[Rhodes22-list] Best middle Chesapeake place to overnight?

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hi Greg,
Are you talking about camping ashore or on the boat at anchor?

If you are talking about camping ashore, Hart-Miller and Elk Neck 
State park may be your best (and only) bets. If you are looking to 
sleep aboard the boat, you have lots of options.

The Hart-Miller anchorage is not particularly well protected (neither 
is Elk Neck for that matter). H-M is open to the northwest and west. 
It would be fine in light air or with wind from the East and probably 
the South. It's a fairly busy channel between H-M and the mainland so 
there may be a lot of wakes.

Are you coming from North East? If so, Turner Creek on the Sassafras 
is delightful. Still Pond is great particularly inside but I've heard 
that the shallow narrow entrance has shoaled so that it may be a 
problem even for shoal draft boats like ours. The outer anchorage is 
nice except in NW breezes. Worton Creek is a wonderful anchorage. Sue 
Creek on the Middle River is nice but a bit more built up. There's 
also a nice anchorage around the corner from Hart-Miller behind Rocky 
Point. It says 3 ft on our chart but when we anchored there once many 
years ago with a group of Rhodies, we anchored in at least 4 ft. of water.

There are lots more out there. Many are well described in 
Shellenberger's "Cruising the Chesapeake: A Gunkholer's Guide" (2001) 
and "Guide to Cruising Chesapeake Bay" published annually by the 
staff of Chesapeake Bay Magazine. If you planning on doing much 
anchoring out, either is a recommended purchase.

BTW, it's all the Upper Bay until at least the Bay Bridge, Maybe 
until south of the Rhode/West River.

Good luck! Enjoy! and if you get down as far as Rock Hall let us know.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD


At 03:27 PM 1/9/2010, you wrote:

>Planning my first overnight trip for late Spring with my boys and friends. I
>was thinking of Hart-Miller Island, but wanted to throw it out to the group.
>I want to camp / anchor and not be in a marina, but I am looking for a
>protected anchorage. Would love to hear all thoughts, ideas, and
>experiences.
>
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>Greg PA
>s/v Serenity
>79 Rhodes 22
>North East MD
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