is so well-made that you want to own one just for the appreciation of the quality of workmanship. It’s even better when that product performs its job well and perhaps will save you the loss of property and your life.” The tool’s function is simple. It’s a fool-proof alternative to the standard and sometimes troublesome hose clamp. The system uses seizing wire of any diameter to secure bilge pump hoses, fix a garden hose, crimp an eye-splice, seize a shackle pin, lock down a fishing reel to a reel seat, or clamp any-thing else you can imagine. It works by leveraging the tension on the wire and locking it off with nothing more than a twist of a wrist.

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Wye Island Electric Boat Marathon

2008

… to give the others a better chance, he extended his course by exploring a dead-end creek or two on the

return trip, and thus ran out of electrons.

Report by Charles Iliff

2008 Wye Island Marathon participants and observers had a great day on Friday, October 3. The weather was superb, but for a brief period of 15-knot wind which threatened to build a little lump in the Miles River. That quickly eased, and the sunshine and 75-degree temperature made for a perfect tour of the waterways around Wye Island.

Unfortunately, late scratches included the PropTalk Battery Warehouse Epic Whisper ElectraShell, a 58- by two-foot ex-eight-man rowing shell converted to an 11-battery electric-powered “speed” boat, which made her winning debut in the 2007 event. It seemed that the motor controller didn’t like the late propeller modifications, and the towboat set to bring the shell down from the Severn River wouldn’t start. So, the PropTalk crew were even more relaxed as simple spectators.

A first for the marathon this year was an actual starting line, provided by Bowie Rose of the Miles River YC Race Com-mittee. There was a starting sequence with countdown time and starting horn. (The

race committee decided not to assess any penalty to the E-Canoe, which was ob-served with its nose just over the starting line before the start horn.)

In order of finish:1) Paul Kydd, in a Stillwater-Kydd

coachboat, striving to break his own mul-tihull record and to beat last year’s overall record set by the Electrashell. Kydd has competed in every Wye Island Mara-thon, including the one that was canceled because of a serious nor’easter.

2) Jim Campbell’s E-Canoe has par-ticipated in all but one marathon. Camp-bell took a friend along on this one.

3) Tom Hesselink brought two of his Budsin Lightning Bugs and ran one with

The Budsin Lightning Bug. Photo by Scott McCann.


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Jim Campbell’s E-canoe, with two mo-tors mounted, and with Al Sutton along for the ride, managed to shorten the course significantly by cutting through canoe-only shallows at every turning point. He won the monohull division with a time of 4:43:39.

Tom Hesselink’s Lightning Bug kept him, his mother, and his sister comfortable and dry, even in the open water. With his time of 5:02:00, Hesselink didn’t try to keep up with the canoe, but reported that he had about half his battery capacity left at the end. He may turn up the wick a bit next year. This trip, however, provided a little extra time to see what may have been a record number of bald eagles for a single loop.

Steve Voorhis was a little late in his preparation but still managed to lead the monohull division at the mandatory pit

his sister Cheryl Stewardson and mother Joanne Hesselink aboard. Hesselink’s boats drew the most attention and admiration as the trailing covers were removed to reveal the extraordinary workmanship and finish on his boats. The effect was summarized in one comment: “Those aren’t boats, they’re jewelry.”

4) Steve Voorhis brought his pretty launch, purpose-built to show off his Epic Whisper outboards.

In the pleasant weather, the participants and spectators all had nice rides, although Kydd got a little wet. The coach boat ran through a couple of waves, requiring some bailing of the passenger tub. Kydd ran ahead all the way around, reducing his multihull record by 22 minutes with a time of 2:44:28, just short of nine mph. How-ever, he did not break the Electrashell’s 2007 overall record—yet. The expectation is with some minor reconfiguration, he’ll find the speed to regain the record.

Steve Voorhis and the Epic Whisper pro-pulsion system. Photo by Scott McCann

Jim Campbell's twin-motor E-Canoe. Photo by Scott McAnn

Editor’s note: The Wye Island Marathon is a 23.82-mile electric boat race held every year during the annual Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD. The race course consists of approximately eight miles of open water, with the balance in the relatively sheltered Wye River loop around Wye Island. There is a mandatory 10-minute coffee break at Wye Land-ing about midway through the course. The event is staged to foster fun and invention in electric boat propulsion and design. To learn more and to join the fun, go to electricboatmarathon.org.


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stop at Wye Landing. No doubt to give the others a better chance, he extended his course by exploring a dead-end creek or two on the return trip, and thus ran out of electrons, of which he had brought just barely enough. He spent a bit of time under tow, but used it well, connecting his spare emergency set of gel cells, so he did finish under electric power. A minor short-age of electrical connection hardware was cured by removal of the nuts from the left quarter cleat.

One of the attractions of the marathon is the chance to learn about the various systems by which the electric boats are pro-pelled. Voorhis and Campbell used stock Epic Whisper and dual E-Canoe outboards, respectively. Hesselink’s Budsin has an inboard setup, as neat and clean as you’d expect in a Budsin. The attention getter this year, however, was Kydd’s new Mercury 25 conversion. Kydd mounted the electric motor in place of the four-stroke

gasoline power head, and water cooled the motor and controller so he could use the original motor cover. The motor was geared to take advantage of the efficiency of a high-aspect ratio, 18-inch, three-blade prop with a 28 degree pitch. The boat has been clocked at 15 mph with a bank of Valence lithium ion batteries. Kydd had to pull back the power, however, to make the distance.

As usual, the hospitality of the Miles River YC was gracious and the food great. They even allowed in one of our ElectraShell crew who was in full-dress pirate rega-lia, including seven-league boots and ostrich plumage.

Paul Kydd's electric power plant mointed on the head of a Mercury 25 unit. Photo by Scott McCann

The Stillwater-Kydd electric coach boat. Photo by Scott McCann


Just pulled into Worton Creek after about 550 miles and 23 locks in eight cruising days. We figure we needed a break. We have traveled less than 30 miles since tying up

at Summit North in the C&D Canal after a fairly grueling 100 mile-plus day on the ocean and Delaware Bay. Picked up an old copy of PropTalk at the marina, which included our somewhat slower trip north in the summer. It cracks me up when I read the editor’s blurb about me being a lifetime mariner… but more on that in a minute.

It’s great to be back in the Chesapeake Bay, despite its brown and brackish water. Seems like our trip north was in another lifetime. Traveling to the tundra (i.e., the north) in the summer is a far different proposition from travel in the fall, particularly when you’re on a slow-moving (but stately) boat with large bod-ies of open water off our bow.

Which brings me to a couple of lessons relearned and rein-forced:

lesson oneAs I have written, if you plan to travel with your boat, buy the

unlimited towing insurance. We passed a nice Canadian sailboat a couple of times in the Hudson River. The first meeting was in historic Kingston, NY, the original state capital, where we stopped to enjoy ourselves, reprovision, and spend some time with one of Mike’s best friends.

The following evening, moored just north of the Tappan Zee Bridge, we saw the same boat being towed in. The owners, a couple from near Toronto, had just paid $1100 (yes, that’s eleven hundred dollars) for a tow from the George Washing-ton Bridge to just north of the Tappan Zee, where the Julius Peterson yard is a certified Yanmar repair facility. The problem: a broken water pump. No spare aboard.

Actually, there are two lessons in this:Carry sparesExpect to be scalped if you need assistance in major U.S.

metropolitan areas.Here in Worton Creek, back in the Chesapeake waters

Hermione calls home, we just encountered another nice boater heading down to the Keys. We asked about his towing insurance plan. He carries all of $350 coverage, which just ain’t enough for a traveling boat.

lesson TwoAfter leaving central New York with pelting rain and frost on

the decks in early October, we met with a wonderful warm spell as we cruised south down the Hudson River. We stopped briefly in picturesque Athens, NY, where Peter Houghton showed us the Elco yard’s progress in restoring the Elco we almost bought, the 48 foot Lady Patricia. The lovely weather encouraged us to enjoy a day in historic Kingston, which was not a good idea. Kingston is nice enough, but traveling in the fall on a boat like Hermione, if the weather is good and you know there is a long stretch of open water ahead, you just don’t take a lay day. Keep going. NOAA was predicting continued light winds, but we’ve learned not to count on the weatherman.

by Jody ReynoldsEntering the famous lock at Little Falls, NY,one of two in North America to lift the water above the lock. Photo by Jody Reynolds

Foggy Erie Canal.Photo by Jody Reynolds


Our luck held as far south as Egg Harbor, NJ, which was a hundred mile daytrip from Sandy Hook’s Atlantic Highlands. That was one of those times on the ocean where you could just keep going, and we would have were it not for the dogs and their need for some land time. Be-cause the weather forecast changed, we decided to make another long leg from Great Egg Harbor past Cape May and up the Delaware Bay before the weather turned nasty. The follow-ing day was still warm and sunny, but lumps had begun to build, and when we turned north into the Delaware Bay, the “light and variable” winds became decidedly strong on Hermi-one’s stern. She surfed happily off the tops of the waves, but stalled in the troughs, making the trip to the C&D much slower than we’d expected. After a second 100-mile plus day in a row, the dogs were thrilled to hit terra firma way after dark along the C&D Canal.

Back on the ChesapeakeWe’re in the Worton Creek Marina near Chestertown, MD. It’s great to be back on the Bay. Mike needs the dockside time to sort out what’s bugging the port engine, which is hard to start but performs flawlessly once she’s turning. I’m headed back to New York to the other world I inhabit for business and other land-based obligations. Then, we will continue south to wherever for the second year in a row. We’ve put more than 4000 miles under Hermione’s keel since we bought her in 2007, with very few regrets.

For some reason, PropTalk editors and readers still want to hear about Hermione’s travels, and we get a kick out of writing about places we go and stuff we do.

It’s true that like Mike, I’ve spent a lot of time on boats. But there the courses diverge. Mike has devoted nearly his entire life and career to being on boats at sea, whereas I’ve dabbled. I’ve sat in board rooms overlooking the Hudson River, furtively watching the ship traffic as someone droned on about profits, loss, and projections. There’s a world of difference between sailing 40,000 miles as a mate, being the master of a

tug, and a scallop boat captain, haul-ing freight to Russia, or delivering an elegant Trumpy down the Eastern Seaboard. If a problem develops onboard, I can usually come up with a pretty good solution. Mike is natu-rally well ahead of me, and a crisis is always averted. In our miles together, we’ve been fortunate to have only a couple of those situations. I’m no slouch on the water, but Mike is the true professional, and I’m damned glad to travel with a captain who is.

Our dogs, napping peacefully beside me, are dreaming of the next adventure. As always, Worton Creek is their new favorite destination. Tomorrow they’ll leave sorrowfully, not knowing they’re headed back to their beloved dock at Jack’s Point Boat Yard in Oxford, MD.

about the author: Jody Reynolds is a life-long mariner who recently con-verted from sailing to what she terms the “really dark side”— i.e. antique wooden motoryachts. Hermione is owned by Misty Rivers, Ltd., with the intention of running historic charters to give antique boating enthusiasts a taste of the yachts of the 1920s. Captain Mike Wright is a yacht surveyor with a 100-ton masters license. Jody, Mike, and their dogs can be reached by e-mail directly at [email protected].

Dawn in beautiful Chesapeake City. Hermione is home again.

Jack's Point Boat Yard slip, Oxford, MD.

Tred Avon approach, Oxford, MD.


Long ago, people had surnames that described their occupa-tions. At the top of the family tree, Carpenters built houses

and furniture, Waterstons worked the grist mill, and Earles, Bishops, and Kings were perhaps, at some stage, royalty. So when I went to find Dick Woodard I knew he was a woodsman. I pulled into his driveway just up the main road from St. Michaels on the way to Tilghman Island and was greeted by a handsome, powerful-looking guy with a broad smile standing next to a log home he built about 20 years ago. A squall had passed through a week prior and left a trail of destruction over his yard, trees, and outbuildings.

