T&T: Recommendations for cruising the Chesapeake?

[John Blackburn]

Jeff:

Three ideas;
1.  Stop in Annapolis and pick up a mooring buoy right off the Naval 
Academy and downtown.  $25/night.  Great old town, water taxi, great 
restaurants, Very fit young men and women walking around town in their 
whites and ram rod straight, etc.
2.  On the eastern side, don't miss St. Michael's.  St. Michael's Inn 
and Spa has nice docks and willing dock boys/girls to catch lines, and 3 
star restaurant, don't remember the cost/ft, but reasonable.  Cute town, 
antique shops galore and also great restaurants.  Up scale, Donald 
Rumsfeld has a place in town and there is a Lord Ashley resort just east 
of downtown.  Don't miss the Maritime Museum.
3.  Baltimore, any marina near the fells point area, Inner Harbor East 
is one I would recommend.  Check guide book.  Water taxis so you can get 
around the harbor, great restaurants etc.  Baltimore has become 
revitalized, stop at Bertha's for mussels and pick up a free bumper 
sticker "Eat Bertha's Mussels".  These bumper stickers are great trade 
goods.  I traded one for a sticker that read "When you're walking on 
thin ice, you might as well dance!"  Came from a bar in Aspen Colorado.

John Blackburn
44 DeFever "Yak Rack"
Deale, MD

Jeffrey Siegel wrote:

>In 8 days, we're unhooking from our 10,000 lb granite mooring in Maine,
>pointing south, and heading for the Chesapeake.  In the five times we've
>gone through the Chesapeake before, we've always just blasted our way
>through.  This time we're taking a month to explore it between the Sassafras
>River and Hampton Roads.
>
>Although I have a plan for every stop between Maine and the Sassafras River,
>our plan for the Chesapeake is to have no plan at all.  I have my share of
>guidebooks for the area but I'm looking for ideas from people who live there
>or know the area well.  We typically go to marinas 30-50% of the time and
>anchor 50-70% of the time.
>
>What I'd like to compile is:  What are your three favorite places in each of
>the Upper Chesapeake, Central Chesapeake, and Lower Chesapeake?
>
>Please respond to me off-list and I'll combine everything together and
>re-post the compilation.
>
>If others are out-and-about on the Chesapeake in October, please contact me.
>We love getting together with other boaters.  I have some cool things to
>demonstrate this year too with my cellular amplifier all neatly installed
>and operational along with a bunch of unreleased boating-related web
>development demonstrations.
>
>Thanks for any recommendations!
>
>================
>Jeffrey Siegel
>M/V aCappella
>DeFever 53PH
>W1ACA/WDB4350
>Castine, Maine
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