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VOLUME 10 | ISSUE 12IN THIS ISSUE

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Ben Dubit captured this month’s cover photo at the Solomons Offshore Grand Prix. Find the full story on page 37.

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21 Tech It Out: Control the Rock ‘n Roll Eliminate boat roll and the fatigue, anxiety, and seasickness that come with it… really? by Capt. Chris D. Dollar

26 Wow, What a Show! Stellar weather, exciting new boats, and a happy crowd made the 2014 U.S. Powerboat Show one to remember.

28 Bay People: Fred Tutman He might not look like a tough guy, but this advocate for the Patuxent River won’t let much get in the way of his vision for cleaner water. by Capt. Art Pine

30 Deck the Hulls Lighted boat parades up and down the Chesapeake Bay. by Kaylie Jasinski

32 Holiday Gifts for Boaters What’s on your wish list this season?

37 Racing News Find the Solomons Offshore Grand Prix race recap and more racing news here. by Allie Nataro, Chris “Seabuddy” Brown, and Charlie Iliff

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I took the boat to Baltimore for the Trawler Fest a few Fridays ago and pulled into a slip at Inner Harbor

where Geather, better known as Get, is always an efficient reservationist and gracious hostess. The Baltimore Book Festival was also in progress. Boats and books; how can you beat that? It turned into a great weekend. The weather was warm during the days and cool at night. And, when the whole Inner Harbor is within walking distance, you never run out of interest-ing things to do. There were boats and book stalls to explore, restau-rants and pubs to patronize, and an impromptu steel band concert. And of course, weekends at the Inner Harbor are world class for people watching. The moon had just been new, and the tides were higher than normal. Although the skimmers were at work, I did spend some time fishing chip bags and drink containers out of the water with a crab net. Do you treat every place you tie up as if it were your own? I do too, because while I am there, it is.

In no hurry, I took my time getting under weigh on Sunday. When I pulled out of the slip, the exhaust note was louder than normal. I looked over the stern and noticed that I wasn’t pumping a normal volume of water. Pulling back in, I proceeded to attempt to locate the source of the problem. Check the easy stuff first, right? Sea strainer? No. Raw water pump belt? No. Now it gets more difficult. Pump impeller? Well, give me 20 minutes to check. Shut off the raw water intake. Loosen the alternator and remove the belt. Remove the hoses. Remove the pump because the access plate is on the back, of course. Remove

Getting Trashedby JC McCrackenCasting Off

the plate. It’s not the impeller. Another 20 minutes to put it all back together. What next?

Take the hose off the input side of the strainer. Dry. Blow it out with the air horn. No obstruction. It must be the seacock. Remove the hose and open the seacock – just a trickle. Of course with the hose bib and the elbow in place,

you can’t really tell what it might be, so off they come. And, as the elbow is removed, a mysterious black material can be seen protruding from the sea cock.There is really nothing at all mysterious about this material; it’s just the context. You know how you recognize someone you see every day in a specific place, like the person you get coffee from at the convenience store, but when you see them on the street you don’t recognize them? Well, so it is with a black plastic garbage bag. You recognize it all the time in the garbage can, where it be-longs. But protruding from your seacock? It’s a mystery.

It was obvious that it wasn’t coming through, so with a heavy piece of wire I pushed it out. The flow was restored and the bag netted so not to further plague any unsuspecting fellow boater.

It’s no surprise that there is often a significant amount of trash in the Har-bor. Skimmers have been put to work

collecting it. A water wheel collector has been employed on the Jones Falls to pre-vent trash reaching the Harbor. And there is the disconnect. Visitors and residents around the Harbor are not clogging it with trash. It comes from upstream in the watershed where the Harbor can’t even be seen. Hardly a thought is given to where trash might end up.

I must admit I find something intriguing about certain pieces of flotsam. I have dec-orated my property with items retrieved from the Bay. Crab floats that came adrift, watermen’s bushel baskets, various and sundry pieces of lumber, duck decoys, an oar, a cable spool, a piece of teak rub rail, and my prize find, an intact teak hand rail. But there is a difference between

items that are part of life and work on the water that become accidently separated from their intended purpose and those cast carelessly aside.

The Bay and we who love it face many challenges. The solutions are difficult and complex. Eight and a half million acres of farmland contribute nitrogen, phosphorus, and chemicals. Seventeen million people contribute lawn fertilizer, pet waste, and sewage from overflowing treatment plants and septic tanks. Air pollution from power plants and industrial facilities further contributes to the problem. And there has been very little progress contain-ing or reducing it.

Makes taking out the trash seem simple, doesn’t it?

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# Trash chokes the shoreline of Ridgley’s Cove on the Patapsco’s Middle Branch.


Boat Dog Photo Contest

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November 25, so please keep pictures of your boat-loving pooches coming. Just in time for the holidays, we will send a PropTalk “Better on the Bay” hat to the photog-rapher of the best image. Email [email protected].

Letters

Mussels on the Magothy

Regarding the November PropTalk letter about mus-sels at Ferry Point Marina (page 22): Those are dark

false mussels, one of the Chesapeake’s filter feeders. In 2004 they experienced a massive population explosion in numerous Magothy River creeks. They were so abun-dant, they filtered the water clear. Dark false mussels are native and no threat. In areas such as Ferry Point Marina they are normally rare, usually found farther away in the

Bay on oyster bars, their typical habitat. But now and then they bloom in areas like the Magothy. In 2004 they were also very abundant in parts of other rivers: Severn, Chester, South, and Patapsco for example. Since then, they have had a few blooms but not as great as 2004, or as widespread around the Bay.

Christopher JudyMaryland DNR Fisheries Service

This whole story starts with the idea of getting one of my son Arnie’s

best friends down from Newport, RI, to serve as a wingman for him while we hosted a wedding at my dad’s house in St Michaels. After a few phone calls, Charlie was booked on a flight to Balti-more along with a promise that fishing would be part of the program.

A day or two before his arrival, Charlie called me and asked me if “I was familiar with a bucket list fish.” I said I was and was informed that a striped bass was at the top of that list. I was then asked if it was possible for us to check that box for him over the com-ing weekend. I assured him it would happen.

The best thing about my fishing bud-dies around here is when you mention that you want to take a couple of kids fishing, everyone bends over backward to make sure it is a great experience. Ian Gordon lent us his Regulator (as long as I didn’t make him get out of bed on

Saturday), and Tom Weaver made up a whole rack of “bluefish proof” baits from All Tackle for the boys to use. With all our gear, I got those boys up at 6 a.m. with zero complaints, and after a stop at Highs and a chat with local fish-ing legend Dink Daffin, we were off to Tilghman Point on the boat.

After a 10-minute run out to Clai-borne, the boys were fishing on a beautiful Chesapeake morning. Life was all good except for one minor detail: There were no fish. After about two hours of casting, I could see the look of disappointment in their eyes, and I was starting to feel the weight of my earlier promise.

We decided to reel up and run out to the Eastern Bay. There we were greeted by birds working a large pod of bait with hopefully something underneath. On their first cast, my son Arnie screams, “I got one,” which was followed by Charlie yelling, “I got one, too, double hookup!” It was at this point where I could not

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stop laughing. Once the two fish were in the boat, I was treated to a scene of high fiving, butt slapping, tackling, and hugging. Once we all regained our composure, both fish were kissed and released back into the Bay along with the weight of my promise to Charlie. Easily the best day I have had fishing in a long time. I never even touched a rod. Thanks to all who made it happen.

Matt BeckAnnapolis

Bucket List Fish

# Annie, a Pembroke Welsh Corgi, from Snow Hill, MD, on a Caroliina Skiff. Photo by Cynthia Sica


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A Season For Givingby Beth Crabtree

When this issue, our December edition, hits the docks just prior to Thanksgiving, the

season of giving thanks and gift-giving will be fully upon us. As you trim the turkey, spend time with friends and family, and start holiday shopping, take a minute to give thanks for our beauti-ful Chesapeake waterways and the men and women who work daily to protect them.

Many worthy non-profit organiza-tions provide education and programs for Bay boaters, and many do it on a shoestring budget, thanks to dedicated staff and volunteers who often go ‘above and beyond.’ A few of the many important services are boater safety education, providing on-water respite for wounded warriors, teaching angling skills to youth, improving the health of the Bay, and preserving the history of our watermen.

If philanthropic gift-giving ap-peals to you, contact the non-profit of your choice and ask what they need. Then donate the item in honor of your intended gift recipient. Most Chesa-peake-focused nonprofits need all kinds of items, from office supplies to work boats. As an example, PropTalk staff

reached out to several local Riverkeepers and asked them to identify a few items on their organization’s wish list. They responded with a wide range of goods and services at a variety of price points.

Sassafras Riverkeeper Captain Em-mett Duke’s wish list is indicative of the wide range of gifting opportunities. His organization’s needs include hip boots size 12 and 16 (about $90 each), chest waders size 12 and 16 (about $250 each), a printer/copier/fax machine (about $300), and a boat trailer for their 17-foot boat used for sampling and patrolling the river (about $2,000). “We would also appreciate frequent flyer miles in any amount for Riverkeeper and staff confer-ences, and memberships and donations are also greatly needed to maintain staff and operations,” says Duke.

A little further south on the Eastern Shore, we heard from Timothy Junkin, director of the Midshore River Conser-vancy, who says, “We would like to pur-chase a pump-out boat for the Miles and Wye Rivers, which we hope will lead to a ‘No Discharge’ designation for these rivers. Contributions would be greatly appreciated toward the approximate $50,000 ticket. The Maryland Depart-ment of Natural Resources will pay for

the maintenance and the skipper’s salary for 10 years if we can purchase the boat.”

On the Severn River, Riverkeeper Fred Kelly is gratefully accepting dona-tions to purchase a new Riverkeeper boat. Also on his wish list are a new pair of binoculars and more boaters willing to report violations they see when they’re out on the water.

And from the West and Rhode Riv-ers, Riverkeeper Jeff Holland says, “We would love it if someone could provide the use of a boat lift over the winter for our 18-foot Boston Whaler.” Holland’s also wishing for boaters to become new members, to give the gift of membership to family and friends, or to make a dona-tion in honor of a loved one.

Finally, Baltimore Waterkeeper Da-vid Flores tells us, “To aid in monitoring water quality on the Patapsco year-round, we are in the market for a new or gently used 23-foot vessel and new PFDs for staff and volunteers.”

Large or small, giving back with a charitable gift is a win-win. No more ugly, ill-fitting sweaters for the recipi-ents, lots of good karma for the giver, and an off-season boost for charitable organizations that support boaters and the Bay.

# In this season of giving thanks and gift-giving, consider a donation in honor of your favorite boater to a local nonprofit that supports Chesapeake area boaters or anglers. Photo by Ruth Christie


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Becoming an Outdoors Woman addresses educational barriers to outdoor activities. DNR offers week-end workshops focused on learning outdoor skills and recreation. The focus is learning introductory hunting, fishing, and outdoor-related skills in a non-threatening atmosphere under the direction of patient, hands-on, and enthusiastic instructors. The annual fall workshop runs from noon Friday to noon Sunday, with opportunities to take four different classes during that

time. Women are given a choice of over 30 classes to participate in ranging from outdoor photography, outdoor survival skills, rifle skills, fishing, hiking, kayak-ing, and many more.

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Becoming an Outdoors Woman # Jennie Laing fishes during the BOW weekend in Garrett County, MD.


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Incorporated in 1936, the company has been around for more than 75 years and has always been all volunteer, all the time. They were first organized in March of 1935 by a group of 15 citizens dedicated to protect the North Point Peninsula. The first apparatus utilized by the group was a 1914 American LaF-rance, and in 1947, the first new engine was purchased. In 1952 the station was moved to its current location at 7500 North Point Road.

Since those early days, the North Point-Edgemere station has provided the citizens of its community with the services of firefighting, emergency medical services, heavy rescue, marine firefighting, and rescue. They average around 650-700 calls each year and currently have 80 members, with about 60 of those actively engaged.

Today, the company has two rescue boats (the larger of the two outfitted with night version, radar, and thermal-sensing technology!) and three fire engines, plus a few smaller utility vehicles. One of their boats is older than 30, and they are currently in the midst of fundraising for a new rig.

I recently caught up with Joe Cooke who is an active and dedi-cated member in the company and he was able to fill me in on some of the group’s more exciting calls over the years. One of my favorites was the story of a sailboat in Bear Creek a few years back that was unaware of their mast height and actually ran

into a low-hanging, high voltage line! Luckily no one was killed, but the sailboat was burnt completely to the water line. That was the second time in about five years that a sailboat has hit that very same power line.

When asked why they continue to put so many hours into this and risk their safety for a volunteer job, Cooke matter-of-factly replied that it is simply something they have to do. They are passionate about protect-ing the citizens of Baltimore County and simply go where they are needed. “There are lots and lots of fire trucks,” Cooke says, “but only so many fire boats.” And so because of the dedica-tion of companies like the NPEVFD and Bowleys Rescue, the waterways of the Upper Chesapeake continue to be protected under their watchful eye. Check out their website, npevfd26.org, to learn how you can help the company save money for a new rescue boat. They have done so much for the boat-ers of Baltimore County, and now it’s time we help them. ~KJ


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In October, 21 new recruits took their oaths and received their badges as Maryland Natural Resources Police

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“A lot of people don’t realize that NRP is the oldest statewide police agency, dat-ing back to 1868,” says public information officer Candy Thomson. “Our officers re-ceive the same training as state police and a lot more such as conservation law and identifying different species, and knowing the legal lengths of fish and wildlife that can be caught or hunted.

“They learn to handle boats from 15 foot jon boats to 40-footers, and they learn how to approach boats and how to get on and off boats quickly. They learn to drive ATVs,” says Thomson. Recruits also learn to recognize poisonous snakes (rattlesnakes and copperheads — “they get up close and personal with them”). NRP

officers cover eight patrol areas from the Atlantic to Maryland’s Deep Creek Lake, including the Chesa-peake Bay, of course, and 66 state parks.

NRP is the lead state agency for mari-time homeland secu-rity. You’ll find NRP officers by bridges, by the LNG terminal in Calvert County, in the shipping chan-nel, and at the Port of Baltimore. More advanced “tactical” teams learn how to board freighters under way and train on Navy boats. Many aspire to these higher level posts.

“New officers will spend the next year with a training officer, learning the ropes in the field,” says Thomson. “They’re learning the state, their beat, the people on their beat, and the kinds of viola-tions going on there. Garrett County is different than Somerset County. We get

them familiar with the area while being mentored by veteran officers.”

NRP faces the challenge of finding young recruits, which is why they have stepped up their recruitment efforts and hope to start a new training in April. Thomson explains that a love of the out-doors drives many people into the career. “They love to paddle and hunt and fish and hike. This is not their livelihood but something they believe in.”

Visit dnr.state.md.us/nrp to learn more.

# Officer-candidate Kristen McFarland learned basic seamanship last summer near Sandy Point State Park. McFarland, who graduated Oct. 18 and received her NRP badge, has been assigned to Anne Arundel County. Photo by MD Natural Resources Police


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On October 28, Anne Arundel County’s elected officials did something

that no elected official has ever done in the county before: they broke ground on a public boat ramp. Wait a second. Really? Maryland’s Anne Arundel County has more shoreline than any other county in the United States, and this is the first public boat ramp built by the county in a county park?