“I live less than 100 feet from the Bay. There is a beautiful sandy beach down there and big cherry trees and some tall

pines, he said. “That night I was sitting out here listening to the thunder roll down the western shore. It kept getting darker and darker. All the sudden the wind started to blow. I came out of the bedroom at the other end of the house, and it was really howling. I couldn’t even see the beach. It was just solid horizontal water. The house started to shake, and this is a heavy log house. The power went out, so I grabbed a flashlight and went down in the basement. My wife was away visiting her daughter. Then I thought, ‘Well this is stupid. I’m supposed to be a tough guy. So, I came back up and the house was shaking. I went back down again. The wind was so loud I didn’t hear a tree break or anything fall. When the wind quit, I came up and I knew there were a lot of trees down. Fortunately nothing hit the house. The barn came away

clean but my tractor shed was mashed flat. Two big ones here, three big pine trees, mulberry out by the beach, two great big cherries behind the tractor shed, two big locust trees… I swear it was a microburst or some kind of funny little thing. These trees that came down, most of them are at least a hundred years old, so they been here through a lot of stuff. When the top of that pine tree came down, it stopped right at the bottom step. It could have done a whole lot worse.”

Woodard came to love log cabins through music. He ran an instrument shop in Annapolis on Bembe Beach Road for a number of years and taught himself how to build banjos, guitars, and mando-lins. “Condos there now, but back then, there were five vintage log houses on the property, built in the twenties and thirties,”

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Dick Woodardby Michael Buckley

“In boat carpentry and as in building musical instruments, there are no straight cuts, and nothing is plumb and level,”

Woodard says, "I thought what I ought to do is get an old Toyota pickup truck, take the body off, get a bunch of ply-wood, and build a neat little Model A-looking truck.” So he did, using marine-grade materials and yacht enamel. After passing the state’s inspection, the home-built wooden truck has been dependable transportation for more than 13 years.


he recalls. Woodard rented one of the log houses and lived on the Bay with his four kids. “The kids could run, and we fished and had a little garden, and we hunted ducks in the wintertime,” he remembers. “I found out that I really liked living in a log house.”

Woodard’s love for music was also growing. “I started learning how to play the banjo. I knew a little bit, but I didn’t know how to play with other people or anything. For two or three months every night, we’d show up at the local gas station. We had a mandolin, guitar, fiddle, banjo, and bass player. Down the road a half a block was a bar we played called the Happy Buzzard. It was rough, but lots of fun,” he says with a smile. Woodard and a batch of like-mind-ed pickers eventually formed a band called Bitter Creek. Twenty-three years later, they are still playing gigs and events across the Eastern Shore. They are the regular en-tertainment at the Thunder on the Narrows Hydroplane Race crab feast each year.

While living in Annapolis, Woodard met a shipwright named Carl Greible who owns Severn Marine Services. Greible knew that Woodard had built musical instruments and had mechanical skills. Greible invited Woodard to join the Severn Marine team. The two have since worked together for 23 years with an unrivaled reputation for wooden boat repairs and excellent yacht carpentry. “In boat carpentry and as in building musi-cal instruments, there are no straight cuts, and nothing is plumb and level,” explains Woodard. “On musical instruments, you either need to have plans or know what you’re doing because everything has to be right if it’s going to work. In most of the jobs we did at the boatyard, I never once worked from a set of plans, but we didn’t build boats. We did repair work and refits. I did one steel boat, a 48-foot steel schooner that had come in from around the world. The boat was really beat bad, but the hull was good. For the next five years, I put a complete new interior in it. I put a whole floor into it out of teak and holly. Then the owner came in and just drew lines and pointed saying he wanted bunks here, cabinets and a galley over there. You have a little bit of variance. You’re not working to the 16th of an inch. But that was an edu-cation working on that boat. I did a lot of interesting jobs for Carl, and a lot of it was boring,” he suggests. “After we moved the business to Tilgh-man Island, we hauled the Stanley

Norman, a 35-foot skipjack owned by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. I made all the brass rails that go around it. We put on a new bottom, keel, centerboard, and most of the topsides. But after 23, years I said, ‘I’m getting too old to crawl around in the bilge of a boat.”

Woodard officially retired from boat carpentry in October. So now he only works a couple of days fitting and finishing wood at the boatyard on the island. The other days, he performs fine joinery work at a master cabinetry shop near his home. Otherwise, he builds or rebuilds banjos and farms heirloom tomatoes in between his home projects and storm damage repairs. Retirement seems to suit him well as it is so much like work everyday.

Once a luthier, yacht carpenter, log-home builder, always a woodsman.

about the author: Michael Buckley is a music columnist for The Capital and author of Voices of the Chesapeake Bay, a collection of 53 interviews with interesting people from throughout the watershed. Over the past eight years,

Michael has recorded over 250 interviews on a variety of Chesapeake topics. He is also the producer and host of The Sunday Brunch on 103.1 WRNR from 7 to 10 a.m., a radio show combining a variety of musical styles and interviews. The 2008 Voices Tour, spon-sored by the Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment, the Chesapeake Bay Trust, and the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, is stopping at every county along the shores of the great estuary in search of great Chesapeake stories—VoicesoftheChesapeake-Bay.org.

Photo by Joe Evans


The sea change in fuel prices in the United States and other parts of the world will require that boat

owners and manufacturers adapt to higher costs of gasoline and diesel. Naval archi-tects and builders will have to come up with new designs and innovations, which will permit boaters to enjoy water sports, cruising, and life afloat while using less energy. More efficient hulls, engines, pro-pulsion systems, and other innovations are needed to overcome the higher fuel prices confronting the marine industry. Failure to offer new ideas will cut into the industry for those boaters who cannot absorb higher prices.

Certainly, there is a segment of yacht owners where the cost of fuel will not greatly impact use. Large motoryachts will continue to be built for owners with deeper pockets. These folks have the ability to absorb higher diesel and gasoline prices; al-though one can see where they will reduce cruise speed and shorten routes to reduce fuel consumption. More efficient common-rail diesels will contribute to reducing fuel use in larger vessels. But for the majority of boaters, fuel cost is very important to shap-ing our habits and choices on the water.

The marine industry should set vol-untary standards much like the automo-tive industry to achieve added efficiency. Gallons per hour should give way to miles per gallon. Lighter, stronger, more efficient hulls will be produced if consum-ers demand them. Semi-displacement and planing boats capable of getting four to six nautical miles per gallon are being produced today if buyers are willing to seek out such designs. And for those willing to travel at displacement speeds, eight- to 12-nautical miles per gallon are achiev-able today with the right boat and motor combination.

Hull designs that are more easily driven by a single engine, instead of deep displacement hulls needing two or more engines, will become more popular. Seeing lower horsepower needs for similar length boats is possible when innovative hull shapes are employed. For example, 24-foot boats fitted with twin 225-horsepower engines were in high demand when fuel was a quarter to a half of today’s prices. Today, the new norm will evolve to a single 150-horsepower motor for the same size vessel. Imagine a 66-percent reduction in needed horsepower for the same size boat

GUEST EDITORIAL:

Innovation and the Future of Boating

by Rick Casali


and cruise speeds. Cruise speed may have to be reduced slightly, but cutting fuel use by 50 to 75 percent or more will keep boating within the reach of the average consumer.

Motorsailors will also gain favor in the future. Displacement and semi-displacement vessels with sailing rigs should become more popular as fuel prices increase. Historically, motorsailors did not power or sail very well. But innovations in hull design, motor efficiency, and sail rigs can produce sail-assisted boats, which can reach semi-displacement speeds under power, sail, or a combination of both. Modern marine architects will have the skills and computer power to design these new hybrid vessels.

With higher fuel prices, sailing aux-iliaries will recapture some of their lost popularity. Buyers will insist on more labor-saving innovations, as well as faster, better sailing hulls and rigs. Architects and builders are bringing forth new propulsion systems which are more efficient, quieter, and greener for sailors. Hybrid electric propulsion is already gaining popularity in some sailboats—especially catamarans and daysailors.

Electric boats will also gain favor. Pure electric powerboats that can travel at six knots for less than 10 cents per hour will be hard to beat in terms of energy pricing. New designs with hybrid diesel-electric systems are on the horizon for autos, and with some modifications, can have ap-plications for boats. A new Volkswagen Golf expected in 2010 will get 69.9 mpg according to reports. Imagine putting this technology in a 25-foot boat. And also important, carbon emissions for this VW system are well below competing hybrids on the market today.

Another area where the boat industry can lead the way is in alternative fuels. Biodiesel should be made available at marinas. This home-grown fuel from non-edible feedstocks (not corn) will offer domestic alternatives with a much lower carbon footprint. Maryland and other states should waive all sales and use taxes on biodiesel to jump-start this clean fuel’s distribution and popularity.

And from the individual boater’s prospective, we can change our habits to continue to enjoy our waterways without altering our lifestyles. Lowering cruise speeds; keeping boat bottoms, props, and

running gear free of marine growth; and using autopilots and chart plotters for more direct courses are actions we can take to-day. And in the long term, shop for designs that are highly efficient and therefore use less fuel. Look for designs that require less power to maintain cruise speeds. Do your homework, take the sea trials, and compare different models. Examine the power-to-weight ratios, and observe the bow wave to see how efficiently different hulls cut through the water. By doing so, boaters

will find ways to stay on the water and encourage builders to design and construct more efficient, earth-friendly vessels.

about the author: Rick Casali spent 29 years representing an integrated energy company in Washington, DC. In 2000, Rick joined Bristol Yacht Sales in Annapolis, and in 2006, he took over the helm at Gilman Yacht Sales of Maryland. He moved to An-napolis in 1976, and enjoys sailing, Down East lobster boats, cruising, and fishing.


club NotesIt’s About Time

If Wikipedia is to be believed, “cruising” has several definitions. PropTalk’s favorite is: “driving around for social pur-poses, especially by teenagers.” Two popular drives come to mind: the turf in front of the Solomons Tiki Bar and the “main drag” in Crisfield. The term also applies to “flight as in aviation,” “searching for love in all the wrong places” (let’s

just leave it at that, shall we), and “a milestone for infants learning to walk by holding onto chairs, tables, and parental life-forms for balance.” And, finally, we come to “leisurely travel by boat, yacht, or cruise ship.”

Cruising is a mix of all of these things and then some. It is as much about “being seen” as it is about “being out there.” It’s about changing your perspective, leaving land behind, and spending quality time on the water. It’s about searching for new adventures and learning new things about yourself and your surroundings. It’s about capturing that moment when you set the hook, whether you’re landing a fish or settling into a quiet anchorage with friends. If you’ve learned to multi-ply your cruising time outs, you’ve reached a real milestone.

You’ll see a healthy mix of stories in this month’s Club Notes from our Chesapeake cruisers. We’ve got tugboats in Ego Alley, rendezvous and parties, prizes and parades, fishing stories, and plans for 2009. Heck, we’ve even got news of side-dish worshippers, “Easter” parades, and “dusty roads.” Sit back, relax, and enjoy.

—Ruth Christie/[email protected]

Tugs Paint the Town Red

laminate interior prevailed. That evening, we enjoyed an awards dinner at the An-napolis YC. The Longest Cruise to the Rendezvous award went to Lady Hamilton, which traveled 10 days from Cape Cod. The Tug Trek Trophy for the Longest Cruise went to Our Villa for its 11-month, 6800-mile Great Loop circumnavigation. On Sunday, after doing a farewell loop of the harbor, the tugs cruised to Church Creek off the Little Choptank for two more days of camaraderie and festivities. tugin08.wikidot.com

—Report by Dave Howell—Photos by Al Schreitmueller

T he lord nelson Victory Tug (LNVT) owners association had its first East Coast Fall Rendezvous

in Annapolis October 24-28. With nine LNVTs adorning Ego Alley and the own-ers of 11 more attending without their tugs,

our 76-tug fleet was well represented. The weekend’s fickle weather, punctuated with a gale and some flooding, didn’t dampen anyone’s spirits. On Friday, we toured the U.S. Naval Academy and had lunch there. Later, we enjoyed a potluck dinner on our boats. Saturday morning brought our “Tug Talk” (something like NPR’s Car Talk with Click and Clack) at the Annapolis YC.

