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In July, SpinSheet photographer Al Schreitmueller traveled to St. Mi-chaels, where he snapped this shot of the Chesapeake Bay log canoe Silver Heel. Watching the log canoes in action is one of the many special aspects of the Oxford Regatta, held August 7-9. Read about it on page 78. If you would like to check out the log canoes, there are more race days in September listed at blogcanoe.com.

56 Southbound To Find an Endless Summer by Cindy Wallach

18 Southern Bay Watch

74 Summer Racing Highlights

52 Bay Beaches: Treasures and Trash Talk by Carrie Gentile

45 Intuition & Elbow Grease by Andy Schell

46 U.S. Sailboat Show 2009 Sneak Peek by Ruth Christie and Molly Winans

58 Secrets of a Galley Wench by Eva Hill


IN THIS ISSUECRUISING SCENE58 Charter Notes

61 Cruising Club Notes

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74 Chesapeake Racing Beat: Governor’s Cup, Ox-ford, Hampton One Design Nationals, the Upcoming Melges 24 Worlds, and More.

91 Annapolis Performance Sailing Spotlight: Kristen Berry

92 CBYRA Traveler

DEPARTMENTS and FEATURES12 Editor’s Notebook

14 SpinSheet Readers Write

17 Dock Talk

18 Southern Bay Watch

27 Winch & Kent

28 Kids’ News

30 Boatyard Bar & Grill Chesapeake Calendar

40 Chesapeake Tide Tables

42 Cheasapeake Rambler with Fred Miller

44 Baltimore Beat with Stephanie Stone

80 Eye on the Bay: Farewell Summer 2009

93 Brokerage Section

104 Subscription Form

104 Brokerage Form

105 Classified Section

106 Index of Advertisers

110 Chesapeake Classic: Walter Cronkite (1916-2009)

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Editor’s Notebook with Molly Winans

Don’t KnocK It ‘tIl You RocK ItWhen I stepped into a stuffy old

locker room wing at the Severn School in Severna Park, MD on a hot August day for a “virtual sailing” dem-onstration, I figured it was going to be as pictured on the Internet: a cockpit-shaped bench with a tiller connected to a com-puter. A video game with a few more bells and whistles.

I was right about the fun-and-games component. I was wrong, however, in my oversimplification of this “toy.” The VSail Trainer is a more nuanced, versatile, and exciting tool than I had imagined. After more than an hour of watching others try it and 10 minutes of giving it a whirl, I walked out fired up and buzzing with the possibilities.

Tom Sitzmann, head sailing coach at the Severn School (2007-08 U.S. National Dinghy Cham-pions) didn’t discover this simulator in a quest for sail training tools. Following serious health issues a few years back (which have cleared up), he researched rehabilitation tools and means for disabled sailors to get on the water and clicked upon the VSail.

What makes this simulator more sophisticated than a video game is the “dinghy,” which is controlled by a com-puter and a pneumatic pump and heels in proportion to virtual wind speed and angle of sail.

First, you climb into the dinghy, grab the tiller extension and mainsheet, and slip your feet under the hiking straps. What you see on the screen depends on your chosen settings. You see a mainsail—complete with moving starboard and port telltales—and a horizon with trees and the bridge in Sydney Harbor, as well as wind direction and wind and boat speed indica-tors. If you’re “racing,” you see marks. You choose a boat type (Opti, 29er, Byte or Mega-Byte, Laser 4.7 or Radial, and Liberty), wind speed, sail or race, and skill level. Then, press “start.”

Whoa, does it feel like a dinghy! I didn’t believe it until I tried it. Sitzmann had

too. Sitzmann explained that this was a clear example of how the simulator could function as a training tool. If she worked on this by watching virtual telltales and monitoring boat speed, she would have a better chance of fixing this habit in real time on the water. Another example: the coach noted Morrell’s hiking posture and how she could practice better form on the simulator to hike more effectively and safely for back health.

One funny moment revealed just how much this “toy” feels like the real thing: team member dad, Craig Morrell, tried the simulator for 30 seconds before he reflexively trimmed the mainsheet using his teeth as a cleat. Not sure we can cure that.

Although there are no sensations of wind or waves, no tiller tension, and no boom to duck, many aspects of sailing are palpable on the simulator. You can still tangle your feet up in the mainsheet and foul up a tack with an awkward tiller hand-switch. I can easily see the value in

spending a few hours just tacking—forget the myriad strategic applications for racing sailors. Sitzmann, who until our arrival had been the only person to try it (fresh off a cargo container from Australia) and survive a few virtual 29er crashes, had saved his practice races—against other “Toms.” “Tom-6” beat him pretty badly. Sitzmann confessed that losing a virtual race still feels crummy, even if it’s to your faster virtual self.

The applications are immense. The Australian women’s Olympic team has been using the VSail for training, and it’s

easy to imagine the concept gathering momentum world-wide in performance sailing and fitness training. When it comes to its rehabilitative potential, Sitzmann says, “You still get the roll and feel of sailing without incurring the risk.” The tiller can be replaced by a joystick, which in combination with a modified “dinghy” can be used for disabled sailors. It’s an effective platform for learning to single-hand in non-threatening conditions.

Sitzmann says, “It’s great for teaching eight-year-olds in Optis if it’s February or blowing 20

knots.” That his four-year-old is a natural proves the point. As well as mastering his expert 29er sailing in between classes, Sitzmann plans to utilize the VSail in a Severn School course he is creating on the technology of sailing, with a goal of teach-ing physics (velocity predictions and speed curves) through the art of sail.

The entertainment potential is huge. The VSail Trainer could be the sailing pub’s alternative to electric bull-riding or a crowd pleaser at boat shows. We sailors would happily hole up in our living rooms in February if we had one at home.

As well as training his team, Sitzmann’s goal is introducing as many sailors as he can to the simulator, which he has on long-term loan. “It’s not perfect,” he notes. “It’s not sailing, and I’m thankful for that. The reality of sailing is unbeatable.”

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described it as “ear-to-ear smiling fun,” and he was spot on. I watched two sailing team members, Lauren Morrell and Laura Oxford, sail close-hauled (on virtual Laser Radials), hike hard, roll-tack, and gybe. An unsuccessful tack revealed the “boat’s” sensitivity. You get stuck in irons, which includes sail-fluttering and frustration, and have to scull, rock, and pump your way back into motion.

Old habits die hard, even in virtual sailing. One of the team members tended to pinch and slow herself down; she admitted that this was the case in real life,

Severn School Sailing team member Lauren Morrell on th VSail Trainer.


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SpinSheet Readers Write…

Ed and Elaine Hennthan the stereotype of throwing bundles out a car window. On delivery day, dressed in “team gear,” the couple leaves at 8 a.m. with packed lunches, bundles of magazines, directions, and a list of numbers of maga-zines per spot, which Lucy Iliff updates monthly.

Ed does most of the driving; Elaine does most of the running. “We enjoy getting over to the Eastern Shore,” says Elaine. She notes that part of the job is recycling unread mag-azines, the numbers for which she tracks. On a monthly basis, we adjust numbers to make for less waste or add magazines where needed. The efficiency of this process is in direct proportion to the efficiency of our hands-on distributors.

Are there drawbacks to the job? “The Sailboat Show issue is a real bear! My arms are tired after that one,” says Elaine. Both she and Ed agree that meeting people is the best part of the job. “People tell us what a good magazine it is,” says Elaine. Ed adds, “It’s also fun to get to the marinas and check out all the boats.”

We love having Ed and Elaine on the SpinSheet team! Stop by our booth (F6) at the U.S. Sailboat Show October 8-12 to meet them.

If you’ve ever wondered how we man-age to get hard copies of SpinSheet to so many places before the first of the month, it may help to know our distributors. Meet Ed and Elaine Henn, who cheerfully distribute SpinSheet and PropTalk to the Stevensville to Rock Hall section of the Eastern Shore, Arnold, and Annapolis.

An Ohio native (as is his wife), Ed was “first bitten by the sailing bug” in the early

1980s when he spent five days on a 50-foot ketch traveling from Pisa, Italy to the French Riviera and back—one of his tough duties as director of recreation programs for the U.S. Armed Forces in central Germany, where the couple lived for 23 years.

When they had a chance to return to the states, they took basic sailing courses at An-napolis Sailing School. Upon retirement in 1999, the couple sought out a sailboat to

buy and a place in which to sail it. They chose the Island Packet 29 Passport and Annapolis. (Years later, when they bought a trawler, we wrote about their journey to “the dark side” in PropTalk.)

In 2002, after answering an ad in SpinSheet, Ed and Elaine signed up as distrib-utors, an appealing retire-ment job for active people who love to meet people, yet only want to work a couple of days per month. The distribution process is much more complicated

Boat Rule #5

I thoroughly appreciated your Editor’s Notebook “Disconnect” in July. Several years ago, just before boarding my boat

for a three-guy, four-day weekend sail, one of the guys announced that he had to partici-pate in a conference call at 1100 that day. I wasn’t happy, but let the call take place. The two remaining fellers sat in silence for fear of disturbing the important hour-long call, which took place while the participant stood in the companionway facing us, listening, and chatting into his phone. This event, followed by my wife’s suggestion (prob-ably made in desperation after hearing my complaints for too long), encouraged me to inaugurate Boat Rule #5 (of five simple rules): All cell phones shall remain off while underway. That way no one can twitch, Twitter, talk, photo, IM, e-mail, or text. Or whatever else phones can do.

The Windependent crew was given a warning by the DNR police for a crew member “bow-riding” for having his feet over the side by the cockpit, nowhere near the bow. They decided to take no more chances. Photo by Keith Mayes


Like you, I enjoy my boat for what it is and what it does, not what something else can do while aboard. Perhaps if more skippers said “no” to the likes of cell phones, more people would learn that sailing is truly a unique world and needs no “support” system. Alas, I fear that too many skippers are already caught in the connect trap, though.

Tom Berry Pasadena, MD

Merde

After reading your Editor’s Note-book “A Smashing Summer” in August, I offer a suggestion from

Mark Twain: “When angry, count to ten. When very angry, swear.” Having once avoided a T-boning only by virtue of some kick-ass reverse power (the 40-foot Alden ketch we were on would have gone right through that fiberglass monstrosity), “Ka-ching!” comes to mind.

The most commonly-heard final expression on the cockpit voice record-ers of crashed airplanes is, “Oh, [exple-tive]!” Or some national variation, such as merde for the French (or Martinique and Guadeloupe) and scheiss for the Germans. Perhaps the true solution is to become colloquially fluent in another language so that nobody understands what you’re saying.

Tim Muellervia e-mail

Of Moorings and Muffins

We, too, love Oxford. However, on our last visit in early July and first visit this season, we

found the anchoring area off the Strand to be full of moorings. What is the story here? It would have been nice to anchor closer to shore. Has the yacht club taken over? If so, is it legal? And who will take our complaint? On another front—we do love the ice cream store! Just wish there was a place for breakfast. Thanks for let-ting us sound off.

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It’s a small world after all… Be at the Calvert Marine Museum (CMM) in Solomons September 10-13 to see

about 30 radio-controlled models and their keepers. The festivities will feature Skipjacks, Traditional Vintage and High Flyer Marbleheads, large and small Vintage Schooners, and Vintage 36s as well as a healthy dose of receptions, cocktail par-ties, wine tastings, local tours, and awards ceremonies.

View the Vintage Model Yacht Group National Regatta from the Drum Point Lighthouse; museum admission is re-quired. The Solomons Island Model Boat Club (SIMBC), which operates out of CMM, is sponsoring the fun with help from commodore Al Suydam and fleet captain Len Addiss.

SIMBC’s Butch Garren says, “Many models are prebuilt plastic renditions of sailboats. Ours are different; we make vintage models from scratch and then race and maintain them. It can take between 150 to 300 hours to build these mostly wooden boats. Our club boats are based on historical boats of the Chesapeake Bay. With numbers in the 20s, Skipjack 48s are SIMBC’s signature model; we have one of the largest fleets, and more are being built. There are some in St. Michaels and even in Wyoming. We also have several Sharpie Schooners.”

SIMBC’s Don Miller says, “SIMBC’s origin lies in the modeling and sailing interests of CMM’s master carver emeritus, the late James LeRoy ‘Pepper’ Langley. The club was formed in 1980 with Pepper, his son Jimmy Langley, Gordon Bupp, George ‘Rip’ Van Winkle, George ‘Barney’ Woods, and Carroll Lusby. Pepper’s design for a model of a Chesapeake Bay skipjack was translated into a standard set of plans, then into a working model (Lady Katie). By the end of 1980, six radio-controlled sail-boats raced in the museum’s creek and the Chesapeake Ranch Club. Use of CMM’s Woodworking Shop and other facilities along with access to Jimmy Langley and Skip Edwards keep our club going strong.”

Garren adds, “Our regattas are fun for everyone; we even have fun things for spouses to do. Expanding to a four-day event enables us to get as many races and fleets on the water as possible. People come

from all over the East Coast. Some of the boats are so big, they arrive in horse trailers. I’ve sailed and raced real boats all my life. Big-boat racing can be like watching grass grow if you’re a spectator on land. These small boats are exciting to watch; people always cheer their favorites on.”

“Karen and I moved to Solo-mons more than five years ago. I’m retired now. One day, while visiting CMM, I saw people sailing model skipjacks. I turned around and told Karen, ‘That’s what I’m going to do.’ We take pride in building models to vintage specifications and maintaining the integrity of real skipjacks. It’s as thrilling to build your own boat as it is fun to race her,” Garren says. simbc.wetpaint.com

—by Ruth Christie/SpinSheet—Photos courtesy of SIMBC

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It’s a Big World of Small Boats

The fine art of racing models closely follows that of big boats in terms of race

organization, captains’ meetings, busy schedules, and pier parties that naturally pop up. Next on tap in Maryland, the Columbia Regatta will sail October 3-4, and the Annapolis EC-12 Regatta will fly October 24-25. In Virginia, the Club Championship will swing into Reston September 27, and the Pumpkin Regatta will roll into Ashburn October 24-25. For more details, visit modelyacht.org.Len Addiss’s Skipjack # 63.

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year, the Farmer’s Almanac calls for cool and sunny weather, and NOAA expects a near- to below-normal hurricane season. On September 11-13, sailors in raft-up party mode will flock to the festival for good food, fantastic music, great shopping, and wonderful waterfront views. Three outdoor stages will vibrate with clas-sic rock, reggae, country, alternative, jazz, and R&B. Headliners Ricky Skaggs with Kentucky Thunder and Bruce Hornsby (6 p.m.) and Bruce Hornsby and the Noise-Makers (8 p.m.) will rock City Hall Stage on Saturday.

Crepe- and kiosk-lined streets will over-flow with more than 75 merchant booths. Shop for hand-crafted jewelry, sculptures, paintings, pottery, photography, and more. Enjoy fresh seafood and salads, Greek gy-ros, world-famous Virginia pork BBQ, and

other local favorites. Delight the kids with aquatic art activities, animal shows, carnival rides, games, and crab races. Don’t miss the 5K family fun run, displays, car show, and one of the longest fireworks displays in the area (Saturday 10 p.m.).

Thanks to Hampton Bays Days, a not-for-profit organization, the jammin’ festival and entertainment are free. (Some carnival rides and games will charge a fee.) For a seat during City Hall Stage performances and VIP refreshments, buy a Gold Row pass for $5 per seat, per performance (first come, first served). Bring lawn chairs and service animals; leave pets, coolers, glass containers, bikes, skateboards, golf carts, and miniature motorized vehicles at home. Park in one of a dozen well-marked lots nearby; part of your $5 fee will benefit local charities. baydays.com

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taurants, and museums. Quick ways to fully en-joy Hampton’s history and scenic vistas include a three-hour tour aboard the Miss Hampton II, a visit to the Hampton History Museum, and a jaunt over to the Virginia Air & Space Center. Take in an IMAX film and ride the Hampton Carousel next door. Kids will love the animals at Bluebird Gap Farm, the air and spacecraft at Air Power Park, and beach-exploring programs at Buckroe Beach and Grand View Nature Preserve, for starters.

Come By Boat

Hampton Roads, the waterway, is one of the finest natural harbors in the world and is home to pleasure craft, Navy ships,

commercial fishing trawlers, cargo vessels, and submarines. The harborfront hosts many boating events year round, including summer block parties, the Blackbeard Festival in June, Hampton Cup Regatta in August, and Romance on the River and Bay Days in September.

Deepwater slips, first-class facilities, special amenities, and things to suit every sailor’s needs are within easy walking distance. Slips in town book a year in advance of Hampton Bay Days, and there’s a waiting list. So, the best place to anchor is up the Hampton River, east of the channel, and across from the Radisson Hotel and the Downtown Hampton Public Piers. The channel depth is 12 feet at low tide, and there is plenty of room outside the 150-foot-wide channel.

Some Hampton History

Hampton boasts America’s first continuous English-speaking settlement, English Christmas, free public education, orga-

nized teaching of African-Americans, site for NASA, and training ground for U.S. astronauts. St. John’s Church is the oldest continuous English-speaking parish in the United States. Home to Langley Air Force Base, Hampton served as a training ground for America’s first astronauts, the Mercury Seven.

Legend has it that Blackbeard’s severed head was displayed on a spike (at what is now Blackbeard’s Point) to serve as a warning to other would-be pirates. In the 17th and 18th centuries, pirates plundered ships and robbed seafarers, wreaking havoc on Virginia’s shores and economy, especially the tobacco industry. Today, though, Hampton is a very sailor friendly place. To learn more, visit hamptoncvb.com.


How many 15- to 18-year-olds learned to sail, swim, balance a checkbook, and

navigate the waters of college essays all in one summer? At least 10 that we know. Baltimore’s Downtown Sailing Center (DSC) has offered its unique eight-week Sailing Instruc-tor Training (SIT) program for five years now, and it’s growing stronger every year. Steve Manson became the program’s most celebrated graduate following his stint in Disney’s film “Morning Light,” but his is only one of many success stories.

“This year’s students have done exceptionally well,” says DSC instruc-tor, Jill Bradley. “It’s amazing to look back at how much they have learned and how far they have come. SIT students come through inner-city schools following an application and interview process. Most did not know how to swim, let alone sail, in the beginning. Evan Reisberg, a 19-year-old instructor who’s spent summers sailing at DSC since he was eight, recalls how many of the SIT students were scared just walking on the dock on the first day. That did not persist for long in this intensive program. Within the first week, all students were sailing and starting to swim.

Seven weeks later, most were swimming well, and many were able to sail solo. One student says, “I didn’t think I would like sailing.

Now I want to go every day!” Others agreed. They talked about how when they got home to their families and friends, all they could talk about was sailing.

But the program isn’t just about water sports. Students all completed a financial literacy class, which included opening bank accounts and learn-ing about various methods of saving money (such as CDs and stocks) and credit cards. There was an SAT preparatory class and coaching on writing college essays. Students did more than just camp out on cruis-ing boats and camp on the beach at Sandy Point State Park (two of their favorite activities); they also toured the University of Delaware and dis-cussed the ins and outs of college ad-mission. They were certified in CPR, First Aid, and MD Boating Safety. And they had a fancy lunch out and were coached on restaurant etiquette. Most adults would be thrilled to take this class!

Following their successful comple-tion of the eight-week program, SIT students will be invited to work next summer as assistants or instructors for DSC’s outreach program, which runs a sailing and literacy program for eight- to 10-year-old inner-city kids. Feeling the satisfaction of giving back and becoming mentors are important components of the program. down-townsailing.org

Flipper and “Bubba” Hit the Upper Bay

On June 20-21, a couple dozen bottlenose dolphins caused quite a stir near Galesville, MD. Turns out, it’s very common for dol-

phins to make summer visits to the Middle Bay. They probably chased a school of fish into the West River. They can eat 12 to 15 pounds of fish per day and love catfish, crabs, eels, menhaden, shrimp, and squid. Dolphins are covered by the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Up the Bay a piece, officer Marcus Rodriguez of the Havre de Grace Police Department spotted Ilya, a Florida manatee, over the July 18-19 weekend in Northern Bay waters. Manatees munch on sea grass and other underwater vegetation; adults can be nearly 10 feet long and weigh 800-1200 pounds. These endangered creatures sometimes head out alone in search of food in warm waters and can tolerate salt and fresh water. The National Aquarium and USCG kept tabs on the animal this year for safety and monitoring purposes.

Last summer, two manatees were spotted near Essex, MD in Norman Creek. Fifteen years ago, volunteers and biologists tried to coax a manatee out of the Chester River; it eventually swam out of the Southern Bay on its own. It could be that the num-ber of manatees heading north is increasing or the numbers of sightings are increasing because people are more aware. If you see a manatee in Bay wa-ters, call the Maryland Natural Resources Police at (800) 628-9944. Give manatees and dolphins some space; they’ll return the favor. And, if you shot some wayward wildlife in the Bay, such as slimy green eels (yuck!) and swimming sea otters—with your camera, of course—send us a copy!

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The first week in August, three teenagers from Rochefort, a his-toric port city in western France

and “Sister City” to Annapolis, traveled to the Chesapeake for a memorable week of sightseeing and sailing instruction at KidShip.

Noeimie Baroux, Marie Rocq, and Loïc Fortin joined longtime KidShip student McKinzie Schultz and Annapolis Department of Economic Affairs intern Erika Jelinek in a week-long learn-to-cruise course aboard a Hunter 36. The course, which is open to students ages 13 to 16 and run by USCG-licensed instructors, involves some classroom time plus five days of hands-on, on-the-water instruction. The highlight of the week is a Thursday overnight up the Severn River, for which going to the grocery store to provision, anchoring, cooking, and enter-taining oneself on deck are integral to the learning experience.

