Announcing! The Chesapeake: Legends, Yarns & Barnacles…in Kindle and paperback

Now available in Kindle edition and paperback at Amazon!

THE CHESAPEAKE…see the latest on fun, fishing and, of course, nonsense!

This sailing ship ventured up the Potomac River for the Blessing of the Fleet weekend and a crisp wind guided her into Breton Bay. See more and all about how to catch and cook catfish, by Cap’n Larry Jarboe. Mark Robbins entertains with a Thanksgiving tale of sailing adventures. Ellynne Brice Davis brings forth bunches [...]

Generators and Electrocution Risk from “Backfeeding” Power Lines

Electricity comes to Southern Maryland

 I was talking to someone the other day about when I first took over Pt. Lookout Hotel. I talked about the complexity of the electrical system at the hotel and how nobody told me where anything was. When I walked in, there were quite a number of boxes, some with as many as twenty or [...]

Almost Free Diving — Part One

How many loyal readers of the CHESAPEAKE remember watching the courageous exploits of Lloyd Bridges who played Mike Nelson in the T.V. series, “Sea Hunt”? I sense this very fictitious but thrilling show spawned a generation of undersea adventurers who later adopted Jacques Cousteau as our more practical mentor. One of the most differentiating realities [...]

Keeping down the cost of taking a cruise

Watching your cell phone bill or internet usuage is one of the best ways to keep those extras from adding up…..Take the advise in this Fox Business article written by the editor of CruiseMates

Original Star Spangled Banner Manuscript Leaves Baltimore for the First Time on March 1st and 2nd; suggested history lesson at Fort McHenry questions if the Star Spangled Banner should be scrapped!

And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Hog Killing Time

The hair had been scraped off and they had been gutted by early morning and were hanging on make-shift scaffolds, losing their animal heat in the cool air.

The Knot Hole Election

Penny used to get a piano and sing,
“I made my mind up
I’m going to wind up
Down-in DORSEY LAND
I’m going to wind my way
Down along the Ches-apeake Bay etc.”

New ships sliding into busy waters; offering new features, deals and meals

The result is that the cruise lines have offered unheard of incentives to fill their ships