Saturday afternoon we toured the tugs. It was interesting to compare, side-by-side, the second hull built (July 1983) to the last hull built. Hull number two’s Taiwanese builder finished out the interior with wood from a single six-inch diameter teak log. By March of 1989, a more modern, bright


What To Do… What To Do…

H ave you put your boat to bed already? Are you starting to get those feelings: sadness, boredom,

worried you’ll go nuts waiting for spring to come? To tide you over the winter, the Windjammers of the Chesapeake have some lectures planned at the Severn School in Severna Park, MD. Three Chesapeake Bay projects will be featured January 10, in addition to sailing-oriented lectures December 6, February 7, and March 7. You never know; you could become the next rum punch tester for one of these refresh-ing events! For more details, call (410) 533-4396 or visit windjammers-chesapeake.org.

—by Leah Duer Alfriend

Hey! This Is a Fish Talking Zone

N ovember 10 brought the pasadena sportfishing Group’s (PSG) Meeting at the Earleigh Heights

Fire Hall in Severna Park, MD. Guest speaker Captain Jim Shambaugh, who has fished Lake Ontario for over two decades, shared his techniques that differ from those on the Chesapeake Bay. We again provided a prize table, a 50/50 raffle, and gift cer-tificates for Tochterman’s Tackle Shop and gave additional raffle tickets to everyone sporting a PSG hat or shirt. Check out our new website with new links, a chat room, and more (pasadenasportfishing.com). Our Bus Trip to Cabella’s is scheduled for December 10; reserve your spot by calling (410) HEYFISH. PSG is open to the public. We allow fish talk only; there are no dues, no politics, and no smoking.

—by Paul Coakley

Tighten Up Those Lines

S eptember brought Mssa’s annapolis Chapter a spectacular Crab Feast in the good company of about 140 members,

family members, and guests at Sandy Point State Park. The Goddess of Potato Salad, Val McMenamin, won the dinner prize, and Debbie Dirks took home $200 for her winning 50/50 ticket. Other winners were further afield. Offshore this past season, John Thibodeau had a 10-marlin flag day onboard Evidently, and Dale Dirks and the Heatwave crew won the 2008 Bluewater Captain of the Year Trophy. Look for a recap of MSSA Fall Tournament action in the January PropTalk.

The Fall Fishing Season is beginning to shift into high gear. On October 15, Captain Max King shared his top secrets on classic fall fishing tactics for rockfish with his “Eeling for Monster Striped Bass.” Chapter member Fred Menage had the great skill and good fortune to win the 2008 Maryland Fishing Chal-lenge based on the big rockfish he caught this spring. Look for his story in our newsletter, or you can ask Fred to tell it to you in person at the next Chapter Meeting. mssaannapolis.com

—by Pete Abbott and Kevin McMenamin

Getting a Jump on Things

M embers of the Chesapeake Bay Grand Banks owners association (CBGBOA)

cruised to San Domingo Creek Octo-ber 18-19 and enjoyed Downrigging Weekend in Chestertown Halloween weekend. We have been busy setting our schedule for 2009. On tap so far are the New Member Brunch in March, a tour of the Rhode River/Smithsonian Research facility May 8-9, a Rendez-vous on the Wye River with the Marine Trawler Owners Association June 5-6, the Cruise for Children of all ages July 17-19, an Overnight Cruise to Cape May, NJ in August, a September Fueling Party, and a Rendezvous in St. Michaels October 1-3. Officers Charlotte and Peter Featherstone, Joe Gibson, Bill Hohwiesner, Geoff Holmes, Rocky Lowe, and I will welcome you any time. cbgboa.org

—by Pepper Holmes

Hatteras Cruisers Meet Their Maker

T he hatteras lrC Club enjoyed a great rendezvous at the Sheraton Hotel and Ma-rina in New Bern, NC October 23-26. We

had seven Hatteras LRCs and 30 people, with the furthest travelers from Reno, NV. The first picture (above) shows our group at the Hatteras Yachts plant, and the second (left) is of our boats at the dock at the Sheraton in New Bern. We are planning a 2009 Rendezvous/Flotilla/Cruise to the North-west to include the San Juan Islands.” hatteraslrc.com

—Report and photos courtesy of Carol Hudgens


Enjoying a Bite Offshore

O n October 3, Frank Intreri invited my son Greg and me to join him and friends on an offshore fishing trip to the Baltimore Canyon on the Skipjack out of Lewes, DE. My son and I are

members of Mssa’s susquehanna Chapter. It was a great trip, and Greg caught his first tuna, a bluefin weighing in at 102.7 pounds. Greg, Barry Miller, and Ben Sipola earned citations from Delaware for three tile fish that they caught. I cannot say enough about the crew of the Skipjack, Captain Chris Thurman, Mate/Captain Steve Moore, and Mate Dave Popopich. They were fantastic, and all worked very hard to put us on the fish. I would personally recommend the Skipjack to anyone who wants a great fishing trip either offshore or inshore. Above (L-R): Gary Drake, Frank Intreri, Ben Sipola, Barry Miller, Greg Drake, Dan Kelley, and Andy Holder. skipjacksportfishing.com, [email protected]

—Report and photo courtesy of Gary Drake

CLUBNOTES

Easter Parades in Autumn?

D uring the down east Cruising Club’s (DECC) rendezvous on Ridout Creek October 4-5 (above), five yachts anchored out on a perfect evening. Devoted to Maine-style lobster yachts, we started the festivities with a cocktail reception fol-

lowed by a cookout. Hinckley Marine Services from nearby Whitehall Yacht Yard donated a case of wine for the event. Members each brought a side-dish and an item to BBQ at Anne and Rick Casali’s home. We enjoyed a scrumptious dinner buffet, plus lots of cama-raderie and cruising stories. At sunset, we gathered around a campfire at the water’s edge under the moon and stars.

On Sunday, we raised anchor and lined up for the Down Easter Parade out of White-hall Creek and into the Bay, and then up the Severn River to Spa Creek and Ego Alley. Flying the DECC red lobster burgee, two Wasque 32s, a Holland 38, a Duffy 31, a Duffy 35, a Seaway 24, and a Seaway 25 paraded with captains and mates wearing Down Easter straw hats for the occasion. Sparkling blue skies and a fresh northwest breeze made the day special. A New England clam bake with lobsters is planned for later this year. (410) 279-5309, [email protected]

—Report and photo courtesy of Rick Casali

Back Creek yacht Club members enjoyed the views (above) on October 13 as the U.S. Sailboat Show rolled over to the U.S. Powerboat Show. The club celebrated Halloween with a costumed Monster Mash at the U.S. Naval Station October 25. During the club’s annual Rally ‘Round the Burgee at Phillip’s Seafood Restaurant in Annapolis November 2, members reviewed the past year, planned for the coming year, and elected new officers (Steve Bacon, Betsy Beyer, Mary Bowie, Bill Falk, Chuck Gorum, Gail Higginbotham, John Ober-right, Dusty Rhoads, and Richard Sanger). All enjoyed a Happy Hour November 14. Members will again sponsor an entry into the Eastport Yacht Club Lights Parade December 13: Soucy’s 36-foot trawler, Cruise Clearance. (410) 263-9770, gobcyc.com

—Report by Otto Hetzel—Photo by Viola McAvoy

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a 1912 tug in St. Michaels.

nelson lowery in Cordova, Md has a 32-footer under construc-tion to replace his 44-year-old

Pacemaker sportfishing boat. Lowery is the oldest son of the late Maynard Lowery, the Tilghman Island boatbuilding icon who died recently in an auto accident in St. Michaels at the gentle age of 88. Nelson Lowery has been a Chesapeake Bay charter captain for more than 30 years. The 1964 Pacemaker had finally had enough, so he pulled the nearly-new Cummins 220 en-gines and struck a bargain with Ronnie and Herman Haddaway in Bozeman, MD for a bare hull from their mold. The Haddaway hull is a David Sintes-designed Bay-style boat created to meet the Haddaway’s specifications.

Over the years, Lowery has made it his specialty to save and rework good old boats that have seen better days and bring them

back into service with new looks, power, structure, and fixtures. He’s completed upwards of 75 boats in his career, and he’s always on the lookout for new opportuni-ties. Most often, he takes a fiberglass yacht in need of salvation, removes the cabin and decks, and then lowers and reworks the sheerline into a more Bay- and fisherman-friendly sweep. Then he rebuilds the interior, installs fresh power, fabricates and installs new decks, and sends her back out for fun and work on the Bay. You might say he takes worn-down yachts and turns them into trusty Bay-style work boats.

He uses MDO plywood covered in fiberglass for most of the cabin joinery and decks. He prefers to finish things off with several layers of primer and single-stage yacht enamels thinned with Penetrol. “My shop is not set up for spraying paint. I roll and tip my finishes. Penetrol helps the paint flow better,” he says.

head, mahogany trim, and double v-bunks below as well as a sit-down dinette. Oth-erwise, she will be set up for serious fishing with a large cockpit aft and an enclosed steering station in the cabin. Lowery ex-pects her to cruise at 18 knots. He hopes to have her splashed, tested, rigged, and ready to fish in time for the 2009 trophy rockfish season.

Bob and pete Mathews in den-ton, Md brought the recently-completed soft-top Patriot 29 to

Annapolis in November to show along the docks at Ego Alley and to deliver to her owner, Larry Clark on Spa Creek. Previous Mathews Brothers versions of this vener-able Cecil Robbins design have been hard tops. Clark is moving up from a Mathews Brothers 22.

The next boat in line at the Mathews Brothers’ shop is a 40-footer, also based on an original Robbins design, but with a raised sheer. This one should be ready to splash and deliver to Phil Ratcliff on the Choptank River near Easton after Thanks-giving.

Lowery’s 32-footer now has her interior structure (floors, transverse bulkheads, frames, stringers, and engine beds) in-stalled. The decks are taking shape, and the cabin design is complete and ready for fabrication. Lowery will install one of the 220-hp Cummins in the boat. The boat will have a 75-gallon fuel tank, a stand-up

Nelson Lowery cheers on Craig Brittingham as he sands out the new 32-foot charter boat the two will share. Photo by Bill Griffin Nelson is the older guy, and the guy with the sander is Craig Brittingham, partner The mild

“We all in the same boat brother. You rock it too far to the right you fall in the

waddah, rock it too far to the left you fall in the same waddah, and it’s just as wet on both sides.”

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dennis elzey at elzey Custom yachts in Cambridge, Md has completed a new Shorebuilt 24.

The Shorebuilt 24 features a 9.5-foot beam, entirely composite construction, an 80-gal-lon fuel tank, and a top speed of 38 mph with a 150-hp four stroke. Elzey is building the jigs and molds for a cabin to fit. He’s also working with David Sintes on a design for a 21-footer to complete the Shorebuilt line. (Elzey makes an 18-footer, which will be on display at the Maryland Watermen’s Show in Ocean City, MD in January.) The

best dockside meals are served. The boat was conceived as a comfortable cruiser for mature baby boomers, who will appreci-ate the wide decks, clear passageways, and comfortable steps.

Tom Campbell and his crew at Campbell’s Boatyard in oxford, Md have an original 31-foot Bay

cruiser looking like a yacht and nearing completion. This is the first of this design from the Campbell shop. The boat features a Bay-style deadrise hull with ample flair

Rodney Rollins in Colonial Beach, VA also received a Chesapeake 48. His has a 670-hp Cummins and cruises at 25 knots, with a 31-knot top speed.

