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Thanks, all. We live where essentially, the sit-on-th-dock-have-a-brew-and--contemplate-the-sunset process can occur nightly, Thank God. I just haven't gotten all the social work out of my system yet, I guess, and have been going through a step-up, step-down pattern from being retired to being...

Hey, y'all, Merry New Year, Happy January! It's been a while--and that's the problem. Put this under news from the front in the war on sanity. Last year, we missed the mother of all CD East Coast gettogethers to date at Lankford Bay (sp?) because I was aboard a skipjack as a mate, and then...

We got a survey on "Snowdon" before we drove from Annapolis to Three Rivers, Florida one February weekend, just before the largest snowstorm to hit the mid-Atlantic in several years, to see her in person, pay the man, hitch her up, eat a grouper sandwich, and turn around to drive home. It was...

Roberta, if you're hanging out in Baltimore on Wednesday, come on down to Pier V (Five) of the Inner Harbor, just downstream of the Aquarium, around 3 pm and look for the skipjack "Sigsbee". Would be glad to say hi and show you around the boats. Bruce Holly.

Jane and I are thinking of running "Snowdon" up to Chestertown this weekend, since we won't be in town on the "Get Together" weekend. Anyone else headed up? It sounded like Bill and El might be there too. Would enjoy meeting y'all. Who was running a C-Dory out of the Inner Harbor of...

If you head over to Halibut Cove, say hey to our son, Blaise. Wish we were up there, right around now. He says the kings are coming in soon, if not by now. Enjoy. Bruce Holly

The South River contingent is green with envy that we will be unable to mosey over and chill with the mob at Lankford Creek this year. 's life, I guess. Have a great time, and think of me scurrying around the deck of a skipjack that has nary a winch on it, and a mainsail that weighs in the...

As a matter of fact, "Snowdon" is the first power boat I've had even a little faith in. Jane raced Moths as a child in New Jersey. I thought sailing was hot, tedious, and slow, as well as terrifying for the first few years of our marriage, but came around. We've owned a variety of boats...

This site is a great place--for information, and for connecting people. Casey, who's been in this area for some time, came over yesterday, and we got out in Snowdon for a couple hours, yakked up a storm, and had a good meal together, thanks to my wonderful wife. This being sorta retired is all...

It would be hard to beat Sandy Point State Park as a place to launch, especially if you are not familiar with the area. Easily accessible, great ramps, plenty of parking, and located on the western shore just (a few feet, as a matter of actual fact) north of the Bay Bridge, which is a landmark...

85 is starting to seem so young as each year goes by. Congratulations, Dusty. Enjoy. Bruce Holly

I'm just curious-- How does one go about warming a couple of 25-gallon tanks up to summer temperatures? The last time I shoehorned something that size into our oven, my wife told me it was usual practice to peel the cow before cooking it. Who knew? Bruce Holly P.S. My 20 gallon tanks did the...

One parent's brat is another parent's angel. Go figure. And that last is the sum and distillate of a number of years of listening...really listening...to other folks' points of view about the world: go figure. Oh, yeah, and a couple of other things--life isn't too bad if you can hold a cup of...

Jane has 30+ years in as a teacher from elementary school to college age kids, in biology. She's the education coordinator for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center on the Rhode River of the Chesapeake Bay, now. I just recently "sort of" retired from about 30 years of therapy and...

Yep, that's the one. I took the job today. Can you believe it, they pay you to sail around the Chesapeake Bay. Not much, but enough to stave off most of the clowns. Who says there's no heaven. Now, in the interests of accuracy--I'm a social worker by trade, but aboard, I'm just a...

We'd like to join the crowd on the Chester. The earlier in May or June the better for us. By then, I may have shirked real work to return to being a mate on "Sigsbee", a skipjack out of Baltimore, but early in the season, I think I still own my weekends. We'd enjoy bringing "Snowdon" up the...

I guess there's a thing or two I didn't know already when I was 18. Hm. Imagine that.

You'd be right.

Enjoy! These things are almost addicting. Put the plug in, drop 'em, and go. It's hard for me to think of the midwest as a boating center. I went to school in Indiana, but all I learned in 4 years was that the midwest was a wide place to hitchhike across in order to get to my girlfriend in...

Almost mid-January on the Chesapeake, and warm (sort of), so a friend and I took off in Snowdon on water smooth enough to run above our normal cruise from the South River to Annapolis and back. This does not happen often enough! Even ran her wide open for more than a short burst, and got 5300...