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On the Cover: A diamondback terrapin in a lush eel grass bed. Photo by Jay Fleming

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Features the 38 Beneath Surface

Photographer Jay Fleming takes a deep dive to investigate the comeback of underwater grasses.

Before the 44 Equal Wind

Wendy Mitman Clarke visits Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating.

of the 54Â Druid Chesapeake

Tim Junkin takes a walk in the woods with Nick Carter, their irreverent caretaker.

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Did the British invaders have clotted cream for brains? An historical inquiry by Marty LeGrand.

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Chesapeake Almanac: Sturgeon Moon Is there a sturgeon

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Tidying Up Life-changing magic happens right here

by Joe Evans

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aggie Hughes had a great idea.

What if we (the Maryland chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association) used the iAngler Tournament app to stage a state-wide stream and shoreline trash clean up? iAngler Tournament is a cool and efficient, cloud-based, photo-recording system that we use to score catch&release fishing competitions such as the famous Boatyard Bar & Grill Opening Day Rockfish and the popular Kent Narrows Fly & Light Tackle tournaments.

Maggie is CCA’s assistant director. She’s also cool and efficient.

The concept blossomed into a week-long “Let’s throw it away for the Bay” program and party, anywhere and everywhere around the watershed with sponsorship support from Costa’s Kick Plastic and Sweetwater Brewery’s Save our Water initiatives, and a social media push from Chesapeake Bay Magazine.

My family unit joined the Annapolis CCA crew and Arundel Rivers Federation volunteers on a Saturday morning sweep through a bog and creek downhill from a giant housing development that relentlessly feeds trash into a South River tributary. After a couple of hours, we had scored about 12 50-gallon bags, a small dent in the problem. But we felt good about ourselves, and bad about the situation that we, as a civilization, have gotten into.

During the hunt, I recalled an evening about 15 years ago when I had the pleasure of guiding a couple of

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ardent Chesapeake Bay conservationists on a fly-fishing trip. We were anchored up in Kent Narrows to fish the bridge pilings when a gust blew an empty beer can over the rail into the notorious Narrows current. I was building fresh leaders for my anglers, and the rockfish were biting, and it was just too much to unravel, pull the anchor, and chase down the disappearing can. I was

willing to tidy up after us. Going a bit further with that thought leads to considering the next generation who will be cleaning up whatever mess we leave.

The greatest value to group trash collecting is not how much gets done, but how it effects your outlook. That you are not alone in this, and that it’s important and even some fun to share the experience. Seeing how persistent and awful the problem is—the boundless extent of Meet Jack, a Chesapeake angler in development. plastic bottles, wrappers, Styrofoam, toys, ice-cream spoons, Big-Gulp cups, miniliquor bottles, party balloons, and so many straws—changes your approach to snacks, takeout meals, shopping bags, and single-use anything. While we can feel a bit smug and superior about sending a dozen bags of other peoples’ junk to the landfill, we will return home to confront our own plastic reality.

Afterwards, Maggie and CCA hosted an excellent Chesapeake Clean-up Week barbecue at the Annapolis Maritime Museum’s Ellen Moyer Nature Park campus with Sweetwater 420 Pale Ale, S’mores, a tub of hot dogs, and custom-built, smoky, doublesheepish about it until one of them said, cheese burgers by CBM’s in-house chef “Hey don’t worry. Let’s just be sure to Patrick Loughrey. pick up two pieces of trash when we This is when the toddlers and can to make up for that one.” babies came out. Like Jack Sikorski, And that’s the point. We are all shown here, a bay saver in the making. upstream, and we are all downstream.

We are tidying up for him.

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The spread before the Crawl.

Crawling Through Maritime History Hors d’oeuvres, drinks, and a guided stroll through hidden history at the Mariners Museum

by Laura Boycourt

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’ve got wine in one hand, a serving of gazpacho in the other, and I’m bound for France to explore a mysterious maritime artifact. After my European sojourn, I’ll probably stop in Africa, then maybe Japan, and likely wrap up my travels in the Barents Sea, discovering prized items, snacks, and mythic stories at each international port of call along the way. All this, and I’ll be back home in Tidewater by bedtime.

Forget around the world in 80 days. You can travel the globe and celebrate its maritime history in just one evening during the Mariners’ Museum and Park Gallery Crawl.

Now in its fifth year, the Gallery Crawl is a unique, behind-the-scenes opportunity to get an up-close look at rarely seen artifacts. The event is designed so that attendees can nosh on tasty food and drink prior to “departure” and follow a map of sorts to ports of call located throughout the museum. A specially-curated maritime artifact retrieved from the museum’s archives awaits guests at each station, and museum staff and volunteers enthusiastically educate crawlers about the item’s history and significance.

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Books, maps, photographs, figurines, and grand tales of expeditions and voyages are only a sampling of all that was on display during last September’s Crawl. Some of the fan favorites included a 4,000-year-old Egyptian model boatman, a 360-degree panoramic photo of 1878 San Francisco, and a roughly 250-year-old marine barometer invented by famous optician and instrument maker Edward Nairne (1726-1806) and used during Captain James Cook’s final voyage.

Perhaps one of the neatest items on display was a custom-made dispatch box from 1871; essentially a fancy travel box/desk replete with hidden compartments and gilt decorations. The Mariners’ Museum suspects the box may have been part of a world exposition or exhibition in the 1870’s. It’s easy to imagine the treasures that might have been kept within its tiny drawers and the waterways it may have crossed.