Mason and Pruitt also delivered a pirate ship to Baltimore to a trio of entrepreneurs with an ambitious concept for summertime entertainment for children and adults. Urban Pirates was formed by three moms who felt the call of the sea (Baltimore Harbor) and a need to “release their pirates within.” Largely inspired by their children’s

new design will have 8.5 feet of beam and the distinctive wave-cutting hull that defines the series.

The Elzey wood shop recently com-pleted an elegant maple-on-cherry cock-pit table for the custom Elzey 48 built in 2007 for Harold Chappelear in Annapo-lis. The piece features inlaid marquetry representing a compass rose in the center sealed in four coats of epoxy and protec-tive coatings of clear polyurethane paint on top (see photo).

Tiffany yachts in Burgess, Va recently completed some essential repairs on a 57-foot Kensington

Express Cruiser built at the Smith and Williams Marine Railway in Salisbury, MD in 1924. The work included a rudder post replacement, new skeg/rudder shoe fabrication and installation, and a brushed topside paint job.

The Tiffany 38 prototype now has decks and a cabin. The interior joinery and veneers are installed, and the main salon is taking shape. The Randy Cockrell design, with engineering assistance from Mike Kaufman, is organized to be easy to handle in tight surroundings where the

forward carrying all the way aft to keep the ride dry without losing the sleek Chesa-peake profile and style. She is designed to be a day-boat you can spend the night on. The cabin features a full-sized V-berth, a convection microwave, a refrigerator, Corian countertops, and the flawless wood joinery and finish work that Campbell is known for. She is powered by a Cummins QSB-380 engine. Campbell estimates a cruising speed of 20 knots and a maximum speed of 28.

dave Mason at Chesapeake Boats near Crisfield, Md has acquired the tooling and molds for Ron-

nie Carman’s 27-, 36-, and 46-foot boats. Carman, who built boats adjacent to the Chesapeake Boats operation, has dropped out of boatbuilding after a long run.

A packed summer of boatbuilding for the Chesapeake Boats crew led by master-builder Raymond Pruitt has produced a string of notable custom projects, including a 48-foot fishing boat for Monty Woodson on the Rappahannock River with a single 600-hp Cat diesel, which turned a comfort-able 22-knot cruising speed during her sea trials.

dedication to the pirate’s life, they launched a waterborne business to serve the need.

The moms discovered Chesapeake Boats through John Lewis who owns the Buc-caneer, a large amusement vessel in Ocean City, MD, which was designed and built by Chesapeake Boats.

Chesapeake Boats’ reputation and abilities for designing and building special-purpose Coast Guard-certified yachts to virtually any specification based on time-tested Chesapeake Bay deadrise principles made them a natural choice to create the vessel. She measures 57 feet with her bow sprit and has a 17-foot beam. She is rated for 49 passengers. Her power plants are twin Volvo 225 diesel stern drives with Duoprops.

Since her launch, the Fearless has carried roughly 20,000 passengers, including birth-day kids, private parties, and enthusiastic gangs of scurvy adults who enjoy the sched-uled Bring Your Own Grog excursions out of Fells Point—urbanpirates.com.

John Reville in Baltimore received his new Chesapeake 42 in time to enjoy the summer. This one powered out with a Cummins 600-hp QSC-8 high-pressure turbo diesel, the first of its kind in the region.

Larry Clark's twin Mathews boats, a 22-footer and a Patriot 29.

Phil Jones manages every detail on his newly designed 60-foot express fishing boat on

Hoopers Island. Photo by Bill Griffin

A hydroplane takes shape at Larry Lauter-bach's shop in Dominion, MD. Photo by Bill Griffin


cruiser with a double cream boot stripe for Terry and Donna Carpenter from Penn-sylvania. They keep the boat in Rock Hall, MD. Now that Glenn Manning has retired from production fiberglass work, Jones is molding the hulls at his 80-slip, deep-water marina. The yacht has a single 500-hp Cummins engine with ZF electronic controls, a Cruisair climate-control system, a nine-kW genset, a two-burner electric stovetop, and a built-in microwave oven. The decks and house are built of glass on Divinycell foam, as are all of the hatches,

boxes, and lids. The hull is solid glass.The navigation/fish-finding suite is by

Furuno sourced from Mid-Shore Electron-ics in Cambridge. Andy Bloodworth at Punch Island Marine on Taylors Island handled the fabrication of the fuel tanks and rails. Phil’s brother Robert, the ac-knowledged propeller guru of Cambridge, fabricated the running gear, rudder post, and strut, while Phil welded up the stain-less engine mounts and a stout steering gear support frame.

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The cockpit deck has been taped in and finished. The express “wing” is in place, and the essential coolers, bait wells, and other appointments are taking shape. Jones is waiting for the engines to be built. He hopes to be able to install them in Decem-ber. Depending on the growing backlog of repower and refit work and the more than 150 boats in the yard for winterization,

maintenance, repairs, and storage, he hopes to be able to splash and run the boat by early next summer.

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This idea may not be as wacky as it sounds. After all, its author is not exactly a Frank Zappa kind of guy.

Naval Academy trained engineer, nuclear submarine officer, and powerboater, he and his family are described by a marina neighbor as the perfect stars for a Leave it to Beaver show. Not exactly the profile you’d associate with a tree hugger.

The man is Fred Berry. His idea is to build a 60-foot solar power yacht, aptly named Independence. Indepen-dence, that is, from the tyranny of OPEC, fuel spills, and the noise and vibration of the infernal com-bustion engine. Then there’s freedom to sell electricity back to the grid, and most importantly, to cruise free no matter how distant the port.

The technical part of the yacht is Berry’s contribution. Her elegant lines, with their distinct sailboat flavor, were contributed by Annapolis designer Robb Ladd. The

lines derive in part from their need for a hull that drives easily through the water. Her bow is fair, the beam modest, and the waterline long with a tapered stern hid-den under a swim platform—all conspire to produce a full-displacement hull that can exceed its theoretical hull speed. The solar panels are affixed to the roof of the flybridge and aft cabin, unnoticed by all

but bridge tenders. In short, she looks like a proper yacht, perhaps a bit sleeker than a comparable 60 footer. As Berry says, “We didn’t want it to look like a science experi-ment.”

Independence doesn’t look like a science experiment, but there is a lot of science in her.

My knowledge of electricity amounts to this: DC is good for a buzz; AC—let

somebody else deal with it. So, I will tell you about the concept and its author.

The idea for a solar yacht came to Berry as fuel prices began their inexorable climb. He noticed that more and more boats in the Georgetown Marina on the Sassafras where he keeps his 40-foot aft-cabin diesel cruiser were sitting unused. And the Berry yacht was no exception. It’s a good boat for his wife and him and their two boys,

sporting three staterooms, but at 18-20 mph,

it consumes a gallon a mile. In the face of

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owners are facing un-palatable alternatives: cruise slower

or cruise less distance. Berry observed that many weren’t cruising at all.

“I’ve always liked solar power,” he says. “We go through all the extra maintenance because of damage from the sun, why can’t we put it to some good? Going back two lives, I served on a fast attack nuclear sub. We stayed submerged for 70 days to avoid detection. We used nuclear power to generate electricity; we had food, but we

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needed oxygen. We solved that by using a watermaker, then dividing the water into hydrogen and the oxygen. We’d outgas the hydrogen, and breathe the oxygen.”

That’s what gave Berry part of the idea. “Everybody’s talking about hydrogen fuel cells for cars,” he says. “I thought, ‘Raw fuel is the water I’m sitting in.’”

Then there’s the solar part. “We can make fuel all week while the boat sits,” he says. “Six months of sunshine during the winter—why not capture that?” When no money is spent on gas, Berry goes on, it’s a boost for the economy—think beer and bait and marina fees—and it’s a boost for a clean Bay.

“I can’t ever remember NOT being on a boat,” says Berry. His family chartered boats when he was a child, then owned a couple of trawlers in the 40- to 50-foot range and cruised sections of the ICW. Berry bought his first boat, a 35-foot Sonic when he was 30 years old. “I did start out with that speed craze in me,” he says.

“I bought the Sonic and a condo with money I’d saved from being underwater,” he says. (That’s the time he spent on subs.) “We went to a lot of rallies—lots of beer and gold chains.” “Sounds like a chick magnet to me,” I interject with character-istic tact. “It worked out that way,” Berry concedes. “I met my wife two months after I got the boat. But that wasn’t the plan.”

“I kept that boat on the South River. We’d cruise up to the Sassafras to go swimming. At 45-50 mph, it took about 1.5 hours. I didn’t use a chart because the buoys went by so fast—I just memorized the route.” And the fuel? One mpg at 45 mph.

From Sonic to solar, you’ve come a long way Fred.

The Independence concept made her debut at the Miami Boat Show in February 2008.

My first question is, why 60 feet? “That’s how much space you need for the solar panels,” he says. “That’s why we don’t have solar powered cars. As the technology im-proves, solar will work for smaller yachts.”

Solar has already come a long way, and one of Berry’s requirements in designing Independence was that all the power compo-nents be proven. There’s a patent pending on the process—putting it all together—but the parts themselves are off-the-shelf.

The longer I talk with Berry, the more apparent it is that under the enthusiasm lies the careful calculus of an engineer. Another reason he chose 60 feet was the

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fuel prices. I put this to Berry. Not so, he countered. The expense of running yachts of 80 feet or more makes the price of fuel a relatively small concern. But to owners in the 50- to 60-foot range, the price of fuel matters. And 50-60 is his market. In fact, he’s been asked a lot about retrofitting existing systems with his solar configura-tion, but the cost is prohibitive. It’s cheaper

to start from scratch. Berry is certain that the time has come

for boaters to make the change to new technology. “Look,” he says, “Tom Hanks, Madonna, and Leonardo da Caprio drive Priuses; Jamey Lee Curtis drives a hydro-gen fuel cell car. There are plenty of rich people who have that mentality about the environment.”

I’m impressed, not only with Berry’s abundant energy and enthusiasm, but also with the exhaustive research and planning that went into this design. “Did all this come out of your own squirrely head?” I ask. Berry doesn’t skip a beat: “Yes it did.”

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availability of slips in Chesapeake Bay marinas, a consideration that ruled out making Independence a multihull.

On a sunny day, Independence will run at trawler speed (around six knots) with no use of stored fuel. Between six and a max-speed of 13 knots, she eats into stor-age. Berry tells me that solar panels work on cloudy or hazy days, just not to the max. “And people don’t usually go boating for recreation when it’s raining,” he says. “If they do, they can ‘bor-row’ from storage.”

Another engineer-meets-environmentalist aspect of this yacht is her hull. She’ll be built out of aluminum by the Maritime Applied Physics Corporation in Baltimore. Aluminum, Berry tells me, is nicer to work with than fiberglass, easier to repair, and ultimately, recyclable.

I spoke to an Annapolis broker who applauded the idea, but dismissed its pros-pects: motorboaters, he said, were inured to

about the author: Stephanie Stone has been a steady columnist covering the Bal-timore and Northern Bay waterfronts for PropTalk’s sister publication SpinSheet for many years. Please send your Northern Bay story ideas and comments to [email protected].


Dollar Joins PropTalk as Fishing Editor

Captain C. D. Dollar, a professional outdoorsman and former editor of the Fisherman Magazine, has joined PropTalk. Dollar (Chris to his friends and C.D. to his

fans) holds a U.S. Coast Guard Master’s License and is a founding member of the Chesapeake Guides Association. He’s also a member of the Outdoor Writer’s Association of America and board member of the Mason-Dixon Outdoors Writer’s Association. C.D. serves as Communications Chairman for Maryland’s Artificial Reef Committee, sits on Maryland’s Wildlife Advisory Commission (past chairman), and was the managing editor of the Fisherman Magazine from 2006 through 2008. He was a conservation writer for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and now operates C.D. Outdoors, a fishing, eco-touring, and communications operation based on the Chesapeake Bay. He also writes an online column for Hometown Annapolis.