With seven years of sailing experience with his parents, Fortin was undaunted by the experience, however somewhat surprised at how quickly the instructors spoke English. He claims that sailing on a big boat involved less work than sailing on smaller boats. He enjoys all types of sailing and plans to sail more upon his return to France. When the others went out on a chase boat to watch the Wednesday night races, he—the daring and gregarious one—hopped on a Mel-ges 24 as crew.

Fortin explains how Rochefort, a neighbor to sailing hub La Rochelle, is known for its history of building war ships. “Annapolis is truly beautiful,” he says, and the others con-cur. “Vraiment belle. Better than Rochefort.”

For the first such program, the City of Annapolis sought out kids who may have not had a chance to visit otherwise. After an essay and application process, the chosen stu-dents paid their own transportation, and the City covered their sailing expenses, arranged for them to stay with hosts (and Eastport YC members) Dave and Marsha Malkin, and coordinated sightseeing excursions such as visiting the monuments and Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC and the Inner Harbor in Baltimore.

Director of economic affairs for the City of Annapolis, Mike Miron, says, “We’ve been working on this program for nine months. It sets a foundation to have a high school exchange program in the future. In the big picture, such programs will bring in trade missions and job creation programs, which should be public-private programs.” Next year, the aim is to send a few Annapolis kids to France.

The Sister City program fosters cul-tural and economic collaborations between municipalities chosen on the basis of similar demographic or historical ties. The cities look to one another for assistance on matters of government, healthcare, housing, and other common city challenges. Annapolis partners with 16 Sister Cities. sister-cities.org, kidship-sailing.com

Boatyard Beach Bash!

Palm trees? Check. Parrott-heads? Check. Sand? Check. On September 19, dinghy, dance,

or drive on over to the Annapolis Maritime Museum (AMM) for music, friends, food, and drink along the waterfront. Move to live music from the John Frinzi Band with steel guitar great “Coral Reefer” Doyle Gr-isham, Jim Morris, and James “Sunny Jim” White.

AMM’s director Jeff Holland says, “This has all the makings of the greatest sailors’ party of the year: your toes in the sand, a drink in your hand, island rhythms in your ears, lots of friends to keep you good company, and palms swaying in the evening breezes. All the proceeds go to the museum’s education programs, and we always need volunteers for this and other events.”

Your $60 ticket gets you two drinks and grilled buffet treats from title sponsor, the Boatyard Bar & Grill (boatyardbarandgrill.com). SpinSheet is one of the many friends of this event. VIP tickets are available for $250. Tickets run out fast; get yours at amaritime.org now.

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French exchange students (L-R) Loïc Fortin, Noeimie Baroux, and Marie Rocq joined McKinzie Schultz and Erika Jelinek (and an un-identified instructor in back) in a learn-to-cruise course at Kidship in August. Photo by Molly Winans/SpinSheet

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Things Are Piling Up on the Pumpout Scene

The July SpinSheet Dock Talk piece about pumpouts pooping out on the Bay struck a nerve for several

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More than 50 schooners will gather for the 20th Anniversary Great Chesapeake Bay Schoo-

ner Race (GCBSR) October 11-18 to help save the Bay. Race week begins with schooners docked off Fells Point, moves to Annapolis for the race start, and ends with awards in Portsmouth, VA October 17. At press time, Farewell, Heron, Island Time, Martha White, Mistress 77, Pirates Lady, Quintessence, Sally B, Spirit of Independence, and Woodwind have signed up to race down the Bay. These 44- to 77-footers hail from Baltimore, Chestertown, Forked River (NJ), Galesville, North East (MD), Ports-mouth, Solomons, and Key West.

Jen Brest of Schooner Woodwind Cruises says, “This is our 17th year doing the race. Since my family and I started Woodwind Cruises out of Annapolis, we’ve met so many wonderful people and turned lots of them onto sailing and racing. But, the GCBSR people top even them. We come back each year for the camarade-rie and the competition. It’s fun to stretch Woodwind’s legs and to sail overnight. The event always is the pinnacle of our sailing season.”

Cheer your peers in the annual Dinghy Race FUNdraiser October 11. Groove to the tunes during a free outdoor concert with Schooner Time (the bluegrass band from the Schooner Martha White), Them Eastport Oyster Boys, and Inishewon (seafaring music) October 13. Tour some schooners and see the 5 p.m. Parade of Sail to the In-ner Harbor October 14. The schooners will leave Fells Point at 9 a.m. October 15 for the 1:30 p.m. race start off An-napolis. The race sails 127 nautical miles to Thimble Shoals off Hampton, VA. Once in Portsmouth, schooner sailors will party, give tours, enjoy a pig and oyster roast and sing-along, and tell tall tales.

Proceeds of the race support Bay preservation through youth education programs. To date, the race has do-nated $114,600 to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, providing more than 2000 children with on-water educational ex-periences. GCBSR originated as a per-sonal challenge between Captain Lane Briggs’s Tugantine Norfolk Rebel and the Pride of Baltimore II (2008 winner in class). Captain Briggs (1932-2005) was committed to the Bay’s maritime heritage and loved schooner-rigged sailboats; he founded and kept the race going strong. schoonerrace.org

Brest adds, “If you missed the race, you still can join us on our five-day return adventure from Portsmouth to Annapolis October 19-23. It’s a sail of a lifetime!”

Wild Country Seafood Opens in Eastport

In this photo taken in 1986, Patrick Mahoney and Patrick Jr. tilt a bushel of plump crabs on their Deltaville dead-

rise Baby Boy. Patrick Jr. continues to work on the water alongside his father as the sec-ond and third generations of family water-men. As far as we know, they are the only remaining commercial fishermen/crabbers based out of Eastport or Annapolis.

In 1997, the family acquired a second cedar-planked deadrise fishing boat. This one was built in 1983 by a man named Hughes in Cambridge, MD. They named her Wild Country. She plies the channel edges for fresh Bay food alongside Baby Boy year-round. This summer, the family opened Wild Country Seafood, a retail shop next to the Annapolis Maritime Museum in Eastport, with the concept of bringing fresh seafood directly to custom-ers. The place is open Tuesday-Thursday from 3 to 7 p.m., Friday from noon to 7 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. ((410) 267-6711). —by Joe Evans/SpinSheet

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GCBSR’s annual Dinghy Race FUNdraiser off Fells Point. Photo courtesy of GCBSR

Schooners Rendezvous in Cambridge

Many GCBSR schooners and sailors will join tall ships and other historic vessels for the

fourth annual Schooner Rendezvous at Cambridge’s Long Wharf Park October 23-25. The Richardson Maritime Museum is a proud sponsor of this maritime festival. The weekend will be full of people enjoying live music, local delicacies, dockside tours, exhibits, and vendors. schoonerrendezvous.com


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Dine, drink, dance, and do a good deed. Bring your family to the 42nd running

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Saturday will feature the Capital Crab Soup Cook-Off among An-napolis eateries, including Buddy’s Crabs & Ribs, Hell Point Seafood, The Main Ingredient, and Treaty of Paris. After you taste the best the Bay has to offer and savor the waterfront views, shop for jewelry, furniture, photography, nautical and wood crafts, candles and soaps, lotions and potions, apparel, and more.

Feed some bellies. As always, the Maryland Seafood Festival will feature non-profit vendors, including groups such as the local Boy Scouts. Buy your $10 ticket at mdseafood-festival.com ahead of time, and $2 will be donated to a local charity of your choice. Help “Stuff-A-Boat” by bringing non-perishable food (peanut butter, soup, tuna… you get the idea) for the Maryland Food Bank. “Stuff-A-Boat” is a partnership between the Maryland Seafood Festival and Giant Food. You can also donate food at Annapolis-area Giant Food stores before the festival.

On Friday, park at SPSP for $3 per car. On Saturday and Sunday, park at the West Campus Entrance of Anne Arundel Community Col-lege (101 College Parkway, Arnold, MD) for $5, and free shuttles will take you and yours to and from SPSP. For more festival details, visit mdseafoodfestival.com.

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that it’s always time to think about the Eastport Yacht Club Lights Parade in Annapolis December 12. Register your boat by the end of November, and your name and that of your boat will be printed in the official Lights Parade Program. A club competi-tion is planned for this year with nautical and non-nautical categories. Now it’s your turn to register, grab your buddies, cook up a creation, play with lights, perfect your parade cocktails, find your mit-tens, and make bright things happen. eastportyc.org

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• The SailingChannel, LLC, a fam-ily-owned business in Annapolis, recently opened on the stage of Pub-lic Television with Sailing Chan-nel Theater. The series focuses on Chesapeake cruising personalities, historic vessels, and exotic locations. Executive producer Tory Salvia and his sons Peter (camera/director/edi-tor) and Jon (sound/camera/market-

ing) produced the project for New York Public TV station WLIW21, which serves the third largest public TV audi-ence in the nation. Local sailors helped film introductions for each show. Locations include Manitou, President John F. Kennedy’s yacht, berthed at the National Sailing Hall of Fame in An-napolis; Leatherbury Point Marina in Shady Side, MD; Herrington Harbour South Marina in Friendship, MD; and sailing areas with views of the Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse, Annapolis Harbor, and Spa Creek. The team wants to take this Bay-based project to a national PBS television audience and has been invited by WNET.ORG to offer additional sailing programs. thesailingchannel.tv

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Most junior programs rightfully spend the most energy on the beginners and their families. The Eastport YC has had great success with its second summer of Green Fleet Fridays (BBQ and low key racing on Friday evenings), and the Annapolis YC (AYC) added a family night during which juniors take their families sailing and share a BBQ dinner on their deck. And to say that other ju-nior programs all over the Bay were busy and ramped up the summer fun this season would be a major understatement. Good examples can be found on the websites of the Fishing Bay YC, North East River YC, and Severn SA (SSA), but they are not alone.

It was an unusual sum-mer for sailing conditions on the Bay; unusually great, that is. From June 15 to August

7 (the eight weeks that most summer sailing programs run), we had sailable wind every day! Temps never climbed over 90 degrees, and it only rained slightly on two days! What a great summer for the junior programs with lots of productive on-the-water time. Give kids and families a safe, fun start and they will come back!

Dave Houck, CBYRA’s junior division chair, whole-heartedly echoes these senti-ments. The sheer number and diversity of events posted at my.calendars.net/cbyrajunior tell the story of how popular junior sailing is all over the country.

Houck says, “I had the pleasure of spending an Au-gust weekend at Tred Avon YC’s annual Oxford Regatta. They’ve been hosting this for more than 100 years, and organizers have it down to perfection (except for the lack of wind on Saturday). But the wind returned on Sunday, and it was fantastic to see such a celebration of sailing with big boats and junior sailors all out on the water together and fun parties for all ages. The junior racers who competed at this event will not want to miss it in the future! Don’t miss the big events this Septem-ber at the Corsica River YC, Hampton YC, Norfolk YCC, SSA, and West River SC, for starters.”

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This could be the start of a beautiful friendship. SSA’s Harbor Rookies navigate Annapolis Harbor. Photo by Tom Nelson

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Thru Sep 24 Free Kayaking

First and third Thursdays. Discovery Vil-lage, Shady Side, MD. The West/Rhode Riverkeeper Chris Trumbauer and Discov-ery Village provide single and tandem kay-aks, paddles, and life vests on a first-come, first-served basis. westrhoderiverkeeper.org

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Annapolis. Operated by Pirate Adventures, the Sea Gypsy sails seven days a week, six times a day. chesapeakepirates.com

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tion. American Style names Annapolis one of top 25 American cities for its art aficio-nados and event pros. americanstyle.com

3 Full Moon Party Boatyard Bar & Grill, Eastport. Start the school year

right by howling at the full moon with your pack. Live music with D’Vibe Duo. boatyardbarandgrill.com

3-5 Jimmy Buffett in Virginia! Warm up the blender, blow

up your favorite land shark, and don your favorite tropical attire! The Messiah of Margaritas is in Virginia September 3 and 5 at the Nissan Pavilion (Bristow). margaritaville.com

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4-6 Kent Island Cup Aloha! Kent Island YC, Stevensville, MD.

Paddle 35 miles around Kent Island and then limbo over to the luau Saturday. The fun is by the Kent Island Outrigger Canoe Club. kiocc.com

4-6 National Hard Crab Derby and Fair Somers Cove Marina,

Crisfield, MD. Sail on over for crab racing, beauty pageants, parades, crab cooking and picking contests, crafts, games, rides, swim meet, docking contests, fireworks, and more! crisfieldchamber.com

5 Annual Boat Auction 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Chesapeake Bay

Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Bid on the boat of your dreams! cbmm.org

5 MTABC Crab Feast Rocky Point State Park, Essex, MD.

The fun benefits the Marine Trades Asso-ciation of Baltimore County’s scholarship program. mtabc.org

5-7 Aargh! Special Labor Day Pirate Adventures Grab20

percent off for police, fire, and teaching pros all weekend. chesapeakepirates.com

5-7 Mile Marker Zero Rendezvous Tidewater Yacht

Marina, Portsmouth, VA. Band parties, crab feast, pig pickin’, blind-man dinghy racing, and more. tyamarina.com

6-7 Skipjack Race and Land Festival Deal Harbor Island,

MD. Courtesy of the Deal Island-Chance Lions Club. All proceeds benefit the local community. webauthority.net/lions

8 Huge Hurricane Slams into Galves-ton, TX, Killing 6000 People, 1900

8-Oct 27 Safe Boating Course 7:30 to

9:30 p.m. Eight consecutive Tuesdays. Anchorage Marina, Baltimore. Presented by the Dundalk Sail and Power Squadron. dspsdundalk.org

9-Dec 2 Fall Boating Safety and Seamanship

Course 7 to 9:30 p.m. Annapolis High School. Taught by USCG Auxiliary in partnership with Anne Arundel Community College. (410) 777-2241, myaacc.aacc.edu

10 ABYC Standards Certification Annapolis. Offered by the Ameri-

can Boating & Yacht Council. abyc.org

10 Infamous Captain William Bligh, Commander of HMAT

Bounty When She Was Taken by Mutiny, Born in Plymouth, England, 1754

10-13 Vintage Model Yacht Regatta Calvert

Marine Museum, Solomons. See dozens of carefully crafted skipjacks, schooners, and vintage-class models and their radio controllers compete for top honors. calvert-marinemuseum.com, simbc.wetpaint.com

10-Oct 29 Safe Boating Course 7:30

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11 Restoring the Lady Katie 8 p.m. Calvert Marine Museum, Solo-

mons. Scott Todd talks about restoring the full-size Skipjack Lady Katie. Free. calvertmarinemuseum.com

11-12 Onancock Harborfest Wonderful wharf-

front festival features live entertainment, Virginia food, cardboard boat racing, and more. onancock.org

11-13 Antique and Classic Boat Show Reedville,

VA. Boat parade, flea market, oyster work-shop, and water taxi service. Sponsored by the Tidewater Chapter of Antique and Clas-sic Boat Society and Reedville Fishermen’s Museum. [email protected]

11-13 Hampton Bay Days Music, food, fun, and

friends! On Saturday, see Ricky Skaggs with Kentucky Thunder and Bruce Horn-sby at 6 p.m., Bruce Hornsby and the Noise Makers at 8 p.m., and fireworks at 10 p.m. Free. (See page 17.) baydays.com

11-13 Hampton Beach Seafood Festival

Seafood from top local restaurants, lively entertainment, crafts, and fireworks. hamptonbeachseafoodfestival.com

11-13 Maryland Seafood Festival Sandy Point

State Park, Annapolis. Music, great Bayfood, exhibits, arts and crafts, and The Capital’s Crab Soup Cook-Off September 12. (See page 17.) mdseafoodfestival.com

12 Annual Boating Party Support the Chesapeake Bay Maritime

Museum in St. Michaels with cocktails, dinner, and dancing. cbmm.org

12 Outer Banks Lighthouse Tour 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mariners’ Muse-

um, Newport News, VA. Visit lighthouses, enjoy bird-watching, and walk the beaches. marinersmuseum.org

12 Waterfront Celebration Noon to 5 p.m. Leonardtown Wharf,

MD. Sailboat races, exhibits, guided kayak and canoe tours, food, entertainment, and more!. Free. leonardtown.somd.com

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12-13 Charlestown (MD) Riverfest Live enter-

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12-18 ‘Round the DelMarVa Peninsula Join Woman-

ship’s coastal passage learning challenge for and by women. womanship.com

12-26 Three Seminars: Heading South This

Winter 10 a.m. to noon. Saturdays. West Marine, 113 Hillsmere Drive, Annapolis. Topics are “Taking the ICW to Florida,” “Bahama Bound,” and “Going South Safely.” (410) 268-0129

13 Annual Dinner Cruise on Wm. B. Tennison 5 p.m. Calvert

Marine Museum, Solomons. Crab cakes on the water. $25. For full cruise schedule, visit calvertmarinemuseum.com.

13 Chicken Necker Appreciation Day Noon to 5 p.m. Sharp Street

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13 Fish Fry Chesapeake Bay Foun-dation’s Phillip Merrill Center,

Annapolis. Benefits South River Federa-tion. southriverfederation.net

13 Photo Contest Deadline Shady Side, MD. Submit up to

three photos for the Captain Salem Avery Museum’s juried show, “Local Lens: Images of South County and the Bay.” shadysidemuseum.org

14 Francis Scott Key Sees U.S. Flag Still Flying Over Fort

McHenry and Writes the Star Spangled Banner, 1814

16 Wednesday Night Races Awards Ceremony Annapolis

YC. Can you believe it’s been 20 Wednes-days of sailing since April? Come see who wins the trophies for the season. race.annapolisyc.org

17 Celebrate the Severn 7 to 10 p.m. Chesapeake Bay Founda-

tions’ Merrill Environmental Center, Annapolis. Food, music from Today’s Date, a live auction, and a raffle for a Capri all-electric Scooter. severnriverkeeper.org

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18 Lighthouse Challenge Grand Opening 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Hooper Strait Lighthouse, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Celebrate Maryland’s 375 years. cheslights.org

18-19 Antique Car and Classic Boat Show

From varnish to chrome, vessels and vehicles will be on display in Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA. festeventsva.org

19 Aye, Today Be National Talk Like a Pirate Day, Arrrrgh!

19 Boatyard Beach Bash 5 to 9 p.m. Annapolis Maritime Mu-

seum. Beach party with live music by John Frinzi Band, James “Sunny Jim” White, and Jim Morris and tasty treats. $60. (See page 17.) boatyardbarandgrill.com

19 National Coastal Cleanup Day 9 a.m. to Noon. Teach our kids to

care for our waterways at Sailwinds Park, Cambridge, MD. Volunteers will be well fed! (Rain date: September 26.) sailwindscambridge.com

19 Police Hold Tiki Bar Fund-raiser 3 p.m. The Solomons area

Fraternal Order of Police will hold Tiki Bar patrons “in custody” to raise money for their benevolence fund. Food, fun, and entertainment. tikibarsolomons.com

19 Rappahannock RiverFest Near Fredericksburg, VA. Wine and

dine on steamed crabs and BBQ at Friends of the Rappahannock’s annual gala. Live music, fine food and drinks, and live and silent auctions. riverfriends.org

19 Tent Sale 1 to 5 p.m. Artist’s Framer, Eastport. Sailing apparel,

affordable art, and more. Great deals from Capital Logo and Artist’s Framer. In time for crew gifts and early holiday shopping.

19 Wooden Canoe Rendezvous 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Havre de Grace

Maritime Museum, Havre de Grace, MD. Show off your wooden canoe along with Chesapeake Wooden Boat Builders. Demos and antique canoe identifications! FREE. hdgmaritimemuseum.org

19-20 Maryland Lighthouse Challenge Point Look-

out State Park, Scotland, MD. Discover a piece of Maryland’s maritime history and see how many Chesapeake Bay lighthouses you can visit in one weekend. cheslights.org/challenge.htm.

19-20 Ocean Sailing Seminar Hampton, VA. Pre-

sented by Cruising Rally Association. carib1500.com

20 Ride for Shelter 1 p.m. Severna Park, MD. Stay in sailing shape,

bike the B&A Trail, and raise money for Anne Arundel County’s Light House Homeless Shelter. rideforshelter.com

21-26 Build Your Own Boat Chesapeake Light Craft,

Annapolis. Geoff Kerr will help you build a Chesapeake 17LT. clcboats.com

23 Pride of Baltimore II’s Birthday Celebration 5:30 p.m. Baltimore.

Scrumptious food, beer and wine, boat tours, a silent auction, and oil paintings and scale models for sale. pride2.org

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26 Choptank Heritage Skipjack Races Cambridge, MD. See

historic skipjacks from around the Bay race on the Choptank. cambridgemainstreet.com

26 Lighthouse Adventure Cruise Calvert Marine Museum, Solo-

mons. Leave the museum dock at 7:45 a.m. and head south on a day-long chartered boat trip to see lighthouse on the Lower Bay. $150 does not include lunch. calvertmarinemuseum.com

26 Pirates, Rum, and Reggae Cruise 8 to 11 p.m. Annapolis.

Dress the part with Captain Marcus Waters and enjoy lively reggae music afloat. $40. watermarkcruises.com

26 Rock Hall FallFest 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Town-wide carnival

featuring crafts, continuous music, roving entertainers, a fun run for kids, food, oyster boats, demos, crab picking contests, magic, giant slide and moon bounce, pony rides, and more. rockhallmd.com

26 Sailing the Golden Hind, Fran-cis Drake Completes First Eng-

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26 Waterfront Festival Wilmer Park, Chestertown, MD. Blue-

grass music, kayak competitions, tug-of-war tournament, cardboard boat regatta, and environmental exhibitors. For kids of all ages. ces.washcoll.edu

26-27 Fall Open House Annapolis Yacht Sales.

