Soundings, Sept05 Bearboat Does a Delmarva
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Sept05 Cover
The route: 500 miles, six days
The crew: Ken Dalecki (left), me, Woody Leach (right)
Setting spinnaker
Helicopter photo, off Annapolis, Stbd View
Port View
Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Woody at the helm
Chesapeake City, C&D Canal
ChesCity
Ches City
C&D Canal
Salem Nuke Plant, NJ. Went aground SE of here.
Cohansey Rivery, NJ
Ken at helm, Delaware Bay
Ship John Shoal, DelBay
Rigging the radar reflector, Cape May
Cape May USCG Station
Fishing trawlers (almost ran into one of these at night)
Sunset at sea off Ocean City, MD, ~15 miles away
Back in the Bay: Rounding Cape Charles (ChesBay-Bridge Tunnel behind)
Cape Charles City, Eastern Shore
Concrete Plant, Cape Charles City
Tangier Sound Light, Tangier Island in the distance
Tied up at Tangier Island
"The Hook," southern beach, Tangier Island, VA
Southern beach, Tangier
Arrr-heds! (Indian arrowheads, found on the southern beach by local islanders)
Central cut, Tangier
Low Tide, Tangier Island, VA
Eastern channel, Tangier
Tangier Island, VA, western channel
Drum Point LH, Calvert Maritime Museum, Solomons, MD
Crew at Work
Ken at work (newsletter awards)
Fish trap, near West River
West River ospreys
Back home!
Emergency gear (inflatable 4-man liferaft, radar reflector, extra fuel)