Maryland Anglers Get Two Extra Weeks of Keepers

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), a multi-state federal fisheries panel, has approved a year-end extension of Maryland’s

rockfish season. The season will now close at midnight on New Year’s Eve instead of December 15.

Additionally, ASMFC approved an ongoing two-part spring trophy season in Maryland beginning on the third Saturday in April allowing one fish of 28 inches or more per person per day ending on May 15, then converting to a two fish per day limit with an 18-inch minimum with only one being 28 inches or greater.

This moves the Maryland trophy season away from a quota system of limits, which in the past proved difficult to assess, unpredictable, and scientifically unworkable.

As always, the PropTalk/Boatyard Bar & Grill Opening Day Rockfish Tournament will kick-off the action with its unique catch and release photo-finish tournament on April 18, 2009. Be there—boatyardbarandgrill.com.

Six World Records for Virginia

The Old Dominion’s International Game Fish Association (IGFA) representative Dr. Julie Ball reports an October flurry of six world record approvals for Virginia

saltwater anglers, including recognition for:• Jere Humphrey’s 68-pound snowy grouper,

an all-tackle record• Marcus Jones’s 17-pound, four-ounce

barrelfish, an all-tackle record• Ron Van Kirk’s seven-pound, eight-ounce

Darwin’s slimehead, an all-tackle record• Julie Ball’s seven-pound, six-ounce Atlantic

spadefish, a four-pound test record• Ball’s one-pound, 14-ounce spadefish, a

four-pound tippet fly-rod record• Ball’s two-pound, five-ounce spade on a

12-pound tippet, a fly-rod record

fish news

PropTalk would also like to acknowledge that a citation bluefish that fell to Ball’s charms in October put her over the top to become the first-ever sixth-level master angler (one who has earned 150 citations at the rate of one per species per year) in Virginia, the angling equivalent to a sixth-degree Taekwondo black belt.

CBF Anchors a Band of Litigants against the EPA

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) has pulled together a diverse band of interests and luminaries to notify the U.S. Environmental Agency of their

intent to sue the agency for failing to act sufficiently on Chesapeake Bay cleanup commitments.

Included in the action are the Virginia State Waterman’s Association, the Maryland Watermen’s Association, the Maryland Saltwater Sportfishermen’s Association, former Maryland Governor Harry Hughes, retired Maryland Senator Bernie Fowler, former Virginia legislator and Natural Resources Secretary Tayloe Murphy, and former Washington D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams.

CBF president Will Baker says, “We are taking this extreme step because not once, not twice, but three times, the EPA has signed agreements to reduce pollution in the Bay. The latest, the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement signed by the states and feds in June of 2000, would have cut nitrogen and phosphorus pollution enough to remove the Bay and tributary rivers from the federal Impaired Waters List. Eight years later, EPA admits it will miss this goal, and EPA officials are discussing moving the deadline back another 12 years!”

For more information and to join in the effort, go to cbf.org/c2k.

Captain Skip Feller with a 19-pound 15-ounce chopper blue and Julie Ball with her 150th citation fish earning her recogni-tion as Virginia's first sixth-level master angler.

Andre Franklin of Baltimore with his pending all-tackle world record 20-pound, 15-ounce barrlefish caught on a 36-hour extreme ocean fishing tip with Captain Skip Feller on the Rudee Angler out of virginia Beach. Baltimore, MD 20lbs, 15oz

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The inimitable Captain Sonney Forrest of Solomons, MD has sold his 46-foot party boat operation af-

ter 31 years and is downsizing to a 26-foot Sailfish center-console skiff, so he can move quickly by land to places where the fishing is hot and the air is balmy. He’s headed to the Florida Keys for much of the winter with a break in Guatemala in February. He will send us reports from the tropics where he will be guiding some of his most faithful friends and clients. He will return to his na-tive haunts to run the 46-foot Fin-Finder for the spring trophy season and will begin his skiff-fishing program for good in June.

On the Bay, Forrest recommends switching back to trolling after a great summer of live-lining. Umbrella rigs with white and chartreuse baits running slow and deep are the keys to the action. Tandem rigs also work pretty well on these big migratory fish. Fanatics will rig planer boards and set out wide spreads, and they will be glad they did.

In December, the ocean fish will move into the Bay, and the high-diving gannets will be soaring above them. When you see the gannets diving, follow them, and you will find the big fish harassing menhaden. Be ready to see your lines go tight and all of your rods go down at once. This is the time of year when great things happen.

Captain sonney forrestcaptainsonney.com, [email protected](443) 532-0836, (410) 326-6464

Captain Mark Galasso on Kent Island, MD is promoting a steady diet of plump white perch for fall

fishing as we tip toward winter. “This is the best time for monster perch,” he says in a late reference to the delights of Halloween and the cool days of fishing to come. Go to the channel edges and deep oyster bars, and jig small metal lures to bring on the action. Schools of perch will also follow the pea-nut bunker as they move out of the creeks and marshes. The big striped bass will be there to greet and eat the menhaden (and the perch) as the fall/winter frenzy picks up momentum.

When searching for blitzing rockfish and when in doubt, head south. The action will continue to move south with the bait-fish until the party peaks at the mouth of the Bay in January. The waters around the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (CBBT) normally begin to perk with stripers around Thanksgiving.

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Captain Gary Neitzey out of Cent-reville, MD is focusing on the fer-tile fishing waters of Eastern Bay

and the Chester River as the leaves begin to fall. The heart of the action for his light-tackle clients will be where rockfish are corralling herds of hapless menhaden, bay anchovies, and silversides in open waters. Bass Kandy Delights and bucktail jigs will do the trick over breaking fish. Otherwise,

simply jig silver spoons into the discreet holes and over channel breaks to find the sunken treasures. In shallow waters, try dragging a Stillwater Smackit plug across the surface to get the attention of big preda-tor fish. If that doesn’t work and you know the fish are there, switch to a soft plastic bait rigged on a lead jig-head to get your bribe into the strike zone. If that doesn’t work, then it’s time to take the program down to Cape Charles, VA and the CBBT for the winter action.

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Captain Mike Murphy on Hoop-ers Island is following schools of stripers as they move from the

Honga River out to open Bay waters with the cooling weather. The rockfish action should be pretty well situated near the ship-ping channels by December. Schools of blues and trout will have moved south with the cooling waters, leaving the banquet of bait to the resident rockfish that will be fat-tening up for the holidays. Migrating fish on the way from the ocean to the spring spawn-ing grounds will join the fun as Christmas approaches

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FISH FORECASTS

Tom Weaver of Annapolis gets inti-mate with a Smith Island Bass. Photo by Captain Kevin Josenhans.

Tyrrell Flawn of Washington, DC with a nice striped bass. Photo by Captain Tom Hughes


Captain Tom Hughes is taking his program south to Cape Charles as the wide-shouldered migratory

stripers do the same. The CBBT is the mag-net that holds the system together, confus-ing baitfish that are swept through the legs and rocks of the giant structure with the tides. This is the time and place for a fish of a lifetime. Hughes suggests tackle rigged on the heavy side with carefully crafted knots and fresh line to avoid the heartbreak of a lost opportunity. Otherwise, the program is similar to the upper Bay tactics of casting to the rocks and pilings, swimming an attrac-tive lure in the current seams, working the edges of blitzing fish, and being patient.

Hughes recommends nine- and 10-weight fly gear with large-arbor reels to handle the hearty fish that hug the bridge-tunnel. He likes the Orvis Class-V Generation 3 Density Compensated sinking line with a 20-pound fluorocarbon leader tied to a bushy chartreuse and white half & half fly. Light-tackle mavens should start and stick with a seven-inch opening night Bass Assassin on a one-ounce jig head. That’ll do it.

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Captain Jim Brincefield in Vir-ginia Beach is anticipating the ar-rival of large striped bass even as

the pesky little blues move south and big-ger choppers move in. Late November and December are prime times for light tackle action around the CBBT. Jigging, casting, plugging, and looking for breaking fish un-der diving birds are the tried and true meth-ods for cold-weather fishing at the mouth of the Bay. The gannets are your best clue that the big fish have arrived after summering in New England.

If the blues are still around, Brincefield rigs Lil’ Bunker lures made by Specialized Baits, available online at specializedbaits.com. The lure looks like the standard Crippled Herring jig but costs less and does an excellent job of holding up to the blues’ sharp teeth and bad attitudes. If you are setting up to jig for stripers, skewer a slab of Uncle Josh’s pigskin onto your hook to fool the bluefish. Blues tend to take the tail of the prey. A mouthful of pork hide will surprise them and otherwise save your lure from damage.

Once the bluefish clear out, switch to soft plastics such as Bass Assassins, Mr. Whiffles, grubs, Gulp baits, and the like to meet the challenge.

Keep in mind that you may keep two stripers per day until December 21. The minimum size is 18 inches. No fish may be kept in the slot between 28 and 34 inches, and only one of your two keepers may be 34 inches or larger. Between December 20 and December 31, the limit is one fish per day with the same minimum size and slot limit.

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Fish on! Dick Franyo at Smith Island.

This giant white perch was caught in early November in Eastern Bay with Capt Mark Galasso.

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Marinas / Boatyards Brokerage specializing in the sale/purchase and management of marinas throughout the mid-Atlantic. Coastal Properties Management, Inc., 1819 Bay Ridge Ave., Suite 400, Annapolis, MD 21403, ph (410) 269-0933, email [email protected]

ELECTRONICS

Northern Lights 6 Kilowatt with S-3C Panel. This unit is brand new, never been used, and still has full factory warranty. Asking price is $6500. Contact Chad Jones at (443) 758-5342.

SLIPS

20’ - 40’ Slips. Pier 4 Marina 301 4th St., Eastport, across from Annapolis Yacht Club. Keep your boat where the Hinckley and Sabre dealers keep theirs. Electric, water, & showers. (410) 990-9515. www.pier4annapolis.com

30’ - 35’ Slips Available Annapolis City Marina, Ltd. in the heart of Eastport. Includes electric, water, restrooms with showers, and gated parking. Give us a call at (410) 268-0660, www.annapoliscitymarina.com

Dockage - Downtown Baltimore Inner Harbor East Marina – Ideal Destination – Club Cruises – Daily, monthly, yearly rates for individuals. Deeply discounted off-season monthly rates mid-October to mid-May. Discounted transient rates while construction is nearby. Floating Piers/Free CATV. EZ walk to Nat. Aquarium, Fells Point, 7-screen movie theatre, four hotels, museums, fine restaurants, Harborplace, historic ships. (410) 625-1700

Powerboat Slips & In/Out Boatel Space Fall Price Specials - Deale, MD – Great boating and fishing – Pool –Showers – Sales – Parts - Service – Inboard – Outboard - Sterndrive. GATES MARINE SERVICE, (410) 867-9666 or (301) 261-9200.

SLIPS

Winter Dry Storage - $25 per foot Fall 2008 to April 2009. Includes Haul-out, Powerwash, Blocking, and Launch. Patapsco River – Baltimore Outer Harbor, Old Bay Marina, (410) 477-1488 or www.oldbaymarina.com

SURVEYORS

All Boat & Yacht Inspections, LLC Power & sailboat surveys, big or small, gas or diesel. Contact Derek Rhymes, NAMS-CMS and SAMS A.M.S. (410) 268-4404 or toll-free (866) 608-4404.

Marine Surveyor Capt Jon Sheller, AMS, Established 1980, serving MD/DC/VA, SAMS & ABYC accredited. Power & Sail, Gas & Diesel. Pre-Purchase, Insurance, Finance, Corrosion (410) 349-7016, [email protected]

DONATIONS

Maryland Maritime Foundation Needs your help, boat and equipment to provide educational funds and opportunities for individuals and groups with interests in maritime arts and sciences. Love our waters -(301) 509-3206.

Boat, Car, and RV Donations Needed Possible cash back. Fast pickup. Tax receipt given. Proceeds spent locally for college education grants. www.kidsfundinc.org, (410) 532-9330, (877) 532-9330.