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27 Fish Fry 2 to 6 p.m. Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Merrill Center

in Annapolis. Music, food, raffle, and fun for the whole family courtesy of South River Federation. southriverfederation.net

27 RiverFest at Historic St. Mary’s City Historic St. Mary’s City,

MD. Live music, games, prizes, hands-on activities, exhibits, harbor rides, kayak-ing, and more all for free. Presented by St. Mary’s River Watershed Association. smrwa.org

September Racing

5-6 Stingray Point Regatta Fishing Bay YC will run starts

for PHRF Spinnaker, PHRF Non Spinna-ker, and J/105 classes. fbyc.net

5-7 CBYRA Annapolis Race Week For many Bay sailors,

this is the last big event of the season. cbyra.org

9 Last Wednesday Night Race Last chance to bug out of work early

and stay out late with your sailing crew. Stock up on self-tanner, the days are get-ting short and the sun is getting low. race.annapolisyc.org

12 Race to Oxford Naval Academy Sailing Squadron’s “Fall Oxford

Race.” cbyra.org

12-13 Laser District 11 Championship

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26 Hospice Cup XXVIII Regatta Managed by the Shearwater

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26-27 Interclub Challenge Team Race Clubs are

invited to create a team for this three-by-three team racing event in bring-your-own J/24s. Jibs only, no genoas or spinnakers. race.annapolisyc.org

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1 Full Moon Party Boatyard Bar & Grill, Eastport. Live music by Nautical

Wheelers. boatyardbarandgrill.com

3 Open House 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Black-water National Wildlife Refuge,

Cambridge, MD. Bird walks, eagle prowls, nature talks, demos, exhibits, and more. fws.gov/blackwater

3 Land and Water Tour of the War of 1812 In partnership with Fort

McHenry and the Pride of Baltimore II, the Maryland Historical Society will lead you to key sites of the War of 1812. $150 includes lunch. [email protected]

3 Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Chesapeake Bay

Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. Skiffs, kayaks, canoes, and fall sunshine. It doesn’t get better than that! cbmm.org

3-4 Blessing of the Fleet 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. St. Clements

Island/Potomac River Museum, Colton’s Point, MD. Seafood, music, children’s fun, boat rides to St. Clements Island, and tours of Blackistone Lighthouse. Fireworks on Saturday. 7thdistrictoptimist.org

4-7 Sail on the Schooner Virginia from Norfolk to Annapolis

$450. schoonervirginia.org

6-9 ABYC Electrical Certification Philadelphia, PA. By American

Boating & Yacht Council. abyc.org

8 Gordon Bok in Concert 8 p.m. Annapolis Maritime Museum. Don’t

miss this concert by world-renowned folk legend Gordon Bok. $15 in advance, $20 at the door. amaritime.org

8-12 U.S. Sailboat Show: Bring it on! Annapolis. Celebrate

the 40th running of the galaxy’s largest in-water sailboat show. Seminars, cloth-ing and accessories, and boats of all sizes. Enjoy the many shops, restaurants, and deals in town. For many more fun details, see page 46. usboat.com

8-29 Boating Certification Course 7 to 9 p.m. Four

Thursdays. McKean High School, Wilm-ington, DE. Offered by Wilmington Power Squadron. $25 in advance; $30 at the door. wilmingtonpowersquadron.org

9-11 Old Town Alexandria Food and Wine Festival

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Old Town Alexandria Crowne Plaza and the Old Town Holiday Inn Hotels. visitalexandriava.com

10 Eastport YC Boat Show Bash 6 to 11 p.m. Celebrate Annapo-

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10 Horn Point Laboratory Open House 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cam-

bridge, MD. Exhibits, tours, presentations, hands-on fun, games, free T-shirts for kids, and more. hpl.umces.edu

11-18 Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race

Week Annapolis to Portsmouth. Schooners from around the United States start their annual “Race to Save the Bay.” (See page 17.) schoonerrace.org

14-17 Sail on the Schooner Virginia for the Great

Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race Sail from Fells Point to starting line off An-napolis. $800. schoonervirginia.org

17 Party on the Water 6 to 10 p.m. Sarles Boatyard, Annapolis.

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17 Tilghman Island Day 6 to 10 p.m. Dogwood Harbor

will rock with rowboat and workboat races, boat docking at its best, a crab picking contest, local seafood specialities, a live auction, and more. tilghmanmd.com

17-18 St. Mary’s County Oyster Festival 10 a.m.

to 6 p.m. St. Mary’s County Fairgrounds, Leonardtown, MD. Food, fun, and enter-tainment for the whole family. National Oyster Shucking Championship and Na-tional Oyster Cook-Off. usoysterfest.com

18 West River Heritage Day Oys-ter Festival 12:30 to 5 p.m. Cap-

tain Salem Avery Museum, Shady Side, MD. Lots of entertainers, artists, authors, craftsmen, and food along fall-kissed Bay waters. shadysidemuseum.org

16 Waterman’s Festival Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield,

MD. Enjoy all-you-care-to-eat Bayfood, beverages, and more fun than you can shake a crab at. crisfieldchamber.com

19-24 Build Your Own Boat Chesapeake Light

Craft, Annapolis. David Fawley will help you build a Skerry Daysailer. clcboats.com

22 War of 1812: What Were the British Thinking? 5:30 p.m.

Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore. Author Donald Shomette will describe how Captain Joshua Barney led his Chesapeake flotilla of small gunboats and war barges against blasted British invaders. $10 for members; $15 for non-members. [email protected]

23-24 Spirits of Point Lookout Point Lookout

State Park, Scotland, MD. Learn about Point Lookout’s many legendary hauntings and why they live on. …And the lamplight o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; and my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted—nevermore! stmaryskiwanis.org

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24-25 Rock Hall Oyster and Seafood Festival

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Chesapeake Ramblerwith Fred Miller

Yacht surveyor Fred Hecklinger of Annapolis has a life story that touches on just about all aspects of

boating. The tale goes like this: Kid lives in a big city and reads magazines about boats and sailing, as close as the Chesapeake Bay, just down the Patapsco River. He leaves home at a tender age to seek work in a boatyard on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. From then on, boats are his life.

Young Hecklinger grew up in Roland Park in Baltimore. He was not a good student, he recalls, emphasizing the word not. But he did read. By the age of 10 or so, he’d discovered what to him must have been an escapist publication—Rudder Magazine with photos and line drawings of wonderful vessels and articles by authori-ties such as Nathanael G. Herreshoff and Howard Chapelle. World War II was just ending, and to a 10-year-old, the world was full of possibilities. And adventure.

He lit out when he was just 16 and made his way to Oxford. “I did this without my parents’ permission,” recalls Hecklinger, age 73, lapsing into a scratchy Maryland drawl that never hurries words. “But by leaving, I guess I saved them a great deal of money.” He loves a good punchline. In truth, he’d run away from home—Tom Sawyer with a sextant, if you will.

Oxford was a busy place in the eyes of a young man with boatyards, marine railways, fishing boats, and real yachts. And in this thriving boating community, Hecklinger found work with Ralph Wiley, who owned the yard later bought by Cutts and Case in 1965. Wiley put him to work, and Hecklinger was a fast learner.

There, in Oxford, in the flesh, was Sher-man Hoyt, a late-1940’s version of today’s sailing rock star. “I knew of this Hoyt by what I’d read in Rudder—the America’s Cup, the six-meter, the ocean racing. I approached him and said I’d like to be a paid hand on a sailing yacht.” Soon he got his wish. “I mean, I had the tools. I had a ditty bag, I could splice, and I knew rigging and sails. So, eventually Hoyt hired him and told Hecklinger he’d just chartered an eight-meter, Hurrying Angel, for the sum-mer, for one dollar, from Oxford Boatyard.

“I knew right away this was going to be far better than playing with motorcycles and cars.” He delivers a good one-liner in sum-mary: “It was 1953. I was 17. And it was a very good year.”

Boating became a career. Starting with Hoyt, Hecklinger left boatyard labor and for the next 20 or so years, was paid to sail big boats for ocean racing, deliveries, and yacht management. He raced with Hoyt, with Arnie Gay on a succession of boats named Babe, and with Al Van Metre on Bandit and Running Tide.

racing in Ft. Lauderdale, and Arnie knew I was down there and wanted me to go look at a boat in the area. Well, it got me to thinking.”

And just like a professional athlete who finds related work after his playing days, Hecklinger transitioned from sailing to surveying. Imagine the accumulated experi-ence of having done literally thousands of evaluations over the years. “I’ve surveyed boats in 23 states,” he says, matter-of-factly. “That includes South Dakota.” He knows that his reputation is for surveying large classic vessels, although he does all kinds—sail and power, glass, wood, metal, you name it.

“People associate me with old wooden boats because of my advanced age, I think.” He laughs gently. Projects such as the Pride of Baltimore, Pride II, and the little Federalist got so much press in years past that perhaps, his reputation isn’t surprising. In 1976, his friend Melbourne Smith asked Hecklinger to help build the first Pride (“I was the yard superintendant”), and in 1988, he was involved with Pride of Baltimore II, “as sort of a consultant.” Likewise, he was “part of the concept” when the 15-foot miniature three-masted ship Federalist was built to commemorate the 200th anniver-sary of the U.S. Constitution. The following year, in June 1988, he helped sail the little craft from Baltimore to Mount Vernon on the Potomac.

At 73, Hecklinger does about 50 surveys a year. When I phoned him recently, he was driving from Annapolis to Baltimore, having been asked to sit on a committee to evaluate the model collection of the Mary-land Historical Society. You could say he’s come full circle.

Editor’s Note: Hecklinger’s love of history shines through in his occasional SpinSheet contributions on our Chesapeake Classic page.

About the Author: A sore knee has kept Fred Miller from working on his 41-foot ketch Julie Marie this season. Past com-modore of the Eastport YC, Miller is a longtime SpinSheet columnist. Contact him at [email protected].

A Boy Who Loved Boats

“I knew right away this was going to be far better than playing with motorcy-cles and cars. It was 1953. I was 17. And it was a very good year.”

He did his first true survey in 1975, he says, but long before that, people who wanted to know about the condition of a particular boat were asking his opinion. It seemed natural that he eventually started charging for the information. Hecklinger tells of a call he got from Gay, primo Annapolis yacht broker at the time and later, commodore of Annapolis YC. “I was


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Baltimore Beatwith Stephanie Stone

Eliza Smith Steinmeier wants you to know that she is throwing one helluva party on September 19 at Nick’s Fish

House. Eliza is the Baltimore Harbor Water-keeper (BHW), a job that en-tails patrolling for polluters, sampling water, getting chased by lightning, and suing the socks off any-one who mess-es around with our water.

But back to the party. If you want to do Nick’s on Saturday the 19th, you’ll be coming to her Trash Bash, because waterhuggers are taking over the whole joint. There’ll be three bands and a beer truck in the parking lot for $25. I don’t know if this is three bands concur-rently or seriatim. I got a taste of the latter when I fired up rock and roll Can’t Hang’s Facebook clip without first shutting down country singer Derek Sholl’s clip. My au-ditory cortex lit up like a 911 switchboard. The other band, S.T.O.R.M., does reggae.

If you want to enjoy the music from afar, there’s a catered dinner inside the recently expanded restaurant, with seafood by Nick’s and Oceanaire, a swank seafood restaurant from Harbor East, that impossibly cosmopol-itan arrival on our once comfortably shoddy waterfront. Dinner, with free drinks and a si-lent auction, costs $100.

Eliza tells me that last year’s bash at Nick’s earned $23,000 for BHW. “How on earth?,” I ask. “Cause we’re good!” she says, and then goes on. “No, really, we had a lot of wonderful sponsors.” This year, a Silver Sponsor ($500) gets an overnight in a power slip on Nick’s newly rebuilt main pier, four VIP tickets to the bash, and other swag.

In other water action, Eliza’s been on the river every week since April, collecting water samples and testing for enteroccoci. These bugs live in our gut, so they are used as a proxy for sewage. Eliza launches her C-

Dory from her slip at the Downtown Sailing Center (DSC)—“They’re great!” she says. She has a helper from Jones Falls Watershed Association and is happy to take volunteers

out. It’s a fun and laid back way to learn about moni-toring and water-keeping in general. Eliza is a patient and thorough ex-plainer, and she likes to talk about water.

after such big dogs in federal court? For this and other suits, BHW can recover attorney’s fees—per the Clean Water Act—when it wins a case. That’s important, Eliza tells me. “Waterkeepers are not ambulance chasers,” she says. “We bring only those cases that we know we’ll win; otherwise, we can get stuck with our own legal bills, and possibly those of the opposition.”

BHW also lobbied in Annapolis for leg-islation to expand citizens’ standing in en-vironmental cases. “Standing” is a strange concept: it’s what you need to bring a case—stand up—in court. Standing, or the

lack thereof, has thwarted many an effort to remedy bad environ-mental practices in the courts. The recently passed bill successfully expanded it.

Another major off-the-water BHW victory this year is even more geek arcane. The bottom line is that BHW’s challenge made MDE put more teeth and transparency into the construction permitting process. Now, devel-opers have to take extra steps to control sediment; for the first time, the public can review construction

plans on MDE’s website and comment on them; and MDE gets 10 full-time employees to monitor and enforce compliance.

Being a Waterkeeper isn’t all dry docu-ment handling and legal wrangling. This summer, Eliza got personal with her charge. “I left DSC on my way to give a lecture at the Korean War Memorial. This black storm was following me. By the time I got to the Bay Café, I was enveloped in lightning. Oh my God, I was so scared. I pulled alongside this high bulkhead and tied off on giant ship cleats and scrambled up off the boat. One of the waiters said, ‘Hey, you can’t park there.’ There was lightning striking everywhere. I couldn’t say what I was thinking. What came out was, ‘Then tow me.’” You go girl.

Come to Nick’s on Saturday September 19 and party for your river. About the Author: Stephanie Stone sails J/22s in Baltimore and beyond. E-mail comments and story ideas to [email protected].

Baltimore Harbor Riverkeeper Eliza Smith Steinmeier giving a tour to river advocates on a McCallister Towing tug boat during River Network’s River Rally June 1.

The plan is to post the test results on the website baltimorewaterkeeper.org, in as close to real time as possible. As you’d ex-pect, Inner Harbor readings are off the chart all the time; the Middle Branch is relatively clean except at the mouth of the Gwynn’s Falls, especially after a rain. This is not just an academic exercise. A lot of people fish and swim off the Ferry Bar Park, and Eliza’s seen trap lines under the CSX Bridge at the headwaters. Our health is at stake.

In other off-the-water action, BHW joined up with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) to hold the current and past owners of Sparrows Point to the terms of a Consent Decree they signed 12 years ago to monitor and clean up the site. Also on the hot seat are Maryland’s Department of Environment (MDE) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which should be enforcing the action. How does BHW finance going


W hen the boat lost steerage in the Caribbean, 10 teenagers learned that reading manu-

als, following hunches, getting greasy, and solving problems were actually quite satisfying experiences...

Most sailors know their boats well enough to know when something goes wrong. Sometimes it’s a tell-tale shudder in the rigging that the skipper can feel from his bunk down below. Other times it’s more abrupt, perhaps a loud crash or a gut-wrenching “bang!” Always, it’s disconcerting.

I was sailing in the Grenadines, in the southeastern Caribbean, with 10 teenag-ers. We were three-quarters of the way through a month-long sail-training expedi-tion, which had begun in St. Martin what seemed like ages ago. After three weeks of intense sail training—from navigating with a hand-bearing compass, learning about the trade winds and weather patterns, to using a sextant and anchoring under sail—my young crew and I had covered the basics and then some, as I prepared them for Phase III, during which they’d assume all aspects of running the boat. They would need to be proficient in navigating all scenarios in all weather, safely anchoring the boat, and planning our shore-side schedule for the last 10 days of the program. Challenging situa-tions for any sailor.

We had been having a peculiar prob-lem with the holding tank in the forward head, and after some sleuthing ashore from the kids, they had deduced that to fix the clog, they would need to head a fair ways offshore, pressurize the tank, and essentially blow out whatever was clogging the head. This seemed a reasonable enough approach, and they managed to pull it off without a hitch.

The “bang!” happened only minutes after they solved the holding tank problem. We were hove-to about three miles offshore, and the kids were ecstatic about fixing the head without interference from their captain. It was windy enough that it was rather difficult for the helmsman to hold the wheel down to stay hove-to. Shortly after executing the

maneuver, the steering cable snapped with a resounding report. I knew what had hap-pened immediately, but it took the young crew a few minutes and a few rotations of the wheel to realize that it (the wheel) wasn’t doing anything anymore.

Most sailors I know at this point would have scurried down below to the VHF and issued a call for help to anyone who hap-pened to be listening, hoping for a tow to safety. That wasn’t going to happen on this trip. Luckily for them (and reassuringly for me), they remembered where we stowed the emergency tiller and managed to motor into the lee of Mayreau and the safety of a protected anchorage, struggling to keep a straight course with the improvised steering.

Whether it’s in the islands or on the Chesapeake Bay, to me, sailing is as much

about self-sufficiency and problem solving as it is about adventure and excitement. Throughout the month-long program, I’d emphasized this to the kids, and now they were provided with a perfect opportunity to experience the empowerment and sense of accomplishment that come with solving problems independently.

We managed to sail the 50+ miles south to Grenada with the help of the autopilot, which conveniently was connected directly to the steering quadrant (a fact which the kids discovered only after studying the Raymarine manual extensively the night before). Upon entering the small harbor at St. Georges, they resorted back to the emergency tiller to anchor.

The next day was one of the most suc-cessful days of the 32-day program. Three of the students and I hopped a local bus to Prickly Bay, where the local Budget Marine was located, in search of the master link that connected the steering cables to the chain on the wheel, the culprit of our problem. I remained silent throughout the ordeal, letting the kids troubleshoot and discover the problem on their own, and ultimately get help from the marine store staff. We returned to the boat that afternoon armed with knowledge and spare parts. Several grease-covered hours later, we had an oper-able steering system and three exuberant kids. The next night we sailed more than 90 miles farther south to Trinidad, hand-steering the whole way, empowered by our recent success.

To me, this anecdote emphasizes the true nature of the sailing philosophy. A true cruiser is captain of his ship, while simulta-neously playing mechanic, cook, entertainer, and psychologist. The true mariner not only knows that what can go wrong will go wrong, but also understands that any of the “doomsday” scenarios he’s likely to encoun-ter are easily solvable with some intuition, curiosity, and elbow grease.

If 10 teenagers can do it, so can you. About the Author: Andy Schell is a profes-

sional Annapolis captain who shares his sail-ing adventures and lessons learned through his writing and sail training programs. Visit fathersonsailing.com or contact him at [email protected].

Intuition and Elbow Grease: Becoming Self-Sufficient Sailors

by Andy Schell

Problem-solving on boats often involves studying manuals, as these students discovered on an adventurous Caribbean trip. Photo by Andy Schell

Steering with an emergency tiller to Grenada. Photo by Andy Schell


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october 8-12 mark 40 years of the U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis. Rumor has it that this is the year of the deepest discounts ever on vessels, necessities, and more. Check out the racing and cruis-ing charmers; talk with major manufacturers and the pros; see one designs, dinghies, and other

small boats; choose from sailing equipment, rigging, and an abundance of accessories; learn about charters and cruises, and take in an innovative seminar. Grab a “Come Sail Away” Boat Bag and fill it up.

So, WHat’S nEW?Look for more gear and boats debuting during the Show in the October SpinSheet. Here’s a taste of some of the new products you’ll want to see.

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nixon was president. A first class stamp cost six cents. It was the first year of Monday Night Foot-

ball, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, and the Brady Bunch. The average price for gas was 49 cents per gallon. Annapolis Sailing School founder Jerry Wood had an idea. A big idea. Some said it would never fly in Annapolis. Now celebrat-ing its 40th birthday, you could say that what we call the Annapolis Show, officially called the U.S. Sailboat Show, soars in Annapolis.

They come in droves to see this village—built by a village—a temporary marina that works so well and fits so naturally into the setting that even locals sometimes are surprised by their realization that the docks erected for the annual October event aren’t always there. “What is usually here?” they ask, disoriented by all the flags and bustle of the crowd on the docks. The answer is water. In mid-winter, when few boats pa-rade down the vestige of water we call Ego Alley, and the moorings in the harbor are empty, all that is left of the Show is water.

WHat ElSE? Buy your tickets and learn more at usboat.com. With BoatU.S. as the premier sponsor, this year boasts an anniversary gala and a new multihull section with demo rides. Look for the Boat Show guide in the October SpinSheet; we’ll give tips on what to wear, buy, and do like nobody else can.

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In addition to the tent crew, the water crews led by Sarah Villa and electrical crews led by longtime boat show staffer Bob Crane have their own sequence of events. Over the years, crews have gener-

ated catch phrases such as “trailer day,” “splash day,” and “change-over” to describe the phases of construction. The expres-sion that brings a sparkle to their eyes and a little bit of heartburn to their chests is the big one: “load-in.” This is the day that those of us in the outside world actually see exhibitor boats coming in behind the newly erected fence on City Dock.

Little do we know that the trickiest part of “load-in” day from the water crew’s per-spective is taking place out in the harbor: the driving of new pilings and towing of dock sections, all with impatient exhibi-

tors with running engines lined up with appointments five minutes apart from one another. And they don’t like to be late, as if they’re at doctor’s appointments. It requires intense focus to keep this orchestrated dance going smoothly, especially if an exhibitor shows up in a 38-foot boat after signing on to bring a 36-footer. Every inch counts and makes for complications and creative, quick solutions.