“Funding for this 4.9 million dollar project was a collaborative effort. The Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service both provided significant funding,” according to Laura Neuman, County Executive. Although the project pre-dated Neuman, she decided to put the boat ramp project back into the budget, after being on hold for years, at a challenging time as our economy and the County are recovering. Former County Execu-tive John Leopold and Councilman Derek Fink were mentioned for having continued commitment to this project.

Fort Smallwood Park in Pasadena is going to be the site for the new ramp, set to open in the Spring of 2016. It will feature a two lane boat ramp with boarding piers, 48 trailer parking spaces, two of which are ADA compliant, and a protected harbor for county resi-dents and visitors to enjoy. “From this access point, boaters will have their choice of Rock Creek, the Patapsco River, or any destination they desire on the Chesapeake Bay,” says Neuman.

There were about 75 people in attendance for the ground break-ing ceremony. Although most were involved in the project on one level or another, some were just passers-by in the park, excited to see the County making progress in improving it.

# George Bentz (center with Executive Neuman) of the Pasadena Sportfishing Group was honored for being an advocate in the community and became one of the first people to break ground on the project.


DOCK TALKOyster Commerce Flows In Reverse

For years we’ve been hearing about the sad plight of the oyster in the Chesapeake Bay. The situation

has been so bleak that local processing houses have been importing oysters from other parts of the country, often the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Florida, to meet consumer demand. But lately there’s been a surprising reversal in the flow of oyster commerce, with local processing houses sending oysters south for shucking.

Mike Naylor, shellfish program coor-dinator at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources explains, “It’s pretty remarkable, but southern processing houses are beginning to purchase oysters from our area. It’s especially surprising because the oyster industry in Maryland and Virginia is very small compared to that of the Appalachiola Bay, FL, and Louisiana. However, the oyster harvests are down in those areas. The Gulf is still suffering the effects of Hurricane Katrina and the British Petroleum oil spill (not so much the oil as the intentional influx of fresh water, which helped resolve some problems but impacted oysters by decreasing the salinity of the water). And

in Appalachiola Bay the opposite problem, increased salinity caused by a diversion of the flow of freshwater for drinking water, has adversely im-pacted the oyster population.” An example of the impact: a lead-ing oyster harvesting and production company in Houma, LA, is bringing in some of its oysters from the Chesapeake Bay for the first time in 43 years.

Meanwhile, in Chesapeake Coun-try, harvests have been on an upswing. Naylor says, “ Over the last three years, the oyster harvest has gone from 26,000 bushels to over 430,000 bushels, and the number of harvesters has grown from about 300 to 1000. During that time, the number of shucking houses hasn’t changed, and that’s the reason why oysters are being sent south for processing. The reversal in flow is quite interesting.”

According to the Fall 2013 Maryland DNR Oyster Survey, the rising oyster numbers are due to higher survival rates, strong reproduction over the last few years, and relatively low levels of disease. Commercial oyster landings in 2012-13 were two and a half times greater than the previous year. Conversely, in Louisiana harvests are down as much as 70 percent in some areas.

Whether the current situation will con-tinue is uncertain and depends in part upon continued strong reproduction. We’ll have more information after the annual oyster survey is completed. That study is under-way from now until December.

# A new trend? Southern processing houses have purchased oysters from the Chesapeake. Photo by Jay Fleming/ jayflemingphotography.com


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15 Awwww, Shucks! Oyster Roast at the Virginia Living Museum

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15 Model Boat Show 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oxford

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15 Rocksgiving Striped Bass Fishing Tournament Chesapeake

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15 - Jan 1 Lights on the Bay

5 to 10 p.m. at Sandy Point State Park. Sponsored by Anne Arundel Medical Center. $14 per car.

17 MSSA Broadneck/Magothy #10 Chapter Meeting

American Legion Post #175, Severna Park. 7:30 p.m.

17 Peak of Leonid Meteor Shower Associated with the comet

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18 MSSA Essex/Middle River #3 Chapter Meeting

Commodore Hall, 1909 Old Eastern Ave, Essex, MD. 7:30 p.m.

18 MSSA Susquehanna #23 Chapter Meeting O’Briens

Paradise Cove, 7415 Lincoln Hwy, Abbottstown, PA. 7 p.m.

18 Tracking Carbon in Coastal Wetlands: Sources and Sinks

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19 MSSA Annapolis Meeting 7 p.m. American Legion Post

7, 1905 Crownsville Road, Crownsville, MD. Three presentations on Fall Trolling Tactics.

20 MSSA Dorchester County #11 Chapter Meeting American

Legion Post #91, 601 Radiance Dr, Cambridge, MD. 7:30 p.m.

20 MSSA Southern Maryland #19 Chapter Meeting

Solomons Fire Hall, 13150 H.G.Truman Rd, Solomons, MD. 7 p.m.

20 - Jan 4 Christmas on the Potomac

Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, National Harbor, MD.

20 - Jan 4 Winterfest of Lights

5:30 p.m. daily. 125th Street, Northside Park, Ocean City, MD. $5.

21 World Hello Day Your challenge: get out there and

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21-23 MSSA Fall Classic Tournament The Bay’s

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22 Casey Neal Rogers Rockfish Tournament Benefits the Casey

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22 Splicing Three Strand Line and Rope to Chain

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24 MSSA Perry Hall #6 Chapter Meeting

Gunpowder VFW Post #10067, 6309 Eb-enezer Rd, Perry Hall, MD. 7:30 p.m.

25 MSSA Atlantic Coast #21 Chapter Meeting

Lions Club, Airport Rd, West Ocean City, MD. 7:30 p.m.

26 MSSA Northern Bay #12 Chapter Meeting

Jackson House, North East Community Park, North East, MD. 7 p.m.

27 Thanksgiving Day “Thanksgiving is an emotional

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29 Boat Handling Seminar 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Presented by

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29 Cape Charles Museum Oyster Roast Cape Charles, VA. $35.

29 First Aid and CPR with AED Class

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29 War On The Shore: Go Big Or Go Home

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29-30 Basic Navigation & Piloting Class 9 a.m.

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1 Christmas Tree Lighting 5:30 p.m. Byrd Park in Snow Hill, MD.

1-25 Keep tabs on Santa thanks to NORAD. noradsanta.org

1-31 Irv Fenton Rockfish Tournament

Sponsored by Wilcox Bait and Tackle. Hosted by the Peninsula Salt Water Sport Fisherman’s Association.

4 Midnight Madness Annapolis. Shops open until midnight.

5 Holiday Progressive House Tour Throughout Cape Charles, VA.

5 Poquoson’s Annual Christmas Parade

7 p.m. Wythe Creek Road in Poquoson.

5-6 Catchin’ For Kids Rockfish Tournament

Vinings Landing Marina, Norfolk, VA.

5-7 Christmas on the Creek Oxford, MD.

5-7 Solomons Christmas Walk Solomons will celebrate the

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6 Baltimore Parade of Lighted Boats Fells Point, Baltimore.

6 Bird Walk at Blackwater NWR 8 a.m. Blackwater National Wildlife

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6 Central Park Grand Illumination Central Park, Cape Charles, VA.

6 Dorchester County Christmas Parade

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6 Downtown Hampton Lighted Boat Parade 7 p.m. Hampton River.

6 Friends of Blackwater Christmas Open House and Craft Show

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, 2145 Key Wallace Drive, Cambridge, MD.

6 Oysters and Oldies Christmas Oyster Roast Enjoy a traditional

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6 Watermen’s Museum Oyster Roast Yorktown, VA

8 Christmas Parade 7 p.m. Market Street in Snow Hill, MD.

10 Frederick MSSA Chapter # 22 Meeting

6 to 9 p.m. Frederick Moose Lodge.

11 Midnight Madness Annapolis. Shops open until midnight.

12-14 Christmas in St. Michaels

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13 Holiday Lighted Boat Parade and Golf Cart Parade

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13 Santa Swim 9:30 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency

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13-14 Christmas on Cockrell’s Creek

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13-14 Reedville Christmas Homes Tour

25th Annual Christmas homes tour featur-ing five festively decorated homes spanning a century of design in the historic Reedville area on Cockrell’s Creek connected by free boat shuttles. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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20 Caroling at Oxford Town Park 5:15 p.m. Refreshments to follow

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21 Santa Speedo Run 11 a.m. Downtown Annapolis.

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If you’re not careful, walking the docks opening day of the 2014 U.S. Power Boat Show can cause tempo-

rary whiplash. That’s a joke, of course, but more than once I whipped my head around like a spinning top when some cool piece of gear caught my eye. With so many things to check out, I logged serious pedi-time giving the show a good once over.

Speaking of spinning tops, I spent some time learning more about the gyro stabilization units from Seakeeper. But first a slight detour: my curios-ity piqued, I did a quick Internet search about the history and of applications of gyroscopes in general. I knew they’re used in space, aviation and naval platforms as well as in missile technology. I dis-covered they’re also found in consumer electronics and in tunnel mining equipment. All these modern technological uses sprang from a toy believed to have been invented by ancient civilizations such as Greece, Rome, Indus, and China.

Fast-forward to the 21st century and back to Seakeeper. Shepard McKenney, who previously owned Hinckley Yachts and developed its innovative Jet-Stick technology, and John Adams, former owner of Maritime Dynamics, a lead-er in motion control for high speed ships, combined their formidable talents to found the Maryland-based company in 2002. They make computer controlled gyroscopes for boats ranging in size from 30 feet to longer than 100 feet. According to company literature, Seakeeper gyros eliminate “most boat roll, including the fatigue, anxiety, and

seasickness that go with it.” There are few things worse than getting seasick, and I’ve yet to meet the person who spends time on the water and has been spared some level of mal de mer.

I spoke with Jeff Beane of Alliance Marine Group, who runs Oasis, a 2008 68-foot EB Viking sport fisher of Ocean City, MD. He told me Oasis was recently

retrofitted with the Seakeeper 26, and it is indeed a game changer.

“We came out of Atlantic City inlet, and put it (the boat) in a beam sea of four feet,” he said. “We were rockin’ and rollin’ pretty good. When we engaged the Sea-keeper, the roll was elimated by about 97 percent. It’s a completely differently feel-

ing, and I was impressed.” He anticipates the gyro making their fishing experience much more enjoyable.

Seakeeper works with boatbuilders to install at the factory, or boat owners can retrofit their boat to accomodate the unit. About 25 percent of the units Seakeeper makes are for aftermarket installation. Although the cost and time

needed for a retrofit instal-lation varies, it can be as inexpensive as $5000 for smaller vessels, and up to $35,000 or more to retrofit larger boats. Bank on a few weeks for the work to be completed.

New products are com-ing soon from Seakeeper, says Brook Stevens, Seakeeper’s Regional Sales Manager. “Seakeeper’s next generation of products are here. By early 2015 we’ll have five Seakeeper models available, four of which are already ship-ping,” said Stevens. “Our smallest, most aggressively priced unit to date, the Seakeeper 5, is configured for vessels up to 20 tons, and our largest model, the Seakeeper 35, is config-ured for vessels up to 140 tons.” He added that the

Seakeeper 9, 16, and 26, are all available for vessels up to 35 tons, 70 tons, 100 tons, respectively.

“We’re very excited about our new family of products that will allow us to cater to a wider range of hulls and help

make boating more enjoyable for many more owners,” Stevens said. Whether cruising or big game fishing, Seakeeper products could make your time on the water markedly better. And to think all these modern technological uses sprang from a toy believed to have its begin-nings in ancient civilization.

# U.S. Powerboat Show goers watched a video about the Seakeeper to learn how it stabilizes a boat under way.

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by Lenny RudowBoat Notes

It’s ElementalIf you’ve been bummed by the fact

that nearly all of the hot new boats to hit the market are uber-expensive

luxury yachts that cost more than your home, you’re not alone. Today’s boat prices are rather shocking, for sure. But Bayliner is reversing the trend, with the Element series.

You may have heard about the Element last year, when it won an In-novation award at the Miami International Boat Show. But chances are you haven’t heard about the new XL version. Ei-ther way, both boats can be found with ex-tensive packages that trim them out for either watersports or fishing. Now, are you ready for the shocker? You can buy an Element for under $14,000. You can buy a bigger, better Ele-ment with all the good-ies and gadgets, and you’ll still have a tough time pushing the price up beyond $25,000.

Now that you’ve gone from bummed to surprised, let’s dig a bit deeper. These are extremely simple boats, which come with relative-ly small powerplants and offer relatively moderate performance. The original Element (a 16-footer) has a base powerplant of 60 horses. Yes, after you load the boat down with gear and four of your buddies, it will take some extra time to get onto plane with that engine. The 18-foot XL version, with a base of 90 HP, has a bit more pep. It planes fast and tops out close to 30 miles per hour. If you want more oomph, you can get it with a 115.

Now, for the packages. The Sports package gets a mini tow-tower with board racks that turn this basic run-about into a wakeboarding or water skiing boat. It also gets you special graphics (insert sarcastic “yippee” here) and a bow filler cushion. The Fishing package adds in bow and stern cast-ing deck inserts, pedestal-mounted chairs, a (minimal) Lowrance Elite 3X

fishfinder, a livewell, and an electric trolling motor. Overall it seems geared toward freshwater fishing styles, but for light tackle casting in the tributaries of the Chesapeake, it will certainly get the job done.

The construction and interior and level of fit and finish are about what you’d expect from a modern Bay-liner. It’s relatively unadorned; there’s some plastic where you’d rather see stainless-steel or fiberglass, and “fancy” is certainly not the description that pops to mind. That, of course, is one of the ways Bayliner manages to deliver

so much boat for so little money. But there’s more than meets the eye: Take a gander at the part of this boat that lies below the waterline. The Elements have an “M-hull” hull design which looks sort of like a cross between a powercat, a tri-hull, and a V-hull. The biggest advantage is stability. Even the 16-foot version is amazingly stable at rest. Another up-side is quick and efficient

planing, which is one of the reasons the Elements can get away with utilizing such small powerplants.

Of course, there is a down-side. When you go flying off of waves, the landing is a bit harsher than it might be in a V-hull boat. But again,

remember that these are 16-foot and 18-foot runabouts. You’re going to have a tough time finding any boats of this size that don’t thump after going airborne.

The other down-side is the fact that these aren’t self-bailing boats, so you’re depending on a bilge pump and the batteries. The plus-side here is a deep cockpit and high gunwales, which give most people a feeling of security.

Is an Element going to be the first choice of die-hard anglers, dedicated wakeboarding fanatics, or speed de-mons? Heck no. But if you’re on the lookout for a small runabout that can serve a diverse array of purposes, it may well fit the bill. And the bill for fitting that bill is, for once, a relatively small one.

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I was at a cocktail party a year ago with my wife; she had prepared me early to meet a few of her invited co-workers.

“This couple just put an offer on a wa-terfront condo and wants to talk with us about buying a boat,” she said. Good, I thought, at least I’ll have someone to talk to.

