[Rhodes22-list] Chesapeake Cruise planning

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This sounds great. I will be in Washington DC from February until June 
and would love to join up with you somewhere along your journey. Please 
keep me posted. There is a chance I will trailer my boat, Second Wind, 
up from Georgia. My tentative plan is to dock her with friends on the 
Magothy near Dobbins Island. With or without boat, I would enjoy 
putting faces to emails. I wonder if you are familiar with the Captain 
John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail, America's first national 
water trail. One of my goals is to follow this unique trail. Here is a 
website with more information about the trail. 
http://www.nps.gov/cajo/index.htm. Best Wishes, Joe Riley


-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
To: rhodes22-list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Cc: svtriton <svtriton at aol.com>
Sent: Sat, Jan 21, 2012 12:15 pm
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Chesapeake Cruise planning


Hello fellow Chesapeake Rhodies,

Fred Kaiser, Tom Deliberto and I sat down last night and mapped out a
possible most of the length of the Chesapeake trip that if we are
lucky with schedules, health, weather and family obligations might
just happen late April or May of this year.

Plans are to pack up Fretless and drive to Norfolk to meet Triton.
Tom's boat has been wintering in Edenton at the GB spa. Word is she
is now gorgeously looking like new and will soon have her traveler
mounted in a mid-cockpit experiment.

Anyway, if all goes according to plan (or even if an undetermined
critical mass of things go according to plan), we will launch in
Norfolk and take two or three weeks to cruise up the Bay. Stops
discussed (so far) are Norfolk, Cape Charles, Mobjack Bay (or the
Piankatank or both), Tangier Island, Smith Island, Deal Island,
Solomons Island, the Little Choptank, Knapps Narrows. the West (or
South) River, the Magothy, Hart-Miller Island, Worton Creek and
Betterton. If we decide to go all the way north other possibilities
would include Turner's Creek on the Sassafras, Northeast and/or Havre
De Grace and then Still Pond and the Middle River on our way back to 
Rock Hall.

We plan to take somewhere between two and three weeks for the trip
depending on how things go and the weather. Our thoughts are to
alternate anchoring out and marinas and to alternate long and short
days where possible. There are times when Fred and I will have to set
up office and actually get some work done. We're also flexible enough
that if necessary we could do the trip in several stages.

Thought we'd let you know now so you can put it on your radar in case
you are able to join us for part of the cruise, a sail, a night in an
anchorage, dinner ashore somewhere or whatever. We would love to meet
up with friends and other Rhodies along the way. We'll let you know
more as it gets closer and the schedules and plans firm up.

Best to all,
Mary Lou

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