Donate Your Boat and help teach at-risk teens to sail. (202) 478-0396, www.planet-hope.org

Full Fair Market/Book Value for Your Boat 501(c)(3) private foundation seeks boat donations for use within educational programs. Fully tax deductible. Free boat surveys provided. Free hauling/transport. Also accept cars, trucks, and other items of value. Also seeking volunteer sailboat and powerboat instructors. (410) 591-9900, (202) 494-3344

POWER

Sell Your Boat Fast for Market Value Most sold in two weeks or less. We sell your boat on eBay. List your boat. Get a check. Middle River Boat Sales. (410) 340-0008.

16' Seaway Skiff '09 Brand New. Down East lines. 7' 4" beam; weighs 950 lbs; 1,275 lbs capacity. A tough. Maine= built skiff. Solid glass hull in San Mateo Wheat; 25 hp Honda electric start; Tidewater trailer; great starter boat for family or kids. $12,900 Rick Casali 410-267-1060 410-279-5309 cell [email protected]

17’ Shamrock ’90 Center console & 1996 Loadmaster trailer. Indmar(GM) 140hp 320 hrs. Garmin Fish Finder, ICOM VHF, bimini, multi-stage charger, transom platform & motor bracket. Annapolis dockage until 4/2009. $9,000 (410) 279-6426.

19’ Chris Craft Capri ’58 $34,500, NEW Mercruiser 350 Mag, EFI. Just refurbished & refinished. Call Bob Pierce (410) 353-7826, [email protected] , Sarles Boatyard Yacht Sales, www.yachtworld.com/sarles

Grady White 208 ’06 Adventure In perfect cond., low hrs on Yamaha 200 4 stroke, full enclosure, FF/GPS, VHF, trailer. Ready to go for $37,500 Composite Yacht (410) 476-4414.

22’ Mathews Brothers Classic Bay Cruiser ’02 Surprise Fiberglass hull. Yanmar 100hp dsl engine. Stored and maintained by IndoorBoatStorage. Available for immediate purchase. $99,000 Call Mathews Brothers at (410) 479-9720.

21' Seaway Sportsman Center Console '07 brand new Downeaster, flag blue hull; toast spray dodger; 115 Suzuki 4-stroke; spray rails; bow rail; rod holders, lovely; fast; dry; 22 kt cruise@4 gal/hr. Gal. trailer available. Save $1,000's over a '08 $36,000 Contact Rick Casali 410-267-1060 410-279-5309 cell [email protected]

22’ Sisu Downeast Bass Boat ’90 Very well maintained & equipped vessel. Just right for the true traditionalist without empting your pockets. 135hp Mercury OB opens up the cockpit and eliminates the eng box, custom galley to port of helm (converts to mates seat), lovely finished teak and ash interior with accommodations for 2. Full canvas – dodger, bimini and tonneau cover and much more. Unbelievable buy!!!! GREATLY REDUCED TO $19,500 OBYS (410) 226-0100.

24' Cobia 220 Walk Around ‘00 200HP Yamaha "Salt Water Series" EFI OB 2001, Load Rite Trailer, Outriggers, GPS, VHF. LIKE NEW less than 100 hrs. $18,995 Eric (410) 604-2569

24’ Holby Pilot ‘08 This boat maintains its classic good looks yet performs with the best of today’s modern vessels. The Pilot 24 has a modified v-hull with wide chines, this makes for a remarkably stable, quick to plane, exceptionally smooth and dry ride. Offered at $144,500. Contact Ken Comerford at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected] for more information.


24' Seaway Offshore Down East hardtop '08 150 Suzuki on bracket; bow thruster; windlass; shorepower; refrigerator; microwave; full canvas; rear seating; Try $103,500 Contact Rick Casali 410-279-5309 or [email protected]

24’ Shamrock 246WA ‘00 Hardtop w/enclosure, Swim platform, low hrs on 5.7 liter Seamax, electric head, VHF, Furuno, trim tabs, Washdown, $27,500 Composite Yacht LLC, (410) 476-4414.

24' Seaway Offshore hard-top '08 Stars & Stripes blue , 150 Honda w/ low hrs; canvas; shorepower; fridge; elect. windlass.Try $99,900. New trailer for $3,995 In Williamsburg, VA. Call Bob Williams. (757) 604-5776 [email protected]

24' Seaway Sportsman '09 new model. Center console w/ a cuddy forward. Leaning post, livewell, rod storage. 135 Honda on bracket gives 25 knot cruise, and 32 knot top. Stars & Stripes blue hull. Only $57,900 Contact Rick Casali 410-279-5309 or [email protected]

25' Seaway Coastal Cruiser New model! Trailer-able trawler with galley and head up; 12" bulwarks & full walkaround decks; capt & mate seats; open salon design; 4-stroke 150 hp OB on bracket offers 18 knot cruise; nice range; Call for pricing. Contact Rick Casali 410-267-1060 410-279-5309 [email protected]

26' Sea Hunt Triton ’07 Like new with twin 150 Yamaha 4 strokes. Trailer, upgraded electron-ics and 2013 Yamaha Warranty included. $55,000 Photos @ www.yachtview.com John Kaiser (443) 223-7864 cell anytime

26’ Grady White ’99 $35,900 268 Islander, 250 Yamaha, Trailer, just detailed and inspected, Our Trade! Call Ned Dozier, The Yacht Group (800) 827-8089

26’ Regulator 26FS One of the cleanest 26FS Regulators on the market. Custom hull color midnight blue with silver & white waterline over a black bottom makes this boat a sight to see. T-Top electronics box, Lee outriggers (16”) w/laydown mounts, 3 sided spray curtains/helm enclosures, auxiliary fuel tank (56 gals), Edson wheel w/power knob, tackle center w/rocket launchers, lenco trim tabs, fold down transom seat, & much more. Offered at $84,900. Contact Ken Comerford at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected] for more information.

27’ Boston Whaler Outrage ’06 Why buy a new when you can own this at a fraction of the new boat price!!! This boat look like it came off the showroom floor and stored on a lift. Only 15 hrs on the engine. Call today for a showing. Offered at $99,000. Contact Ken Comerford at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected]

28' Albin Flush Deck ’04 Only 506 hours use, always indoor stored in a boathouse for the past four years! Located in St. Simons, Georgia. Just reduced to $109,000 Photos @ www.yachtview.com John Kaiser (443) 223-7864 cell

28’ Albin Tournament Express ’02 $99,500 Yanmar 315 dsl 23 kts, bow thruster, radar. Call Jim Kavle (410) 353-2133, [email protected], Sarles Boatyard Yacht Sales, www.yachtworld.com/sarles

28' Pursuit 2870 Walk- around ‘04 Very strong, well- outfitted, and well-designed. Twin Yamaha 225hp 4-stroke outboards with just under 200 hours. $84,500 Photos @ www.yachtview.com John Kaiser (443) 223-7864 cell anytime

28’ Bertram ’87 Great shape, Beautifully maintained, Fully equipped too much to list, New alum. fuel tanks, Priced to sell @ $30,000 Composite Yacht (410) 476-4414.

28' Crowley Beal '91 Down East soft top - New Volvo D6 315 h.p. diesel; 18 knot cruise; low 20-knot top end; new electron-ics, flag blue hull; tan canvas & enclosure; no engine box; 10' beam. Asking $138,500 Contact Rick Casali 410-267-1060 or cell 410-279-5309 or r i ckc@gi lmanyachts .com

29' Century Center Console ‘05 T-top; yellow hull; T- 250 Yamaha's w/ only 315 hrs; ext. warr. on engines & hull; plotter, leaning post; fish package. Asking $83,500. Located in Lauderdale. Contact Rick Casali 410-279-5309 or [email protected]


29’ Luhrs Open ‘00 All the electronics have been upgraded and the boat shows like a 10. Its 11’6” beam provides a stable platform that will provide lots of space to enjoy fishing or just cruising around. Offer at $94,900. Contact Ken Comerford at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected] for more information.

29’ Back Cove Soft-top Express ’06 Stunning vessel w/Claret hull, immaculately maintained and lightly used. The owners have moved from the area and can no longer use her. This is a wonderful opportunity to acquire a lovely late model Back Cove at a fraction of the price. Drastically reduced to $156,500 OBYS (410) 226-0100.

29’ Mathews Brothers Patriot ’02 JWB Fiberglass hull. Yanmar 315hp dsl engine. Kept in top cond. at Mathews Bros Indoor Boat Storage facility. $150,000 Purchase today! Call Mathews Brothers at (410) 479-9720

29’ Dyer Downeast ’99 This Dyer hard top version is a great example of a classic downeast boat but built with a more contemporary feel. She is on a lift and ready for great fall cruising. Offer at $169,900. Contact Ken Comerford at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected] for more information.

29’ Mathews Brothers Patriot ’04 Summer Inn Fiberglass hull. Yanmar 315hp diesel engine. Kept in top cond. at MathewsBros IndoorBoatStorage facility. $225,000 Purchase today! Call Mathews Brothers at (410) 479-9720.

29’ Mathews Brothers Patriot ’04 Lady Antoinette Fiberglass hull. Volvo Penta 5.7GXi, 320hp gas engine. Kept in top cond. at an indoor storage facility. Purchase today! $185,000 Mathews Brothers at (410) 479-9720.

29’ Tiara Coronet ’00 800 hrs. Twin gas Crusaders 7.4mp 320hp. Blue canvas top, aft curtain, Raytheon equip, rod holders, transom seats. Reduced to $70,000. Call (301) 412-1334 or (301) 670-2823

29' Tiara Coronet '98 turnkey! A/C; 10" GPS/plotter; AP; full canvas; new risers; T 320 hp Crusaders; "Victory" aggres-sively priced at $69,500. Contact Rick Casali 410-267-1060 or cell 410-279-5309 [email protected]

30’ Chaparral Signature ‘00 Twin Merc 5.7L 260 HP. 500 hrs. New bottom paint and engine tune-up 2008. AC/heat, genera-tor, full head and galley, sleeps 5, Garmin GPS. $55,000. Annapolis. (443) 995-1885

31' Duffy Down East Sedan '09 By Atlantic Boat Co. Single 370 Yanmar offers 17 knot cruise. Bowthruster; Maine quality in a custom yacht; soft, dry ride; Spring delivery. Call for Fall price incentives. Art Howard or Rick Casali 410-267-1060 or [email protected]

31’ Marlago Open CC ’02 $67,900, 157 one-owner hrs on 200 HPDI Yamahas, perfect shape and recently detailed. Owner moving up. Call Ned Dozier, The Yacht Group (800) 827-8089.

32' MDI Down East Hard-top '04 Single 370 Yanmar w/ only 72 hrs.; 18 knot cruise at only 8 gph; bow thruster; dark blue hull; GPS/plotter; like new. $199,000. Contact Rick Casali 410-267-1060, 410-279-5309,[email protected]

33' Egg Harbor ‘77 On land for easy survey, recent new engines, beautiful condition, reasonable offers encouraged, recent survey available with accepted offer. $39,000 Photos @ www.yachtview.com John Kaiser (443) 223-7864 cell anytime

33’ Egg Harbor ’98 Wonderful cond. This classic boat is great for cruising the bay, fishing or just spending the afternoon creek cruising. Offer at $64,900. Contact Ken Comerford at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected] for more information.