Whereas other boat shows may have two weeks to assemble their facility, the U.S. Sailboat Show has 72 hours to con-struct a temporary marina in the middle of the state capital. Precise planning, hard work, and yes, a little touch of magic are what make it happen decade after decade. By looking at the high percentage of crew who return year after year to help set the stage for the largest in-water boat shows in the country, it’s obvious that it is a satisfy-ing seasonal job. Kolb explains, “Unlike other jobs where you don’t see results, in this one you really do.” Bring on the show!


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Sharks’ teeth, Sea Glass, and

History“Beachcombing is very meditative,” said Annapolis native Dr. Deacon Ritterbush, a local anthropologist and author of the book, A Beachcomber’s Odyssey, Vol. 1: Treasure from a Collected Past. She is a life-long beachcomber, scouring beaches around the world for “junk with a story.”

“It’s not just about sea glass and sea shells down by the seashore. You can find remnants from those who lived here before us—marbles, bits of ceramic, Algonquin arrowheads, you name it,” she says.

Perhaps the most famous beachcomb-ing spot on the Chesapeake is the Calvert Cliffs State Park beach. The constant wave

action at this beach ensures that every day new fossils and shells are unearthed. The beach is located smack in the middle of the largest fossil-bearing deposit of the Miocene sediments on North America’s East Coast. The cliffs themselves domi-nate the shoreline of the Bay for 30 miles in Calvert County and were formed over 15 million years ago when all of Southern Maryland was covered by a warm, shallow sea. The fossil bones, shells, and teeth that are found on the beach are the remains of marine animals that inhabited the ancient sea and then sank to the ocean floor.

If that doesn’t impress you, perhaps the fact that Travel and Leisure Magazine recently named it as one of the top shelling beaches in the United States will. It shares this honor with others such as Shipwreck Beach in Hawaii and Sanibel Island, FL.

Run by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, the beach itself can only be reached by walking a two-mile path

Bay Beaches: treasures and trash talk

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When the Chesapeake Bay Bridge (formally known as the William Lane Preston, Jr. Memorial Bridge) was completed in 1952, it created an artery pumping traffic to Ocean City, MD, and vacationers passed by the smaller beaches on the Bay. People chose boardwalks and ocean swells over the various crescent shaped strips of sand that dot the Chesapeake shoreline. But, there are some good reasons to discover, or re-discover, these

sandy spots that are closer to home: they offer top-notch beachcombing opportunities. In fact, a couple Bay beaches have garnered some national press by being named in their “Top Ten Shelling Beaches” lists.

Unfortunately, like their larger ocean counterparts, Bay beaches are often victim to trash and debris that wash on their shores. The following offers some insights on Bay beachcombing, and Bay beach cleanup.

through woods and wetlands. Because of the constant erosion of the cliffs, access to the cliffs is no longer permitted, but you can still go to the beach. For more infor-mation and directions, visit dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/southern/calvertcliffs.html.

Further up the road on Maryland Route 2 is Flag Ponds Nature Park, which sits on the Chesapeake. Like its neighbor, Calvert Cliffs, this unsullied beach has great views of the cliffs and an expansive view of the Southern Bay. It is only a half-mile-long, pleasant walk to the beach, which is dog-friendly. Silky sands, tidal pools, and an old fishing pier make up this beach in Lusby. Coastal Living Magazine listed it as one of its picks for best shelling beaches.

The evening I was at the beach, I saw baby crabs scurrying in the pools and a few ancient horseshoe crabs. Scallop and oyster shells, sharks teeth, pieces of ancient coral, and sea glass are up for the taking.

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of Maryland’s history; from the early 1900s until 1955, the area was a sheltered harbor on the Chesapeake Bay support-ing a major “pound net” fishery supplying croaker, trout, and herring to markets as far away as Baltimore. The park is open daily during the summer and on weekends year-round: calvert-parks.org.

Dr. Ritterbush, a.k.a. Dr. Beachcomb, recommends Sandy Point State Park after a storm to find interesting pieces of driftwood or Terrapin State Park for sea glass. She also sug-gests Betterton Beach, which is 15 miles north of Chestertown. This 700-foot stretch of beach offers nice quartz stones and driftwood—and because of the fresh water currents, nettle-free swimming, even in July and August. (kentcounty.org)

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Along with picking up Bay treasures, many lovers of the Bay are picking up trash that washes up onto the Bay’s shores. The non-profit Ocean Conservancy holds an annual International Coastal Cleanup day to raise awareness of all the human garbage that ends up in our waterways. For this year’s September 19 event, as of print time, five Chesapeake Bay beaches are slated to be cleaned up: Terrapin Nature Park in Chester, MD; Rocky Point Park and Cox’s Point Park in Essex, MD; and Fort McHenry Wetlands and Baltimore Harbor.

The numbers are staggering and heartbreaking. Last year, about 400,000 volunteers worldwide spent a day cleaning up trash on beaches that yielded 6.8 million pounds of trash. Yuck.

“Eighty percent of the trash found in the ocean traveled from inland,” says Ocean Conservancy’s spokesman Tom McCann. Common items found on beaches world-wide are cigarette butts, plastic water bottles, and fast food and candy wrappers.

During last year’s Cleanup in Maryland, volunteers collected over 1500 plastic bags, almost 5000 beverage bottles, 3500 plastic lids, and about 2700 food wrappers.

“It’s our responsibility to pick up all this debris since we are responsible for the trash ending up in our waterways,” says the Maryland Coastal Cleanup Coordinator Geri Schlenoff.

“Once volunteers see how much trash is out there, they become enlightened, and it usually leads to changes in behavior.”

Volunteers fill out data cards to keep count of the amount and type of debris they collect. These data cards, which are used worldwide by volunteers, give the Ocean Conservancy a global snapshot of the world’s marine debris that they can use for education and action.

If you know of a Chesapeake beach that needs some TLC, you can contact Schle-noff at [email protected] to propose a new site. To volunteer and to find the nearest cleanup site to you, go to ocean-conservancy.org. They recently launched a new interactive feature that allows you to type in your address to locate the nearest cleanup site.

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treasure Hunting tipsWhen To Beachcomb: The optimum time to treasure hunt is: 1. When there is sufficient light. Early morning light and dusky twilight render it difficult to identify things. 2. Two to three hours before peak low tide to an hour or two after that. 3. Any time after a good rain, strong winds, or big storms. Strong winds espe-cially stir up wave action, and waves toss things onto the shore and/or expose things mired in sand, silt, clay, or mud. 4. Winter and spring. Summer beaches are often too crowded or already picked over. And in some places in the summer and fall, trash or leaf foliage can make it difficult to spot treasures.


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Where To Go: Go off-season or to beaches less trav-eled during peak tourist times. On busy beaches, stroll away from the crowds to an abandoned stretch of shoreline. Also, don’t forget to check up near the dunes and grass lines. Winter storms can toss things high up on the beach. You don’t need an ocean for beachcomb-ing. You can also find many interesting items—old bottles, beach glass, driftwood, ceramics, fossils, and man-made arti-facts—on Bay and lake beaches and along riverbanks. Unfortunately, many beaches in America are private and thus, access to the beach can be problematic. Visit city, state, and national seashore parks. Go off-season or before or after hours to avoid crowds and admission fees, or visit beaches on rainy days when tollgates may be closed. You can also travel to remote beaches by kayak or motorboat. Or make friends with other beachcombers on the beachblog and visit them on their beach!

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Speakers will include nationally known en-vironmentalists, oceanographers, anthropolo-gists, geologists, and photographers, many of whom are also award-winning authors. Attendees will gain a broader view of the fac-tors affecting our beaches worldwide and how they affect the beachcombing experience. For more information, go to beachcombingconference.com.


It’s that time of year. The breeze freshens, the temperatures moder-ate, and the cruisers start leaving town en masse. It’s not that they don’t want to enjoy arguably the

best sailing weather of the year in our part of the world; it’s just that winter is around the corner, and cruis-ers are intent on following the sun. If you’ve wintered in the Chesapeake, living aboard your boat for seven years like Jaye and Dan Lunsford, it’s no wonder that warmer weather would lure you south.

“It’s an older boat that needed a refit. We’ve been putting in the major systems over the years, and we wanted to make sure we know them inside and out. Living aboard before heading south made the most sense,” says Dan of their CSY33 Cinderella. His wife Jaye is set to retire from her Department of Interior job at the beginning of September and already has a proper attitude for full-time cruising. When co-workers ask where they’re going on their boat, her answer is, “We’re pulling out of Back Creek and turning south.”

Nick Phillips is planning a similar jour-ney. “Away,” he says. “It’s time to move on. Besides, I’m a British citizen on a cruising permit, and my permit is about to expire.” Now there’s a deadline. Nick sailed here from the United Kingdom three years ago. At that time, the economy was churning, and marine businesses were booming. He decided to stay in the Chesapeake and work. He spent several years on the Bay saving cash and refitting everything on his Jeanneau Gin Fizz 38 ketch Rhosynor

from the rigging to the rudder. Nick says this area is the perfect place to do a refit because every marine trade is practically right off your bow. Everyone knows a boat is never actually «finished,” and Nick is

ready to start moving.

“I have been in liveaboard mode not in sailing mode,” says Nick. “It’s time to shift into the mode where you’re underway seven

days a week.” For Nick that means re-stowing everything. “My boat’s upside down right now below decks, and I need to sort it all out so I can get underway.”

Dan and Jaye are busy attacking their “short list,” including transferring all of their CDs to their iPod, turning bulky cookbooks into tidy computer files, fine tuning the boat’s systems, and making the rounds to say their good-byes. “We’re get-ting down to the social aspects of preparing to go. Aside from leaving the community we have here, I need to figure out who I am when I am not a professional with a federal job,” says Jaye. Dan has been retired for a while and only started sailing at age 50. He’s been mentally and physically pre-

pared for a long while as a volunteer sailing instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy. “His idea of work has been much different than mine for the past several years,” jokes Jaye.

Nick is planning to work along the way just as he did in the Bay. The slow lo-cal economy is another part of the reason he has decided now is the time to move on. He says he has a year’s worth of food onboard and is ready to go wherever the wind takes him. First stop for both Nick and the Lunsfords is the Bahamas. Even though these islands are the typical first big destination for cruisers heading out of the Chesapeake, not everyone is Bahamas-bound. “Been there, done that, and moving

on” is the case of Dave and Wendy Kall. These veteran cruisers are making a beeline for Bermuda, the Virgin Islands, and then on to Co-lumbia. But their first stop is actually the U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis (October 8-12).

“We’ve never been to a show, so we’re excited to see what it’s all about before we leave,” says Dave.

The Kalls spent six years refitting their Westsail 42 Elysium on the hard. They spent 30 hours a week working on the boat in the Florida heat, along with full-time jobs. Then in 2008, they cruised the Florida Keys and the Bahamas and found themselves heading to the Chesapeake this spring. “We came here to have this hard dodger installed. Annapolis was the only place we know of to have this kind of work done right. We started coming north to the Bay with a hit list of about five projects to tackle. Those five projects quickly turned into about 30 projects,” Dave says and laughs.

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Dave and Wendy head south on Elysium.

Dan and Jaye step off Cinderella for some land exploration.


They still have a haul out planned and some systems to install, but they’re taking their time. Wendy says this is what cruising is all about for them. They like taking the time to get to know a community and learn what’s what on the local scene. “I’ve really enjoyed our time on the Bay,” says Wendy. Dave quickly interjects, “Nah, it’s a pain sailing here! I like to see the bottom when I’m underway.” With a six-foot draft, Dave jokes that they’ve learned the bump and back up method of Bay navigation.

The Kalls, Nick, and the Lunsfords all agree that the Chesapeake is the most boater-friendly place they’ve been. It’s the weather, warm enough to winter over, but north enough to avoid most tropical storms. It’s the scenery, lots of gunkholes to explore, and winding waterways to

meander. It’s the myriad of marine services offered up and down the Bay, great for finding work or having work done. And more than anything, they all agree that it’s the people. The Chesapeake Bay is a real sailors’ community, and they’re all grateful for having been a part of it.

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“When co-workers ask where they’re going on their boat, her answer is, ‘We’re pulling out of Back Creek and turning south.’”

Cinderella effortlessly heading to warmer climes.


Charter Notes

Secrets of a Galley Wench by Eva Hill

Since I’d much rather cook and mix drinks than check the oil, the task of being the Executive Chef on our charters often falls

to me. Over many years and many charters all over the Caribbean, I’ve learned a few things that might serve fellow charterers well, both down island and in the Chesapeake. The following tips are merely food for thought and a starting point; the best way to learn how to be an effective gal-ley wench is to get out there and do it!

Be Wary of Provisioning “Packages.” Although the offerings have gotten more sophis-ticated and tailored, the standard provisioning packages offered by charter companies can be way off the mark. Oftentimes, the ingredients supplied simply don’t fit together, and too much

food is provided, leading to waste. We spent our first bareboat charter, for which we’d ordered “lite” provisioning, trying to figure out what to do with five cantaloupes and five honeydew melons. The dock staff will happily accept un-opened packages of food, or you can pass them along to the next crews arriving for their sail. There are better ways to provision.

Go Shopping, or Have Someone Do It For You. The goods available in supermarkets in the more well-traveled islands have improved vastly over the years. Things have advanced from canned deviled ham and freezer-burned “meat” to a vast array of recognizable foods. Oftentimes, the stores are also stocked with luxurious and exotic products that are imported to the islands

but not to the United States, such as Irish butter, fancy French patés, and Italian antipasti.

If you don’t feel like grocery shopping your-self, some of the stores will allow you to order in advance from a long list of items, and for a small fee, will deliver right to your boat. It’s a great feeling to start your charter with all of the food you ordered onboard and stowed, with the cockroach-harboring cardboard boxes removed. If you don’t trust someone to take care of your provisioning, consider using the charter company or a store to take care of the heavy stuff, like water and other beverages.

Go Local. One of the reasons to go sailing in the Caribbean is to expand your horizons. This can include your palate as well. Plan on several meals ashore; the local restaurants appreciate the business and can certainly use it since tour-

ism has declined due to the world economy. If you do so, be sure to reserve in advance so that they know to be open for you. Most waterfront restaurants monitor VHF 16, but don’t use your boat’s name when reserving, because, in some locales, petty thieves have been known to moni-tor the radio so they know when a particular boat will be unoccupied.

When doing your own cooking, think about incorporating local ingredients. Local hot sauces and seasonings are always a great bet, and every island seems to have many choices. The Sunny Caribbee shop in Roadtown, Tortola has a great selection of spice blends, and I so enjoy their curry and jerk seasonings that in between charters, I order them by the pound and have them shipped to the US. Similarly, Grenada has a bounty of locally-grown spices, which can

The Galley Wench is happy. While she tends to the side dishes, she has delegated the cooking of meat over fire to the men.

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Even better is getting your hands on some fresh seafood. One of my most memorable experiences was buying still-wriggling lobsters from a fisherman in a dugout canoe in the Belize cayes and en-joying them simply grilled for dinner that evening. And the Bahamas, in particular, are known for superlative baked goods—the bread alone is to die for, and the life span of a key lime pie from Vernon’s grocery store in Hopetown (Abacos) is very brief.

Keep it Simple. Few charter crews expect a gourmet spread on a sailboat, so don’t kill yourself providing it. Although Painkillers and margaritas are awfully nice, it’s easy enough to leave those to the professionals ashore and limit your own bartending to wine, beer, and simple cocktails of just a few ingredients (like rum and cola, rum and ginger ale, or vodka and cranberry).

For lunches, I’ve learned that wraps are tasty and useful for using up leftovers and can be consumed underway if you’re still sailing midday. For dinners, I almost always use the grill, especially if it’s a pro-pane-fired one (it can take a while for coals to get ready in a breezy anchorage). Not only does grilling keep the galley cooler, it also spreads the labor around, since the galley wench can delegate the grilling task to one of the other crew. To reduce dishwashing, I’ve got a handful of recipes that can be assembled in a foil packet and tossed on the grill—think fish, tomatoes, onions, and par-boiled potato slices with a bit of seasoning, olive oil, and lemon juice.

Stick with Hardy Supplies. Charter boat refrigerators are notoriously unreliable and fickle. While supermarkets are better-stocked now than ever, much of the fresh produce that is available, most of which is imported, is of questionable age and qual-ity. The combination can result in a lot of ruined food, particularly the more delicate or perishable foods, such as lettuce, mush-rooms, and lunch meats. If you do buy such items, use them up early in your trip.

Better yet, choose foods that are hardier, many of which don’t require refrigeration. Produce such as cabbage, potatoes, onions, bell peppers, and apples survive the rigors of importation better, are less sensitive to temperature swings in a refrigerator, and can be stored in a basket or locker. Canned tuna (or foil-packed) can be part of a great lunchtime wrap or a pasta salad and has

a much longer shelf-life than deli turkey. Hard cheeses seem impervious to abuse. Many salad dressings—even mayonnaise if handled properly—don’t require refrigera-tion, saving you fridge space better used for storing ice for cocktails.

Bring Along Some Staples. While many charter companies provide a “charter starter” kit of some basic supplies (limited, it seems, to paper towels, a few trash bags,

matches, and the ever-important compli-mentary bottle of local rum), other things that galley wenches are used to having on hand will need to be purchased. With respect to many of these items, you need to buy a full package just to get that single

teaspoon. Rather than waste an entire package, bring along the seasonings and spices that you are likely to use in small zipper bags. In addition, some items simply

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won’t be available or will be difficult to find; to the extent they are easy to carry (powdered drink mixes, energy bars), bring them along as well.

Alas, one chef’s staple remains problematic: the knife. Knives aboard charter boats are poor excuses for cutting instruments, either because they were never very good to begin with or were abused. Some regular charterers and charter boat owners of my acquaintance actually keep storage lockers in Tortola and keep their special supplies there. The rest of us have to struggle with airline and TSA luggage restrictions to either bring a good knife with us, or steel ourselves for the likelihood of mangling our food.

Plan Ahead. Since I am an early riser, I use morning down time to do a lot of prep in the galley. If the cabin is already being heated up by coffee being made, I’ll also boil eggs or pasta for lunchtime chef or pasta salads or parboil potatoes for later use with dinner. If bacon is part of the breakfast menu, make extra for BLTs. Plan on ingredients serving double duty: extra grilled chicken from dinner can go into sandwiches or pasta salad.

Final Note. None of these suggestions is ground-breaking or even novel. But what is easily done in a kitchen at home takes a lot more effort on a moving platform, with unfamiliar ingredi-

ents and subpar equipment. A little planning ahead and ingenuity can help ensure that your crew is happy and that you spend less time in the galley and more time enjoying your vacation.

About the Author: Eva Hill is a corporate lawyer at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston in Baltimore. She and her husband Rick sail their Sabre 38 Calypso out of Annapolis and escape to tropical anchorages in the off-sea-son. E-mail her at [email protected].

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Cruising Club Notes

Life in the Fast Lane

Plans continue at a brisk pace for Yeo-comico 2009, the Northern Neck SA’s (NNSA) second annual regatta

at Port Kinsale Marina September 25-26. The event is open to all single hull sailboats and novice and experienced sailors. Pro-ceeds will benefit Smith Point Sea Rescue. Port Kinsale Marina is the starting location and site of all the festivities and has made slips available at reduced rates for partici-pants and spectators. The marina is in a beautiful location on the west branch of the Yeocomico and is home to the Moor-ing restaurant. The fun includes a Captains’ Meeting and pizza party on Friday and a BBQ and awards ceremony after Saturday’s racing (see right). Join the fun, learn about our group, and meet members (nnsa-sail-ing.com). —by Patricia Hammond

Bahamian Rhapsody

The Hunter SA (HSA) (bottom right) will gather on the Rhode River over Labor Day weekend for

our traditional Bahama Mama Raft. With the theme of Bahamian music, cuisine, and dress, this three-day gathering starts September 5 by the sand bar that was once High Island and will choose Sunday’s anchorage site on Saturday. On September 26, we will mark the beginning of autumn with Equinox Rafts in the Miles River and on San Domingo Creek off the Choptank; both groups will meet in St. Michaels for libations and dinner. Join the rafts by hail-ing “HSA One” on VHF channel 78 (hsa1.org). —by Carl Reitz

We Be Jammin’

O n September 11-12, the Wind-jammers of the Chesapeake will descend upon the Gibson Island

Boat House, relax with friends on Black Hole Creek, and preview the winter lec-tures. On tap this winter are: Beth Leon-ard’s take on “The Great Capes” (December 5), Tanya Aebi’s tale of circumnavigating with her teenage sons on Shangri-La ( January 16), Gary Jobson’s “Racing Scene” (February 13), and Dick and Dixie Goerte-miller’s great Chesapeake Bay explorations (March 13). Please join us ([email protected]). —by Leah Duer Alfriend and Joe Wood

“Letts” Camp, Shall We?

