[Rhodes22-list] Chesapeake Cruise planning

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hi Joe,
I'm familiar with the trail. In 2007, some folks sailed a "replica" 
of the John Smith shallop from Jamestown to the head of the Bay to 
honor the 400th anniversary of the voyage and to help inaugurate the 
trail. The shallop was built in Chestertown (not far from us in Rock 
Hall) and some of the crew were local folks. They made a stop in Rock Hall.

I followed your link and found the Boater's Guide to the Trail which 
looks interesting. The photo on the cover was taken on that voyage.
http://www.smithtrail.net/pdf/boatersguide/CJS_ChesapeakeBoatersGuide.pdf

I would encourage you to bring your boat if you can. A Rhodes 22 is 
idea for exploring the Chesapeake. You could take a lifetime and 
never see it all. We'll be just skimming the surface on this trip. 
We've been sailing this part of the Bay since 2000 and there are lots 
of places we've never been. Part of the problem is that there are so 
many favorite places you want to go back to.

If the timing of our trip moves and doesn't work for you we should 
still try to meet up sometime. There is quite a group of Rhodies in the area.

Mary Lou

At 06:26 PM 1/21/2012, you wrote:
>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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