33’ Tiara Flybridge w/Tuna Tower & Cats ’88 $200k refit by Rybovich in 8/04; low hrs. One new & one rebuilt (only 211 hrs) 3208 320 hp turbo Cats; full electronics; A/C rev cyc; Murray fighting chair; fish ready. Price just reduced to $84,000. Bring offers. Contact Bill Yates 410-267-1060 or 410-908-9727 or [email protected]

34’ Mainship Pilot '00 $129,500 Yanmar 300hp 2006 During spring commissioning the owner had the head rebuilt, the Generator and Engine serviced. Rock Hall, MD (800) 730-5569

34’ Mainship Trawler ’79 Perkins dsl, Air/Heat, Gen Set, Dual steering station, full fly bridge & cockpit enclosure, new refrigerator, new head – ready to cruise at 7+knots at only 2gal/hr $33,500 Call Tony Tumas to arrange a viewing: day or evening (443) 553-5046. www.greatblueyachts.com ; email: [email protected]


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Yacht Basin Co. 2 Compromise St., Annapolis, MD 21401 | Phone: 410.268.1611 | Fax: 410.268.0017 | [email protected]

Genuine Offers Submitted

Why have 62 ownersof trawlers, motoryachts, sailboats, sport fisherman

and downeast boatslisted their boats with us?

Average length 46 feetAverage price $415,000.

Awesome selection

Walczak Brokers are high energy inovative producers

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34’ Wellcraft Grand Sport ’89 T-330 Mercs, carpeted aft enclosure, wet bar, ice maker, HVAC, transom door, low hrs, central vac, microwave, large v-berth,TVCR, GPS-DSC/VHF, 6.5 Onan. Very clean, $44,000, In Annapolis; Bruce (410) 268-6163.

35’ Donzi 35ZF Daytona ’01 $64,900 This 35 Donzi rare w/ 2003 Mercury Racing 250XS Optimax outboards. Under 400 hrs, unmatched by either 225 Optis or 250 EFIs. Optional Daytona package w/higher level of equipment & appearance upgrades. The Yacht Group (800) 827-8089.

35’ Marlago Cuddy ’02 $79,900, One owner, 225 Yamaha 4-strokes, many options. Flag Blue Awlgrip, great electronics. Change of owner’s plans forces sale. (800) 827-8089.

35’ Marlago Sport Open ’06 $109,900 275 Mercury Verados w/low hrs. This is one of the best kept Marlagos on the market. No expense has been spared on her. Comes loaded with options! Call Ned Dozier, The Yacht Group (800) 827-8089

35' Nauset Sportfish '85 $125,000 This Nauset Sportfish is very clean and ready to go. Recently repowered, refinished and redecorated. Rock Hall, MD (800)730-5569

35’ Tiara Open Express ’98 What a boat for cruising and entertaining your friends! She has the preferred Twin 370HP Cummins dsls – cruises 24 knots and tops 30 knots. Excellent complement of electronics plus eng room digital color monitor, versatile Sunbrella top w/side curtains, sleeps 4 in comfort, AC and heat w/generator and much more. The owner has been very meticulous with all the mechanicals and it shows! Reduced again to $164,500 OBYS (410) 226-0100.

36’ Albin Trawler ’81 Lehman dsl, generator, bow thruster, Air/Heat, radar, AP, double cabin, Very Clean! Call Tony Tumas to arrange a viewing: day or evening (443) 553-5046. www.greatblueyachts.com ; email: [email protected]

36’ Cape Horn Open CC ’08 $179,900 Triple 250 Yamaha 4-Strokes, 90 one-owner hrs. $24,000 in electronics, many options, custom trailer. Motivated owner. Call Ned Dozier. The Yacht Group (800) 827-8089.

36' Jarvis Newman Pette-grow FB Down East '88 New listing. Finished by Mac Pettegrow in Maine. Lovely interior. Inside helm & flybridge; new 370 Yanmar offers 15 knot cruise; bowthruster; A/C; Espar heat; generator' A/P; 3 GPS units; radar. $249,000. Contact Rick Casali 410-267-1060 410-279-5309 cell [email protected]


36’ Sea Ray Aft Cabin ’87 260hp FWC Mercruisers, AC/Gen, nice livaboard, $50,000 Firm. Photos @ www.yachtview.com John Kaiser (443) 223-7864 cell anytime

36’ Monk Trawlers (2) ’03 loaded with gear and mint condition for $260,000 and ‘07 new boat with single common rail electronic Cummins. Gen and A/C, bow thruster. Smells new. Factory campaign boat here to be sold. Owner wants all offers submitted try $250K? Walczak Yachts (410) 268-1611 www.walczakyacht.com

37’ Formula PC ’06 $339,000. Volvo common rail DIESELS, low hrs, Bay usage. Beautiful one owner boat. Call Ned Dozier, The Yacht Group, (800) 827-8089.

38’ Hartmann Palmer Offshore ‘87 Twin Ford Lehman 135 dsl, Gen, Dual Air, double cabin, sun deck w/hard top, Dual helm – cruise comfortably, economically – clean!! Call for complete details - Tony Tumas day or evening: (443) 553-5046 or (800) 276-1774, [email protected] or Visit www.greatblueyachts.com

38’ Cruisers Yacht Cruisers ’00 $92,500, Twin Merc 310, call Bob Nixon (301)717-1688, [email protected] , Sarles Boatyard Yacht Sales, www.yachtworld.com/sarles

38’ Eastbay HX ‘01 Secret World One owner hardtop model. New listing priced right and very well cared for. T/375 Cats under factory warranty. Clean as a pin! $329,000 Call Bill Walczak (410) 353-4712

38' Fairline Phantom ‘00 Out of the Blue is a very well maintained with European quality and sleek aerodynamic styling. Excellent condition and profes-sionally maintained. $275,000 Photos @ www.yachtview.com John Kaiser (443) 223-7864 cell anytime

38’ Marine Trader Tradewinds ’86 A one-owner, very clean boat offered at $110,000 Sailing Associates (410) 275-8171

38’ x 14’ Evans ’06 with a new Cummins 450hp dsl; 360 gal certified fuel tank; dual hydraulic steering; shore power; radar; fish finder; stereo; bathroom w/shower; built in fish box; anchor windlass; rocket launchers; rod holders; ready to fish or cruise. $160,000. Call for more information. Day: (443) 783-0529, Night: (410) 623-2121.

39’ Carver 396 Aft Cabin ’00 $175,000 Twin Cummins dsls, immaculate condition, many options and custom upgrades. 2-boat owner is motivated. Call Ned Dozier. The Yacht Group (800) 827-8089.

39’ Krogen Pilothouse Trawler ’00 Extremely well equipped and in very good cond. Recently updated electronics. New bottom paint. All the extras including hydraulic stabilizers, washer/dryer, inverter, 3 zone AC and much more. Only 39’ available on the East Coast. Kadey-Krogen Yachts (800) 247-1230.

39’ Mainship 390 Perfor-mance Trawler ’02 Bright Bay Spirit is stylish and fast. Will get you cruising economically. $195,000 Sailing Associates (410) 275-8171

40' Legacy Down East hard top '97 only 350 hrs on 3116 CATs; new Raymarine A/P; new Glendenning synch; $60,000 in upgrades; queen island berth; 12k Btu A/C; New genset and GPS/weather; davits; tender. Asking $294,000. Lying Palm Beach. Rick Casali 410-267-1060 or 410-279-5309 or [email protected]

41' Menorquin '04 $398,000 Volvo 285 (2) Luxuri-ous livaboard cruisng trawler with Olde World style. Demo boat tops out at 20+ knots. Rock Hall, MD (800) 730-5569

42' Cruisers 4270 Express Cruiser ’01 Best in quality and class. Twin Yanmar Diesels 370 HP; 26 knot cruise; AC/Heat, Kohler 8KW generator, complete electronics, Small diesel trades considered. Priced to sell! $194,000 (410) [email protected] www.midatlanticmarinegroup.com

42' Duffy Down East flybridge '00 Twin 635 hp Cummins QSM diesels; 26-knot cruise; low hrs; full electronics; A/C; lift kept! Dark green hull. New Low Price: $350,000 Call Bill Yates 410-267-1060 or 410-908-9727 or [email protected]

42' Grand Banks Classic '90 Turnkey! Twin 330 Cummins w/ low hrs.; queen island berth; great canvas and electronics; medium blue hull. $289,000. Contact Rick Casali 410-267-1060, 410-279-5309,[email protected]


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57’ 2007 Ocean Odyssey $1,549,00050’ 2006 Silverton Convertible $669,00048’ 1990 Ocean Motoryacht $239,00042’ 1991 Ocean Super Sport $227,40040’ 2001 Ocean Sportfish $234,000

39’ 2005 Silverton $274,90038’ 2004 Tiara 3800 $345,00036’ 2001 Cruisers 3672 $164,50036’ 1997 Cruisers 3650 Motoryacht $109,00033’ 2004 Formula 330 Sunsport $112,000

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CUSTOM SPORTFISH BOATS

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42' Jones 2000 Scania 575HP, A/C, Full Elect, Elec Head, Shower, Many amenities, Ready to Fish or Cruise, Sleeps 5 $248,000 (410) 476-4414www.compositeyacht.biz

42’ Krogen Pilothouse Trawler ’84 Very rare. Island berth forward, stabilized, epoxy bottom, new galley, washer/dryer, electric dinghy davit and complete electronics. Excellent value. Located Annapolis. Kadey-Krogen Yachts (800) 247-1230.

42’ Krogen Pilothouse Trawler ’87 Rare midship master. Many extras including stabilizers, water maker, new bottom 2007, washer/dryer, bow thruster, new refrigeration, dinghy w/outboard and much more. Motivated seller. Located Annapolis. Kadey-Krogen Yachts 800-247-1230

42’ Sabre Express ’04 She has the upgraded 500hp Yanmar dsl engines, incredible electronics package, Stidd seats on helm deck, 2 staterooms, cherry interior, Corian counters, SS ports, refrigeration, AC/HT, 12.5KW Onan generator, Lewmar elec. Windlass, Inverter, bow thruster etc. too much to mention. She is available to be seen in Annapolis. Don’t pass this beauty by!! Asking $509,000 Sabreline of Annapolis (877) 267-1808.

42' Hinckley F/B Sedan '95 Galley up, 2 cabins, cherry interior and single Cummins 400. Nice opportunity at reduced price $297,000 Call Frank Gary (410) 703-4017 www.walczakyacht.com

North Pacific 42/43 Trawlers 1-2006 and 1-2008 models. Here in Annapolis to be sold. S/electronic Cummins, loaded with top shelf gear. ’06 is dark blue hull. $334,900. and $397,000 (410) 268-1611 www.walczakyacht.com

Sabreline 42 '01 Extended hardtop F/B Sedan T/Yanmars, dual station very rare find, 2 stateroom, dual helm at only $375,000. Call Mark Ferrier(410) 980-5364www.walczakyacht.com

43’ Marine Trader ‘83 Twin Volvo dsl, Gen Set, Dual Air, Aft Sun deck w/hard top, Full Sun Deck and Fly Bridge enclosure -Beautiful interior – priced to sell fast – $ 89,900 – open to offers. Call for complete details - Tony Tumas day or evening: (443) 553-5046 or (800) 276-1774, [email protected] or Visit www.greatblueyachts.com

43’ Albin Classic ’79 T-120hp Ford dsls, AC, Generator & complete electronics. Sellers motivated/Aggressively priced to sell @ $89,000, Crownsville. Photos @ www.yachtview.com John Kaiser (443) 223-7864 cell anytime


43’ Carver Cockpit Motor Yacht Beautiful Aft Cockpit Motor Yacht, Twin Cummins Dsls, Gen Set, Air, Full enclosure, GPS, Plotter, A must SEE BOAT! $ 189,900 Call Tony Tumas to arrange a viewing: day or evening (443) 553-5046. www.greatblueyachts.com ; email: [email protected]

43' Defever trawler ‘82 Twin lehmans 12.5kw onan generator superb turn key live aboard. Complete furnishings, boarding steps, dock box more. Seller retiring 144K obo. See more www.pumpoutboatmd.com (443) 250-6588

44’ Trojan FBMY ‘74 All fiberglass, twin gas, runs well, great liveaboard, 2 heads, shower stall, refrig/freezer, must see! Can be viewed at Liberty Yacht Club, Edgewater. Needs TLC $35,000 Call Mark (703) 622-8570.

