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Many of you followed our exploits last summer from our home in Tampa aboard Flying Low to Key West up the ICW to the Chesapeake. We found ourselves in Harrington Harbour located about 20 miles south of Annapolis in late October after visiting the Annapolis boat show. We hauled the boat for the winter and now it’s time to start thinking about what I need to do to get Flyin Low ready to splash and continue our cruise. New bilge pump, sump pump float switch, 2 new batteries, and who knows what else. A quick bottom paint job and Splash on April 28th. We plan on securing a slip at Harrington Harbour for a month, making sure everything is working properly before leaving.
I retire in late September and we’ll be bringing Flyin Low home to Tampa then but throughout the summer we are planning 4 or 5 extended weekends cruising the northern Chessie before setting out for home. I’m working out a flexible itinerary but here’s where we’ve been on the southern portion of the Chessie:
Portsmith, Smithfield Station, Hampton, Yorktown, Sarah Creek off the York River, Jackson Creek, Deltaville/Doziers Marina, Carter Creek off the Tides Inn (my favorite anchorage), Urbana, Little Bay anchorage – reminded me of the Bahamas, Onancock Muni Marina (city had one of the best restaurants on the Chessie), Tangier Island – quaint but once is enough, Horseshoe Bend anchorage on the St. Marys River (another top anchorage for scenery), Leonardtown anchorage, Colonial Beach Marina, Solomons Island Anchorage, Harrington Harbour, Annapolis. Underlined anchorages we’ll try and visit again southbound.
Following are places I’m thinking of visiting over the summer: Unlike last year our dog won’t be with us (we’ll be flying to and from the boat) so we’ll consider quaint anchorages before marina’s.
I retire in late September and we’ll be bringing Flyin Low home to Tampa then but throughout the summer we are planning 4 or 5 extended weekends cruising the northern Chessie before setting out for home. I’m working out a flexible itinerary but here’s where we’ve been on the southern portion of the Chessie:
Portsmith, Smithfield Station, Hampton, Yorktown, Sarah Creek off the York River, Jackson Creek, Deltaville/Doziers Marina, Carter Creek off the Tides Inn (my favorite anchorage), Urbana, Little Bay anchorage – reminded me of the Bahamas, Onancock Muni Marina (city had one of the best restaurants on the Chessie), Tangier Island – quaint but once is enough, Horseshoe Bend anchorage on the St. Marys River (another top anchorage for scenery), Leonardtown anchorage, Colonial Beach Marina, Solomons Island Anchorage, Harrington Harbour, Annapolis. Underlined anchorages we’ll try and visit again southbound.
Following are places I’m thinking of visiting over the summer: Unlike last year our dog won’t be with us (we’ll be flying to and from the boat) so we’ll consider quaint anchorages before marina’s.
- St. Michaels via the San Domingo Creek Anchorages. Visiting St. Michaels from the “back end” might be more scenic and less crowded.
- Oxford. By using the San Domingo Creek Anchorage to visit St. Michaels puts us in a good position to visit Oxford, - if there’s anything to see there???
- Chestertown; a long ways up the Chester River, is it worth it?
- Rock Hall
- Baltimore Inner Harbor. We’ll probably grab a slip here for convenience.