Boating is like home construction or remodeling; adding square footage and fea-tures rapidly runs up costs. Plans must be made before leaping in, contingency funds secured, budgets completed. Then, double all planned expenses for safety factor. Fi-nally, roll all those figures up and toss them into the Bay if you’re the type of person who refuses to cut your losses or face the obvious: There is nothing economical about powerboats.

As those cocktails continued to flow, my wife and I eventually crossed paths with the soon-to-be waterfront condo owners, who were giddy with excitement, as one would expect. They brought up their own finances, kids in school, two mortgages,

payments for this and that, with “a couple hundred dollars a month” available for play. My wife and I kept looking at each other all throughout their talk, knowing this wasn’t going to end well. The couple planned to purchase a 10-year old 38-foot Carver because “its 200-gallon gas tank is bigger than other boats so it would last all season.” I could see my sweet wife’s face turn red, holding in all the things she wanted to say. Fortunately, I am not similarly afflicted.

The best advice I can offer is that a pleasure boat is not an investment, it truly is that hole in the water you throw money into everyone speaks of. If, up front, you can live with never seeing those dollars again, your boating life will be spectacularly won-derful and sometimes surprisingly happy. But if thought of that hole causes you hesi-tation, or your budget is so tight that your happiness relies on a trouble-free season without fuel consumption, save yourself the angst and take a cruise.

For reference, without even starting the engines and no financing, I spend a little over $6000 each year for a nothing special boat, with nothing special insur-ance (and an umbrella policy), kept year-round at a decent marina, with minimal winterizing and spring commissioning costs because I do most of my own maintenance. We cruise more than 500 nautical miles per season without even trying, spending more than $2500 each year in fuel. Mechanical issues should be expected; though 2014 has been good to us, 2013’s refit cost over $20K.

Getting into boating without a realistic budget or stomach to endure a $10-20K repair bill is a recipe for unhap-piness. Sure, you can avoid fuel costs and repair bills by never driving your boat, becoming a regrettably expensive barge. But, being prepared for worst-case sce-narios makes anything less pleasurable. Boats must be used to enjoy, and we use ours. A lot.

B.O.A.T.

by Mike Edick

Boat Economics 101

# Setting yourself up with a realistic boat budget that anticipates repairs will make your boating life much more enjoyable.


St. Michaels is often thought of as a great summer destina-tion. Go by boat. Shop on

Talbot Street. Eat at one of the great restaurants. Visit the winery and distillery. Spend an afternoon at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. There are endless things to do in St. Michaels, especially in the sum-mer. St. Michaels comes alive in the winter, too, and it looks like a scene out of a Christmas movie. During the second weekend in December, Christmas in St. Michaels takes place. Put on as an all-volunteer charity event, all of the proceeds go to local nonprofit organizations; this year there are 19 recipients. This is the 28th year for the festival, and it gets better every year.

The Talbot Street Parade is on Saturday, December 13, starting at 10:30 a.m. It begins in front of the Inn at Perry Cabin on the north end of town and ends at the St. Michaels Middle/High School. It is best to be in town by 10 a.m. to park and find a spot on the sidewalk to view the parade.

There is parking at the high school, but it means a few blocks to walk into town. There are two town parking lots, one left off Talbot Street behind the bakery (with an additional overflow lot behind it) and one further along Talbot on the right off Mill Street. On-street parking is also available.

There will be more than 50 entries in the parade. A new entry this year is the antique log canoe Magic, which was built in St. Michaels. In spite of

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its age, it still wins log canoe races. There will also be antique cars and trucks, a beautiful horse-drawn car-riage, marching bands, horseback rid-ing groups, the Loco Llamas (a 4H group), bagpipers, and many floats, and other attractions. Santa and Mrs. Claus never miss the parade!

The parade is just one activity during the Christmas in St. Michaels weekend. There is also a tour of homes, Santa’s Wonderland (for chil-dren ages 3-11), gingerbread house and model train display, marketplace boutique for Christmas shopping, great food (St. Luke’s Church Holi-day Breakfast and Old Fashioned Eastern Shore Christmas Dinner) and choral concerts on Saturday and Sunday nights. For more informa-tion, visit christmasinstmichaels.org or call (410) 745-0745. #

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# The stylishly dressed rider is

part of the Loco Llamas group.

# The parade features many antique vehicles and boats, including this great old fire truck.


# This beautiful horse-drawn

carriage is always a crowd

favorite at the St. Michaels

Christmas Parade.

# This popular horseback riding group will

participate in the parade again this year.

# A Christmas parade wouldn’t be complete without Santa Claus.

# Marching bands are at the heart of the Talbot Street Parade.


Thousands of boaters flocked to Annapolis for the U.S. Powerboat Show October 16-19. Add re-

markable fall weather to an already spec-tacular collection of boats, accessories, gear, services, and boating experts, and it all added up to a memorable weekend in Annapolis. The PropTalk staff was thrilled to meet so many of our readers and gather ideas for the magazine.

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# Show goers boarded boats by sea and by land! Photo by Craig Ligibel

# Outstanding fall weather brought out record-breaking crowds over the weekend.

# Many show goers took the water taxi to see the 63 used boats at Brokerage Cove. Photo by Craig Ligibel


# At the PropTalk booth, we like to ask show goers to list their home ports. We met boaters from Arkansas to Australia!

# The Quadski XL, an amphibious ATv, in the luxury pavilion at the U.S. Powerboat Show.

# Annapolis Boat Sales boasted a primo location and posted a “sold” sign on day one at the show.

# The view from Ego Alley up Main Street during the show.

# Shark Tested Optics allowed show goers to peek through a telescope toward the State House and the spire of St. Mary’s Church. Photo by Craig Ligibel


By his own admission, Fred Tut-man is not your typical Chesa-peake Bay Riverkeeper.

Some of the Bay’s 18 Riverkeepers seek to improve the quality of the wa-terways they oversee by taking frequent water samples to analyze. Others carry out extensive public education pro-grams. A few plant and nurture oyster larvae, hoping to raise shell-bearing bivalves that eventually will mature and help filter out water-harming excess oxygen.

But Tutman likes to focus his efforts directly on the companies he believes are polluting the river. First, he visits corporate executives to talk about how their firms are hurting the Patuxent. If that doesn’t convince them to change, he knocks on the doors of federal and state regulatory agencies. If necessary, he eventually takes his cases to the courts.

Over the decade-plus that he’s been on the job, Tutman has been instru-mental in filing some 11 lawsuits to force corporations and governmental agencies to obey (or enforce) federal

and state environmental statutes and has prodded dozens more by cajoling or embarrassing them. “I’m an adversary,” he says. “I’m for lowering the boom.”

At first blush, Tutman, now 56, doesn’t look very tough. At five feet, 11 inches and 240 pounds, he’s not exactly pro-football material. Introduce your-self and you get a wide smile, an old-friend demeanor, and a quiet-spoken, articulate way of talking that makes you think you’ve bumped into a man who’s used to dealing with the public and is comfortable with his job.

If you thought that, you’d be right. Although Tutman grew up near the shores of the Patuxent, he picked up his people skills (and left behind any trace of a local accent) during a 25-year career as a contract journalist, work-ing at various times as a writer and producer for major U.S. and foreign networks and traveling extensively over the United States and abroad. Between jobs, he worked as an environmental activist on the Patuxent.

When he was 40, Tutman left radio and television for good, capping an

M.A. he’d earned earlier at Beacon College in Boston, MA, and enrolled in law school. But when he was four classes shy of a law degree, his father suffered a stroke. Tutman dropped out to run his dad’s 20-person information technology business.

In 2004, Tutman founded Patux-ent Riverkeeper, a non-profit advocacy group dedicated to protecting and restoring clean water in this 110-mile Bay tributary. The Patuxent is the longest and deepest instrastate river in Maryland, stretching over seven coun-ties, from wetland marshes to a depth of more than 180 feet. Tutman acts as chief executive officer.

Tutman uses his law-school training on the job. “We patrol the river, in-vestigate and resolve water quality and pollution complaints, launch and man-age restoration projects, raise awareness about the river and its problems, and work toward better enforcement of current laws and better laws to protect the river,” Tutman says on the Patuxent Riverkeeper website.

His model, he says, “stresses grass-roots engagement, a willingness to challenge the status quo, confront pol-luters, and where necessary, sue them,

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the conservative, mostly-white sec-tions of the lower Patuxent. He says the only time race has come up has been among other African-Americans, where community builders occasionally have challenged him with questions such as, “How much is whitey paying you to ruin my construction?” His solution: to show how environmental damage hurts African-American residents as well.

Patuxent Riverkeeper’s headquarters is in a two-story white frame house, overlooking the river, of course, in tiny Nottingham, MD. Tutman has a three-person staff, a 24-foot Grady-White

powerboat, a jon-boat, six canoes, and 20 kayaks. He rents out the canoes and kayaks to help raise money for his opera-tions.

With a grown-up daughter and a girlfriend (also a Riverkeeper) who lives in North Carolina, Tutman keeps a busy, but unconventional, schedule. In a recent week, he spent Monday participating in a mock trial (via Skype) intended to prepare litigants for a court-case against a local coal-burning power plant. On Tuesday, he visited a commercial developer to advise him on how to make his plan for a new government complex more ecology-friendly, had lunch with a University of Maryland Bay policy expert, attended a meeting of senior Bay policymakers and scientists in Annapolis,

and appeared at an evening hearing in Deale to testify on renewal of an indus-trial permit.

Tutman spent the rest of the week pa-troling a portion of the Patuxent to look for pollution problems such as pipe-dis-charges and to chat with local residents, catching up on paperwork, and meeting (in Annapolis) with other Riverkeepers to discuss overall strategy and nutrient management problems.

The jury’s still out on how effectively Tutman’s boom-lowering approach has been. By his own reckoning, legal actions by his Patuxent Riverkeeper organization

have led to almost $400 million in court fines, reparations, and remediation monies from polluters during the past 11 years and spurred state agencies to force corporate violators to obey the law.

At the same time, more than three-quarters of the total emerged from a single 2005 case against the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. That case ended in a $300 million consent decree requiring the utility to repair and

replace its antique infrastructure, which had led to significant sewage spills. Some of the other cases are still pending, or are in limbo.

Nevertheless, Tutman is convinced he’s on the right path and on the right river. “I’m out on the water two or three times a week,” he says, “usually for a cou-ple of hours at a time.” And, he points out wryly, “my perspective has changed” since his days in TV newsgathering. “These days, I’m more inclined to wear flip-flops,” he says. Just not in court. #

About the author: Art Pine is a Coast-Guard-licensed captain and a longtime powerboater and sailor on the Chesa-peake Bay.

and pursue an uncompromising vision of clean water.”

The aggressive stance isn’t the only thing that’s different about Tutman’s approach. He also publicly criticizes mainstream environmental groups, such as the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, for drawing their money and board mem-bers from “some of the same corpora-tions that are polluting the water” by dumping toxic chemicals into it. “The [Save-the-] Bay movement has failed,” Tutman mutters disparagingly. “The water quality hasn’t improved despite all they’ve done to try to clean it up.”

Unlike many envi-ronmentalists, he has little taste for what he calls bigger-govern-ment solutions to en-vironmental problems, such as large federal and state subsidies or Maryland’s so-called “rain-tax,” a levy on property containing impervious patios and driveways that might create drainage prob-lems in the Chesa-peake Bay watershed.

Instead of such programs, Tutman argues, what’s needed is simply to enforce current environmental laws, and that will do the job more cheaply and effectively. “I don’t think the tree-huggers have it right all the time,” he says.

Finally, Tutman’s notion of drum-ming up political support for his pollution-cleanup efforts is to convince local residents along the Patuxent — ordinary people — how the environ-mental damage is actually hurting their own lives and property, and then recruit their support to help prod companies, regulators, and courts to crack down on violators.

There’s one other thing: Tutman is also the only African-American riverkeeper in Maryland — and, indeed, in the U.S. — a factor that he insists hasn’t met with the sort of resistance that urbanites might have expected in


AnnapolisThe Eastport YC (EYC) of Annapolis will be celebrating its 32nd year this December and expects up to 40 boats of all shapes and sizes, power and sail, to participate. In 1988, the event was proclaimed the official Maryland winter celebration! It is held each year on the second Saturday in December with 20-30 thousand people lining the waterfront to watch this glittering holiday spectacular.

More than 50 EYC volunteers work all year long to pull off a truly amazing event; their gift to the city of Annapolis. This year the EYC Lights Parade will be held December 13 from 6-9 p.m. Skippers will circle the waterfront in two fleets, one in front of Eastport, the City Dock, and the Naval Academy Seawall, with the other circling the length of Spa creek, inside the bridge. Participants can compete individually or as representa-tives of their club, and the EYC will provide safety and decorating tips.

BaltimoreIn Baltimore city, the annual lighted boat parade, hosted by the Fells Point YC, will unfold December 6 at 6 p.m. Usually consisting of about 40 vessels, the 27th annual parade benefits the Marine’s “Toys for Tots” annual Christmas campaign. Even before the parade, the Fells Point Old Tyme Christ-mas-Deck the Fells festival promises a full day of merriment. Santa Claus will arrive in the morning and will be around all day for the kids, while carolers will sing, and around 5 p.m., the mayor will light the Christmas tree in the square.

The boats will be divided into two fleets with one group beginning in Fells Point and the other arriving in the Inner Harbor. Both groups will make two passes at each location so that everyone can enjoy the entire spectacle. Free docking can also be arranged in the harbor so make sure to call ahead! Last year visitors were treated to the firing of

the Pride of Baltimore II’s cannons and some gullible spectators (and I) hit the deck thinking we were being fired upon.

This year, there will be a new 14th prize category for work boats. All manner of work boats are invited from commercially licensed fishing boats to army vessels and even tow boats.

The Fells Point parade unfolds the Saturday after the Middle River parade and the Saturday before the Annapolis parade, so if you’re really determined, you could hit all three!

The colder temperatures signal the time for breaking out the Christmas decorations and decking out your boat for the local lighted boat parade. Up and down the Bay there are several

lighted parades each year, the larger ones including the Baltimore Inner Harbor, Solomon’s Island, Kent Narrows, and Annapolis. But there are also smaller, more local affairs that have begun to appear in more recent years.

Whose idea was it to one day string a bunch of lights on a sailboat or a canoe and parade around the harbor? This question is up for debate, but one of the oldest parades, if not the oldest, took place in Newport Beach, CA, in 1907. The story goes that John Scarpa, an obscure Italian Gondolier, started the tradition when he outfitted his gondola with Japanese lanterns and took a small group across the Bay. The next year, Scarpa again decorated his vessel with lanterns and led nine canoes from Pasadena in a procession, and thus the tradition of the lighted boat parades had begun.

# “Lighthouse Sally,” skippered by John Yanik, won Best Illumination at EYC parade.

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MiddleRiverJust outside of Baltimore city in the town of Middle River, there is a lesser known parade that has begun to grow in prestige (and notoriety) in recent years. Now in its 11th year, the parade was initially modeled after larger pa-rades in Baltimore and Annapolis and is hosted by the Stansbury Yacht Basin. Spectators and participants come all the way from Harford County, Pennsylva-nia, Baltimore City, and Anne Arundel County for the event. Each year about 1000 spectators crowd the public view-ing area at Wilson Point Park, and most waterfront restaurants sell out for the evening, including local favorites like River Watch, Carson’s Creekside, Sunset Cove, and Steelfish Grill. Per-haps one reason for its popularity is the increasing appearance of pyrotechnics in some of the more elaborate displays.