Shift into cruise mode with the Seven Seas Cruising Association (SSCA). Camp Letts will be packed with

more than 200 sailors enjoying the 23rd Annapolis Gam September 25-27. Don’t miss donuts and coffee courtesy of St. Brendan’s Isle Mail Forwarding Service; countless cocktail parties; and SSCA’s cruising seminars, roundtables, demos, nau-tical flea market, camaraderie, great food, prizes (including hard-to-resist SpinSheet T-shirts!), and fun. You don’t have to be an SSCA member to attend (ssca.org). —by Barbara Theisen and Bo Chin

Onboard Party Primer

A cockpit cocktail party is a terrible thing to waste. The key ingredients are an invitation, proper attire (Speedos are never a good idea), a great venue (your sailboat or mine?), the chance to make new friends (keep your right hand free), courteous behavior, and always fun food and drinks. Most times, there’s an island theme, so invest in

a good lei. When you arrive, greet your hosts; when you leave, thank them. Always bring a bottle of wine (unopened, of course) or a six-pack of beer. Time-tested fuss-free appetizers will always be appreciated (this is not the time to test drive Aunt FuFu’s Pork and Pomegranate Popovers). Never show up with an empty glass, and never ask, “So, how’s work?” Now, go out and test your new skills; practice makes perfect. —by Ruth Christie/[email protected]

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strong when we didn’t need it and absent when we tried to race. Note to self: don’t chase the wind; play the current, instead. On our post-race paddle back to the yacht club, as you would expect, a nice breeze came in. The party at the Miles River

YC came on strong with cocktails and a wonderful dinner with soft-shell crab, crab cakes, and chicken. We all enjoyed the Tred Avon YC Heritage Regatta August 29-30, sailing with Log Canoes, Comets, Shields, Penguins, and occasionally Hamptons off Oxford. Labor Day weekend will bring the 80th annual Bill Heintz Memorial Regatta paired with the 70th annual Annapolis to Galesville Race with the West River SC (WRSC), along with food, trophies, beer, and more (chesapeake20.org). —by Ted Weihe

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Goin’ to Galesville

The third annual Dickerson Western Shore Roundup will be Septem-ber 25-26 on the West River near

Galesville, MD. Festivities will include a Friday night cookout at the West River SC (WRSC), a Rabbit Start race at noon, a cocktail party at WRSC, and dinner at Pirates Cove Restaurant. Last year, Bill Toth and won the race on his 37-foot Cut-ter Starry Night and has been serving as the Admiral of the Western Shore.

Dickerson boats were made in Trappe, MD from the 1940s thru the 1980s. Many of these boats have been faithfully restored and maintained. This year, the annual Dickerson Owners Association Rendez-vous will move to Block Island (willoworks.com/dickerson). —by Randy Bruns

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The Corsica River YC stepped up the August 15-16 weekend with a unique

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Potapskut SA sailors (below) will host their 37th Race to Queenstown and its 70th Race back September 19-20. Participants are invited

to a floating rendezvous and trophy presentation on beautiful Queenstown Creek on the Chester River after the race. Two large Chesapeake Bay workboats will host the party. Free cocktails and snacks for skippers and crew promptly at 5 p.m. The event of-fers PHRF A, B, C/D, and N as well as Alberg 30, Triton, and Cruising starts near Pasadena, MD (psasailing.com). —by Mike Wingate

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On August 9, the Georgetown YC hosted our 15th annual

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The Moonlight Cruise shined August 14-16 with raft-ups on Swan Creek and the Corsica River. Labor Day weekend will feature our second biannual raft-up on the Rhode River and our signature Shoreside BBQ at Ann and Andrew Barrett’s home (thecorinthians.org). —by Tom Berry

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They came by sailboat, inflatable, dinghy, and kayak for the Jew-ish Maritime Rendezvous on the

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Quiet Covesbrought delectable Jewish deli to fill their larder. Labor Day weekend (September 5-7) will find us on Langford Creek and then gunkholing on the Magothy River. While enjoying the scenery in these anchorages, club members will either chortle or groan when thinking about the chicken crossing the road who is poultry in motion. The Jew-ish Navy welcomes rejoinders; humor is but a part of our cockpit chatter. If you would like to join as well as add to your good times and frivolity on the water, contact [email protected]. —by Adiva Sotzsky

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Chesapeake Bay Tartan 34 Classic Association members will join our sister Tartans on

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It Hardly Seems Possible

While Magothy River SA (MRSA) racers finish the last two Wednesday night Series

of the season, September finds MRSA cruisers visiting creeks near and far. After a Labor Day cruise to the Choptank, we will join up for the annual Dessert Cruise and Champagne Brunch in Baltimore. This has traditionally been a fun joint venture with the Chesapeake Bristol Club, and each year, we have improved our brunching skills to professional status. On the final cruise in September, we will venture south to Church Creek on the South River for brunch with the commodore. We specialize in breakfasts! September also marks when Wednesday night racing draws to a close. While many of the same racers continue to come out for the Hallie Rice Series that continues into October and November, we will hold our annual Trophy Party at the Gibson Island Yacht Squadron October 7 (magothysailing.com). —by Peggy Poe

August 1 brought five CBCB boats to LeCompte Bay off the Choptank. The Callahans’ raft-up, featuring fine nettle pool services, a variety of food, an assortment of adult bever-ages, stories and laughter, and an appreciation of how lucky we are. The next morning, we headed off with radars spin-ning into a mystical fog that eventually lifted for a morning of good sailing and a mid-day storm. Photo by Lisa Callahan

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well as Swan and Worton Creeks. The final dinner will be a BBQ at Oak Harbor Marina on Rock Creek with vice commodore Pe-ter and Margaret Madden and Paul Kavanaugh. During our annual Big Baltimore Blowout with the Magothy River SA September 11-13, we’ll mix and mingle at the Inner Harbor East Marina starting with cocktails Friday night, intriguing land tours of Balti-more on Saturday, and a dockside Sunday Brunch. Cruise leaders are Paul and Marge Kavanaugh with help from Prue Clopp and Janet (commodore) and Bruce George. Newcomers are always welcome (cbclub.info). —by Deb Coons

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Pulling an Overnighter

July 31-August 1, Whimsey (a 1971 Venture 22) and Pegehiwime (a Preci-sion 23) (below) from the North East

River YC set forth on their own version of the Governor’s Cup by racing from the North East River to the Severn. The Sippy Cup was Corinthian in spirit and started at 7:30 p.m. Friday, with each boat promising to record its own finish time. Winds were good at the start, light through the night, and then great for our sail under the Bay Bridge and into the harbor. We finished around 1 p.m. Saturday. Docking at An-napolis City Marina, both boats enjoyed an evening of good friends, cold drinks, and good grilled food. If you own a small sailboat and want to try sailing through the night, contact us in June of next year; we plan to make the Sippy Cup an annual event (neryc.com). —by Dobbs and Suzanne Fryberger

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On July 18-19, more than 30 members of the Back Creek YC (BCYC) on 15 boats enjoyed our Summer Swim Party Weekend at Mears Point Marina at Kent Narrows, featuring Belgian waffles, bagels, and BBQ.

Stay tuned for news of our Rendezvous Raft-Up August 1 on the west branch of the Wye River between Drum Point and Big Wood Cove (gobcyc.com). —by Otto Hetzel

A Wild Race to the Party

For Bay sailors, the Wildwood (NJ) Classic Cup Regatta (below) once again proved to be the biggest and baddest Hobie Regatta on the East Coast with free camping on the beach, free tickets to the water park, and ocean

racing at its best. Next on tap for Hobie Fleet 443 are racing and parties in honor of the Hobie Points Regatta and H17 Championships at the Rock Hall YC September 26-27 (hobiefleet443.com). —by Mark Schneider

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Just when we thought we may escape a real Chesapeake summer, August reminded us that it takes

thick skin—or is it thin?—to tolerate such thick air. The sun is visibly setting earlier. As we plan Labor Day events, such as CBYRA Annapolis Race Week (September 5-6) and regattas on the Southern Bay (see page 82), and pre-pare for that “last” weeknight race, we know we can’t ignore it anymore: the fall equinox is three weeks away.

It’s been an amazing summer—we have photographic proof and more of it than we can ever fit within the confines of these pages. Turn to page 80 for some racing highlights, and click to spinsheet.com for a much larger, downloadable collection.

The following letter from Regan Weaver, a Solomons native, who has sailed up and down the Bay, may be one of our favorites we’ve received all year. We clipped it from the letters section and saved it for racing, because that’s really what it’s about—helping out fellow racers, even the ones we’re trying to beat.

Dear SpinSheet,Thanks very much for your coverage and

sponsorship of Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge July 19-22. I loved the Screwpile Daily and SpinSheet tattoo booth.

For me, this was the best Screwpile ever. It felt like a love-fest! It’s not often that you can go out on the race course and be surrounded by family and friends who offer unconditional sup-port and encouragement even as they compete against you. My dad (John Edwards of Rhumb Punch) gave me the helm, and I got encourage-ment not only from my own crew but also from my closest competitors. Matt Beck, sailing onboard Kahuna, gave me Farr 30 helming tips after day one—despite the fact that we were in a tight battle with each other for hardware. When I got the gun in race six, I could hear the cheers coming from boats all over the fleet. It was amazing.

Maybe I’m a special case (my hubby would say I’m a head-case, but that’s a whole ‘nother letter), because I’m from Solomons Island, and I’ve sailed all over the Bay during my lifetime; but I really felt like this week was full of happiness on the race course. Everywhere you looked, there were happy faces and good vibes. The wind posed challenges to the race

committee, but everyone was patient. PRO Don Behrens remained smiling the whole time. The Farr 30s were all finishing within seconds of each other in race after race, and yet genuinely we smiled at the end of each race and congratulated each other on our performances.

Even the boat that was “launched” in our class, Wairere, was so incredibly gra-cious. I spoke to Adam Minoprio, their onboard Kiwi hot shot, and he was so nice to chat about the races and offer tips. Another notable sailor onboard Wairere, Kate Dawson, also offered lots of encour-agement. Maybe I had been in a bad mood for the past few years. I could have sworn that my sport was full of people with bad attitudes and terrible drinking habits (well, maybe the drinking persists), but after this week, I have a new love for racing sailboats.

Thanks so much for your great coverage of the event. I can’t wait to buy some of those mark rounding shots from the Photo Gallery at spinsheet.com. And thank you so much for your generous sponsorship and organizing efforts. The feel-good aura that

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The Kahuna crew on the rail at the 2009 Screwpile. Photo by Mark Talbott/SpinSheet

Regan Weaver smiling aboard the Farr 30 Rhumb Punch at the 2009 Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge. Photo by Mary Ewenson/SpinSheet


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Governor’s Cup 2009: A Delicate Minuet Up the River to St. Mary’s

The 36th running of the St. Mary’s College Governor’s Cup from An-napolis to St. Mary’s was the classic

three-movement symphony: light/heavy or heavy/light with the invariable delicate minuet up the River. This is one of the oldest and longest Bay races, running from Maryland’s “new” Capital to its old one. One hundred and 21 boats were scored and with some very notable performances. The overall trophy went to Sjambok, Michael Brennan’s 45-foot PHRF A-0 entry, as the fastest class got down the Bay and up the St. Mary’s River before the classic wind-set at sun-rise.

However, the most impressive per-formances were turned in by two smaller boats. Al Holt’s crew, PHRF-A3 winner in the Olson 30 Kestrel, kept to the west of

the rhumb line, walked past the major-ity of boats to the east, and finished well into the next couple of fleets. Holt felt that the wind would stay from the west, and any pressure was going to come from there. That is where Kestrel found it. The old “stay east and be the first to pop the kite when the wind goes right” strategy didn’t work this time. Holt was the first to confirm what many others thought.

The performance of the night was turned in by Rick, Eric, and Kyle Hanson’s (NERYC) J/80 Born2Run in PHRF-B. Born2Run was within sight of Kestrel most of the night. Holt says, “My God, these guys gave the fleet a sailing lesson!” Born2Run finished in among the middle of the PHRF-A1 Fleet while starting three fleets later, which pushed the laws of physics.

Other notables: line honors went to Zaraffa, from the U.S. Naval Academy. Anema & Core had a rough night on one of the St. Mary’s River shoals after blow-ing out the Code 0 earlier. Trinity took

the competitive multi-hull fleet. Charlie Deakyne (SCC) and the Scrimshaw team took home the Steve Bickell trophy for Most Improved. “Deak” has done all the “Gov Cups” since 1981 in his Alberg 37. A quarter of the fleet chose to compete in Non-Spinnaker, where Dan Shannon’s (SMSA) J/29 The Doghouse bested a 32-boat fleet.

Distance races, the Governor’s Cup in particular, provide racers a great reason to get away from their computers and “crackberrys” for an extended period. They spend time with friends and family in fresh air, under the stars, in pursuit of a goal requiring teamwork and actual face-to-face communication (OMG!). And St. Mary’s College goes the extra mile to make the destination a treat. On a final note, one of the most refreshing changes in years is the new James P. Muldoon River Center waterfront building, which includes air conditioned heads and showers. Now that’s worth Twittering about!

by Al Schreitmueller

Her First (But Not Her Last) Overnight Race

We all knew before we left the dock on Friday there was a good chance we would not finish the race in the

allotted time. We were racing 70 nautical miles to the southern end of the Bay in a confident but not too flashy Pearson 30. Mike Jewell, the skipper, was cautiously optimistic that if the winds were strong enough, the main and jib could carry us to St. Mary’s City by 3:35 p.m. on Satur-day—21 hours later. (This year, boats were allowed to record their own time beyond the 21-hour limit, but really, we knew we would all have expired by then.) The forecast was stormy and menacing, so we had a prayer.

This was my first overnight sailboat race—the 36th annual Governor’s Cup race July 31 to August 1. We joined 130 other boats in one of the longest overnight races on the Bay (the Down the Bay Race being the longest at 120 nautical miles). As it turns out, the storms came early, as we were provisioning the boat, leaving about

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10- to 15-knot winds from the west-north-west for our 6:35 p.m. start.

“I left the handheld GPS in my car,” said a fellow crew member a trifle absent-mindedly. (He shall remain anonymous. He feels bad enough.) After circling back to the dock, we arrived at red buoy “R2” about five minutes after the last boats in our PHRF N non-spinnaker crossed the starting line.

We were able to catch up to the back of our fleet near Herring Bay as the sun was setting. While the majority of the fleet headed out toward the middle of the Bay, we chose to keep a bit closer to the western shore, in hopes of cutting off some distance. The wind was consistent at about seven or eight knots.

As night fell, the wind lightened to nothing as the stars and moon appeared. We were comforted by the green glow of the other competitors’ navigational lights, knowing we were still in the mix. More nothing. No wind. For the better part of four hours, our shift of three took turns driving and checking tell-tales to no avail. We counted shooting stars, watched the occasional glow of the phosphorus on the

water and the flickering of the red and green buoys in the distance. It would have been serene if it weren’t for the offensive lights of Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant and the nearby Dominion Cove Point LNG terminal to our right. In the middle of the perfectly still night, those lights taunted us for hours.

The second shift must have made some ground because when we woke, we were happy to find a few boats behind us, and I was especially happy to have passed the industrial lights from the LNG terminal. Hooper Island was to our port, and we were between Cedar Point and Point No Point. The Bay had widened into a beauti-ful expanse of blue, but was utterly and completely flat again. The only movement was from the jumping schools of fish. I reached for a beer, err, I mean cup of cof-fee, and we did the math. We knew then for sure we would not be finishing in 21 hours unless the wind picked up substan-tially. The forecast for us was grim, but the morning weather and scenery were pleas-ant. We were in convivial company, so we opted to continue sailing.

The wind increased to about four knots when we reached Point No Point, but the heat and humidity increased too. I began to experience what I call perspiration inconti-nence. And, an anonymous crew member (the one who forgot the GPS at the dock) wrenched his back and was lying flat, un-able to move.

“What do we need, a big sign that reads, ‘stop’ to descend from the sky?,” asked Bob, who was sweating as much as I was. Evidently so, because we kept sailing until we turned the corner of Point Lookout. Boats from the A0 and A1 class passed us by, motoring home after already finishing.

Without a spinnaker, our speed maxed out at two knots, so we turned on the motor and began taking turns jumping into the Bay and letting the boat drag us through the water. We motored on, passed the finish boat the Maryland Dove, replica of a 17th-century square-rigger. We anchored off St. Mary’s College and joined the onshore party in progress. Perhaps next year we’ll finish the race, but (excuse the cliché please) in the end, it was about the journey.

by Carrie Gentile


Any August regatta on the Chesapeake Bay that begins with a sunny morning spinnaker start in moderate breeze is

off to a terrific start, and Tred Avon YC’s (TAYC) Oxford Regatta August 7 to 9 was blessed with such a day. Fifty-eight boats started just after 10 a.m. off Annapo-lis and arrived in Oxford between 5 and 6:30 p.m.—a cause for celebration, as many remember dark finishes from years past.

Saturday in Oxford was a bit more August-like and windless than racers care to remember. The good news, according to TAYC commodore Richard Slaughter, was having 43 PHRF boats registered for the Robson Around the Buoys Race, the larg-est number for some time; although, there was not enough wind to compete. Sunday’s beautiful conditions made up for Satur-day’s “bob.” One-design classes—Optis,

Nothing Compares to You, Oxford RegattaComets, Penguins, Stars, Snipes, and log canoes, which completed a second race and a 13-mile one at that—fit in plenty of rac-ing. One hundred and 75 boats competed in the weekend festivities overall.

Bruce Bingman, whose team captured first in the race down in PHRF A1, says, “The entire crew of Blockade Runner feels that this is one of the best regattas of the summer. We are really pleased that it was moved back to the original format. The Friday-Saturday format allows several of our crew who race Stars or log canoes to participate in the race down and still sail the weekend races in other classes and lets the rest of us sit on the balcony of TAYC and watch the afternoon log canoe races.”

Crew member Taran Teague notes how much she likes the six racing circles with boats ranging from Optis to log canoes and

For those not strong (or crazy) enough to brave the boards on

Chesapeake Bay log canoes, spectat-ing from the water or from the Tred

Avon YC is a sport in itself at the annual Oxford Regatta. Photo by Al

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how “you never know who you will see” on the water in Oxford—Annapolis sail maker Jonathan Bartlett with his daughter in a Penguin, racers Shane Zwingelberg and Pete McChesney cruising around in a pow-erboat waiting on a Star start, and many other familiar faces from both sides of the Bay. Teague is also thankful that TAYC welcomes competitors and friends into the air-conditioned club to watch in comfort and sip a beverage.

“Nothing compares to the Oxford Regatta,” says Ken Comerford, whose team came in second in the new J/95 Napoleon Dynamite in PHRF A3 in the race down. “It’s one of the few regattas you can bring your kids to. They can sail in Optis, while their parents sail, too.” They may also sail with the kids as Comerford did on a Pen-guin with his son.

“It’s a Corinthian-style event right up to the awards ceremony—it’s a truly whole-some, really special event. It’s exactly what this sport needs more of. I’d like to see it grow and thrive.”To find results, visit tayc.com and cbyra.org.

A sunny morning with a following breeze--not a bad way to start an August regatta, as was the case for this year’s race from Annapolis to the Tred Avon River to kick off the annual Ox-ford Regatta. Photo by Mark Talbott/SpinSheet


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Born 2 Run all night long down the Bay...Governor’s Cup photo by Dan Phelps/SpinSheet

Nothing makes a crew hike quite as hard as a photo boat. Screwpile 2009 photo by SpinSheet

SpinSheet tattoos were all the rage at this year’s Screwpile parties, where we learned that requests get stranger after dark. We’re not quite sure who applied the tattoos or took the photo.

Back in action on the water in 2009, Nicole Weav-er, Jenn Kaye, and Linda Ambrose on Euro Trash Girl at the start of the EYC Solomons Invitational in July. Photo by Mark Talbott/SpinSheet

Working hard on deck at the 2009 Screwpile Regatta in July. Photo by SpinSheet


Farewell Summer 2009The Solomons Race, the Screwpile Regatta, Governor’s Cup, and Oxford—so many summer traditions, we can barely keep up with them let alone find space for all the wonderful photos. Here are a few of the pretty highlights of the past few months. You may see more photos and download high resolution versions at the Photo Gallery at spinsheet.com anytime. Enjoy the final sailing days of summer. We’ll see you on the water in the fall... ~M.W.

First Look and Lottery parading along at the 2009 Screwpile Regatta. Photo by Mark Talbott/SpinSheet

Farr 40 action at the 2009 Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge in Solomons in July. Photo by Mark Talbott/SpinSheet

The Chesapeake Bay log canoe Edmee S. at the 2009 Oxford Regatta August 7-9. Photo by Al Schreitmueller

It pays to pose for SpinSheet as one Yankee Clipper crew member does at the start of the 2009 Governor’s Cup overnight race. Photo by Dan Phelps/SpinSheet


Twenty boats sailed in the Hampton One-Design (HOD) 75th National Championship Regatta held August

14-16 out of the Hampton YC (HYC). The Latane Montague/Pellerito team, who claim they never met before the event, was all but unbeatable, posting five bullets over the three-day, six-race regatta. The team’s throw-out was a third-place finish in race one. Montague says he has his new-found crew’s cell phone number written in per-manent ink on his wrist!

Four other boats battled down to the last race on Sunday for second place, while the rest of the fleet enjoyed three great days of racing, great wind, grand parties, and a special Mariners’ Museum unveiling of restored HOD Hull #1 and its placement in an honored position at the entrance of the museum’s International Small Craft Center.

2009 HOD National Championship Results1. Montague/Pellerito [3] -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 2. Gordon Wolcott/Sam Stokes (2008 National Champions) 6 - [10] -2 -2- 3 - 3 3. Mark and Kathy Wheeler 1- 4- [7] -5 - 6- 2 4. Randy and Ann Stokes 2 - [9] -3-4-4-5 5. Eddie Wolcott, Jr and Sarah Wolcott 4 - [7] -6-3-2-4. For full results, visit shorenet.net/hamptonone.

The 75th HOD National ChampionshipsOne of the highlights of the HOD 75th

anniversary celebration at the museum was the awarding of the Mariners Tro-phy to HOD racer Charles McCoy, Jr. for his service to the HOD Class and to sailing. McCoy was racing this year in his 50th consecutive HOD National Champion-ship. He and his son Charles McCoy, III finished ninth overall and won the special Heritage Race run on Sunday morning for the fleet of wooden “heritage” boats.

Dave “Chappy” and Leigh Chapman were event chairs; John McCarthy was the Principal Race Officer; Dave and Suzanne Hamilton, Bill and David Gibbings, and Glenn Giles volunteered on mark boats; and Scott Almond acted as official scorer.

