Author: Mark Haskell

From the Sassafras we motored North to the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, which is what ocean going ships use to get from the Chesapeake Bay to the Delaware Bay, thus the name. A short way into the canal lies Chesapeake City which is home to the Corp of Engineers that maintains the canal. We anchored…

Rainy, calm weather has us anchored on the Sassafras River near Georgetown, MD. We’ve put 14 hours on the engine so far and it is behaving nicely. We’re going to do some inside projects, organize a little and, of course, school. Labor Day brought us great weather to cross back over to the Eastern Shore.…

There is so much to do here, that we decided to stay another day. Noah & Beth went back to the Science Museum because Noah enjoyed making robots so much.  Meanwhile, I toured the historic ships docked here in the inner harbor. The USS Constellation from the civil war, the Tursk (shown here) was the…

We snuggled in amongst Cruise Ships and Tour Boats to gain some protection from Tropical Depression Ernesto. Winds peaked at about 40 knots and the water level went up a foot above normal high tide so we were fortunate. WIth Intuition securely tied on the leeward side of the dock, we enjoyed most of the…

We started up the new engine and slipped away from the quiet of Rock Hall and headed out into the Bay. The engine purred and pushed us over Sandy Point shoal in a route that cut an hour of our time.  The fact that the depths are greater than charted was shared by Hayden Cochran.…