Sailing the Chesapeake 2009

Beaufort Waterfront home with flowered Lawn
A beautiful fron yard in Beaufort, NC
DismalSwampCanal
Motoring N in the Dismal Swamp Canal
Battleship number 64 at the Norfolk Muesum
A ship in the Navel Museum, Norfolk, NC
Big guns on Battleship 64
Big guns on this ship in Norfolk
Light air sailing on the Chesapeake
Light air sailing in the Chesapeake Bay
view looking East on the water at the Chesapeake Bridge
Chesapeake Bay Bridge
two Westsail 32's, and two 42's.
A Westsail Rendezvous
Our temporary home at Annapolis Landgings marina
Home at Annapolis Landings Marina
a working Chesapeake Bay Lighthouse
A working Lighthouse on the Bay
Lil and Mickey, great neighbors at the Landings marina
Lil and Mickey, great Marina Neighbors
adding a hard top dodger
A New WaveStopper hard dodger
wendy rowing over the work barge
Wendy rowing over the work barge
Wendy and her cousins
Wendy found 2 of her cousins here
Westsail 32 and 42
Namida and Elysium on a quiet mooring
M_J_NZander
Mike, Jenny and cat Zander
An informational presentation at the Gettysburg park
Gettysburg National Park presentation
Lovely prism display at the National Indian Museum
National Indian Museum Prism exhibit
The USA Whitehouse
White House USA, No one asked us in!
Beautiful sunset on the Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay Sunset
Lighthouse museum display
Museum Lighthouse exhibit
Anchored on the Choptank river
Elysium anchored in the Choptank River
One of the beautiful doors in Chestertown
Lovely doors in Chestertown
Zander visiting our boat
Cool cat Zander loves boat life.
Dave wants the tall ship's anchor
Dave has anchor envy
captains mess on a tall ship
Captains Mess on a tall ship
a Chesapeake Bay stinger
Jellyfish refered to as Stingers in the Bay
At the National Aquarium Wendy is the most dangerous
True: Wendy the most dangerous of them all
Baltimore keeps ithe waters clean with this unique boat
Gret boat for Baltimore waters cleanup
Lucky we didn't sink with this old Westsail Elbow
Lucky this was found and replaced
Mike and Dave proud of the miniture water closet they built
Dave and Mike proud of the sea chest
A cool address sign in St Michaels
What a cool address sign
a great ice cream shop find
We discovered a great Ice Cream Shop

Chesapeake

A photo gallery of our time spent in the Chesapeake. It begins from Beaufort, NC and we travel up to Baltimore, over to Chestertown, and hang in Annapolis until departing for the warmer waters for the winter. Great detail of our time here can be found in the blog.

We came to the Chesapeake for two reasons. First, to add a hard dodger and second to get out of the hurricane zone. W/ wanted a dodger and if we were to have one I wanted a hard top. One I could fall against, lean on, and sit on if need be.

There were only two places in the states where Hard Dodgers were fabricated and made for boats. One with a company in Washington State and one with a Company in the Chesapeake. I actually tried talking the maker of the dodger that lived in Washington State into flying down and fitting one on our boat. He could make it a vacation and stay with us. But, although he was quite nice and said if we sent him all the info and measurements he would consider aiding us but he would not come. He was particular and his work was meticulous.

The plus side of this is that being up the Chesapeake; although not hurricane free is out of the path of the majority of storms.

And there was a great by product of this trip. We were able to partake in a Westsail Rendezvous with our boat. We've been to quite a few but never had been able to get our boat to one. Finally! We are and we planned on it. Sweet.

Since there was no way we were going to get the boat to the Seattle area anytime soon we liked the East Coast option of the WaveStopper.