I recently caught up with some good friends of mine, the Hock family of Middle River, who have been compet-ing in the parade since 2003, often with fire, and have truly helped make the event what it is today. Brothers Nick, Zach, and Doug, along with their parents Joanne and Jim, and family friends Joe and Greg Bosse first got into lighted boat parades during their time in the boy scouts. Their inaugural float was “Chessie,” the Chesapeake Bay Loch Ness monster who shot a 25-foot flame out of its mouth. Every year after that, their mom Joanne would flip through holiday catalogs and choose that year’s theme for the parade. One year they made a fire truck with a

40-foot cannon, and another theme was “Rockin’ Christmas” with their father Jim as Santa Claus and a full Chimney complete with flames.

So while the Middle River parade may not be as large as Annapolis or Bal-timore, it is just as special, if not more so, to the families that compete. When I asked my friend Doug how and why they have been competing for so many years, he told me they do it because they love it. For the Hock clan, lighted boat parades may have started as a scouting activity, but now “It’s a family tradition.”

SolomonsIslandThe Annual Solomon’s Lighted Boat Parade will celebrate its 31st year and has planned a full weekend of events, Thursday December 4, through Sunday December 7. The celebration will kick off Thursday night with a black and white Gala dinner where guests can expect live music, dancing, raffles, and of course, egg nog. All are welcome! On Friday evening, Santa Claus will arrive by fire truck to help the children light the Christmas tree at the Solomon’s Riverwalk Pavilion. There will also be a Christmas Craft Bazaar running from Friday through Sunday.

But the highlight of the weekend will be Saturday night’s lighted boat parade hosted by the Solomons Business Association, the Solomons Island YC, Solomons Yachting Center, Zahniser’s Yachting Center, Sail Solomons, and the Patuxent River Sail and Power Squad-ron. All boats of any size, shape, or make are welcome and the only requirement is

that the ship’s starboard side be deco-rated but more is always welcome. Prizes are awarded for Best Original Theme, Best Sailboat, Best Power Boat, and Best of Show, and all participating boat own-ers will receive a gift.

The parade kicks off at 6:15 p.m. Saturday night from Solomons Yacht-ing Center and heads up Back Creek, then down the creek for judging at Sail Solomons, at Zahniser’s Yachting Center. The parade will then proceed up the Patuxent River along the boardwalk before returning to Solomons Harbor. Bystanders can view the parade from one of the many restaurants on back Creek or from the Patuxent River Boardwalk.

JointheFunWhile each town may have their own variations on lighted boat parades, the general theme and merriment has always remained the same. Regardless of where you live on the Bay, there is bound to be a parade within an easy drive. So whether you want to “deck the hulls” of your boat this year or simply watch a parade from shore, there is definitely something for everyone. Most parades are only a part of a larger Christmas celebration so check your calendars now and make sure to set some time aside be-cause this is something you surely won’t want to miss!

If you go to a lights parade—one mentioned here or one we missed!—please send pictures to [email protected]. We would love to see Chesapeake lights parades from your lens. #

# “Island Greetings” (2009)

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# Building a fire truck on a pontoon boat. Crew: Nick, Zach, Doug, Jim, and Joanne Hock with Mr. Pat, and Joe and Greg Bosse.


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It’s November and the stores are in full swing for Christmas. Holiday parties are happening all around. As the weather gets colder, and maybe even snowy, our clubs are starting to plan ahead for Spring and Summer. Want to get involved? See below or proptalk.com/clubs for contact information for clubs. Does your club have

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Cru’z-in

It has been an ac-tive and fun summer for members of the

Southern Bay Cru’z Club (SBCC) with monthly cruises and numerous at-home social events.

Cruises. There were cruises for everyone and every level with trips to Kings Creek on the Eastern Shore, the Harbor Fest/Pa-rade of Sails; an extended Northern Chesapeake Bay with multiple stops terminating in Alexandria, Hampton, Salt Ponds, Tidewater Yacht, and Kingsmill Resort and marina. In October, members and their crew completed a southern loop trip along the Inter-Coastal Waterway and the Dismal Canal, known in the cruising community as the Small Loop. Both sail and motor vessels participated in the various events. On average seven SBCC vessels participated in each cruise.

Social Events. The Club members and guests were treated to a wide variety of social activi-ties either as part of a cruise or as land-based events. These included a season opening weekend social and training event, a Fourth of July party and Bar-B-Q, an evening open-air

family movie night, and the season ending Oyster Roast. There were “Docktail” parties during each of the cruises which allowed members meeting with other members on their boats to get to know each other better and to share experiences and stories.

But we are not done yet. In the immediate future, we have the fol-lowing events coming up to finish out the year in style and fellowship. This includes a Club Christmas Party and Boat Decorating contest, both in December. All in all, it has been a terrific, event filled sum-mer, and our Cruising Captains promise more of the same for next year. SBCC is homeported in the Little Creek (Norfolk) harbor. For information on the SBCC activities and possible membership visit our website at southernbaycc.com

From Frederick to North Carolina

The Frederick Chaper of the MSSA’s annual “Tackle the Mackerel” tournament was held out of Harker’s Island, NC from October 4 through

11. We had 18 members trailer their boats down this year for the weeklong event with over 60 members tag-ging along. This was truly one of the best tournaments the chapter held this year. Top honors went to the crew of “Reel Screamer” captained by Rob Pellicot with a total weight of 99.2 pounds of king mackerel. The $1400 Calcutta was won by the crew of the “Catherine Anne” captained by Tyler Watson with a whopping 36.9-pound king. We would like to thank our spon-sors, Shore Tackle shoretackleandcustomrods.com and ReelDraggin Tackle reeldraggintackle.com, for support-ing our chapter tournaments. “Like us” on Facebook at MSSA-Maryland Saltwater Sportfishermen’s Associa-tion - Frederick Chapter.

Mark your calendar for January 17, 2015 for the annual Fishing Expo at the Frederick Fairgrounds.

Although last year’s event was dubbed one of the area’s finest, this year’s event truly will be much bigger and better. Currently, a full list of speakers and vendors is being assembled. Stay tuned to the website mssfrederick.com for updates.

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The newly elected Commodore, Steve Rudiger and his wife Kathy hosted Selby Bay YC’s annual

Commodore’s Ball on October 18. Ev-erything was perfect, even the tide level. It’s a tradition that members dress on their boats for this occasion. I was unsure how easy it would be to get onto the finger pier from our boat in a full-length evening dress. No problem: low tide! It seemed as if Kathy had taken everything into consideration, and this was just the start of an enjoyable evening. The festivi-ties started with appetizers and social-izing. Dinner was catered by Ken’s Cre-ative Kitchen and began with a beautiful and delicious salad decorated with purple pansies. Who knew flowers were tasty? The main course included a sumptuous fillet of Chesapeake Bay rockfish stuffed with jumbo lump Maryland crabmeat, asparagus, potatoes, and amazing basil thyme bread. The Satin Rhythm Band got everyone on their feet dancing with a lively mix of music. The time flew by,

and before we knew it, the last dance and encore set the stage for another Selby Bay tradition: the after party. We all retreated to our boats to change and a smorgasbord of pot luck goodies were taken back to our club house. The conversations, boating adventure stories, and cigars on the front porch lasted until the wee hours. Sunday, we enjoyed a potluck breakfast before fi-nally going our separate ways. Looks as if Steve will not only continue our immedi-ate past Commodore, Dana von Rinteln’s high standards of boating community, he will kick it up a notch.

SBYC is a member owned nonprofit organization for sail and power boaters. We have a few slips available. See our website for more information: selbybayyc.com by Linda Sweeting

An Inauguration

The Classic Yacht Club of America held its Change of Watch at the Chester River YC

on October 22. CYCA has had a very successful 2014 season with four ren-dezvous, averaging 20 boats attending each rendezvous. The new bridge and members are looking forward to the 2015 boating season. If you have a classic yacht and are interested in joining The Classic Yacht Club of America, check out the website classicyachtclub.org and consider visit-ing at a rendezvous in 2015.


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Santa’s coming to town!

Santa will be joining the Annapolis Sail and Power Squad-ron to collect Toys for Tots during our December 4 dinner meeting at the Sheraton Hotel on Jennifer Road. Everyone

is welcome to join the festivities at this annual occasion. To reserve your spot call (410) 263-8777, option # 4; cost is $29 per person. All Toys for Tots donations should be unwrapped and suitable for a boy or girl up to the age of 14. There will be no speaker at this dinner, but Santa will be present for our enjoyable gift exchange. If you wish to be part of our optional gift exchange, please bring a gift between $10 - $15. For more information about our Toys for Tots collection

or our Decem-ber 6th dinner, please email [email protected]. Learn about our upcoming activities and class offerings on our An-napolis Sail and Power Squadron website: aspsmd.org. by Linda Sweeting

Christmas Meeting & Fishing Flea Market

The Pasadena Sportfishing Group (PSG) will meet December 8 at Earleigh Heights Volunteer Fire Company. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the meeting

starts at 7:30 p.m. Capt. Wayne Morgan will discuss striped bass fishing in the Chesapeake Bay. This is our annual Christmas meeting, so the prize table will contain fishing equipment and jewelry, and a winner take all drawing. Food and beverages are available, and the meetings are free and open to the public.

PSG is also gearing up for its annual Flea Market/ Show. Organizers have moved the event back to the Earleigh Heights Fire Hall on Ritchie Highway in Severna Park. February 14 and 15, 2015 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. For infor-mation, visit pasadenasportfishing.com

Monthly Meeting at Fleet Reserve

Club Crabtowne’s monthly meeting and social will be held on Tuesday, November 25, at The Fleet Reserve Club, 100 Compromise St. Annapolis, 6

to 8 p.m. Meet new friends, sign up for activities, and join the fun. See clubcrabtowne.org to find out more. Active duty military personnel receive a One-year free membership.

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Need For Speedby Allison Nataro

I’ve had a “need for speed” my en-tire life and now share my life with some pretty powerful vehicles: two

hot rods and two street cars to be ex-act, not the kind for the actual roads, but the kind that lives a 1/4 mile at a time. My love story with cars began when I was 16, going out in Glen Burnie to watch the street races. I got my first project car when I was 22, a 2003 Volkswagen Beetle Turbo S. Not your ordinary Bug, this car had a body designed by Porsche, a custom color-matched interior, and a 1.8-litre turbo motor. Stock, it ran 180 horsepower; it was up to 220-hp when I was done working on it. I learned most of what

I know about motors and cars on my Bug. I showed that car all over the east coast and won numerous events with it. I won’t say that I lost my love for the imports, especially Volkswagens, but I have currently strayed a bit.

Ben and I have seven cars between us at the moment: a 1964 Oldsmo-bile F85, a 1967 Corvette, a 1968 Chevelle, a 1986 Cutlass 442, a 1988 Volkswagen Cabriolet, and a Toyota 4Runner and Chevy Silverado (we need something to pull our car hauler with!). All but the 442 and the Cor-vette are for sale (inquire for details).

So, on to boats. I think boats become the halfway point between

building fast cars and fixing up air-planes. I like and respect all boats, but of course I really love the ones that push the limits, have loud, big motors, and go FAST. We were excited to spend the weekend in Solomons for the 2014 OPA National and World Championships in early October. The weather was perfect, and our time on Buzz and Carol Milan’s boat was wonderful. The Milans have volun-teered their boat for the last five years as the start boat for the OPA races in Solomons and are known for mak-ing sure that everyone who is on their boat has a full stomach and a great time! We met some wonderful people

# Cat Can Do won the OPA Nationals and got second in the OPA Worlds.


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on the boat, and I think that Randy Beckwith summed it up best when he said, “Cars are great, but there are speed limits on the roads. Out on the water, there are a lot of spots where you can push your boat to the abso-lute limit.” If anyone wants to spon-sor my purchase of a boat, I promise that I will drive it really, really fast and win a ton of races.

It was so cool to watch the boats going 70- plus miles per hour on a circular course at the mouth of the Patuxent river. Let me tell you, you know if these boats are coming, too, as they are loud! That adds to the fun of it for me. Not only can you feel the power as your heart skips a beat, but hear it, too (Just ask my neigh-bors. We have the loudest car on the block!) A lot of the OPA boats use the same technology as we do in our cars, so I felt right at home. We got a chance to talk tech with the guys from Cat Can Do, one of the Extreme Cats which is based in Michigan. Cat Can Do runs two Chevy big blocks, each with a PSI roots supercharger, capable of making 50+ pounds of boost, similar to the setup you would see in a Funny Car, but in a car you would only see one engine. Each engine makes more than 1000 horse-power, running on 116 octane gas. Although the Cat Can Do team won the OPA National Championships for its class, they were not able to se-cure the World title, which was won by Miss Mary Mac, a Maryland boat. Miss Mary Mac runs two turbines (jet engines). As it passed us on the start boat, we could see and feel the heat coming off of the boat, and that was with it being over 40 feet from us.

We were privileged to meet and spend time with Marie “Mamma” Smith, who is part of the “First Fam-ily” of OPA racing. Her husband Ed, the president of the OPA, also owns the Wazzup Racing Team, which consists of three boats. Her three sons also are drivers and throttlemen for the family boats. Even though race days are high stress for her, she

was great company. She says “It really doesn’t matter to me if they win, just as long as everyone is safe.” We did witness a boat flip; although it was on the far end of the course, and we didn’t see anything other than what was left of the boat being hauled back to the cranes. Everyone in the boat was okay, so that is what matters most.

The highly contested Super Vee Lite class seems to be a crowd favorite. I credit a lot of that to the guys and gals of Tug It. They really do have a great time racing their boat. Four of the eight boats in this class are from the Chesapeake. We watched the Lilly Sport Boats team out of Arnold, MD, win the OPA World Championships in the Super Vee Lite class on Sunday. Art Lilly is well known in the boating world for building and racing fast boats. But this year, he was on shore, and his son, Brit, and throttleman Ron Um-landt were responsible for driving the 29-foot boat to victory. LSB Racing is owned by Brit Lilly and is powered by a Mercury Racing 8.2 liter HP 525 EFI built by Joey Griffin. The motor makes over 500 horsepower, which on a smaller, lightweight boat, is enough to go really fast.

As we go to press, the Super Boat International Key West World Championships are going on in Florida. Brit Lilly is racing along with Kevin Smith in the Hurricane of Awesomeness of the Tug It team. We wish them the best of luck and can’t wait to hear all about it!

As for my love of unlimited speed, I think I’ll stick to the pavement for now, because I’ve been told that we aren’t going to get a boat right now, not to mention that I’d have to get a third job to support it if we did. I am, however, OPA racing’s newest fan, and I have the T-shirt to prove it!

Find a full list of results from the Solomons Grand Prix / OPA World Championships Weekend at oparacing.org #

# Brit Lilly after winning the OPA World Championships, holding a checkered flag, homemade on the start/finish boat.

# TUG IT, baby! Always a crowd favorite.

# Marie “Mamma” Smith waits to hand the checkered flag to the the crew of Strictly Business, who had just beaten her husband’s boat to win the OPA World Championships.


