[Rhodes22-list] Captain of the Metaphor - Happy New Year

[Mary Lou Troy]

Mike,
We haven't been to Duns Cove for probably about 5 years. When we were 
there the guidebooks were still talking about the pristine shoreline 
but there were a lot of new homes then.

What would Tilghman be like as an anchorage? For all the times we've 
been up and down the Miles, I don't think I've ever seen the marks.

We've found the R22 a great boat for wandering. The Choptank is 
certainly a great place to wander about. A couple of years ago we 
spent a night or two in Galesville on the Western Shore and then 
sailed across the Bay, motored through Knapps and sailed to LaTrappe. 
All of the sailing (except avoiding a freighter mid-Bay) was on one 
tack. We looked at all the creeks to the north of us as we sailed 
down the Choptank thinking we would need weeks to explore them all. 
It seems that we like so many of the places we have been (Knapps, 
Taylor's Island & Phillips Creek on the Little Choptank and LaTrappe 
and Oxford on the Choptank that we hate to give them up to explore 
something new. We do try to get at least one new place each time 
while revisiting old favorites. Our wandering has taken us as far 
south as Solomans and as far north as the Sassafras. We still have a 
lot of places in between that are on the to-do list.

BTW, Going from Knapps to RH (or the reverse) we generally go under 
the Bay Bridge. I think it's a smidgen shorter than going through 
Kent Narrows. You don't have to jog to the West out the mouth of 
Eastern Bay. Of course it also avoids the hassle of Kent Narrows 
which we use everytime we head for the Miles.

Best,
Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD



At 03:41 PM 1/2/2009, you wrote:

>Mary Lou--A crew mate bought the boat at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
>auction this fall for a steal.  It needs some work, but not much, new sails
>and lines, bottom paint and elbow grease, and will kept at Tilghman Creek,
>where the other boats I sail (sailed) are kept.  You have the opposite
>problem from mine-- Harris Creek feeds out to the Choptank, so I can head
>south easily, but to get to Kent Narrows is much more more time consuming.
>(If you were at Dun's Cove, you were maybe 3/4 mile from my home.)
>
>Racing is what spurred my recent re-interest in this forum. Honestly I'm
>getting a bit tired of the repetitiveness of the racing courses.  The people
>I sail with are great friends, but the Miles River has become a bit
>constricted for the last couple of years. I want to wander a bit.