Solomons, Crisfield and Tangier IslandWe spent Wednesday, September 22nd, at Solomons Landing cleaning the boat, getting a couple of zippers replaced on the flybridge canvas (thanks to Rusty at A Stitch Aweigh for such wonderfully expeditious service!)…
St Petersburg
We have been here in St Petersburg for over a week now. Some boats have been moving from one side of the marina (east) to the other side (west) because of the weather the night we made our Gulf crossing. A 43′ Cantana Cat pulled the cleats out of the d…
New York – Baltimore – Cambridge #26 September 2010
Norm, Jean, Bill, Laura, Lynn, and Reid
Baltimore Tiki Barge
We began this month, sans boat, on a NY farm that produces corn, tomatoes, melons, pears, apples, peaches and plums. I was in hog heaven!!!!!!!!!!!! Bill’s sister, Doris, was our very gra…
Palmetto Moon 2010-09-30 10:06:00
The high temps continue into September, so we moved our cocktails and appetizers into the boaters’ lounge at Anchorage Marina to take advantage of meeting more people and enjoying the a/c. On Saturday, September 4, Su and Nan, her friend from PHS days,…
Palmetto Moon 2010-09-30 09:55:00
On Su’s birthday, we took the water taxi to Fort McHenry with Paul & Joanne of M/V Abacus and Bob & Lynn of M/V Legrace. Fort McHenry served as the cornerstone of the water defenses of Baltimore during the Battle of Baltimore on September 12-14…
Palmetto Moon 2010-09-30 09:45:00
On Monday, September 13, the MTOA (Marine Trawler Owner’s Association) rendezvous started with BYOB and heavy hors d’oeurves. On Tuesday, we attended several seminars including the history of marine navigation. The day ended with happy hour followed by…
Palmetto Moon 2010-09-30 09:35:00
On Friday, September 17, we took the water taxi down to the inner harbor with Bob and Lynn to tour The US Coast Guard Barque Eagle, America’s Tallship, and to see Michelle, an OCS, who was cruising on the ship. She is the daughter of Dave and Laurie, f…
Palmetto Moon 2010-09-30 09:25:00
On Sunday, September 19, we left Baltimore and cruised down to Solomons, MD for what we thought would be an overnight stop. As the winds picked up, we stayed until Thursday, September 23 when we left for Deltaville, VA. Cruising wasn’t too bad that day…
Hat’s entertainment…
One of our most favorite things with ActiveCaptain is awarding hats for user-contributions. After a captain has earned 250 points for adding updates and writing reviews, they receive a highly-desired ActiveCaptain hat. We’ve mailed out hundreds of them…
We Have Changed Our Look Back To What It Was
As much as we really liked the new look and the new template for the Blog, we have decided to go back to our original style. The new template made the site far slow to load and the scrolling function jumpy. It also timed out on occasion so folks could …