2014 APBA – OPA World ChampionshipBoat Racing Winners

by Chris “Seabuddy” Brown

The biggest winners at “The Worlds” were Brit Lilly and his dad, Art, and throttleman Ron

Umlandt. They were named World Champions for their racing efforts in the Super Vee Lite category for the 2014 season. Their single engine 525-horsepower Mercury Marine Rac-ing stern drive 29-foot Extreme brand race boat, LSB Racing, is home-based within their Lilly Sport Boats business in Arnold, MD.

Their boat racing efforts are an ex-tended family affair within their team; thus the large crowd at the trophy cer-emony, but the boisterous joy from the entire ballroom room crowd of racers at the awards ceremony as their win was announced October 5 at the Solomons Holiday Inn was overwhelming.

But, #422 Erie Monster, a Class 4 Great American Concept brand race boat, driven by Ceric Ide (Medina, OH) and throttled by George Cervoski was the absolute public crowd pleaser. Whether one was along the sea wall boardwalk or within the paid-for inside or deck seating at Stoney’s Solomons Pier, their practice lap before each race was greeted with a roar from the shore-side crowd. Their sense of fun, adrena-line within the boat’s cockpit, and racing spirit set the crowd of spectators on fire.

Richard Chaney (Lo-thian, MD) was named the World Champion Boat Racer in the top-ranked Extreme Race Boat Class. Richard is the owner/driver of Miss Mary Mac a 47’ MTI, powered by two1900 HP Turbine engines and Marine Drives.

Ed (driver) with Shawn (throttleman) Smith from St. Clair, MI, won the World Champion in the Super Cat class. Their 388 Skater racer is named Cleveland Construction. Additional World Champions:Class 1—Frank Nania and Dave Wes-seldyk, #179 Skater Class 2—Eliot Gray and Shawa Vinson, #211, MTI Class 3—Louie Giancontieni and Erik Vohrer, # V6, Fountain Class 4—Johnny Saris, Jason Saris, and Verne French, #441 Cobra Class 5—John Coen and Eddie Sim-mons, #505, Superboat Class 6—Lee Ann Peluso and Chris Reindl, #602 Reindl One Design Class 7—Kyle Miller and Jay Wohlt-man, # 732 ActivatorWhat it is like to drive a Super Vee Lite Race Boat?You are driving a 90-plus miles per hour Super Vee Lite race boat just offshore at Solomons, near the mouth of the Patux-ent River off the Chesapeake Bay. Your throttleman has your boat trimmed to be at the very edge of control. It is your job to feel the wakes, wind, and chop that the boat is driving through and keep it in control. Your tools are the steering wheel and your senses. Nothing else, but it is your efforts that make for a win or an also ran finish.

The boat moves, tilts, leaps, and twists, and you have to use your steering wheel movements to keep it going in your path around the course for a fast,

winning position. Some are small move-ments, others fairly large. There are many movements; continuous steering wheel movements on your part put you in the best position to score a win.

Your boat builder designed your racer to get more “boat” running in the air than in the water, as water is thicker and slower. Thus your boat runs at break neck speed in what is best described as highly aerated water. Then your riggers set the Mercury Marine Racing 525-horsepower engine, outdrive, and trim tabs in the boat to do the same loose running. If you are one of the fastest boats, your shop modified your fiberglass hull to cram even more air under the boat with NACA (a form of low-drag air inlet design) inlets and other tubes, channels, and shaped edges to handle the air under the running surface. The boat is set-up to “dance” around the race course.

It is up to you via your steering wheel inputs to keep her right-side up. Oh, and not to swap ends (spin out), when the thrust of that propeller changes. Your race boat wants to do that all the time, all at high speed.

In fact, the fastest boats have deliber-ately modified their boat bottoms to be too loose to control and then go backwards slightly in speed to adjust or widen a bot-tom strake or two to allow the driver to be able to keep the boat under control. #

# A fun adrenaline rush in Solomons.

# A windy Saturday on the race course on the Patuxent. Photo by Ben Dubit


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2014 Wye Marathon by Charlie Iliff

ned Farinholt and Erged On II were back in form in the 14th annual Wye Island Marathon.

His win and new record this year were clearly due to his wife Marilyn, who was aboard for the race and no doubt navigated the boat away from the hazards that damaged a motor last year. Ned was moved into the “Ex-treme Class” because of his large bank of lithium polymer batteries and the twin Torqeedo outboards. Despite the record speed, Ned barely edged last year’s overall winner, Jim Campbell, whose E-Canoe has improved its time each year. Both are threatening to do the course in less than two hours. Maybe the 2015 Marathon, the 15th annual, will see that mark put astern. Jay Bliss in his lightweight 15-foot runabout had no trouble finishing the course. His boat rounded out the top three: all three equipped with Torqee-do outboards.

First-time competitor John Todd and his wife did the course in a little jewel of a boat converted from a row-ing boat that he built more than 30 years ago. The boat was not built for speed, but the beautiful workmanship gathered a crowd before the race. John made the rounds of the other boats and asked the kind of questions that suggest he is considering building

something a bit faster. In the mean-time, he clearly won the concours competition, filling a gap left by the absence of Tom Hesselink’s Budsins this year. Tom will be back next year, perhaps with a new Budsin or maybe with a 1930’s classic that he’s work-ing on.

The two radical extreme class boats once again failed to finish, despite showing impressive early speed. The PropTalk ElectraShell II quickly ran off from the field after the start, but only made it as far as the mouth of the Wye before the smoke got out of its electric motor. Electrashell II started life as a four-oar competition shell. It is so narrow that outriggers are needed to keep it from rolling over. As the ElectraShell was loaded on the truck to go home, someone was overheard to say: “I told you that Etek wouldn’t run for two hours at 50 percent over its rated amperage.” A response was not forthcoming except for an impolite hand gesture, but it is now rumored that a new motor with fresh smoke, and more capacity, is in the works for the 15th Marathon.

Paul Kydd’s aluminum jon boat climbed out of the water on its hy-drofoils and threatened to catch the ElectraShell for a while, but the shear

pin carved a hollow in its plastic prop and ended its run. Paul has done the marathon as competitor or spectator in each of its 14 years. His hydrofoil boat, with a pancake electric motor driving through a Yamato outboard lower unit is a work in progress, but showing some signs of capability.

John Kocher needed a little tow at the end of the day in his 21-foot hand-built cruiser, and Bob Loca’s converted Hobie Cat needed a little more sunshine for his solar panels to keep up with the demands of his three trolling motors, but they had a good time and stories to tell at the Friday-night banquet. As always, resolutions for next year headed the topics of Friday-night conversation.

The weather cooperated for most of the day, but kicked up a bit in the late afternoon.

Once again, the Marathon was a wonderful trip around one of the nic-est courses that could be selected for a race — or just a quiet trip on the water. And as always, the hospitality and the “home style” banquet fare at the Miles River YCwere superlative.

It’s time to start planning to buy, borrow, or build an electric boat for the 15th annual Wye Island Mara-thon, October 2, 2015. It’s a great way to start an October weekend. #

# The marathon runs along one of the nicest courses that could be selected for a race. Photos by H.S. McCann

# Bob Loca’s converted Hobie Cat needed a little more sunshine for his solar panels to keep up with the demands of his three trolling motors.


CCWBRA Oktoberfestby Charlie Iliff

propTalk was the first ever winner of a special prize at the Cocktail Class Oktoberfest. The

first-place cocktail glass wasn’t for a race win on the water but is inscribed: “Happy Boat Award Presented to the Owner of the Boat Most Raced.” And Molotov really was the boat most raced at Rock Hall October 25. The regular driving team couldn’t make it to the regatta, so PropTalk offered Molotov to the Association for any drivers who signed up to run. Race drivers included one who had never driven a Cocktail Class boat as well as regular competitors who didn’t have an engine for a particular class.

New members T.K. Walker and Sam Wearly, who are considering building a boat, came all the way from Tennessee to see a Cocktail Class re-gatta. Sam ran Molotov in the Post ‘79 6-hp class and the late classic ‘76 to ‘79 class where he won one of the heat races and qualified for the finals. Sam graciously relinquished his place in the finals since Molotov qualified a driver in each of the two heats, and only one could drive the finals. Although a rookie Cocktail Class racer, Sam con-fessed to have had experience 20 or so years ago racing everything from little runabouts to 100-plus mile per hour tunnel boats. He observed that the races reminded him how much he had been missing the competition. We’re looking forward to T.K. and Sam’s

return with a boat and motors from their Old Outboard Barn in Lebanon, Tennessee.

In addition to Sam’s races, Molotov stayed busy with Grand Poobah Rich Faulkner running in a couple of classes and Jack Pettigrew taking a turn in the Post-‘79 6-hp class where their regular rides didn’t have engines available. A couple of Toothache II’s regulars, Mike Serio and Art Howard, also ran Molo-tov with a newly acquired 1969 motor in the Early-Classic class, picking up a couple of ribbons.

Although we really like to brag about Molotov, we do have to admit that there were 17 or so other boats there, and a bunch of pretty good drivers. As usual, the Edmonds fam-ily added to their already impressive trophy collection. BreeAnn, who is the vastly overworked secretary of CC-WBRA, drove her Sundowner to the win in the 6-hp Mixed Late Classic class, finding the men easier competi-tion than Gretchen Granbery who took the Late Classic Women’s Class in Clicquot and Dawn Urbani who took home the Women’s Early Classic trophy in Smokin’ Loon.

Engine guru Robert Edmonds, coming all the way from Georgia with his Shaken Knot Stirred, took all three 6-hp heavyweight classes and got a second in the 8-hp class, where Darryl Kepler and his Silver Bullet took the class by a point. Dram, driven by Keith

Carew scored a win in the hotly com-petitive 6-hp Mixed Post ‘79 Class, topping Art Howard and Toothache II on a tiebreaker. Tom Kerr in his Rajic was third, only one point back despite an over-early penalty in the second race.

Oktoberfest marked the first time that the Classic division was divided into two classes: Early Classics for 6-hp OMC motors built in 1975 and earlier and the Late Classics for 1976 to 1979 OMC 6s. Experience over the races since establishing the Classic Division in 2013 had shown that the early motors couldn’t quite keep up with the ‘76 to ‘79 outboards. Okto-berfest showed that there are enough of each group to make sure the classes are competitive, and competition was close. Fred Allerton’s Smokin’ Loon was the class of the Early Classics, winning the women’s with Dawn Urbani and scoring second in the heavyweight class driven by Todd Steffes. In the 6-hp Mixed Early Clas-sic class, Fred in Smokin’ Loon edged Art Howard and Molotov, giving us Orioles fans another opportunity to say: “Wait’ll next year.”

The weather cooperated, with mild temperatures for late October, and light wind. As usual, Rock Hall YC’s hospitality was superb, and the Hal-loween costume buffet following the awards Saturday evening capped an already great day. #

# JW Widmayer tries to hold a his lead over over Peter Urbani and Robert Edmonds in the 8HP class.

# Kim Granbery takes a turn with Art Howard hot on his tail.

# It’s always a heated competition when the Edmonds brothers are on the race course.


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The group is currently building a Bevins skiff. The plywood skiff is a long-term project and should be completed and launched by early spring. As they build the skiff, the students are also creat-ing a kit for the next group to use to assemble another boat. A concurrent class project is the res-toration of an Eastern 19 center console donated to the program

by the Department of Natural Re-sources. As the class progresses in woodworking skills, further plans this year include introductory units in fiberglass production and repair, outboard engine trouble shoot-ing, and marine electrical systems. David’s level two students are building a cedar strip decked kayak and restoring a donated Penguin class sailboat.

Dave Hannam of Classic Watercraft Restoration in Annapolis, MD, reports

he has started on another classic restoration of a 1947 Chris-Craft 17-foot runabout, recently brought up from Florida after numer-ous years in storage. According to Dave, “This old woody will be stripped down to its original bare mahogany planks, re-stained, and

One of the most enjoy-able aspects of writ-ing this column is

the opportunity to go to neat places and talk to interesting people who share my enthusiasm for boats. Mostly this means marinas, boat builders, and restoration and repair shops. This month, I was privileged to be in-vited to visit the Marine Tech-nology program at the Center of Applied Technology South known as CAT-South. CAT-South is a magnet program of Anne Arundel County Public Schools located on the sprawl-ing campus of South River High School in Edgewater, MD, just a few miles south of Annapolis.

According to their website, the mission of the Division of Career and Technology Educa-

tion, of which CAT-South is a part, is “To ensure that all high school graduates are prepared for post-secondary education and the workforce. The Division pro-vides instructional and curricu-lum support and resources that are aligned with Anne Arundel County school system and State of Maryland educational goals. These supports and resources are focused on raising achievement levels of all students for success in academic and career pursuits.”

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re-coated with multiple coatings of varnish. Additional upgrades to the engine and fuel system will include a water separator and filter. The new local owners are excited they will receive back a reliable running engine and a beautifully restored woody to start cruising down Spa Creek next spring!” Dave also reports good progress on the Gar Wood Gen-tleman’s Speedster replica he is building, having finally completed installation of her teak deck.

Tracy Munson of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels

MD, sends us this update of their winter plans. “Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum boatyard program manager Jennifer Kuhn reports a new 15-foot sailing skiff (modified for outboard power) is being built in the boat shop over the winter months. The process started in October with lines and lofting, and members of the public participated in the build as part of the Museum’s weekend Appren-tice for a Day public boatbuilding program.

Named Casper, the boat is a modified version of the museum’s collection boat Ghost, which was once used as a crabbing skiff along the Chesapeake. To make a lighter, ‘friendlier’ version of

the skiff, Casper is commissioned to be built out of marine-grade ply-wood instead of traditional bottom cross-planking. To accommodate for the marine-grade plywood construc-tion, Casper’s deadrise design has been reduced in the stern. The rake of the transom has also been reduced to accommodate an outboard motor. Once completed in spring 2015, the boat will be launched along the Miles River and taken out to be trailered to its new owners in Baltimore. To participate in the build or to com-mission your own boat, email [email protected].”

Scott Anderson, General Manager of Harbour Cove Marina in Deale, MD,

reports in as the new kid in town now that the marina has been under new ownership for only a matter of months. “We are a full service marina with boatel, wet slip stor-age, brokerage, and Volvo - Penta certified mechanics. We are looking forward to an excellent fall and winter season and are already get-ting busy because we have a bunch of specials ranging from slip rental, boatel storage, winterization, shrink wrap, and just about all of the above. We’re a one stop shop.”

Weaver Boat Works of Deale and Tracys Land-ing, MD, will have a

busy winter with five of their custom beauties currently under construc-

tion; a Weaver 75 due for comple-tion this fall, another 75, an 80, 70, and 52. Three of the boats are at the company’s new facility on the Deale side of Rockhold Creek at Hidden Harbor Marina, and the other two on the other side of the creek at the Herrington Harbor North facility in Tracys Landing. Completion dates on these projects extent into the end of 2015.