Reporting by Lin McCarthy

The HOD fleet enjoyed three great days of racing, great wind, grand parties, and a special Mariners’ Museum unveiling of restored HOD Hull #1. Photo by Buddy DeRyder

The 75th Hampton One-Design (HOD) National Championships unfolded August 14-15 out of Hampton YC. Photo by Buddy DeRyder

15th Annual Stingray Point Regatta, September 5-6

Hosted by the Fishing Bay YC. Special attention to pre-and post-race social activities and two-days

of round-the-buoys racing. Organiz-ers have left Monday, the actual holi-day, open for a return delivery home. Starts for all PHRF classes (non-spin is single headsail only) as well as J/105 one-design and other monohull one-design [keel boat] classes with sufficient entries. For entry and details, contact event chairman David Hinckle at (804) 370-7650 or visit fbyc.net.

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(DVR), September 5

Hosted by the Norfolk Yacht and Country Club (NY&CC). DVR 9 is a one-day event, sailed

in Hampton Roads harbor, offer-ing starts for PHRF A, B, C, and non-spin in addition to a cruising fleet. There’s a skippers’ welcome reception at the NY&CC lounge on Friday, September 4, a continental breakfast Saturday morning on the club south patio, and a reception and awards banquet following racing in the main bar and dining room on Saturday at 6 p.m. For docking ar-rangements at NY&CC, contact the harbormaster directly at (757) 286-1752. For entry and details, contact John Hume at (757) 288-9985.Look for coverage of the Cape Charles Cup (August 22-23) in the October issue of SpinSheet.

Labor Day on the Southern Bay

Southern Bay racers will be busy over Labor Day weekend with the following events:


Sailing and Healing: The Chesapeake Bay’s Leukemia Cup Regattas

Upcoming Leukemia Cup EventsSeptember 11-12: National Capital Chapter Leuke-mia Cup at Washington Sailing Marina in Alexan-dria, VA.October 24: Baltimore Leukemia Cup held out of Baltimore City YA (a CBYRA-sanctioned event).

For more information on both events, visit leukemia-lymphoma.org/regatta, and click on 2009 Schedule.

In the Southern Bay Leukemia Cup, Leroi Lissenden’s Voodoo 2 dominated PHRF-A with three bullets. Photo by Linda Meneghini

The now widely popular Leukemia Cup events up and down the Bay (and nationally) have raised thousands of dollars for blood cancers and continue to grow and di-

versify. In addition to traditional sailing regattas, dinners, and auctions, successful additions such as poker runs and junior regattas are examples of how the festivities have di-

versified to expand the events’ reach, increasing fundraising opportunities for sailors of all ages, spectators, and power-boaters and giving a wider audience an understanding of the diseases and a chance to help. We celebrate the Leukemia Cups and look forward to the final events of 2009 and many, many more.

Southern Bay Leukemia Cup Exceeds Expectations

The 11th Annual Southern Chesapeake Leukemia Cup Regatta held in Del-taville over the weekend of July 10-12

was a big success with 85 registered yachts and enthusiastic crowds at the Auction and Gala helping to raise over an estimated $160,000 in cash and in-kind donations to support patients with blood cancers. The funds raised came not just from the sailors who competed on the race course but also from area business sponsors, led by the presenting sponsor SunTrust Bank, and countless individual community supporters of all the Leukemia Cup events that began in the early spring and culminated with the Regatta held at the Fishing Bay YC (FBYC).

Carolyn Norton Schmalenberger, co-chair of the event, says, “The results were far better than expected considering current

economic conditions.” Co-chair Judy Buis expressed her gratitude to the sailing com-munity for “close to a record turnout on the race course affirming the event’s reputation as one of the Bay’s premiere competitive sailing events.”

The racing fleets were treated to sun and big breezes on Saturday followed by a drifting match on Sunday in pleasantly cool mid-summer temperatures. The two-day racing format was officiated by principal race officers Brooks Zerkel on the east course and Lud Kimbrough on the west course supported by a host of on-the-water volunteers. Overall awards for the top boats in each division were presented on Sunday afternoon following the final race.

But the action at this year’s Leukemia Cup was not confined to the race course. Augmented by spacious tents erected on

the grounds of the FBYC, members of the Stingray Harbour YC and other volunteers transformed a grassy plot into the site for the event’s popular fundraising auction on Friday night and for the Leukemia Cup Gala celebration with food, beverages, and entertainment on Saturday night.

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society once again was overwhelmed with the level of enthusiasm from the host yacht clubs and the Deltaville and Middlesex commu-nities. Laura Boone, campaign coordinator for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, expressed it best when she says that the event supporters, sponsors, organizers, and volunteer workers were “amazing people with huge hearts that share their love of the water to help our patients and their families. For that we are so lucky.”

For full results, visit fbyc.net.


Part Regatta, Part Gypsy Encampment:The Corsica River Race

by Chris Rogers

In July, I participated in the Corsica River race, from Baltimore Light, across the Bay and around Kent Island, then up the Chester past Queen-

stown and the mouth of the Corsica River to a raft-up off of Conquest Beach State Park in a pretty little cove on the Chester. It’s a long trip in my Cal 25, but we were well provisioned. It was a beauti-ful day, and the Corsica River YC did a great job throwing a party.

The weather is generally expected to be steamy, or perhaps it’s just hard to get away for the weekend.

The scene on the beach is reminiscent of a county fair, family reunion, or gypsy encampment. I find the older wooden dinghies and catboats to be fascinating. If you are ever in need of conversation, just ask an older fellow how he built or restored his wooden boat. There is the traditional “Big Chicken Dinner” offered for sale, and many people grill their

own dinners. Beer, water, and soft drinks are available as well as the perennial “red slushies” which, with a splash of Mt. Gay and a twist of lime, make excellent sum-mer coolers (Corsica Daiquiris, if you will).

The entertainment started (as usual) with “Bitter Creek,” a local bluegrass band and a favorite of mine that plays up until about 8 p.m. At 9 p.m., the entertainment shifts to be a bit more “downtown” (Cent-reville) with “Fly by Night,” a group of young fellows (from my perspective) havin’ a whole lot of fun and spreading it around. The two bands are separated by a short and sweet awards ceremony, and this year, by a hellacious thunderstorm that blew through.

The word on the beach is that next year, the rendezvous venue will move to the Corsica River YC itself, with more modern facilities than those provided at the park. Rumor has it that there may even be hot showers, rather than those reported to be fed by a glacial aquifer at the park. In any event, I hope to bring the slushies.

For results, visit cryc.org.

The Corsica River Annual Regatta is actually two different events: the “big boat” race across the Bay for various PHRF and cruising one-design classes and the “little boat” race, a two-day regatta for all manner of small craft (dinghies, prams, catboats, and multihulls). In recent years, the big boat race has dwindled somewhat (19 entrants this year), perhaps because of being sandwiched between Solomons and Governors Cup Races.

There’s something about the Corsica River Regatta that

says “summer” like no other. Photo by Cathy Downes


It Takes a Village: The Melges 24 Worldsby Liz Filter

Most sailboat racers figure if you have good breeze, you’ll have a good re-gatta. But those who do the organiz-

ing know there’s more to success than a stiff, steady wind.

When Eastport YC (EYC) decided to run this fall’s Melges 24 World Champi-onship (October 23-31), it took a big step up. Never before had the young club tack-led such a prestigious international event. Last fall’s Melges 24 North Americans were a trial run with over 50 entries, and while sailing condi-tions were fine, the organizing committee took a hard look at what it was going to take to move forward.

With up to twice as many competi-tors coming for the Worlds, plus more press, officials, and spectators, EYC members wanted to ensure they could deliver a world-class event that reflected well on the club, the region, and of course, the sponsors. In addition to 22 pages of infrastructure requirements from the Melges class repre-sentatives, EYC was faced with parking limitations, a demand for more land-side activity space, and top-notch office and Internet facilities for the international press… all this while respecting the normal business operations of the club. What was EYC to do?

The answer lay right around the corner. When the Melges 24 World Champion-ship opens for a nine-day run October 23, EYC will still be firmly in charge, but instead of Spa Creek, the Worlds will run out of a far roomier site around Horn Point on Back Creek. Race boats will be tied securely to floating docks at Annapolis

Sailing School, and race offices, a press center, and a huge party tent will be on the Sailing School grounds.

EYC Vice Commodore Rick Jackson gets credit for hatching the idea. “He and I started talking right after the North Americans,” says Tim Dowling, who runs the Sailing School. “It didn’t take long to realize it was a good fit.”

The Sailing School has dock space for more than 100 boats and heated, indoor classrooms to serve as press and jury rooms. Beyond that, it has open space like Texas. Once the summer KidShip and Sailing School classes wind down in early Septem-ber, “We’re basically a three-million-dollar waterfront parking lot,” says Dowling, who was keen to seize on the opportunity to put his place to good use in the off-season. He hopes the Melges Worlds gets other clubs thinking about outsourcing their big regattas.

Jeff Borland, principal race officer for the Worlds, said the EYC grounds still will house the race committee and its boats. A boat shuttle will carry officials and racers back and forth between the clubhouse and the Sailing School, and racers are welcome to drink and eat at the club. The rest of the show, from registration to prize-giving, will be at the Sailing School.

Borland has experience with big, highly competi-tive fleets. He ran the J/22 Worlds with 82 boats in Cleveland in 1999 and has headed up the BoatU.S. Santa Maria Cup for women match racers here for seven years with his wife, Sharon. He’s got good help for the Worlds, with EYC Commodore Sharon Hadsell serving as deputy PRO and veteran racer and 2004 Olympian Liz Filter as event chair.

The only remain-ing question, then, is wind. The Chesapeake in October is marked with plenty of crisp, cool, breezy autumn weather, and as all sailors know, if you have good wind, you have a good regatta—once everything else is under control.

Supporting the 2009 Melges 24 World Championship are the following companies: t2p.tv, APS, National Sailing Hall of Fame, Coral Reef

Sailing Apparel, Gill, BoatingLaw.com, Latis Yachting Solutions, Boatyard Bar & Grill, SheSails Inc., Kathryn M Weber, CPA, Sam’s Waterfront Café, Cindy Cady Photography, North Sails One Design, SailFastPhoto, Chesapeake Bay Roast-ing Co., Pusser’s Caribbean Grille, and PantherVision.

Official website: melges24worlds2009.com. For more information or to become a sponsor, contact event chair Liz Filter at [email protected].

The Melges 24 Worlds are coming to Annapolis October 23-31. Photo by Sara Proctor/sailfastphotography.com


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on Tuesday, July 28, but the afternoon sailing was superb. The wind was light, giving these nov-ice sailors and dinghy sailors a chance to adjust to the size and forces of four J/105s, a J/40, and a Farr 33. Six boats took off from the Annapolis YC (AYC) docks in mild air for their practice time and then roared to the finish line in a fresh wind in a mid-afternoon fun race.

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Kevin McNeil, the Chesapeake Station Fleet Captain, Dick Neville, Al Graf, and I were again the organizers. Thanks go to AYC Foundation and also Linda Ambrose, Jay Kehoe, and Jim Hyde and his team, who were extremely helpful in helping organize at the AYC Sailing Center.

The program included breakfast and morning lectures, which started with Tucker Thompson’s “Tactical Errors,” images of dinghies racing and piling up on top of one another, which opened the sleepy eyes of the junior sailors participating. Fred Hecklinger gave knot-tying lessons; Al Schreitmueller gave medical tips; and I gave a slide show of a man-overboard technique and a demo of big boat winches.

We staged a show with a head-sized watermelon on a pole and stuck in a bucket by which the students, now outside the building, saw what their heads might look like if they didn’t know where the boom was at all times, especially coming on deck from down below. The watermelon, standing bright and tall, was scored through for easy

breaking. One of the older students, a tall, strong, young man, took a mighty swing with a metal pole and had the bright red of the watermelon splattered all over the concrete.


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After lunch, the students headed out to the water to practice maneuvers, as well as how to walk around a large racing boat after sitting in sailing dinghies. The wind freshened nicely, and boats were now heel-ing over and going through their drills.

The drills before the mid-afternoon race, with Pete Sarelas as race officer, got the students a little more proficient, because they could not cross the finish line until they had performed three tacks, gybes, and man-overboard drills each. That changed the standings at the finish line regardless

of the boat’s rating, which we actually ig-nored, since it was just a fun race. Probably not a bad idea to have adult racers plan a race with drills like that periodically.

Some pretty tired students helped tie up at the AYC piers and then got their lessons

on “putting a race boat away” complete with sail folding on deck and on the piers.

Then it was “bragging,” pizza, and party time, well organized by Rob and Kellie Ladd.

The prize for the first boat to finish went to the Naval Academy J/105 Dreadnought

run by Jahn Tihansky, Dick Emmett, and Renée Mehl and six of the students from the Sea Scouts.

The goal of the Storm Trysail Club is to further young interested sailors by plac-ing them in larger boats and instructing them in safety. The club’s offshore heavy weather sailors are perfect instructors for this task and also are looking for interest-ed young sailors to join them aboard their boats for Chesapeake Bay races and then for offshore sailing.

To learn more, visit stormtrysail.org.

The Fall in Havre de Grace…

The 2009 Havre de Grace YC John Robert Heffner Jr. Memorial and Fall Invitational will take place October

3. Open to all sailing classes, the event is a CBYRA-sanctioned race held off of Turkey Point. There will be an awards ceremony for first through third place along with fun prizes at the post-race party at Tidewater Marina.

For only $20 ($10 for kids), racers may enjoy an inclusive grilled steak dinner and beverages (beer, wine, and soda), live en-tertainment, assorted door prizes, and fun.

A limited number of free overnight slips will be available for participating race boats. Do not contact the marina for slip information. Instead, contact Al Caffo at (443) 502-5461 or (302) 753-0646, [email protected]. “Dink” service will also be provided to moorings and anchorages pre- and post-party. For the Notice of Race, visit hdgyc.org.

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Executive director of the International Star Class Association, Barbara Bei-gel Vosbury, shares her road trip to

Riverton, NJ with two new Star sailors: Bob Lippincott (18), who is skippering her boat, and her niece Laura Beigel (18), who is skippering Kris Wilson’s boat. The family stories are flying as fast as the unruly river current, and the sailing has just begun…

Current and Tugs and Debris, Oh My!

Racing is around fixed yellow yacht club marks and various lettered and colored government marks. There are ships and

tugs going up and down this river—and they don’t like sailboats in the way. One of the tricks on the river is to sneak up the sides to avoid the current. Sometimes this takes you into anchorages. The Philadel-phia police boat may chase you down if you go in there.

On the leg from E to D there is a huge line of debris in the water. At some point, we need to cross the debris to get into slower moving water. We’re sailing up

All the Star players: Joe Pro, Barbara Beigel

Vosbury, Mark Oberg, Avery Donald, Keith Don-

ald, Bob Lippincott, Kris Wilson, and Laura Beigel.

Sailing with the Stars by Barbara Beigel Vosbury

Part II


current now. Bob looks ahead and asks, “Is that a beach?” I say, “No. It’s just debris.” He says, “No Way!” I say, “Way!” Trying to choose a spot with breeze and less debris is challenging. Bob and I are discussing this when Bob has his first Aha! moment. All those hours listening to his dad about sailing here for 40 years were go-ing to pay off. He asks, “What time is it?” The current is changing. It will stop for 20 minutes and roar the other way. It’s that time. He remembers this. We opt to stay on the channel side of the debris instead of crossing... We cross the line, and the race committee guy says, “Star 7986 over, second place.” Bob’s first Star race, and he scores second.

Race Two. The breeze and current have now switched, and so has the course. Bob asks me what the yellow light means. What yel-low light? I’m just listening to the horns. Out comes the chart—navigating on a very short race, who-da-thunkit? I don’t remember all the details about this race. Bob and I spend some time working on the pointing and trimming of sails. I tell some Uncle Trap stories about “keeping it on the edge,” which will mainly come into play later on. We end up fourth in that race. You gotta love it.

After a Good Rain, Party, and Sleep...

Sunday morning we’re all a little slower out of the beds, and we wake up to dark skies. There is much more breeze than Saturday.

The forecast is for the front to come through and the breeze to build throughout the day. The breeze is coming from across the river straight at the club. Now this may sound okay, but I’m a little confused. We start between the flagpole on the porch on the clubhouse and a mark in the river. How are they going to do this starting line? And there’s really no weather leg. Hm.

Meanwhile it’s gusty, about 14-18 knots. It may be a little much for day two in a Star sail-ing career. We have some time to see how this plays out. Mark Oberg is not sailing. He tells all of us the forecast. It’s just day two for Bob and Laura, and I don’t want them to be nervous about this boat. I want them to always come back to this class.

Kris and Laura opt out of the first race. Bob is really itching to go but will sit ashore if I say so. I did notice that the gusts were fewer and farther between, and Bob’s dad Richard is be-ing the voice of reason saying, “Just try it, you can always come in!” Bob and I dress quickly, launch, and go. We get out in time to start the race.

Of course, we don’t really “get” the course. We make the first mark and then the rest is kind of a blur. Up, then down, then across, and something, something to the finish. No problem. We figure we’ll just deal with it. Well, that’s all well and good until you find yourself leading the race. Now what? Keith makes it easy after one mark and asks, “Aren’t we sup-posed to go to D again?” Then we get closer to D, and Bob and I look at each other. Now what? I yell over and ask. Back to A and then the finish. “Thank you!” Bob goes on to win his first Star race.

The Girls Are Back

Race two, the girls come out. Bob is very excited about this. We get the course this time. We’re in sequence. Our timing is off

a little due to current, and we get to the pin too early. Laura is all over us. Up, down, darn! She nails the start. We’re spinning to get back to the proper side of the line. We play catch up the rest of the race. The breeze is up and down and shifty. The poles are up, they’re down; the rig is forward, it’s back. There is a lot of chang-ing gears. We take fourth place. The best news: Laura and Kris win. Sadly, we are too far back to notice.

For race three, a good start is yet again out of our reach. Kris is helping Laura with her starts. Laura finally says to her, “Thanks, but I’ve got it.” A gybe, a tack, and she is off to nail another start. Bob and I play catch up again, but to no avail. Oh well. I’m sure that he’s never had so much fun getting last in a race before.

Back to the dock to haul, pack up, and watch the awards ceremony. We’re busy taking the boats apart. Bob is eager to be a part of the whole thing. He’s up in the boat scrubbing away. I say, “Bob, you can sail my boat anytime if you keep that up.” He just smiles, but I see those wheels turning in his head.

Richard comes by and says to wrap it up for trophies. I’m thinking we blew it. We’re just going up to cheer everyone else on. No—we’re second! Keith is first, Bob second, and Laura third. Wow! How great is that? First weekend in Stars, and they both come home with tro-phies. I think they might be hooked.


The Log Canoe Mystery, built in 1932 of five logs in Oxford, racing on the Miles River in September, 2006. Photo by Don Biresch, www.dbconsultants.com/dbphotos/

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Kristen Berrywith Molly Winans

If you think the idea of a 10-year-old kid stealing a Sunfish for a ride, getting caught, and then charming the boat’s owner into teaching him to sail on a Midwestern reservoir sounds far fetched, you’ve never

met Kristen “K.B.” Berry. An Indiana native, Berry came into sailing through a burning desire and the public library system. “Every spring, I caught the sailing bug, even though no one in my family could sail. In my family, if you had a dream, you researched it. My dad took me to the library, and I read every book there was on sailing.”

Through college at Indiana University in the mid-1990s, Berry bounced back and forth between his studies in the Midwest and work-ing for political campaigns in Washington, DC. During those years and afterwards mostly living in DC and still working in politics—doing lob-bying, communications, and conservation work—he connected to the DC sailing scene and began coaching. He also lived aboard a Catalina 27 for a few years, which wasn’t as difficult as it may sound because he was seldom “home” in between work travels.

In 2003, he started teaching part-time for J/World Annapolis. Berry says, “From the first time I coached there, I knew that was what I wanted to do.” He has coached J/World corporate teambuilding groups, taught racing and fundamental sailing, and run winter seminars both in Annapolis and in Key West and St. Petersburg, FL during regattas. He credits his J/World friends for “coaxing him away from his political life in DC” and into his sailing life.

In 2007, Berry launched his own coaching company, Gale Force Sailing, now based in Annapolis, which he runs in tandem with his con-tinued J/World work. He’s competed and coached aboard J/105, J/22, J/80, J/24, J/35, Melges, and many other fleets. Although he’s proud of having placed fourth in the 2007 J/80 North American Championships with Jahn Tihansky, Dan Wittig, and Jeff Jordan in 2007, he says, “I see myself as a professional sailing educator rather than a pro sailor. My goal is to give the gift of a moment, an experience, to other sailors.”

Last year, Berry became the commodore of the Ocean Conservation YC (ocyc.oceana.org), a group for which he tripled his fundraising goal and successfully competed in the Nautica New York City Triathlon July 18. “I’ve been an environmental advocate my whole life, and it’s always found its way into my life at all levels,” he says.

At the time of print, Berry was in Chester, Nova Scotia, where he likes to ride out the summer heat in July and August, acting as an arbi-trator for Chester Race Week, the oldest regatta in North America, and sailing in a fleet of 26 Bluenoses (23-foot wooden sloops). He’ll be back for fall racing on the Chesapeake Bay and the winter Florida circuit.

SpinSheet: Who were your sailing mentors?

My parents, who showed me where the library was; Jahn Tihanksy; and Joni Palmer, who showed me how to be professional in sailing.

Who are your best sailing buddies?

Tim Adelman, Dan Wittig, Jeff Jordan, Grady Byus, Aaron Galvin, and my clients—love them all.

Is there a place on the Bay that makes you think, “This is why I live here”?

