Baltimore, Maryland
Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Sun 30 Sep 2007 16:00
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39:16.799N 76:34.883W
On Wednesday (9/26), we motored, then sailed down the Chesapeake to
Baltimore and the Anchorage Marina. The boat seems to be happy as
Anchorage was its home for a while before we bought it. When we bought the
boat in 2005, we picked it up here at this marina and basically
made the same trip we just finished to NYC, then up the Hudson and Erie
Canal to Lake Ontario with the help of the previous owners and Bill and Kathie
Maloney. Speaking of the Maloney's, here they are (picture below).
The trip down the bay to Baltimore was uneventful,
but we did discover a new boating hazard - crab pot buoys. They don't
number nearly as many as the zillions of lobster pot buoys we saw in Maine and
Massachusetts, but they do present a different challenge. The problem
here is that the water is pretty grungy (I'm being kind) and turns
what probably once were brightly colored crab pot buoys into brown slimy
floats that are just about impossible to see. So now when I help
Don navigate through the buoys, the conversation is a little
different. Instead of 'See the purple one to the right and red one to the
left?' it's, 'See that brown slimy thing right in front of us, the
other two brown slimy things to the right?'. We'll be doing a bit more
traveling through the Chesapeake, so I imagine we'll get good at spotting all
manner of brown slimy floating things.
More about Baltimore later.
Anne
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