Jim Jacobs of Osprey Compos-ites in Tracys Landing, MD, reports that they have an older

42-foot Egg Harbor in for major

repairs. “This boat was built in 1990,” Jim says. “The core in her hull extends down below the waterline. Water worked its way into the core, and it swelled up, resulting in major de-lamination. The only solution is to cut it all out and replace it, which is what we are doing. We are currently installing the vacuum bag on the outside of the repair prior to infusing the resin.”

Meg Roney at Mathews Brothers in Denton, MD, sends us this update

of their winter plans. “One of the brokered Patriot 29s sold this sum-mer has come back to the shop for some refits and maintenance. The varnish team has finished up a complete varnish strip and build-up back up to full coats — they’ve done a beautiful job! Our

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Boatyard Program Manager Jennifer Kuhn (center) supervises the lofting of Casper’s lines at the museum’s boat shop in St. Michaels, MD.

Justified, a Judge 36, from Judge yachts in Denton, MD, shows off at the Annapolis Powerboat Show in October.

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J.J. Williams of Osprey Composites in Tracys Landing, MD, installing a vacuum bag

on a hull repair on a 42-foot Egg Harbor. Photo by Rick Franke



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We had another brokered Patriot in the shop for a horn repair and varnish touch-up as well as an increasing line up of storage boats waiting for winterization. Everyone in the shop is busy between the refit above, laying up components in the glass shop, minor repairs to another

brokerage boat, a Honda outboard repair, varnishing various pieces, and estimates for more repairs and refits. Be sure to keep checking the blog (mathewsboats.com/blog) and our daily pics to see what we’re up to!”

Richard Dobbs, Curator of Maritime History at the Calvert Maritime Mu-

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seum in Solomons, MD, shared the museum’s plans for this winter in the boatshop. Led by master boatwright George Surgent, the volunteer crew will complete the renovation of a 19-foot inboard deadrise bateau. She was built in 1983 by renowned St. Mary’s County boat builder Francis Goddard for “Web” Poe, a St. George’s Island waterman, and used primarily as a

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2 02:16 AM 1.1 H Tue 08:59 AM -0.2 L 03:16 PM 1.4 H 10:08 PM 0.1 L

3 03:12 AM 1 H Wed 09:45 AM -0.2 L 04:14 PM 1.5 H 11:11 PM 0.1 L

4 04:05 AM 1 H THu 10:30 AM -0.2 L 05:07 PM 1.5 H

5 12:08 AM 0.1 L Fri 04:56 AM 0.9 H 11:13 AM -0.3 L 05:56 PM 1.5 H

6 01:00 AM 0.1 L SAT 05:45 AM 0.9 H 11:55 AM -0.3 L 06:42 PM 1.5 H

7 01:48 AM 0.1 L Sun 06:33 AM 0.9 H 12:37 PM -0.2 L 07:25 PM 1.5 H

8 02:33 AM 0.1 L Mon 07:19 AM 0.8 H 01:18 PM -0.2 L 08:07 PM 1.4 H

9 03:15 AM 0.1 L Tue 08:05 AM 0.8 H 02:01 PM -0.2 L 08:48 PM 1.4 H

10 03:55 AM 0.1 L Wed 08:51 AM 0.8 H 02:44 PM -0.1 L 09:28 PM 1.3 H

11 04:33 AM 0.1 L THu 09:39 AM 0.8 H 03:31 PM 0 L 10:09 PM 1.2 H

12 05:10 AM 0.1 L Fri 10:29 AM 0.8 H 04:22 PM 0.1 L 10:50 PM 1.1 H

13 05:47 AM 0.1 L SAT 11:23 AM 0.8 H 05:19 PM 0.1 L 11:32 PM 1.1 H

14 06:25 AM 0 L Sun 12:19 PM 0.9 H 06:24 PM 0.2 L

15 12:17 AM 1 H Mon 07:04 AM 0 L 01:16 PM 0.9 H 07:35 PM 0.3 L

16 01:03 AM 0.9 H Tue 07:45 AM -0.1 L 02:11 PM 1 H 08:45 PM 0.3 L

1 03:28 AM 2.8 H Mon 09:41 AM 0.1 L 03:44 PM 2.5 H 09:56 PM -0.2 L

2 04:31 AM 2.9 H Tue 10:45 AM 0 L 04:48 PM 2.5 H 10:51 PM -0.2 L

3 05:28 AM 3.1 H Wed 11:43 AM -0.1 L 05:46 PM 2.5 H 11:43 PM -0.3 L

4 06:19 AM 3.2 H THu 12:36 PM -0.2 L 06:38 PM 2.5 H

5 12:31 AM -0.3 L Fri 07:07 AM 3.2 H 01:24 PM -0.2 L 07:25 PM 2.5 H

6 01:17 AM -0.3 L SAT 07:50 AM 3.2 H 02:09 PM -0.2 L 08:10 PM 2.4 H

7 02:01 AM -0.2 L Sun 08:32 AM 3.1 H 02:52 PM -0.2 L 08:51 PM 2.4 H

8 02:44 AM -0.2 L Mon 09:12 AM 3 H 03:33 PM -0.1 L 09:32 PM 2.3 H

9 03:26 AM 0 L Tue 09:51 AM 2.9 H 04:13 PM 0 L 10:12 PM 2.3 H

10 04:08 AM 0.1 L Wed 10:30 AM 2.7 H 04:53 PM 0.1 L 10:54 PM 2.2 H

11 04:51 AM 0.2 L THu 11:10 AM 2.5 H 05:33 PM 0.2 L 11:38 PM 2.2 H

12 05:38 AM 0.3 L Fri 11:52 AM 2.4 H 06:15 PM 0.2 L

13 12:25 AM 2.1 H SAT 06:28 AM 0.4 L 12:36 PM 2.2 H 07:00 PM 0.3 L

14 01:16 AM 2.1 H Sun 07:24 AM 0.5 L 01:24 PM 2.1 H 07:47 PM 0.3 L

15 02:10 AM 2.2 H Mon 08:22 AM 0.5 L 02:17 PM 2 H 08:36 PM 0.2 L

16 03:05 AM 2.3 H Tue 09:20 AM 0.4 L 03:12 PM 2 H 09:25 PM 0.1 L

1 06:27 AM -0.1 L Mon 12:58 PM 1.1 H 07:02 PM 0.1 L

2 12:55 AM 1 H Tue 07:19 AM -0.2 L 02:00 PM 1.1 H 08:06 PM 0.1 L

3 01:50 AM 0.9 H Wed 08:09 AM -0.2 L 02:57 PM 1.2 H 09:07 PM 0.1 L

4 02:41 AM 0.8 H THu 08:57 AM -0.3 L 03:49 PM 1.3 H 10:02 PM 0.1 L

5 03:30 AM 0.8 H Fri 09:44 AM -0.3 L 04:37 PM 1.3 H 10:52 PM 0.1 L

6 04:16 AM 0.8 H SAT 10:29 AM -0.3 L 05:23 PM 1.3 H 11:39 PM 0.1 L

7 05:00 AM 0.7 H Sun 11:13 AM -0.3 L 06:06 PM 1.3 H

8 12:23 AM 0.1 L Mon 05:43 AM 0.7 H 11:57 AM -0.3 L 06:47 PM 1.2 H

9 01:06 AM 0.1 L Tue 06:26 AM 0.7 H 12:41 PM -0.2 L 07:28 PM 1.2 H

10 01:47 AM 0.1 L Wed 07:11 AM 0.7 H 01:26 PM -0.2 L 08:08 PM 1.1 H

11 02:29 AM 0.1 L THu 08:00 AM 0.7 H 02:13 PM -0.1 L 08:47 PM 1 H

12 03:12 AM 0.1 L Fri 08:52 AM 0.7 H 03:02 PM -0.1 L 09:28 PM 1 H

13 03:56 AM 0 L SAT 09:48 AM 0.7 H 03:55 PM 0 L 10:09 PM 0.9 H

14 04:41 AM 0 L Sun 10:48 AM 0.7 H 04:52 PM 0.1 L 10:52 PM 0.8 H

15 05:27 AM -0.1 L Mon 11:47 AM 0.8 H 05:50 PM 0.1 L 11:37 PM 0.8 H

16 06:13 AM -0.1 L Tue 12:45 PM 0.8 H 06:49 PM 0.2 L


18 02:43 AM 0.8 H THu 09:08 AM -0.2 L 03:50 PM 1.2 H 10:50 PM 0.2 L

19 03:35 AM 0.7 H Fri 09:52 AM -0.3 L 04:36 PM 1.3 H 11:43 PM 0.1 L

20 04:26 AM 0.7 H SAT 10:37 AM -0.3 L 05:21 PM 1.3 H

21 12:32 AM 0 L Sun 05:17 AM 0.7 H 11:23 AM -0.3 L 06:07 PM 1.4 H

22 01:19 AM 0 L Mon 06:08 AM 0.7 H 12:12 PM -0.4 L 06:53 PM 1.4 H

23 02:05 AM -0.1 L Tue 06:59 AM 0.8 H 01:04 PM -0.4 L 07:41 PM 1.4 H

24 02:50 AM -0.1 L Wed 07:51 AM 0.8 H 01:58 PM -0.4 L 08:30 PM 1.4 H

25 03:35 AM -0.1 L THu 08:46 AM 0.9 H 02:57 PM -0.3 L 09:20 PM 1.3 H


27 05:09 AM -0.2 L SAT 10:44 AM 1 H 05:09 PM -0.1 L 11:04 PM 1.1 H

28 05:58 AM -0.3 L Sun 11:47 AM 1 H 06:24 PM -0.1 L 11:58 PM 1 H

29 06:48 AM -0.3 L Mon 12:53 PM 1.1 H 07:40 PM 0 L

30 12:54 AM 0.9 H Tue 07:38 AM -0.4 L 01:59 PM 1.1 H 08:54 PM 0 L

31 01:51 AM 0.8 H Wed 08:29 AM -0.4 L 03:03 PM 1.2 H 10:02 PM 0 L

17 03:58 AM 2.4 H Wed 10:15 AM 0.3 L 04:08 PM 2 H 10:14 PM 0 L

18 04:50 AM 2.6 H THu 11:06 AM 0.2 L 05:02 PM 2.1 H 11:03 PM -0.1 L

19 05:39 AM 2.7 H Fri 11:55 AM 0 L 05:53 PM 2.2 H 11:51 PM -0.2 L

20 06:26 AM 2.9 H SAT 12:43 PM -0.1 L 06:43 PM 2.3 H


22 01:28 AM -0.5 L Mon 08:00 AM 3.1 H 02:17 PM -0.4 L 08:20 PM 2.5 H

23 02:18 AM -0.5 L Tue 08:47 AM 3.2 H 03:05 PM -0.5 L 09:10 PM 2.5 H


25 04:03 AM -0.5 L THu 10:25 AM 3 H 04:45 PM -0.5 L 10:56 PM 2.6 H


27 06:01 AM -0.2 L SAT 12:12 PM 2.6 H 06:35 PM -0.4 L

28 12:55 AM 2.6 H Sun 07:08 AM -0.1 L 01:11 PM 2.4 H 07:33 PM -0.3 L

29 02:01 AM 2.6 H Mon 08:17 AM 0 L 02:16 PM 2.3 H 08:34 PM -0.3 L

30 03:09 AM 2.6 H Tue 09:27 AM 0 L 03:24 PM 2.2 H 09:34 PM -0.3 L

31 04:14 AM 2.7 H Wed 10:32 AM 0 L 04:31 PM 2.1 H 10:32 PM -0.3 L


18 01:11 AM 0.7 H THu 07:46 AM -0.3 L 02:32 PM 1 H 08:41 PM 0.1 L

19 02:00 AM 0.7 H Fri 08:31 AM -0.3 L 03:20 PM 1 H 09:34 PM 0.1 L

20 02:48 AM 0.7 H SAT 09:17 AM -0.4 L 04:07 PM 1.1 H 10:24 PM 0.1 L

21 03:38 AM 0.7 H Sun 10:03 AM -0.4 L 04:53 PM 1.2 H 11:13 PM 0 L

22 04:28 AM 0.7 H Mon 10:51 AM -0.4 L 05:39 PM 1.2 H

23 12:01 AM 0 L Tue 05:20 AM 0.7 H 11:40 AM -0.4 L 06:25 PM 1.2 H


25 01:38 AM -0.1 L THu 07:14 AM 0.7 H 01:27 PM -0.3 L 08:00 PM 1.1 H

26 02:28 AM -0.2 L Fri 08:16 AM 0.7 H 02:25 PM -0.3 L 08:50 PM 1 H

27 03:19 AM -0.2 L SAT 09:21 AM 0.8 H 03:27 PM -0.2 L 09:42 PM 0.9 H


29 05:05 AM -0.3 L Mon 11:37 AM 0.8 H 05:40 PM 0 L 11:32 PM 0.7 H

30 06:00 AM -0.4 L Tue 12:44 PM 0.9 H 06:48 PM 0 L 12:30 AM 0.7 H

31 06:54 AM -0.4 L Wed 01:47 PM 1 H 07:53 PM 0 L


Baltimore Harbor Approach (Off Sandy Point) Chesapeake Bay EntranceSlack Water Max Current Speed Slack Water Max Current Speed Slack Water Max Current Speed Slack Water Max Current Speed Slack Water Max Current Speed Slack Water Max Current Speed

Corrections Applied to Baltimore Harbor Approach Corrections Applied to Chesapeake Bay Entrance

Current Differences and Speed Ratios

Cove Point, 3.9 n.mi. East

Sharp Island Lt., 3.4 n.mi. West

Thomas Pt. Shoal Lt., 2.0 n.mi. East

Pooles Island, 4 miles Southwest

Turkey Point, 1.2 n.mi. Southwest

Secondary Stations Baltimore Harbor

Approach

Secondary Stations Chesapeake Bay

Entrance

-3:29 -3:36 -4:08 -3:44 0.4 0.6

-1:39 -1:41 -1:57 -1:43 0.4 0.5

-1:05 -0:14 -0:22 -0:20 0.6 0.6

+0:59 +0:48 +0:56 +1:12 0.6 0.8

+2:39 +1:30 +0:58 +1:00 0.6 0.8

Time Differences Speed RatiosMin.beforeFlood Flood FloodEbb Ebb

Min.beforeEbb

Time Differences Speed RatiosMin.beforeFlood Flood FloodEbb Ebb

Min.beforeEbb

+0:29 +0:48 +0:06 +0:00 1.0 0.7

+0:05 +0:38 +0:32 +0:19 2.2 1.2

+2:18 +3:00 +2:09 +2:36 1.2 0.6

+2:29 +2:57 +2:45 +1:59 0.5 0.3

+4:49 +5:33 +6:04 +5:45 0.4 0.2

Chesapeake Beach, 1.5 miles North

Chesapeake Channel, (bridge tunnel)

Stingray Point, 12.5 miles East

Smith Point Light, 6.7 n.mi. East

Point No Point, 4.3 n.mi. East

Tidal Current Tables

All times listed are in Local Time, Daylight Saving Time has been applied when appropriate. All speeds are in knots. All times listed are in Local Time, Daylight Saving Time has been applied when appropriate. All speeds are in knots.