I love to sit at Hemingway’s on the Eastern Shore on a Sunday night and watch all that Bay Bridge traffic fight its way back to the real world. There always seems to be a storm cloud creating a dramatic sky.

Do you have a routine the morning of a race?

I get up as early as possible and develop a weather strategy. I drink a cup of coffee and envision what I’d do with the absence of other boats—if it were a time trial and not a boxing match, based on the forecast. Then I do a short yoga routine to stretch, and hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.

What sports teams do you follow?

I’m a Washington Nationals and Redskins fan. Having lived mostly in DC from 1994 to 2009, I still love the teams. I like rooting for the under-dogs. And I still love my Indiana Hoosier basketball teams.

What were your latest iTunes downloads?

Michael Franti, Bob Schneider, and Charlie Mars.

What sailing gear do you depend on?

I am a Patagonia lover from socks to smocks. For my coaching, I use my Nikon D40 camera, a Flip video camera, my Timex watch, a water-proof notebook from Write in the Rain, and my Leatherman Wave.

What advice would you give a young racing sailor?

Show up and smile. Watch, listen, and be willing to do anything. Don’t oversell your abilities. When the chance comes along, ask if you can try something.


Schedule Shuffling and Tetrahedon Tackling: Volunteers Do It All

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Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing AssociationMONTHLY NEWSLETTER, Sept. 2009

12,800 man-hours. That’s approxi-mately how much on-water time volunteers put into Race Committee

for weekend regattas on the Chesapeake each season. That’s not counting the vari-ous Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday night series racing on weekly calen-dars from Havre de Grace, MD to Hamp-ton, VA. And that does not include the countless hours spent shuffling schedules, wrangling weather mark boats, wrestling inflatable cylinders, tackling tetrahedrons, detangling signal flags, rationing gas, and packing lunches. Oh, and many of these folks attend regular training to sharpen their skills as race officials.

Did I mention that the vast majority of these people are volunteers? Somehow, the occasional “Thank you, Race Com-mittee!” shout-out across the water at the finish line doesn’t seem to cut it.

I was thinking the other day about the people on the Race Committee at the finish line at the Solomons Race or the Governor’s Cup. There are real people who are perched on those finish boats in the wee hours of the morning, peering out into the darkness and recording times and sail numbers.

And on those hazy, hot, and humid days when sailors are enjoying the cooling effects of apparent wind, there is a group of people sitting at anchor in the oppres-sive heat and “air you can wear” coordi-nating starting sequences and directing mark boats and recording finishes. And then there are the rainy, rolling days of May and the chilly, choppy November afternoons.

If you’ve never served on a Race Com-mittee, there are actually reasons to do so. If you are a veteran of racing, it is a great way to give back to the community that has enriched your life. If you are new to the sport, it is a wonderful way to get to know others who share your enthusiasm for sailing. If you are looking for a way to improve your performance as a skipper or crew, it will offer you a new perspective on starts and wind shifts and mark roundings.

Like all jobs, Race Committee has its ups and downs, but here’s hoping more of you will extend a hand of thanks (or a round of adult beverages) to the Race Committee volunteers who make racing on the Chesapeake possible. And here’s hoping more sailors in the community will consider volunteering at least a couple of times a year. Do it to give back. Do it for the camaraderie. Do it for the experi-ence. Do it for the perspective. Just do it.

Contact your local club’s race commit-tee or the CBYRA office for volunteer and training opportunities. CBYRA extends a hardy thank you to the Race Committees of the Chesapeake for their tireless efforts in support of sailing on the Bay.

by Melissa Currier

“If you are new to the sport, it is a won-derful way to get to know others who share your enthusiasm for sailing.”

How many gadgets can one hang around one’s neck and still be effective and smil-ing? Just ask former CBYRA president Bobby Frey, shown here on a race com-mittee boat at the Screwpile Regatta in July. Photo by SpinSheet

Wrangling weather mark boats, wres-tling inflatable cylinders, detangling

signal flags, and attending train-ing sessions to sharpen their skills

are how race committee volunteers spend their “spare” time... Screwpile

Lighthouse Challenge 2009 volunteers shown here. Photo by SpinSheet


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31’ Pearson ’88 Main, Genoa, RF, dodger, Yanmar dsl, clean & ready to sail $ 29,900 Call Tony Tumas Cell: (443) 553-5046 (day or eve), Office: (800) 276-1774 for complete details. Email:[email protected]

35’ Hunter Legend 35 ’88 Very clean, new sails 2001, new GPS, AP, knot, depth, flat panel TV, Carry-on Air, dodger, bimini many recent upgrades, exceptional cond $45,250 Call Tony Tumas Cell: (443) 553-5046 (day or evening), Office: (800) 276-1774 for complete details. Email:[email protected]

O’Day 37 ’82 Many recent upgrades, very clean, New main, new RF, New transmission, Engine upgrades, New interior cushions, Unique split cabins with 2 heads $39,000 Visit www.greatblueyachts.com for complete details & photos or Call Tony Tumas Cell: (443) 553-5046 (day or evening), Office: ( 800) 276-1774 or email: [email protected]

Hunter 40 ’84 Centerline aft double, heat/air, electric windlass, 2 heads, private v-beth and more $ 54,500 Call Tony Tumas (443) 553-5046, [email protected] or visit www.greatblueyachts.com

43’ Philip ’76 Built by Philip & Son Beautiful blue water cruiser/racer – ready to sail “Boat of the Year” London Boat Show ’76 Cutter rig, wind steering, AP, life raft, newer sails, rebuilt Perkins – a must see! $ 79,900. Call Tony day or evening for complete details 443-553-5046 email: [email protected]

24’ Dana (Pacific Seacraft) ’98 Late model with less than 300hrs. on 2GMF dsl. Awlgripped black hull. Below she looks new. Dodger, RF, gas stove w/oven. $70k HYS (410) 271-5266 or [email protected]

32’ Pacific Seacraft motorsailer ’93 4’ draft, generator w/AC, anchor windlass, radar, AP, $100K Hartge Yacht Sales (410) 867-7240 or [email protected]

36’ Mariner ’80 Built in New Hampshire ( not the Far East ) Classic New England design with a solid fiberglass hull. Dodger, bimini, Harken RF, 4 cylinder dsl. $49,500. HYS (410) 271-5266 or [email protected]

37’ Crealock ’90 Classic offshore cruiser by Pacific Seacraft. Cutter rig, recent sails, AC, refrig, single sideband, Autopilot and hard dodger. $149. Hartge Yacht Sales (410) 867-7240 or [email protected]

42’ Whitby Ketch-Cutter ’86 This is one of the last built (hull #329) at Kurt Hasen’s yard in Canada. Everything you could want ( generator: air etc ) and in great cond. 127k Hartge Yacht Sales (410) 867 7240 or [email protected]

30’ S2 ’80 Dsl, wheel, shoal, RF, $13,500 Lippincott Marine (410) 827-9300.

30’ Seidelmann ’84 30T, Yanmar 13hp dsl, RF, shoal $14,500 Lippincott Marine (410) 827-9300.

36’ Moody ’82 Motorsailer, sloop, Volvo 62hp, RF, AP & $51,000 Lippincott Marine (410) 827-9300.

36’ Catalina MKII ’96 Univ. 30hp dsl, radar, inverter, R/F $88,500 Lippincott Marine (410) 827-9300

37’ Hunter 376 ’96 Yanmar dsl, RF, AP, AC/Gen, new listing $82,500 www.lippincottmarine.com, (410) 827-9300.

40’ Hunter ’95 Yanmar 50hp, elect., self-tailing main, full batten main w/Dutchman, Air, AP, inverter $129,500 Lippincott Marine (410) 827-9300.

MACMARINE, LLCANNAPOLIS, MD

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19’ Trophy ’02 Brand New 2009 130 HP ETEC Evinrude. SS Prop. Complete re-rig. $28,500. Call Matt at (410) 533-6946.

Luhrs Tournament Sport Fish 340 ’86 Twin dsl, outrigger, hard-top. $32,500. Call Matt at (410) 533-6946.

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Sunfish & Sunfish/Phantom Both boats are complete. The Sunfish/Phantom has a Sunfish hull and Phantom rig & sail. Sunfish $600. Sunfish/Phantom $400. Contact Norris at (410) 742-6795 or (443) 944-3322 or [email protected]

33’ Carver Mariner ’84 Sleeps 6, private staterm, enclosed fly bridge, swim platform, 2-zone AC, range & oven, refrigerator & freezer, pressurized h/c water, enclosed head w/shower, toilet & w& and twin 350 hp engines w/low hrs. This boat is in great cond. Only $23,000. Norris Howard Yacht Broker (410) 742-6795 or (443) 944-3322 or [email protected]

36’ Mariner ’81 pro-furl genoa, wheel steering, Perkins dsl auxiliary, propane stove & oven, refrigeration, AP, inverter, electronics, and equipped for long range cruising, $47,900 Norris C. Howard, Yacht Broker, (410) 742-6795 or (443) 944-3322 or [email protected].

SpinSheet September 2009 97Chesapeake Bay SailingINFO @ANNAPOLISYACHTSALES .COM • WWW.ANNAPOLIS YACHT SALES .COM

2009 Beneteau 37 2010 Beneteau First 40 2008 Alerion 33 2007 Beneteau First 10R

2009 Beneteau 49 2010 Beneteau 34 2010 Beneteau 43 Sabre 386

2002 Hunter 460$194,000

’96 ’99 ’01 Beneteau 461From $169,000

2007 Wauquiez 41 PS$290,000

1963 Hinckley Bermuda 40$115,000

2004 Beneteau 57$689,000

1988 C&C 30$49,500

’03 ’06 Beneteau First 36.7From $117,900

2002 Beneteau 3932 From $144,900

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27 Pearson 27 '89 $26,00028 Albin 28 '93 $58,50028 Bristol Channel Cutter 28 '87 $124,90030 C&C 30 '88 $49,50030 C&C 30 MKII '91 $49,50030 Catalina 30 '89 $26,00030 Custom Gaff Rig Schooner '59 $44,00030 O'Day 30 '81 $17,50030 Pearson 30 '87 $37,90031 Beneteau 31 '08 $129,90031 Bristol 31.1 '85 $49,90031 Dehler 31 '89 $33,00032 Beneteau First 32 '81 $24,90032 Beneteau 323 '04 $84,50032 Beneteau 323 '05 $94,90032 Beneteau 323 ’06 $94,90032 Halvorsen Island Gypsy 32 '03 $229,90032 Island Packet 32 '92 $89,00032 Mabry 32 '07 $165,00033 Alerion-Express 33 '08 $266,69133 C&C 33 MKII '85 $39,90034 Aloha 10.4 '84 $39,50034 Beneteau 343 '07 $134,900

34 Beneteau First 10R '06 132,000 -159,00034 Catalina 34 MkII '01 $94,90034 Hunter 34 '83 $29,50034 Pearson 34 '84 $34,90035 Beneteau 35s5 '90 $49,90035 Beneteau 351 '96 $76,90035 Caliber 35 '97 $114,90035 Contest 35s '90 $89,00035 Hallberg-Rassy 35’ $59,00035 Tartan 3500 '04 $199,90035 Wauquiez Pretorian 35 '85 $74,90036 Albin Trawler 36 '88 $98,50036 Beneteau 36.7 '01 $129,90036 Beneteau 36.7 '03 $117,90036 Beneteau 361 '00 $99,50036 Beneteau 361 ’01 107,90036 Cheoy Lee 36 '69 $69,90036 Pearson 36 '86 $76,50036 Sabre 362 '01 $220,00036 Sabre 36CB '85 $85,00037 O'Day 37 '84 $44,00037 Tartan 37 '82 $78,50038 Beneteau 381 '01 $99,900

38 Morgan 38 '84 $59,00038 Pearson True North 38 '04 $329,90038 Pearson True North 38 '02 $289,00038 Sabre 386 '06 $295,00039 Beneteau 393 '02 $149,50039 Beneteau 393 '02 $144,90040 Beneteau First 40.7 '00 $159,00040 Catalina 400 '95 $134,90040 Hunter 40.5 '95 $109,50040 Palmer Johnson NY 40 '78 $69,00040 Hanse 400 '06 $199,90040 Hinckley Bermuda 40 '63 $115,00040 Tashiba 40 '87 $185,00041 Beneteau 411 '99 $139,90041 De Fever Trawler 41 '87 $105,00041 Lord Nelson 41' 1987 $174,00041 Wauquiez PS 41 '07 $290,00042 Beneteau 423 '04 $196,00042 Beneteau 423 '05 $224,90042 Catalina 42 '90 $115,00042 Hunte 420 '02 $179,00042 Whitby 42 '82 $99,50043 Albin 43' Trawler '79 $99,900

43 Young Sun 43 ' 78 $49,50044 Peterson CC '77 $109,50044 Beneteau 44.7 '05 $259,90045 Fuji 45 '74 $119,50045 Howdy Bailey 45 '73 $99,90046 Beneteau 461 '99 $174,90046 Beneteau 461 '01 $199,00046 Beneteau 461 '96 $169,00046 Hunter 46 '02 $194,00046 Tartan 4600 '95 $270,00046 Tartan 4600 '96 $355,00047 Beneteau 473 '05 $265,00047 Beneteau 473 '04 $274,90047 Beneteau 47.7 '04 $284,90047 Beneteau 47.7 '04 $319,90047 Marine Trader M/Y 47 '90 $169,00049 Wauquiez Centurion 49 '92 $295,00050 Beneteau First 50 '07 $585,00050 George Buehler '02 $99,00051 Beneteau Idylle 51 '86 $178,00055 Fleming Pilothouse Motor Yacht $825,00065 Kanter Yachts 65 '87 $435,00076 Franz Maas 76 '74 $750,000

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J/80 '94 Hull #57. Very fast J/80 and ready to start winning races. Located in Annapolis. Offered at $27,500. Contact Ken at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected]

J/30 '79 and '81 Both in good condition. Great racer for one design on the Bay. Offered starting at $22,000. Contact David at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected]

J/105 ’98 Known for perfor-mance, one-design racing and fantastic short handed daysail-ing. The owner of this boat has taken excellent care and it shows almost as new. Starting at $89,000. Contact Paul Mikulski at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected]

Tartan 3500 '97 ideal size for a family cruising boat. Excel-lent Condition and fully equipped. Offered at $115,000 Contact Ken at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected]

J/109 '05 This J/109 is one of the best cruiser racers on the market. The J/109 features the popular carbon fiber retractable bowsprit and asymmetric spinnaker system and a cruisable 2-cabin interior layout with standing headroom. Excellent condition and list of upgrades. Offered at $177,000. Contact Ken at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected]

C&C 115 ’06 is a wonderful cruiser racer. This is in like new cond. and has a long list of options. She is painted claret red and is ready to go for you to enjoy. PRICE REDUCTION $209,000. Contact Ken at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected]

Pearson 39 Yawl ’77 is a particularly handsome boat, accented by her sweeping sheer line, tumblehome topside and dainty reversed transom. She offers solid construction, great cockpit and a large, sensible interior with unusually generous storage throughout. Offered at $ 54,900. Call David Malkin @ (410) 280-2038 or email at [email protected]

30’ 1984 Seldelmann 30T Yanmar 13hp DSL, RF, shoal $ 14,500

30’ 1980 S2 DSL, wheel steer, shoal draft, DF $ 13,500

31’ 1983 Dufour 3800 Volvo dsl, wheel. Call/OFFERS $ 23,500

34‘ 1980 Gale Force Yanmar 38hp, full keel, cutter rig SOLD

36’ 1979 Islander Freeport 36, Plan A, Perkins DSL, R/F $ 33,900

36‘ 1982 Moody Motorsailer, sloop, Volvo 62hp, RF, aft cabin $ 51,000

36’ 1996 Catalina MK II Univ 30hp DSL radar, inverter, R/F $ 88,500

37’ 1996 Hunter 376 Yanmar DSL, RF, AP, AC/Gen $ 82,500

40’ 1995 Hunter Yanmar 50hp, A/C, AP, Inverter $129,500

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Catalina 36 MKII 1996 Wing Keel, davits, A/C, heat, radar, AP, Garmin GPS, more! $88,500

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55' Tayana Ctr Ckpt `98 $560,00053' Mason `84 $349,00051' Antigua `86 $194,90051' Bristol `87 $389,00050' Beneteau `00 $265,00045' Morgan Nelson Marek `85 $89,99544' Pacific Seacraft `93 $340,00043' Saga CLS `00 $250,00042' Moody 425 `90 $160,00041' C&C shoal `88 $93,50041' Sceptre `88 $178,00040' Pacific Seacraft `98 $310,00040' C&C `91 $135,00039' Jeanneau `07 $210,00039' Southern Cross `82 $97,50038' Ericson 38-200 `89 $83,250

37' Delphia `06 $139,00037' Jeanneau Sun Odyssey `97 $92,00037' Pacific Seacraft 2 from $139,00036' Pearson `82 $44,90034' Kaiser Gale Force `80 $89,00034' Pacific Seacraft `98 $149,90033' Bavaria `06 $89,00031' Pacific Seacraft `04 $160,00030' Ericson dsl, nice `81 $17,90026' Nonsuch `95 $59,00024' Pacific Seacraft Dana `90 $55,900


J/120 ’94 NEW PRICE! Antares has a white hull w/red boot stripe, and buff two tone decks that are in great cond. Some of the features are Carbon mast, factory rebuilt NKE instru-ments & updated AP, Furuno radar, tan canvas, propane stove, refrigeration. Offered at $179,900. Contact Paul Mikulski at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected]

Beneteau 423 ’06 is in superb cond. and has a compre-hensive inventory. Totally equipped for cruising and built for any sea w/comfort & amenities second to none. No options left out including AC, gen set, flat screen TVs, AP linked w/radar & chart. Don’t miss this superb chance to purchase a beautiful 423 for a great price! Offered at $239,000 Contact Ken at (410 ) 280-2038 or [email protected]

J/42 ’00 lightly used and stunningly beautiful w/carbon mast, standard keel, B&G’s, water maker, custom canvas and all the right factory options make this a very desirable boat for you to consider for serious cruising. NEW PRICE - $259,000. Contact Paul at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected]

Beneteau 461 '00 Two cabin cruiser with traditional exterior lines complement an incredibly spacious, bright and well-ventilated interior. NEW PRICE $184,995. Contact Ken Comerford at (410) 280-2038 or [email protected]

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Hunter 33 ’09 Lil’ Nudge II-New Listing! AC/Heat, AP, GPS, Windlass, bimini, dodger, connector, refrigeration, & more. $125,000 Norton’s Yacht Sales (804) 776-9211, www.nortonyachts.com

Hunter 41 ’06 Aquadoc Generator, AC/heat, in-mast furling, ugraded eng 54hp Yanmar, inverter, AP 6000, ST60 wind, freezer, cockpit cushions, Supreme shades, dinette table/leaf, TV/DVD, 3 burner stove w/oven, quiet flush head system, bimini, dodger & connector, $215,000 Norton’s Yacht Sales (804) 776-9211, www.nortonyachts.com

Hunter 456 ’02 Alcyone 8KW Gen, ST60 wind, ST60 Tridata, A/C, GPS, davits, dinghy, two tvs/dvds, cockpit cushions, bowthruster, Autopilot ST7001+, RayMarine chartplotter RL70+. $249,000 Norton’s Yacht Sales (804 )776-9211 www.nortonyachts.com

Hunter 456 ‘05 Persystence AC/Heat, apparent wind machine, Eco Flush heads(2), VHF at the helm, In-Mast furling, GPS/radar, AP 6000+, bow thruster, Sirius Sat weather; Lifetag system; 100 amp alternator; Link 2000; spinnaker; Kato davits, Avon Rover RIB dinghy; Mercury 9.9 HP 2 stroke OB; LOADED $250,000 Norton Yacht Sales (804) 776-9211 www.nortonyachts.com

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260 Hunter '02 $ 27,00027 Hunter ’79 $ 14,90028.5 Hunter '87 $ 18,00029 Columbia '77 $ 14,90030 Catalina ‘83 $ 17,95030 Hunter ‘77 $ 11,00030 Hunter ‘86 $ 30,000302 O’Day ‘89 $ 19,00031' Hunter '84 $ 22,00031 CAL '82 $ 24,500320 Hunter ‘00 $ 69,00032 C&C '80 $ 29,50033 Newport ’85 $ 29,00033.5 Hunter ‘92 $ 40,000336 Hunter '96 $ 62,000

340 Hunter '00 $ 74,00035 Pearson '68 $ 36,00035.5 Hunter ‘90 $ 55,00035.5 Hunter Legend ’93 $ 60,50036 Hunter '06 $139,000376 Hunter ’96 $ 89,00037 Ranger ‘76 $ 44,900380 Hunter ’00 $134,950380 Hunter '00 $129,00038 Shannon ‘78 $ 98,900410 Hunter ‘00 $144,00041 Hunter ‘06 $215,000456 Hunter '02 $249,000456 Hunter '05 $250,000

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17’ Vanguard Nomad ‘04 Wonderful daysailer w/full cover & single axle trailer. Self-bailing cockpit, stern ladder, 4 storage lockers in cockpit, ctrboard, built-in spin pole, North sails-main,jib & asymmetrical spinnaker, RF head sail etc. Hook her to the car & you’re ready to go. Asking $7000 OBYS (410) 226-0100.

33’ Cape Dory Sloop ’81 Original owner boat that has only been sailed on the Chesapeake Bay. Draft 4’10”, Volvo dsl engine, Hood RF for head sail, Lewmar winches, mail, jib & genoa. She is lightly equipped but the Cape Dory is known for being a very capable cruiser. This is an honest vessel. Asking $33,000 OBYS(410) 226-0100.