45’ Californian Aft Cabin ’90 $199,900 This well-maintained, highly updated Californian is now on the market. Featuring the upgraded 3208TA Caterpillars, Satellite TV, a RIB tender, updated electronics and interior, she is ready to go cruising now. Do not miss this boat! The Yacht Group (800) 827-8089.

45’ Crusiers 455 Motor-yacht ’05 Great Value! Twin Volvo 480HP, 26 knot cruise, Air conditioned helm and aft deck, Three full staterooms. This vessel has been lift kept since new and is a must see. Priced to sell! $429,000 (410) [email protected] www.midatlanticmarinegroup.com

45' Doucette 2006 700HP Cat, Genset, Full Elect, A/C and MUCH MORE!!! Ready for Commercial, Charter or Cruising Use!!! $229,000 (410) 476-4414www.compositeyacht.biz

46' Grand Banks Classic '90 Very low hrs--only 1,300 on T 375 CATS; shed kept for 10 yrs; split master cabin berths; good electronics and canvas. Great interior. Asking $315,000 Contact Rick Casali 410-279-5309 or [email protected]

46’ Markley Jay Allen ‘93 Excellent cond,, Charter and cruise ready, Fully equipped, 700hp, $235k, Composite Yacht LLC, (410) 476-4414.

46’ Chris Craft Constella-tion ’86 The quality and elegance of a Chris Craft really shows on this boat. A great value at $190,000 Sailing Associates (410) 275-8171

46' Chris-Craft Aqua Home ‘70 Dark-blue hull, white deck house, mahogany rails. 230hp gas engine, freshwater cooled, completely rebuilt in 2006, about 10 hours of use. $39,900 Photos @ www.yachtview.com John Kaiser (443) 223-7864 cell anytime

46' Jarvis Newman Down East FB '78 Finished by Lyman Morse; built for duPont family; single large CAT; bowthruster; 2 staterooms; Maine quality. Asking only $199,000! Bring Offers. Contact Rick Casali 410-267-1060 or 410-279-5309 or [email protected]

46’ Ocean Super Sport ’85 $144,000 This 46 Ocean has been extensively cared for by a knowledgeable owner. Most pumps have been replaced, all of the original wiring has been replaced, a new holding tank and head system has been installed, transmissions just gone through as well as AC/HT units. Must sell. Call Jason Shields. The Yacht Group (800) 827-8089.

46' Ricky Roe ‘03 Yanmar 500HP, Genset, Beautifully Finished, Comfortable Boat & Well Equipped $340,000(410) 476-4414www.compositeyacht.biz

46’ Sea Ray Express ’89 Must sell, Make offer! Extra clean, ever popular Sea Ray express. This boat is mint cond. w/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' Williams/Carman '04 Bay Style extended hardtop Cruising Yacht. Very impressive profile with yacht finish inside and out. T/Cummins, bow stateroom with island queen, huge saloon, galley up. Fit & finish will impress. First class cruising yacht. Call Frank Gary, (410) 703-4017 www.walczakyacht.com

47’ Buddy Davis Convertible ’86 $349,000 This heavily updated, fast 47 Davis is hands-down THE BEST on the market. Low hour, recently majored 8-92’s give an honest 26 knot cruise. All new electronics, new designer interior, and many recent cosmetic, system, and functional upgrades in the last year. The Yacht Group (800) 827-8089.

47’ Riviera Excalibur ’04 $279,000 Volvo common rail dsls, great cond. All options and many upgrades make this a fast, efficient and luxurious package. Call Ned Dozier. The Yacht Group (800) 827-8089

48’ Chris Craft Catalina ’87 $184,900, Heavily updated in past three years. Kept under cover. 3208 Cats. Beautiful boat. Call Ned Dozier, The Yacht Group, (800) 827-8089

48’ Krogen North Sea ’07 Popular widebody model. Better than new. Owner’s change of plans necessitate sale. Totally outfitted for living aboard and long range cruising. Priced well below replacement. Located Kent Island. Kadey-Krogen Yachts (800) 247-1230

48’ Krogen Whaleback ’02 Extremely rare offering! This is the newest Whaleback and the only Grand Saloon Whaleback to ever come on the market. The cond is “Like New”, the equipment is exceptional and the price is very attractive. Located Annapolis. Kadey-Krogen Yachts (800) 247-1230.


Built on solid hulls with watertight bulkheads for a dry, comfortable ride. Come

see why we are taking a bite out of

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52' Menorquin '04 $795,000 Volvo 370hp (2) The boat has been used as a demo boat and has been beautifully maintained through out. Rock Hall, MD (800) 730-5569

52' Sea Ranger ‘89 Sundeck trawler w/cockpit with T/Cummins. Great live-aboard space and huge enclosed aft deck with wing doors. Our Clients trade. Smooth and quiet with island queen forward and aft plus office! $179,000 CA, Walczak Yachts (410) 268-1611www.walczakyacht.com

53' Navigator Pilothouse '99 New listing! Very well equipped and maintained traditional motory-acht. Maple interior; 3 staterooms & 2 heads; upgraded 430 Volvos /w 980 hrs; bowthruster; 10' Avon w/ davit. Asking $465,000 Call Rick Casali for details 410-267-1060 or cell 410-279-5309 or [email protected]

54’ Vripack Steel Trawler ‘93 Lady Galathea Twin diesel built in Holland. Galley up little ship with 3 staterooms. Owners moved ashore and request immediate sale. Call Bill Walczak (410) 353-4712 cell

56’ Alden Down East ‘97 Fly bridge sedan, two steering stations, fully equipped, twin Caterpillar 660hp engines. 30 kw gen. Many updates, davits, 2 yr old dinghy, fish holders & outriggers, folding, very unique interior, 1929 commuter yacht style, leather. Very pretty yacht. (c) (410) 924-4168, (h) 410) 476-5439

56’ Jefferson Rivanna ’00 $789,000 To describe this boat as in excellent condition is an understatement, she is better than new! She has had an easy Chesapeake Bay life. New Atlantic Towers hardtop with enclosure, bridge is air conditioned. The anchor has never been down. The Yacht Group (800) 827-8089.

58' West Bay ‘99 Brunnhilde Pilothouse MY One owner, 3406 Cats, stabilized. Beautiful condition. Best buy on the east coast at $938,000 (410) 268-1611 www.walczakyacht.com

78' Hatteras ‘90/'01 Afternoon Delite. Cockpit motor yacht, 4 staterooms, office and 5 heads. VIP layout with full beam engine room. Very custom and neat as a pin. Trades encouraged. Owners purchased 100' MY. Bargain at $899,000 (410) 268-1611 www.walczakyacht.com

48' Newman- Pettigrew F/B ’94 Single engine, cherry interior. 2 cabins galley up, cherry interior $398,000 (410)268-1611 www.walczakyacht.com

SOLD

48’ Ocean Alexander ’08 Brand New Classicco Sedan Trawler; Twin 450 HP Cats; 20+ knot cruise; 2 cabin, 2 head layout; teak and holly cabin sole throughout, Loaded with Luxuries. $774,200 (410)268-1572 [email protected] www.midatlanticmarinegroup.com

501 Chris Craft motor yacht ‘90 One of the last of the breed. Galley on the main deck with full beam walk in engine room. Staircase to the F/B, stabilized. Priced right by keen seller. Local $250,000. New listing. Walczak Yachts (410) 268-1611 www.walczakyacht.com

Hatteras Motor Yachts 50-80 Feet We have 7 local nice buys on motor yachts available. (410) 268-1611www.walczakyacht.com

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Annapolis Accommodations ........49

Annapolis Harbor Boatyard .........39

Annapolis Yacht Refinishing .......17

Baltimore Boat Show ...................33

Bay Yacht Agency .........................2

Boater’s World ..........................7,68

Boatyard Bar & Grill ...................19

Chesapeake Bay Boat Detailing ...12

Chesapeake Beach Resort & Spa .67

Chesapeake Yacht Club ...............15

Coastal Climate Control .................9

Composite Yacht ..........................50

Evans Boats, Inc. ..........................46

Fawcett Boat Supplies ..................18

Gilman Yachts .............................15

Hartge Insurance ..........................18

Herrington Harbour ......................21

Hinckley Yacht Services ..............50

Interlux .........................................44

Intrinsic Yachts ............................59

Jimmy & Sook .............................27

Kadey-Krogen ................................5

Long & Foster - Jenn Klarman ....32

MAS Epoxies ...............................47

Mathews Brothers ........................47

Mid Atlantic Marine Group .........30

Nettle Nets ...................................28

North Point Yacht Sales ...............11

Propspeed USA ..............................8

Raymarine ......................................6

Reed’s Almanac ...........................24

Rynd Bandage Company .............28

Seawear ..........................................3

Selby Bay Marina ........................12

Smith’s Marina .............................49

Walczak Yacht Sales ....................57

White Rocks Yachting Center .....17

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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS


Marine Services

Marine Services

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Swivels & ShacklesNORM THOMPSON

240-601-1870

Accessories & Equipment

Charters and Guides

Finance and Insurance

David A. DeemCertified Surveyor

[email protected]

New and Used boat parts & accessoriesFairwinds Marina, Cape St. Claire, MD

www.fairwindsmarina.com410-974-0758

Hours: 8 am– 4:30 pm, 7 days a week.

Marine Supply Flea Market

Register your opening free at www.capca.net

Experienced USCG Licensed Captains

Anywhere between Florida, Maine

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Marine ServicesMarine Services

Real Estate

Waterfront,water view,water privileged,whatever.Expert handling from search through settlement and all the pesky little details in between.(410) 703-2350(410) 972-4090Susan-Nealey.com

Premier Manufacturer of Aluminum Boatlifts

(866) 957-LIFTwww.boatliftdoctor.comDealer Inquiries Welcome

Sales, Service & Installation

PRECISION FIBERGLASSSPECIALIZING IN COLLISION REPAIR

AND MARINE ALTERATIONSCUSTOM FIBERGLASS PARTS CONSTRUCTED

28416 Bloxom Rd. Parksley, VA 23421

757-665-7364

410.798.9510www.mastandmallet.com

Your Best Choice forCustom Woodworking,Repair, and Restoration

Located at Holiday Point Marina, Edgewater, MD

Re-powers • Re-Builds • MechanicalAwlgrip Paint • Land Storage

[email protected] Marine Yacht Service

410-867-8830

Local & Long Distance TransportBoat sizes from 15’-55’

Boat Salvage & Disposal

800-742-1301www.covepointmarineservices.com

OUTBOARD REPAIREtec & Ficht Specialists

Evinrude, Johnson, Mercury, Yamaha, Honda

Mobile Service AvailableAnnapolis Outboard Co.

www.annapolisoutboard.com

443-221-4066

Marine Services

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The deadline for placing an ad in the January issue of PropTalk is November 25.

For more information and pricing, call 410.216.9309 or e-mail [email protected].

Jack and Chris Detweiler enjoy a brisk day of fly-fishing over an acre of breaking stripers near Poplar Island in their classic Simmons Sea Skiff, the quintessential North Carolina-style fishing dory on a perfect Chesapeake Bay day.

Photo by Joe Evans


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New boat slips on the Chesapeake Bay.

Close by car, closer to the fi sh by boat, no other marinas in the Maryland or

Washington, DC area have easier access to the Bay. You may have known Marina West as

“Fishing Creek Landings Marina”. Everything has been completely refurbished with all new bulkheads,

landscaping, piers, water, and electric. Both Marina West and Rod ‘N’ Reel Dock offer annual and transient slip rentals at

Chesapeake Beach Resort & Spa, the Charter Fishing Capital of Maryland.

Comforts & Conveniences•Over 120 boat slips, 25’ to 50’

•More than 25 charter fi shing boats•Less than a 24 mile cruise from St. Michaels,

Tilghman Island, Oxford & Annapolis•Fueling dock, tackle shop,

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