[C320-list] C320-List Digest, Vol 571, Issue 1

[Scott Thompson]

You have to go a very long ways up the Potomac River to get to DC and 
then reverse to get back to the Chesapeake to resume your trip north. 
Plus the upper Potomac is not a great place for sailing, and the 
waterfront in DC itself is not great.  And May is a great time for 
sailing the Chesapeake proper and the Eastern Shore tributaries -- July 
and August less so.  If it were me, I'd try to get a bit further north 
so that you don't have to deal with the hot weather as much in 
July/August.  And I'd plan to have the boat hauled and maybe have the 
bottom painted rather than try to find a slip.  On-land storage and 
maintenance rates tend to be pretty reasonable during the early summer 
in the mid-Atlantic states, since that's when everyone who lives here 
wants to be out sailing instead.

You will pay more in Annapolis or Baltimore than in less congested 
spots, but will have better access to airports.  Bert Jabins yard in 
Annapolis will take good care of your boat, and lots of services are 
available.  But if you can find a way to solve the land-based 
transportation problems, consider places like Solomons Island or Oxford, 
which are probably a bit less expensive during those months, but still 
have good yacht maintenance facilities.  Still further north, there are 
good facilities on the Sassafras River, and you are then getting fairly 
close to Wilmington, DE.

It's a shame you have to leave the boat in May since late May and early 
June are some of the very nicest times to sail around here.

Scott Thompson

Bruce Walters wrote:
> Hello List........
>  
> Debbie and I are cruising on S/V Reality and are presently on Galveston Bay, TX and heading for Florida. We will then head north and are looking for a marina to leave the boat for a month and a half as we go home for land based stuff (gradulation and wedding).  
>  
> It look like Wash DC would be a consideration but welcome ideas from other locations.  We are planning on leaving the boat the end of May through Mid July and when we return head north to Gloucester, MA.
>  
> Bruce and Debbie Walters
> S/V Reality  #323
> " Fair Winds "