37’ Tartan Blackwatch ‘69 Yanmar dsl, 3’10” with her centerboard up. Maja is a lovely, traditional vessel. Her hull sides were recently refinished by Hinckley (dark blue) as well as having a custom rub rail installed. This is one of the first years the Blackwatch had a fiberglass molded cabin top. Own a true classic, asking $35,000 OBYS (410) 226-0100.

52’ Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 52.2 ’97 Marilyn Ann has been nicely maintained by her original owner. She has US Stainless steel standing rigging rather than the European. She is well equipped and with her 3 staterms is ready to take her next family cruising. Asking $335,000 OBYS (410) 226-0100.

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25’ Cape Dory ‘78 “Doo Dah Day Quantum Sails, RF, 2004 6 HP Four Stroke OB, Great Day Sailor, Clean in very good cond., Asking: $9,500 Call Regent Point Marina (804) 758-4457, www.regent-point.com

27’ Cape Dory ’79 Auriana 8 HP Yanmar dsl. RF, Quantum Sails Asking: $14,900 Call Regent Point Marina (804) 758-4457, www.regent-point.com

30’ Cape Dory Intrepid 9M Verdandi One of only 50 built, stable and fast, lazy jacks, 4 sails, 15 hp Yanmar dsl, New Lewmar 40 ST winches, Ready to sail away. Asking: $13,500 Call Regent point Marina @ (804) 758-4457 www.regent-point.com

30’ Catalina ’87 Prelude Motivated seller! Will pay 6 months slip fees @ RPM. 23 HP Universal dsl, fully equipped, very clean, ready to go, Asking: $20,900 Call Regent Point Marina @ (804) 758-4457 www.regent-point.com.

35.5 Hunter Legend ’88 Ladybug 27 HP Yanmar dsl, A/C-Heat Pump, Ref, Auto Helm, RF, dodger, bimini, Many features. Asking: $49,950 Call Regent Point Marina @ 804-758-4457, www.regent-point.com.

37’ Hunter Legend ’87 Ready to go cruising, all the extras like radar, chartplotter auto helm, AC/HT, ref/fr, RF and much more, Asking: $57,900 Regent Point Marina (804) 758-4457 www.regent-point.com

Boats for Sale:17' Waverider trimaran/kayak (1997) Lightweight performance craft. A single seat rocket ship. $1000

21 ft Elor 6.5 meter (1975) a Paul Elvstrom design very seaworthy. 12 sails including 4 spinakers. Newly upholsterd. $1200

22' Hunter 22 (1984) keel model. 2 Mains, r/f jib, 8 hp Electric start Longshaft 4cycle Tohatsu ob, autohelm. $2000

23 ft Spirit 23 (1979) Keel/cb sloop. Main,Jib, Jenny. Stove, anchor, 9.9 hp long shaft Evinrude OB, EZ Loader dual axle trailer (boat weighs 2800 lbs) $2500

25' Cal 25 (1970) Recent Main, Genny, w.jib, Spinnaker, Bimini, s/s grill, 9.9 hp OMC Yachttwin OB. In sound condition, ready to go $1200

27' C&C 27 (1971) w/Atomic 4, Main, R/F Genny, w/jib, Bimini. Clean, ready $5500

Coming in: 30 ft Frers 30 (1987) Diesel, racing sails. Call 34 C&C (1979) good condition, atomic 4, 7 sails. Call Columbia 26 (1969) w/7.5 hp Honda OB. Call

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17' Ebb Tide (1986) 4-cyl Mercruiser I/O boat cover & trailer $2500

34' Chris Craft Crowne 34 (1995) twin 454 ci Volvos straight drives, 338 hrs. Available for long term charter

For more information on these and other boats call Don Backe, (410) 626-0273. Proceeds from these sales support Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating (CRAB), a not-for-profit group which provides sailing opportunities for people with disabilities. CRAB accepts boat donations.

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Tayana 37 Ketch ’88 Very nice. Lightly used. No teak decks. New Schaefer in-boom furling Quantum full batten mainsail, electric winch, new dinghy, low eng hrs. Only $99K RogueWave Yacht Sales, (410) 571-2955.

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J/120 40 ‘01 Rare perfectly maintained J120 with carbon fiber spar, all new electronics, incredible sail inventory. RogueWave (410) 571-2955.

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42’ Cabo Rico ’07 Brand spanking new! Chuck Paine design. Gorgeous cutter. Offshore equipped. In boom furling, genset, water maker, AC/heat, Espar, great electronics, electric winches, bow thruster, life raft. Further REDUCED! RogueWave YS, (410) 571-2955, www.RogueWaveYachtSales.com

Valiant 42 ‘08 Brand new Valiant loaded with every option. Come see the Valiant experts. RogueWave YS (410) 571-2955.

Dufour 45 Classic ’98 Modern, sleek, fast, fun, & low maintenance, this 3 cabin, 2 head layout is a great family boat for the Caribbean voyage you are planning. $189K REDUCED! RogueWave Yacht Sales, (410) 571-2955.

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Hallberg Rassy 49 ’88 Incredible 3 stateroom center cockpit, world voyager. Complete comfort w/centerline queen aft cabin & spacious salon. Reduced $295K RogueWave Yacht Sales, (410) 571-2955.

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36’ C&C 110 2000 ...........110,00035’ Tartan 3500 2002 .......165,000

35’ Tartan 3500 2000 .......154,000

35’ Tartan 3500 1997 .......135,000

35’ Tartan 3500 1995 .......119,900

34’ Beneteau 343 2006 .....119,000

34’ Tartan 3400 2008 ...........CALL

34’ Tartan 3400 2007 .......165,000

32’ C&C 99 2004..............135,900

30’ Quest 30 1996............... 79,000

28’ Tartan 28 1985 ............. 38,000

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Beneteau 343 ’06 Our Trade. Bimini, AP, Air & More. Freshwa-ter /Lightly used – New bottom paint, ready to cruise in comfort! asking $124,000 – Make an offer – MUST GO SOON! Call Mike Titgemeyer (410) 263-6111 or [email protected]

Tartan 3400 – 2007 & 2008 Two to Choose from 2007 is very lightly used, owner is going power and wants her sold, asking 179k - 2008 is new dealer demo... management says it must go - Call for Details on boats boats - Great opportu-nity compared to new order!!! (410)263-6111 or any of our brokers, Tom L, Scott, Mike or Tom S www.tartanccannapolis.com

Tartan 3500 ‘00 Has it all! Air, Windlass, Dodger, Bimini, Autopi-lot, Radar Plotter. Just needs a destination. Very clean, well cared for and ready to go. Owner is going power, great opportu-nity! Listing Broker - Mike Titgemeyer (410) 263-6111

Tartan 3700 – 2008 Dealer Demo, needs a good home. Excellent incentives on this boat only, Hull # 143. Located at our Annapolis Office. Test Sails available. Management says she has to go. Give us a call to find out what an excellent opportunity she is! Call any of the offices / Brokers for details. www.tartanccannapolis.com

C&C 115 ‘05 INFRINGER Well equipped for racing or cruising. New 3DL inventory and original Doyle inventory, faired foils, new saildrive, refer, autopi-lot and more. Located here in Annapolis – Contact Scott Dodge listing broker asking $190,000 (410)263-6111 or www.tartanccannapolis.com

Tartan 4400 '05 Beautifully maintained, offshore equipped and ready! Replacement costs is over 650k - Air, Genset, Windlass, Leisure Furl - can't add much more. Custom Three cabin layout. Owner has decided on the next boat, if you are serious about sailing and cruising, this is the one! Asking $499,000 - Call Mike Titgemeyer to get aboard. (410) 263-6111 or www.tartanccyachts.com

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28’ Sabre ‘73 Rebuilt Atomic 4 engine. Asking $9,000. Sailing Associates (410) 275-8171

30’ Tartan ‘76 Nice looking boat. $12,500 Sailing Associates (410) 275-8171

33’ Pearson ’86 Pearson quality, great cruiser, very clean boat. $38,900 Sailing Associates (410) 275-8171

35’ O’Day ‘87 New listing $37,000. A great cruising boat. Sailing Associates (410) 275-8171

40’ Palmer Johnson ’78 Traditional ocean racer, ready to go. $59,900 Call Sailing Associates (410) 275-8171

42’ Endeavour Center Cockpit ’85 This world cruiser has many recent upgrades. At $109,000 she is a good value. Sailing Associates (410) 275-8171.

29.9’ Bristol Wonderful Condition…Price reduced to $25,500 Contact: Tom Lippincott 410 639-9380, [email protected]

30’ Lippincott ‘83 Lots of upgrades, newer Yanmar, electronic & sails…solid! …$24,500 Contact: Tom Lippincott (410) 639-9380, [email protected]

31’ Catalina 310 ‘03 Very low hrs $ CALL Contact: Tom Lippincott (410) 639-9380, [email protected]

32’ Catalina 320 ‘99 Loaded $72,000 Contact: Tom Lippincott (410) 639-9380,[email protected]

32’ O’Day 322 ‘89 New genoa, asking $27,900… offers encouraged! Contact: Tom Lippincott 410 639-9380, [email protected]

35’ C&C 35 ‘84 mkIII Very well equipped & maintained, loads of sails, baltoplate bottom, Fast yet set up to cruise comfortably…$56,000, Contact: Tom Lippincott (410) 639-9380, [email protected]

35’ Tartan 3500 ‘98 Ready to cruise Tartan 3500, air, davits, radar and more…$149,000 Contact: Tom Lippincott (410) 639-9380, [email protected]

36’ C&C 110 ‘05 Shoal draft version, great performance cruiser or buoy racer. Less than 60 hrs!... $163,000 Contact: Tom Lippincott (410) 639-9380, [email protected]

40’ Hunter 40.5 Legend ’97 loaded with goodies, great Chesapeake or beyond boat!...$ CALL Contact: Tom Lippincott (410) 639-9380, [email protected]

42’ Pearson 422 ‘84 Roomy center cockpit, huge queen centerline aft! tons of upgrades ready to go…$130,000 Contact: Tom Lippincott (410) 639-9380, [email protected]

45’ Jeanneau two to choose from! ’05 SO45 Excellent cond., making money in a successful charter operation on the Upper Bay…. $299,000, ’02 45.2 Excellent cond., NEVER chartered, one owner, loaded...$269,000, Contact: Tom Lippincott (410) 639-9380, [email protected]


Walczak Yacht will have a selection of brokerage boats at the Yacht Basin outside our office and adjoining the Annapolis Boat Show during the show. Please contact any of our brokers to discuss listing your boat in preparation for the boat show. (410) 268-1611 [email protected]

Beneteau 367 ‘03 Shallow Draft version of Farr Design Team’s Boat of the Year. 3 Cabin with Air Cond. Lightly used fast and fun. Call Chris at Walczak Yacht Brokerage Service 410-268-1611 or email [email protected]

41' Bristol Aft Cockpit '81 Good condition Bristol with lot's of equipment, and a proper asking price of $145,000 Call Frank Gary (410)703-4017 www.walczakyacht.com

43’ Saga ’03 priced to sell, asking $267,000. "BANDIT" has two sleeping cabins, Queen forward, two heads, cherry interior, good electrical and navigation equipment. Call Frank Gary (410) 703-4017 www.walczakyacht.com

50' Hinckley '81 yawl in Annapolis with recent upgrades, ready to sail away. Three staterooms, generator, good equipment list. $347,500 Contact Frank Gary of Walczak Yacht Brokerage 410-703 4017 www.walczakyacht.com

68' Oyster Low-Profile Pilothouse '89 with twin diesel engines, two generators, bow thruster, 3 staterooms + crew, loaded with equipment. $695,000 Contact Frank Gary 410-703 4017 of Walczak Yacht Brokerage www.walczakyacht.com

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34' Kaiser Gale Force ´82 Edelweiss is a bargain! Priced for immediate sale! Well-rigged, set up to singlehand. Great shape, has almost new engine, sails, paint, rigging. On land in St. Lucia. Survey Available. $59,900. Photos @ www.yachtview.com (410) 923-1400 or (443) 223-7864 John Kaiser/cell anytime

34' Kaiser Gale Force ´81 Otter is a beautifully maintained and constantly upgraded yacht. Rare to the market, the Gale Force 34' is a heavily built and semi-custom offshore sailing yacht built in Wilmington Delaware by Kaiser Yachts. $79,900 Photos @ www.yachtview.com (410) 923-1400 or (443) 223-7864 John Kaiser/cell anytime

35’ Pearson ‘70 Kia Koa Well-appointed and priced to move, shallow draft, centerboard, new dodger, nice and clean, great condition. Make an offer! $16,900 Photos @ www.yachtview.com (410) 923-1400 or (443) 223-7864 John Kaiser/cell anytime

41’ Bristol ’82 Valkyrie is a very well maintained and recently upgraded Bristol 41.1, shallow draft, centerboard, center cockpit. Upgrades include all electronics, 60 HP Yanmar diesel with stainless shaft, a Vinylester barrier coat and a re-varnished interior! Recent survey $145,000 Photos @ www.yachtview.com (410) 923-1400 or (443) 223-7864 John Kaiser/cell anytime

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28’ Oday '77 A diamond in the ruff. Furling gear, genoa. Atomic 4 (turns over but does not run). Well maintained until a few years ago. Health forces sale. offers. [email protected] (410) 271-4329. For more pic go to: oday28.tumblr.com


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FOR SALE - Full Service Chesapeake Bay Sailing Center, desirable location, excellent reputation, well-maintained boats, ASA instruction, charters, cruises. Revenue $300,000. Asking Price $235,000. Call Fran Keenan (410) 729-1015.

CAPTAINS

Captain with 50-Ton License And sailing endorsement. Mechanical and/or carpentry skills a plus. Fax resume to (410) 939-4121.

CHARTER

20 Min. From the DC BeltwayDocked At Herrington Harbour North

For a Fraction of the Cost!For a Fraction of the Cost!Sail all season on our boats for less than the cost of a slip! Catalina 25 Pearson 30 Cape Dory 36 Jeanneau 40

Starting at 1500per season

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Don’t Own….. Just Sail.

www.jsail.comChesapeake Boating Club 410-280-8692

Unlimited sailing: from $175 per month

O3 private cabins, sleeps 6. Full electronics, AC call 410-708-1362 or see www.auroracharters.net

Beautiful fast sailing 2004 Bavaria 36' sailing yacht available for bareboat in the Northern Chesapeake.

CHARTER

2000 41’ Beneteau. Sleeps 6, 2 heads $400 weekdays, $1200 weekends from Annapolis. Bareboat/Captained Ralph Johnson (571)276-3568 www.annapolischarters.net

Smooth Jazz Charter

Lady Sara Charter Services 37’ sailboat. Crewed half and full-day charters out of the Magothy River. Licensed captain. Call Captain Paul (410) 370-2480.

Cape Dory 36 For charter by the day, weekend or week. Bareboat or w/captain. Located in Deale, MD. Call Dave (301) 642-8095 or email [email protected].

J/34 Daily, Weekly, or Weekend Charters Bareboat or w/captain. Sleeps 6, dsl, nice galley. Great boat for cruising the Chesapeake. Annapolis (410) 266-0963, (443) 994-1553.

R & R Charters Crewed day, weekend, and week-long charters, leaving from Kent Narrows. Also available certified ASA sail classes. Contact Capt. Dave at (570) 690-3645, [email protected], www.randrchartersandsailschool.net

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Offshore Passage Opportunities # 1 Crew Networking Service. Sail for free on OPBs. Call for free brochure and membership application. Call 1-800-4-PASSAGe for info or www.sailopo.com Sail a Swan Offshore in our Offshore Program.


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Delivery Captain Local and long-distance, sail and power. Twenty years experience with clean insurance-approved resume and references available. Recent trips include Chesapeake: from Long Island, to Bermuda, from Miami, to Caribbean and trans-Atlantic. Contact Simon Edwards – (410) 212-9579, [email protected]

ELECTRONICS

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Marine Moisture Meters For fiberglass and wood. Non-destructive, simple to use and understand. Electrophysics, Tramex Skipper Plus, and Sovereign meters in stock. J.R. Overseas Co. (502) 228-8732, www.jroverseas.com

Winter Cover for a 37 Beneteau Covering the toe rail. New and never used. Great buy! $2500 Please call (410) 451-2320 or email [email protected].

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SpinSheet and PropTalk are seeking a college-aged writer for a fall 2009 internship. Writing, sailing, and/or powerboating experience preferred. 6-8 hours in the Annapolis office per week, with an end-of-semester stipend. Send resumes and 2-3 writing samples to [email protected] by September 15.

Graphic Design Intern PropTalk and SpinSheet magazines are looking for a graphic design intern. If you have experience in Illustrator, Photoshop, DreamWeaver, and InDesign and are looking for practical experience designing print and web marketing, advertising, and promotional pieces, this is the job for you. Hours are flexible. We’re willing to work with your college to set you up for college credit. Send resume to [email protected]. No calls please.

Rigging Salesman/Estimator Must be able to go aloft. Send resume to [email protected] or call (410) 693-7500.

Sailboat Rigger Work at the best known rigging and spar shop on the Chesapeake. Full-time, year-round position, full benefits. Call Tom at Chesapeake Rigging Ltd./Annapolis Spars (410) 268-0956 ext. 103.

The Annapolis Boat Show is currently hiring workers for the October shows. Must be available Oct. 1 - 21. Physical labor required. Call Marci (410) 517-9979.


MARINE ENGINES

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Rebuilt Yanmar 3GMF ’85 $3,995 plus core. Call Chuck @ (610) 996-4634 or email [email protected]

MARINE SERVICES

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EASTPORTYACHT SALESBrokers for Quality Power & Sail

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Scandia Marine Services Inc.Complete Mobile Marine Service

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Winter Dry Storage $25 per ft. Fall 2009 to April 2010. Includes haul-out, powerwash, blocking, and launch. Patapsco River - Baltimore Outer Harbor, Old Bay Marina, (410) 477-1488 or www.oldbaymarina.com

CRAB ..........................................100Crescent Marina ............................34Crusader Yacht Sales ....................98Davis’ Pub .....................................88Deltaville Boatyard ..................18,19Deltaville Maritime Museum ........71Diversified Marine ........................38Euro Marine Trading .....................10EYC Boat Show Bash ...................43Fair Wind Sailing School ..............32Fawcett ..........................................35Hartge Yacht Harbor .....................65Haven Harbour Marina .................68Horizon Charters .............................4Hotwire Enterprises ......................50Hydrovane International Marine Inc. .64IMIS ..............................................40Inner Harbor EAST .......................62Intensity Sails ................................79J. Gordon & Co. ............................89J/World ..........................................87JR Overseas Company ..................73KTI Systems..................................57Landfall Navigation ........................7Leeward Market ............................50Lippincott Marine .........................98Mack Sails .....................................68Macmarine ....................................99Madden Masts & Rigging .............77Martek Davits ................................73Melges .............................................5Nilsen Insurance & Financial ........66Nor’Banks Sailing .........................47North Point Yacht Sales ................29North Sails Chesapeake ..................3

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28’ - 38’ Slips Power & sail, cozy & intimate MD Clean Marina, Deale, MD. Great boating & fishing, protected harbor, free Wi-Fi & pumpout, 30 mins. from DC. (410) 867-7919, www.rockholdcreekmarina.com

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15’ Up to 60’ Deep-Water Slips On the Magothy. One river north of Annapolis. Easy access to marina by Route 100. North Shore Marina (410) 255-3982.

SLIPS30’ - 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.

Tired of Paying Too Much For crowded Solomons? Come join others who switched to the open waters of the Potomac. Deep-water slips, covered slips, Jet Ski & boat lifts, ramp. Breton Bay area, Leonardtown, MD. Combs Creek Marina (301) 475-2017, combscreekmarina.com

SURVEYORS

ABYI Marine Surveyors, LLC Sailboat & powerboat surveys, big or small, gas or dsl. Contact Derek Rhymes, NAMS-CMS and SAMS A.M.S. (410) 268-4404 or toll-free (866) 608-4404.

Accredited 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]

TRAILERS

Custom-built & fitViking Trailers

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CHESAPEAKE CLASSICWalter Cronkite (1916-2009)

Sometimes referred to as the “most trusted man in America,” pioneer news anchorman Walter Cronkite was a lifelong lover of sailing with close ties to the

Chesapeake Bay. As an honorary chair of the Annapolis-based National Sailing Hall of Fame (NSHOF), his support was instrumental in launching the fledgling project. NSHOF executive director Lee Tawney says, “Having his support so early on created a lot of the initial energy of the project.”

Annapolis sailor Mike Ashford sailed with Cronkite on New England vacations, on Bermuda races, in the Caribbean, and every fall on a “boy’s sail” on the Chesapeake Bay. The “boys” were mostly former military pilots (“too many cap-tains,” according to Ashford). Cronkite became the commo-dore of the group.

“He truly, truly loved sailing,” says Ashford. “If you sailed with him, and you docked for the night and came across even the best motel-boatel, you didn’t dare get a room. He thought everyone liked getting wet and having rain drip down their collars.”

In his eloquent eulogy delivered at Cronkite’s funeral, Ashford says, “Sailing with Walter was not for the faint of heart. Wind, sea conditions? Bah! Hoist all sail. Point her seaward, and away we go. The brave crew hanging on for dear life, the lee rail under, spray flying port and starboard. Walter, hunkered over the helm, would catch my eye, grin, and over the racquet of the wind say, ‘Spectacular!’”

To learn more about NSHOF and see videos of Cronkite’s America’s Cup interviews, visit nshof.org.

Walter Cronkite and Mike Ashford on Chessie Racing during the 1998 Whit-bread Race Stopover on the Chesapeake. Photo courtesy of Mike Ashford


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