Category: Boating
The Annapolis Yacht Club And The Salvation Army Unite To Spread The Joy Of Christmas
Members of the Annapolis Yacht Club (AYC) have united with The Salvation Army to bring holiday cheer to local children in need. This is the fourth year AYC has embraced The Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program, which was introduced in 1979 to bring hope to children during the Christmas season. Under the program, Angel Trees [...]
Everything Local Dinner Cruise
Dinner Party Cruise, Sunday, August 14 6:30-9:00 ”Everything Local”: While sailing around the Chesapeake Bay, Chef Amy Daniels from Palate Pleaser will lead you through an amazing dinner featuring everything local. She will lead discussions about what to look for when buying or growing local, where to find great, local food, preparation techniques and recipes [...]
Hospice Cup XXX
The Hospice Cup XXX – America’s largest charity regatta – will be held Saturday, September 24, 2011. Entering its 30th year of racing on the Chesapeake Bay, to date the Hospice Cup has raised more than $8 million to support Hospice programs in local communities around the Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. area. “Hospice Cup [...]
Thunder On The Narrows 2011
<–please share this event with your facebook friends and twitter followers by clicking the icons to the left! The long standing local racing tradition will be a few weeks earlier this year. Instead of August, this year the 21st Annual Thunder on the Bay Racing Event will be held on June 25th and 26th 2011. [...]
Annapolis To Newport Race 2011
The Annapolis to Newport Race, first run 64 years ago, is one of the most historic and well-known of the U.S. East Coast blue-water races. In 2007, the Annapolis to Newport Race became the first of the east coast offshore races to provide the capability to follow the race via an internet race viewer. The [...]
History Nights On The Schooner Woodwind
Everyone’s favorite sailing experience, the Schooner Woodwind, has partnered with Historic Annapolis Foundation to bring a bit of history to several Monday evening cruises. Every other Monday evening through September, a guest speaker from Historic Annapolis Foundation will sail on the Woodwind bringing the history, lore and intrigue of Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay alive [...]
Chesapeake Light Craft To Host 13th Annual Festival This Weekend
Chesapeake Light Craft (CLC), the world’s largest maker of build-it-yourself boat kits, will be hosting a small boat festival and open house on May 13-14 in Annapolis and Kent Island, Maryland. OkoumeFest (pronounced oh-KOO-me-fest) is a family-friendly event centered on the joys of building and using small boats. The event dates back to 1998, when [...]
Wednesday Night Racing On The Schooner Woodwind
<–Do you like these pictures? Please click the icons to the left to share them on facebook and twitter! Last night, we took our camera and headed out on the Schooner Woodwind to take part of the Wednesday Night Sailing Races. While the day started miserably, the weather cleared in the late afternoon and a [...]
Wenches Off The Bow
<–be sure to share this with yer mateys on facebook and yer lads and lassies that follow you on twitaarrr. Shiver me timbers, there be pirates on the horizon, maties. Stand fast! Captain Jack Sparrow won’t be the only pirate afloat this season. Schooner Woodwind, a normally staid a law-abiding sailing ship that leaves daily [...]
Party (And Race) Like A Sailor On the Woodwinds
Passengers can experience the thrill of big boat match racing for a third season on the Schooner Woodwind and her twin sister ship Woodwind II on Wednesday nights. For the third consecutive summer the Woodwinds will be racing in company with the Annapolis Yacht Club’s famous Wednesday night series. The Wednesday night races start off [...]
Solo Sailors To Visit Annapolis To Discuss Upcoming Film
Solo sailors Teresa Carey and Ben Eriksen will soon set sail north on an adventure. They aim to glimpse an uncharted iceberg and make a documentary film along the way. Their film One Simple Question will illustrate the undeniable bond between simplicity and happiness. In today’s economy, with “simply living” as a new buzzword, Ben [...]
Parade Of Lights This Weekend
Bundle up and fill your thermos. The annual Parade of Lights will kick off at 6:00pm on Saturday, December 11, 2010. Every year on the second Saturday in December, magic happens on the water of the Annapolis Harbor…boats suddenly appear out of the cold winter night illuminated with thousands of colored lights and crewed by [...]
The Hospice Cup Brightens My Saturday
The banner on the side of Watermark Cruise’s Catherine Marie said it all this past Saturday morning. Hospice Cup: America’s Largest Charity Regatta. I have no idea what qualifies them to make that statement, but I believe it. From the time I stepped onto the press boat to the time I stepped off, I felt [...]
Laura Dekker Sets Sail
After a year of court battles, 14-year old Dutch teenager Laura Dekker has set sail after being given approval by the Dutch government last week to begin her journey. When Ms. Dekker announced her plans last year, at age 13, the Dutch child protective services stepped in and placed her under the guardianship of social workers, [...]
Chesapeake Bay Trust Releases First-Ever Mobile App Field Guide For Bay Watershed
The Chesapeake Bay Trust today released a first-of-its-kind mobile app field guide to the animals and plants of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Trust’s Field Guide to the Chesapeake Bay is unlike any other mobile app on the market today. Free and available initially to iPhone users, the new mobile app is a comprehensive, ecosystem-based [...]
From The Classroom: In Defense Of Abby
What’s up, Annapolis? I have an announcement to make. I will be embarking on a blogging trip around the world. It will be very dangerous. I should not do it. I will be blogging from places like the Himalayas, vast and barren deserts, and FOX News studios. Horrible fates like Yetis, dehydration, and Ann Coulter [...]
Local Mag, Prop Talk, Celebrates 5 Years
PropTalk Magazine today announced the release of its 60th issue, marking the publication’s fifth year in publication. The free monthly magazine launched its first issue on June 15, 2005. “We’re really excited about reaching this incredible milestone and the upward growth we continue to see in this publication,” says publisher Mary Iliff Ewenson. “It’s hard [...]
Geraldo Rivera Report On Abby Sunderland (VIDEO)
This is an interview by Geraldo Rivera where he exposes that Abby Sunderland was indeed pushed by her father to make her solo sail. Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com
Sunderlands Abandon Fundraising Effort
The website www.savewildeyes was purchased and created on June 12, 2010 to solicit funds to “bring Wild Eyes home with Abby.” Today, after it has become clear that there may be more to the story than an adventurous teen and some encouraging parents, the quest has been abandoned and the links to the site from [...]
Sunderlands Had A TV Deal Before The Accident
The New York Post is reporting that the Sunderland’s had already inked a television deal based on their “daredevil kids” and allowed access to their home for filming four months ago while Abby Sunderland was on her voyage. Additionally, on Geraldo last night, there were several guests including some on Abby’s team. The videographer stated [...]
The Abby Sunderland Saga Takes A Twist
As a sailing town, Annapolitans certainly have some connection with Abby Sunderland, the 16 year old who was trying to be the youngest person ever to do a non-stop, solo sail around the earth. If you are not familiar with the saga, you can Google it. But in a nutshell, she was in her boat, [...]
For Powerboaters, A Haven In Stevensville
Spring Boat Show For non-boaters, spending a Saturday around huge boats boasting $1.4 million price tags may seem like an asinine way to spend your time, but for boat owners and enthusiasts, nothing could be more serious. The 28th Annual Bay Bridge Boat Show, which is the oldest and largest spring in-water boat show in [...]