Decem

ber 2014 Currents

11 0224 -1 THu 0559 0850 0.7 1200 1436 -0.5 1711 2033 0.8 2340 12 0307 -0.9 Fri 0639 0938 0.7 1256 1532 -0.5 1811 2123 0.6 13 0022 0351 -0.9 SAT 0718 1026 0.7 1352 1631 -0.5 1918 2218 0.5 14 0107 0437 -0.8 Sun 0757 1115 0.8 1446 1731 -0.5 2030 2316 0.5 15 0155 0523 -0.7 Mon 0836 1202 0.8 1537 1831 -0.6 2143 16 0016 0.4 Tue 0246 0611 -0.7 0915 1249 0.9 1625 1927 -0.7 2252 17 0115 0.4 Wed 0339 0658 -0.7 0954 1335 1 1711 2019 -0.8 2355 18 0211 0.4 THu 0432 0745 -0.6 1033 1419 1.1 1755 2108 -0.9 19 0051 0304 0.4 Fri 0524 0831 -0.6 1113 1502 1.1 1837 2153 -1 20 0140 0353 0.4 SAT 0615 0916 -0.6 1155 1545 1.2 1919 2237 -1.1 21 0224 0440 0.4 Sun 0706 1003 -0.6 1240 1628 1.2 2000 2319 -1.1

1 0129 0406 0.9 Mon 0702 1038 -1.4 1357 1631 0.9 1919 2304 -1.6 2 0227 0512 1.1 Tue 0814 1142 -1.5 1501 1732 0.9 2013 2359 -1.7 3 0320 0611 1.2 Wed 0918 1240 -1.5 1559 1827 0.9 2103 4 0050 -1.8 THu 0410 0704 1.3 1014 1332 -1.5 1652 1916 0.8 2149 5 0137 -1.8 Fri 0457 0752 1.4 1105 1421 -1.5 1740 2001 0.8 2232 6 0221 -1.8 SAT 0541 0836 1.4 1150 1506 -1.5 1825 2043 0.8 2311 7 0304 -1.7 Sun 0624 0917 1.3 1231 1549 -1.4 1908 2123 0.7 2349 8 0345 -1.7 Mon 0706 0956 1.2 1310 1630 -1.4 1949 2202 0.7 9 0027 0426 -1.6 Tue 0748 1035 1.1 1346 1711 -1.3 2031 2242 0.6 10 0105 0507 -1.4 Wed 0831 1114 1 1421 1752 -1.2 2115 2324 0.6 11 0145 0551 -1.3 THu 0916 1154 0.9 1457 1836 -1.1 2202

12 0009 0.5 Fri 0229 0638 -1.2 1004 1238 0.8 1535 1923 -1.1 2252 13 0059 0.5 SAT 0320 0730 -1.1 1056 1326 0.7 1616 2013 -1.1 2344 14 0153 0.5 Sun 0419 0829 -1 1153 1418 0.6 1702 2106 -1.1 15 0037 0251 0.5 Mon 0526 0930 -1 1252 1513 0.6 1750 2159 -1.1 16 0128 0351 0.6 Tue 0636 1030 -1 1351 1608 0.6 1840 2249 -1.2 17 0216 0447 0.7 Wed 0742 1126 -1.1 1446 1701 0.6 1929 2337 -1.3 18 0301 0540 0.9 THu 0842 1217 -1.2 1536 1751 0.6 2017 19 0022 -1.5 Fri 0344 0629 1.1 0936 1305 -1.3 1623 1839 0.7 2104 20 0105 -1.6 SAT 0427 0716 1.2 1026 1351 -1.4 1707 1925 0.8 2150 21 0149 -1.7 Sun 0510 0802 1.4 1113 1435 -1.5 1751 2011 0.9 2237

22 0304 0525 0.5 Mon 0756 1050 -0.6 1327 1712 1.2 2041 23 0000 -1.1 Tue 0342 0609 0.6 0848 1140 -0.6 1417 1757 1.2 2122 24 0042 -1.1 Wed 0419 0655 0.6 0943 1232 -0.7 1511 1845 1.1 2205 25 0124 -1.1 THu 0457 0742 0.7 1040 1328 -0.7 1610 1935 1 2248 26 0208 -1.1 Fri 0535 0831 0.8 1140 1427 -0.7 1715 2029 0.9 2333 27 0254 -1 SAT 0616 0923 0.9 1242 1531 -0.7 1826 2127 0.7 28 0021 0344 -0.9 Sun 0659 1018 1 1345 1638 -0.7 1944 2230 0.6 29 0112 0436 -0.9 Mon 0746 1114 1 1448 1746 -0.8 2104 2336 0.5 30 0209 0531 -0.8 Tue 0834 1211 1.1 1548 1852 -0.8 2221 31 0044 0.4 Wed 0309 0628 -0.8 0925 1307 1.2 1645 1954 -0.9 2331

22 0233 -1.8 Mon 0554 0847 1.5 1159 1520 -1.6 1836 2057 1 2326 23 0319 -1.9 Tue 0640 0933 1.6 1245 1606 -1.6 1922 2145 1 24 0016 0407 -1.9 Wed 0729 1021 1.5 1331 1654 -1.6 2011 2236 1 25 0109 0458 -1.8 THu 0821 1110 1.5 1418 1744 -1.6 2103 2329 1 26 0206 0554 -1.7 Fri 0916 1202 1.3 1507 1838 -1.6 2159 27 0027 1 SAT 0308 0654 -1.6 1015 1258 1.2 1557 1935 -1.5 2258 28 0129 1 Sun 0417 0800 -1.5 1120 1357 1 1651 2036 -1.5 29 0001 0236 0.9 Mon 0532 0910 -1.4 1229 1501 0.8 1747 2138 -1.5 30 0104 0346 1 Tue 0650 1020 -1.3 1340 1606 0.7 1845 2240 -1.5 31 0206 0455 1 Wed 0803 1126 -1.3 1447 1710 0.7 1942 2338 -1.6

1 0241 0602 -0.8 Mon 0907 1237 1 1608 1910 -0.8 2231 2 0105 0.5 Tue 0339 0656 -0.8 0954 1330 1.1 1703 2011 -0.9 2340 3 0207 0.5 Wed 0438 0750 -0.8 1042 1422 1.2 1755 2107 -1 4 0042 0306 0.5 THu 0536 0843 -0.8 1130 1512 1.3 1844 2158 -1.1 5 0137 0401 0.5 Fri 0633 0934 -0.7 1217 1600 1.3 1930 2247 -1.1 6 0227 0453 0.6 SAT 0728 1024 -0.7 1304 1646 1.3 2014 2333 -1.2 7 0314 0542 0.6 Sun 0822 1113 -0.7 1351 1731 1.2 2057 8 0017 -1.1 Mon 0357 0630 0.6 0916 1202 -0.6 1438 1816 1.1 2138 9 0100 -1.1 Tue 0439 0717 0.6 1010 1252 -0.6 1526 1900 1 2218 10 0142 -1.1 Wed 0520 0803 0.6 1104 1343 -0.5 1616 1946 0.9 2259

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Another successful year has con-cluded for the Maryland Fishing Challenge, the state’s year-long

angling contest in which more than 60 different species are in play. Such diversity highlights Maryland’s excellent fishing opportunities, from salty ocean and Chesapeake to freshwater lakes and ponds.

Run by the Department of Natural Resources, the 2014 Fishing Challenge awarded more than $70,000 in cash, prizes, and merchandise at its tourna-ment ending celebration at Sandy Point State Park, attended by thousands of people. Rick Snider of Biglerville, PA, was the grand prize winner, taking home the boat, motor, and trailer package from

Bass Pro Shops and Tracker Boats. He qualified by catching a 40.5-inch rockfish off Breezy Point from his sailboat. “Aside from my kids, grandkids and wife, this is the most awe-some thing to ever happen,” Snider said.

Maryland DNR also announced the “retirement” of Diamond Jim, the striper tagging component of the Fishing Challenge in which anglers could have won $25K had they caught the tagged Diamond Jim. State fishery officials say

eels, Summer Flounder, and Spot/Croaker Under Review

Understandably, striped bass were expected to garner all the headlines when the Atlantic States Marine

Fisheries Commission met October 27-30 to decide how to reduce the harvest next year. (PropTalk went to press prior to the meeting. Check our website and Facebook page for results/updates).

Stripers are undoubtedly the headliners, and with good reason. There are other species, however, due to receive attention. American eel, summer flounder, spot, and croakers are being looked at by federal and state agencies charged with their management.

How best to manage summer flounder has for several years been a contentious issue. A popular gamefish, flounder are managed jointly by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Manage-ment Council and the ASMFC. Feedback

from fishermen, biologists, and manag-ers during the Council’s “Visioning and Strategic Planning” process, conducted from 2011-2013, revealed the need to “re-examine and update current management strategies and measures currently in place for the summer flounder fishery,” accord-ing to the Council’s website.

The Council plans to review changing conditions in the summer flounder fishery, including “apparent shifts in the distribu-tion and center of biomass for the summer flounder stock (possibly related to the ef-fects of rebuilding and/or climate change), as well as changing social and economic drivers for these fisheries.”

Eels are caught by commercial water-men and usually sold overseas. Though these snake-like fish are generally not tar-

geted by sport fishermen on hook-and-line, eels are an effective bait for striped bass in the late fall when eels migrate out of the Bay. Eels numbers have declined, unfortunately, and in 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was petitioned to list this catadromous fish as threatened or endangered. The Service found cred-ible evidence that this action could be warranted, and a decision on whether to list eels as threatened or endangered is expected before the end of the year.

Popular targets for shore anglers and bait fishermen, spot and croaker stocks and management are also getting a look from fishery managers, including Mary-land’s Fishery Service that has conducted a “Spot Pot” field study. Results will be available in 2015.

Maryland “Fishing Challenge” Winners Announced

it’s time to give other species a turn in the spotlight and are currently devel-oping ideas for next year. Check back regularly with PropTalk’s Facebook and website for updates.

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Rockfish Open Benefits Special Olympics

It’s a well-known fact that the sport fish-ing community has a collective big heart when it comes to helping others. Up and

down the Bay there are scores of charity events that raise thousands of dollars every year to benefit organizations whose sole mission is to aid others.

A new and welcomed addition to the charitable family is the Maryland Rockfish Open, which PropTalk proudly sponsored. The inaugural rockfish competition, held in September, drew 48 boats and approxi-mately 200 anglers while raising $27,000 for Special Olympics Maryland. The weigh-ins and after party were hosted by Mike’s Crab House on the South River.Results:1st Place: Ill Gotten Booty - 14.2 lbs, 33” - $50002nd Place: The Dog House - 13.25 lbs, 32 1/2” - $25003rd Place: Team Countrywide - 12.5 lbs, 32 1/2” - $1000

VA Coastal Program Yields Results

If you’ve ever fished the lower Bay or Virginia seaside, no doubt you’ve drifted over a grass bed. The seaside

along Virginia’s Eastern Shore is a sport fisher’s playground, home to multitude of species that are often just a short cast away. The diverse and dynamic fishing found here owes a large debt to eelgrass. (Or as scientists call it “SAV” for sub-merged aquatic vegetation.) Red drum (puppy drum) and speckled trout are two marque species that call these underwater meadows home.

Overall, sea grasses have declined in the Chesapeake and in many back bay areas along the Atlantic Coast. So it’s encouraging to read that progress has been made. The Virginia Coastal Zone Management (VA CZM) program re-cently reported that over the past decade, the initial 380 acres of eelgrass planted with 51 million seeds has grown to cover more than 4700 acres in four adjoining

bays. VA CZM says it is the “largest and most successful eelgrass restoration project on the planet.”

Restoring this habitat has been one of the Virginia CZM Program’s largest investments in terms of money ($4.69 M) and time (1999 to present). Funding has come from various sources, including the Saltwater Recreational Fishing Fund. Many partners, such as the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Virginia Marine Resources Commission, and The Nature Conservancy have stoked efforts to back eelgrass, Bay scallops, oysters, and shore birds, according to the VA CZM program.


FiSh FOReCASTS

Since the last time we spoke, football, hunting, and weather have thinned the herd of fishermen out on the Chesapeake and in the Atlantic. Dare I say it (Dare! Dare!), for the love of Pete,

when will the wind stop blowing? As I put the finishing touches on this month’s Fishing Forecast, there’s a Nor’easter brewing. I suppose I’m flirting with inviting bad Mojo by complaining about the weather since the summer and early fall were about as good as it gets. And so was the fishing for the most part.

And then I blinked and fall arrived. Gone are the spot, croakers, and bluefish. Canada geese, ducks, and loons are now more common in my part of the Chesapeake than most fish. Still, there’s a good month of fishing for ocean-run rockfish, though how many show up is an unknown. Virginia has more options than either Maryland or Dela-ware, but all three states have enough to entertain and put enough fish on the holiday table. Take a gander at how some of PropTalk’s pros plan to spend the next month. Be safe and good fishing!

Here’s the gospel according to Ric Burnley: “There is no way to forecast Virginia’s striper sea-

son. All we can do is pray. With devine intervention, Commonwealth anglers should see the best striper fishing in November and December.”

He suggests trying to troll along the Oceanfront, although don’t expect the fishing to be gangbusters. Still, Ric says anglers should find “excellent action on larger rockfish by trolling parachutes or drifting eels off Cape Charles and around the pilings of the Chesapeake

Bay Bridge Tunnel. Smaller rockfish will swarm the pilings and rocks of the bridge looking for a swimming plug or lead-head and shad.”

Hey Ric, what’s a fishermen to do if the striper don’t show up? No sweat, he says, “Virginia anglers have a lot of

# Larry Sheffey, Frank Ervin, and Greg Maggio, all of Annapolis, scored fall rockfish on light tackle in Tangier Sound. Photo courtesy of Kingfish II charters

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# Beth Synowiec with a nice Sea Bass and a Triggerfish. Photo courtesy of Wes Blow



options. Redfish and speckled trout will make a final surge before migrat-ing out of the area. Look for these fish in the backwaters with a jig or twitchbait.”

And not only that, Ric says the tautog fishing will be “fantastic” on the CBBT and inshore wrecks. To catch a tog, he recommends dropping a chunk of crab, fiddler crab, or clam on a single-dropper bottomrig with a 3/0 hook.

His ocean suggestions: “Offshore, action on the deepwater wrecks from the Triangles and east for flounder and sea bass will keep anglers cranking. Big bluefish and even thresher sharks will also inhabit these deepwater struc-tures. Troll a big plug to target these trophies.”

Captain Charlie Koski, who runs Island Queen Inland Charters out of Chincote-

ague Island, vA, said he’ll make the shift from chasing flounder to targeting trophy rockfish. He’ll trailer his 24-foot Carolina Skiff across the Delmarva Peninsula to Cape Charles. There, he and his clients will make the

easy and short run to the striper grounds, drifting live eels in the sloughs between Plantation Light to the Kiptopeake concrete ships this month.

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Captain Harry Nield, skipper of the Deal Island based charter

boat KingFish II, also has stripers on the brain. He plans to spend the next month fish-ing for those rockfish that have returned to the Chesapeake from the Atlantic

“If by mid-November the big boys have not shown up yet, we will still be live lining,” he said. “Come late November through December, I will go on the hunt for the big stripers armed with jigs, spoons, and bucktails. Hopefully, they will come and stay in the Bay for a few weeks.” If you want a great day on the Chesapeake with friends and family to close out the 2014 season, get in touch with Captain Harry.

