Chartering the Chesapeake
The Magic
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oliticians. Entertainers. Movie crews. Regular Joes and to the Eastern Shore as a child, so they came here.” He has the Janes. You never know who will be coming aboard picture to prove it. your boat when you are a day charter captain on the You might want to call the Crab Imperial the Love Boat. Not just because Einstein offers romantic moonlight cruises and Chesapeake Bay, but one thing is for certain: no two trips are sunset cruises punctuated by cannon salutes and strains of “The the same. Bareboat and Crewed Charters Just ask Captain Mark Einstein of Blue Crab Chesapeake 1812 Overture,” but because he’s had couples meet on his boat, Charters, who has been operating out of Rock Hall since 1998. get engaged on his boat, and get married on his boat. There have been bachelorette parties, too. “Former Mayor of Rock Hall, now “We’ve had ambassadors, senators and congressmen, brides & Delegate Jay Jacobs, had his first date with his wife Dawn on one and grooms, and celebrities,” says Crab Imperial’s skipper, who of our sunset cruises,” Einstein says. offers 90-minute sails for up to six passengers April through Folks escape from the hustle and bustle of city life to get a taste October. A few years ago, Playboy Enterprises booked a half-day of sailing. “It is a moment of discovery,” says Einstein, a high charter on the Watkins 36. The guests? Playboy CEO Christie school history teacher in South Jersey and the founder, along with Hefner and five of her friends. “These were women who were his wife Suzanne, of Rock Hall’s Pirates and Wenches Fantasy Weekend. “The experience is so different from what they are used probably accustomed to mega yachts,” Einstein says, “They to. They see a whole different world.” could have gone to the Med, but one of the group had been
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