# Jim Kasper, Bob Sherwood, and John Carter went trolling bucktails with shassy shads by the Bay Bridge recently. They caught plenty of throw backs but kept six between 18 and 21 inches.

# Mike Ditmars hooked this 21.5” flounder in Swash Bay off of Wachapreague, vA

When I called Captain Son-ney Forrest of Reel Relief Charters (Solomons, MD),

he was looking out over Boot Key Harbor in Marathon, FL, watching the porpoise swim and play. Sonney said he had finished his Chesapeake season a little earlier than in past seasons, and was getting set up to run trips this month in the Sunshine State on his 26-foot Sailfish center console. But he still had some advice for those of us still here.

“In the Bay, troll for ocean-run rock-fish with tandem bucktails and swim shads, or jig on them using Lil’ Bunkers and Lil’ Bunkers (1 oz. to 2 oz.),” he said, adding that you should keep an eye out for gray trout, which can travel with the rockfish but hang well below the main school.

Misery loves company. Well, that’s a stretch, but when I caught up with Captain

Kevin Josenhans of Josenhans Fly Fishing, we did both complain about how consecutive windy days were cut-ting into our fishing and wallets. He hopes the weather this month moder-


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ates, and if it does, he plans to fish out of Crisfield as long as the weather holds.

“If the winds are light enough for my small boat, I will make the run south below Tangier Island, or west towards Smith Point, for big ocean-run striped bass that are returning from up the coast,” he said. How about fishing the CBBT, Captain? Since the last few seasons have been slow, he says it’s “not in [his] plans.”

Here’s what’s great about Captain Monty Hawkins: When you ask him what’s on his fishing target list, his answer is succinct.

“SEA BASS!” he said. He doesn’t tell you what reefs because he plays the weather and other conditions to determine which reef will fish best. Natural, ship-wreck, and artificial reefs are all locked into his long list of waypoints, and he says he’ll work those spots this month.

Sailing out of the Ocean City Fishing Center in West Ocean City, MD, Captain Monty’s party boat Morning Star differs from your typical head boat in that walk-ons are not allowed. You need to make a reservation to secure one of the 25 spots along the rail. No combat fishing on his vessel.

# The hot ditch in the Elilzabeth River is a hot spot for winter specks. Photo courtesy of Dr. Ken Neill, III



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Over the next four weeks Delaware fishermen will key in on striped bass, predicts

PropTalk’s Eric Burnley. “Rockfish are the number one target

at this time of year,” he said. “Trolling with Stretch plugs or drifting with live eels at the rips between Cape May and Cape Henlopen is the most popular technique. Farther up the bay out of Collins Beach or Port Mahon, chunk-ing with fresh bunker along the edge of the shipping channel has been very productive.”

He said in previous seasons the Miah Maull Shoal and Blakes Channel have also seen good striper chunking action.

“Tautog and black sea bass will draw the attention of bottom bouncers,” he adds. “Tog may be caught over inshore wrecks and reefs, while the sea bass seem to favor deeper water as far out as 50 fathoms.”

# Charles Southall and Steve Martin fished out of Hatteras and caught two wahoo.


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Fish SpotsTriangle Reef, VA

If I want to eat at a great seafood restau-rant in San Francisco,

I ask my sister’s husband. They live just north of that

great bay city, and he’s some-thing of an epicurean. If I need the

skinny on a good fishing spot off the Virginia Coast this month, I ask Ken Neil and Lewis Gillingham. Both are deep wells of fish-ing knowledge in Virginia. And both heartily endorse Triangle Reef this time of year.

Triangle Reef is a very popular area, located ap-proximately 30 nautical miles off Cape Henry. More specifically, it’s about 16.5 nautical miles, 073 degrees true from Chesa-peake Light Tower. Four Liberty Ships and a Coast Guard Cutter are the main structures on this rectangular site. The water depths range from 90 feet to greater than 100 feet, with profile reliefs ranging from 28 - 32 feet.

“Tautog — generally available all through the winter — and black sea bass are the two most popular residents of this reef,” says Lewis, the director of the popular, year-long Virginia Salt Water Fishing Tournament. “This reef can also produce impressive catches of large flounder, dolphin, and amberjack seasonally. In the fall, large bluefish and bluefin tuna in the 100-pound range tend to congregate around the reef. It

is also a popular headboat and dive destination.”

Most fishermen either jig lures or drift bait for the sea bass, which tend to hold to the reef structure almost all year. Flounder is another species available on the Triangle Reef for most of the year. Strip baits (flounder or bluefish bellies) teamed bucktail style jigs work, too.

Neill, a frequent PropTalk contribu-tor and president of the Peninsula Salt Water Sport Fisherman’s Association, caught the current Virginia state record tog, a 24-pound, 3-ounce beast, on the Triangle Reef in 2012. Specifically, it was hooked over the debris that was once part of the liberty ship Morgan. The Seaford, VA, resident says, “There are a lot of things that you can do there. In November and December, chopper bluefish will be there. You can catch them by trolling plugs (Rapala,

Streth 30 and so on) over and around the wrecks. You can find them on your fish finder and vertically jig for them with StingSilvers or the blade type jigs. You can anchor on one of the wrecks and chum for them and catch them on cut bait or casting topwaters when you really have them going.” He says in a typical year the big bluefin tuna start to show up on the wrecks starting around

Thanksgiving and can stay in the area through early Janu-ary. To catch them, Neill suggests troll-ing horse ballyhoo/Ilander combina-tions, perhaps the most common technique.

Fishing over the wrecks, Neill advises, can either be done by drifting or anchoring. “I like to employ a wreck marker when drifting or attempt-ing to hook up to the wreck,” he says. “Once you have the wreck marked, you can stop using the GPS and key in on

the wreck marker, which makes setting up your drift a lot easier. I usually prefer to drift and jig, as I feel it produces a better quality of fish and also allows me to look for flounder. If the wreck is fishing really well for sea bass or the drift is becoming fast due to wind or tide, I will anchor up, as this increases the amount of time you are fishing ver-sus continuously positioning the boat.”

Whether you’re on the hunt for good eats or good fishing, it always pays to listen to local knowledge. I know I do.

# Ken Neill hooked this tautog with clams as bait.


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39’ Silverton Sidewalk 392 ’00 Twin Cat dsls, gen set, Air / Heat, New flybridge canvas, aft deck hardtop w/ enclosure, pilot, plotter, radar - Immaculate! $119,000 Call Tony Tumas day or evening (443) 553-5046. email: [email protected], see photos & full specs at www.greatblueyachts.com

39’ Wesmac Bar Harbor 39 ’04 Single Cummins dsl, gen, bow thruster, fly bridge, Air / Heat, pilot, radar, plotter - A MUST SEE BOAT ! $299,000 Call Tony Tumas day or evening (443) 553-5046. email: [email protected], see photos & full specs at www.greatblueyachts.com

40’ Tiara 4000 Express ‘99 Local boat, Cat 3208s with all services done, hard top, great condition, owner moving up. Asking $179,500. Call Ned Dozier, 443-995-0732, [email protected]

40’ Carver 405 ’97 Aft Cabin Twin Caterpillar 3116’s dsls, loaded Asking $99,000 Please contact Jason Whitson at Jackson Marine Sales 410-287-9400 x215 or 484-994-4244 [email protected]

40’ Formula SS ’01 beautiful boat, open-checkbook maintenance, many recent upgrades. Owner moving up. $99,000 Call Ned Dozier, 443-995-0732, [email protected]

40’ Mainship Trawler ’06 Freshwater boat, blue hull, lower helm, bow and stern thruster, new enclosure, 100 hrs on 370 Yanmar, too much to list. Our Trade! $199,000 Call Ned Dozier, 443-995-0732, [email protected]

40’ MathewsBros Robbins ’06 Cummins 540. Extensive custom interior design and woodwork. Updated in 2013 with Heat/AC and gen set. $437,500. 410-479-9720. Mathewsboats.com

40’ Robbins ’96 Cummins 420-hp c-series Twin disc 2-1 Racor 1000, new countertops & seat cushions. Furuno Navnet VX2 Color radar, plotter, sounder, Head with lectrasan unit, sink, shower, vanity. Asking $115,000. Contact [email protected] 410-463-2412

MJM 40z ’09 Fuel efficient, easy handling, great sociability on board, we have two in inventory. Both have been maintained to the highest standards. For more information call 410-280-2038

42’ Beneteau Swift 42 ’04 Headed to Annapolis!! She has a beautiful red hull and tons of custom additions - Freedom Lift, custom main salon & much more. She is loaded!!! $290,000 Contact Kate Chaney (410)-267-8181 or [email protected]

42’ Jones ’00 Well equipped dual purpose bay boat. 575-hp dsl eng, A/C w/reverse cycle heat, engine driven heater, gen, radar, & so much more!! Asking $165,000. Contact [email protected] 410-476-4414

43’ Astondoa ‘14 Volvo IPS 600s, bow thruster, tender garage, all options, gorgeous boat. Compare to Azimut, etc. She cost $933,000 in August 2013, now asking only $499,000 Call Ned Dozier, 443-995-0732, [email protected]


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43’ Wellcraft San Remo ’88 Cat 3208 dsls, Gen, Air, hard top, inflatable w/OB and many upgrades $69,900 Call Tony Tumas day or evening (443) 553-5046. email: [email protected], see photos & full specs at www.greatblueyachts.com

44’ Riviera Sport Yacht ’09 325 hrs on IPS600s, huge electronics package, hydraulic platform with RIB tender. Boat is loaded & pristine. Our trade, owner building larger Riviera. Call Ned Dozier, 443-995-0732, [email protected]

46’ Jefferson M/Y Aft-Cabin ’87 New Listing CATs 3208, a great live aboard, needs some TLC asking $29,7000. Curtis Stokes & Associates. Call Rob Dorfmeyer (216) 533-9187 or [email protected]

46’ Post Sportfish ’81 Clean, FRESH WATER boat, diesel powered - professionally maintained, lots of upgrades, lightly used. $120,000. Located in Stafford VA. Call Ken @ 540 659-8468 or [email protected]

47’ Formula Yacht ‘07 Pristine! Lightly used high quality cruising Yacht. Loaded; washer/dryer, hydraulic swim platform, Raymarine electronics, bow thruster and more. T-Volvo diesels. $299,000 A must see, call Sassafras Harbor Marina Yacht Sales (888) 221-5022

47’ Riviera Excalibur ’03 Twin Yanmar dsls= 19 GPH at cruise! Just detailed and serviced, many upgrades, boat is turnkey. $195,000 Call Ned Dozier, 443-995-0732, [email protected] www.grandeyachts.com

48’ Glass Boat Works Custom ChesapeakeDowneast Twin Cummins, 3 helm stations, great layout, original owner, very custom, offered at a fraction of replacement. $275,000. Call Ned Dozier, 443-995-0732, n e d @ g r a n d e y a c h t s . c o m www.grandeyachts.com

48’ Ocean ’96 CPMY Twin 600-hp Mann dsls Asking $145,000 Please contact Jason Whitson at Jackson Marine Sales 410-287-9400 x215 or 484-994-4244, [email protected]

48’ Sea Ray Sundancer ’08 Beautiful, and maint to the highest of standards. T-550 Cummins dsls, sunroof, radar, AP, bow thruster, AC/HT. Everything to cruise in comfort! Ready to go south this winter. Drastic reduction to $499,000 Drew Donald (410) 714-3442

55’ Ocean Alexander 548 Sport Sedan ’02 3x strms, Wesmar stabilizers, 3196 CATS, 660-hp each, all the bells & whistles, completely turnkey, owner has 2 other boats, $568,500 Curtis Stokes & Associates, call rob Dorfmeyer 216-533-1987 or email at [email protected]

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56’ Chris Craft Salon Model ’57 2x Cummins 555, she is a real classic, bottom & hull totally refurbished summer ’13, 6kw Gen set, many upgrades, $155,900. Curtis Stokes & Associates, Call Rob Dorfmeyer 216-533-9187 [email protected]

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SAIL2200 American Sail 14.6 sailboat ’94 Cover-o/b motor –no trailer- $750. Call Lad Mills at 410-745-4942 or [email protected]

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Adirondack Guideboat ................................32

Annapolis Yacht Sales ......................15,48,60

Automotive Training Center ........................20

Baltimore Boat Show ..................................19

Better on the Bay ........................................32

Black Dog Propellers ....................................5

Boatyard Bar & Grill ....................................17

BOE Marine ................................................68

Cape Charles Town Harbor ........................20

CD Outdoors...............................................49

Chart Metalworks........................................33

Chesapeake Boating Club ..........................33

Chesapeake Light Craft ..............................33

Composite Yacht ........................................45

Coppercoat USA .........................................18

Curtis Stokes & Associates...........................3

Cypress Marine ..........................................53

Dean’s Yacht Service..................................35

Dozier Yachting Center ...............................12

Eastport Yacht Center ................................36

Fawcett Boat Supplies ..................................6

Ferry Point - Trappe......................................6

Formula X2 .................................................44

Freedom Boat Club ....................................35

Grande Yachts ............................................57

Harbor East Marina ....................................53

Hinckley Yachts Annapolis ..........................61

Interlux ........................................................67

J Gordon .....................................................44

J World Annapolis .......................................33

Kompletely Kustom Marine.................... 11,34

Lemon & Line .............................................32

Maggie Lee Designs ...................................32

Martini Yacht Sales .....................................36

Moorings .......................................................2

North Point Yacht Sales ..............................59

Pettit Paint ..................................................42

Pocket-Yacht Company ..............................18

Rhode River Marina....................................14

Salty Tag .....................................................32

Sassafras Harbor Marina Yacht Sales ........16

Scandia Marine Center ...............................13

Sudbury Boat Care Products ......................49

Wooden Boat Restoration Company ..........45

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watermen on the West River in the middle of the 20th century. “Captain Bernard Hallock of Shady Side (left) is seen standing aboard Princess with unidentified watermen, presumably men that worked aboard Princess, unload-ing their catch at Woodfield’s. The photograph is not dated, but it’s believed to be from the 1960s, perhaps as early as 1955, according to the Cornwall family

who donated this and other fam-ily images to the Captain Avery Museum this year,” says Theresa Worden, museum curator. The photographer is unknown.

Princess was built in 1904 by Captain Perry L. Rogers of Shady Side, MD. His deadrise oystering boats had signature tuck sterns that angled out from the water line. Known as a West River boat, they provided a stable platform for tonging oysters in the Bay. Visitors to the Captain Avery Museum in

Shady Side have the opportu-nity to see another of Perry’s boats, the Edna Florence, which was built in 1933.

In the photo Princess is docked in front of Woodfield Fish and Oyster Company, in Galesville on the West River. The company was started in 1917 by Herman Woodfield and William F. Woodfield. For more than 80 years the family business canned oysters and vegetables, sold seafood, and distributed ice.

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Do you know the fate of the West River boat Princess? If so, please share it with us at [email protected]

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