Mariners’ Museum marketing and communications manager Jenna Dill, says the Gallery Crawl isn’t just another ordinary day (or evening, in this case) at the museum. “The Crawl gives our guests an opportunity to see more of

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our amazingly massive collection, which typically stays behind closed doors,” she says, adding that only two percent of the museum’s collections are on display on any given day.

“While in storage, our artifacts don’t get a chance to shine, a chance to tell the amazing stories they capture.” The Gallery Crawl changes all that.

Crawling allows guests to go far beyond reading labels through glass, says Dill, thanks to museum staff and volunteers. “When you have someone bringing the artifact to life, telling you all the secrets about it that resonate with you more than a few words on paper does. “The food, drink, and good company are icing on the cake,” she adds.

Even if guests have previously attended a Crawl, each year’s edition offers a new experience. “Each event is an exclusive experience that is hand-curated every year. It’s like a whole new event each year with new stories to tell and new artifacts to see, and maybe even touch,” Dill explains.

The Crawl is just another way the Mariners’ Museum makes a year-round effort to illustrate how everyone is tied to the water in one way or another.

“We desire for every guest to leave here feeling connected to water, and ultimately to each other,” Dill says.

History in extreme detail.

As my crawling experience was coming to an end, I approached one last table manned by several volunteers including the delightful Courtland Bostic. An octogenarian with an excellent sense of humor, Bostic has volunteered with the Mariners’ Museum for about a decade and says that, because the museum boasts such a terrific collection of artifacts, the Crawl is the perfect excuse to show off those historical prizes that aren’t normally on display.

“This gives us an opportunity to bring out some of the things that are a bit out of mainstream. It’s just an opportunity for people to see things they wouldn’t ordinarily see,” he says.

After a guest’s trip around the world during the Gallery Crawl is complete, or even after a simple walk through the museum during normal hours, Bostic says many visitors may head home a bit shocked. “When people leave here, they just can’t believe what they saw. They compare us to the Smithsonian in quality.”

As for this year’s event, Dill says crawlers will again receive a Port of Call card to guide them through the journey, and a Crossing the Line ceremony will replicate a first crossing of the Equator. King Neptune is scheduled to be part of the fun, too. As for the never-before-seen artifacts that will be on display, you’ll just have to crawl to find out.

Laura Boycourt is a freelance writer, mom to two little pirates, and lifelong boater from Annapolis.

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Redux , a 1939 Hacker Craft, was one of the oldest boats at the 2018 show.

Small Boats, Big Dreams Reedville hosts the best little boat show in September story by Ann Eichenmuller / photos by Eric Eichenmuller

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n an age when bigger is always better and iPhones and SUVs seem to grow larger each year, the Reedville Antique and Traditional Small Boat Show is a welcome reminder that size isn’t everything. This quaint Victorian village on Virginia’s Northern Neck is home to Reedville Fisherman’s Museum, one of the best little maritime museums on the East Coast. It seems fitting that their annual boat show is a celebration of vintage craft no longer than 25 feet.

While the event is sponsored in part by the Tidewater Antique and Classic Boat Society, organizer Clif Ames points out that a vessel does not need to be old to enter.

“Any traditionally styled boat built to a classic design is welcome, regardless of age,” he explains.

This concept opens the show to recently built replicas as well as restorations, and the result is an unexpectedly wide variety of boats for a small-town show.

There are all the usual classics—homebuilt wooden rowing skiffs, deadrise skiffs, and even the authentic remains of a Chesapeake Bay log canoe. But there is also eye-candy in the form of a stunning display of painstakingly restored speedboats.

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Several of these are tied at the Museum dock, and red seems to be the color of choice. We marvel at a 1939 Hacker named Redux, built by the oldest surviving wooden powerboat manufacturer in the United States. It is nineteen feet of glistening mahogany, powered by a four-cylinder GM 80-hp motor. Tied beside her is another colorful classic, Wecatchem. A 1948 Chris-Craft Sportsman, it is one of only 225 produced, and the only one with a factory built-in tackle box. It is only on its second owner and has been preserved in its original condition. And then there’s Buttercup, a plywood 1958 Chris-Craft Cavalier and one of the earliest production boats to combine light weight and affordability to make powerboating accessible to everyone.

The Reedville Antique and Traditional Small Boat Show draws dozens of vintage beauties like these each year from across the southeast and Mid-Atlantic region, dating in age as far back as the 1920’s. Some come by water, but most are trailered in and displayed on land, and their owners bring them regardless of the weather—a good thing on a rainy September Saturday.

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“They’re boats. They can get wet,” jokes James Ray as it starts to drizzle. He and wife Sandra are standing beside their 1959 fiberglass runabout, Ruby Slipper. Having replaced the windshield and refinished the interior, they are currently in search of a vintage Mercury short-shaft motor. Their love affair with vintage boats has become something of an all-encompassing pastime. They are also in the process of restoring a 1981 Carver Mariner.

“It isn’t something we planned on doing,” Sandra admits, laughing. “We see a boat and say, ‘Isn’t that cute?’ and before you know it….”

The one-day event isn’t just for looking—you can also get out on the water. Rides are available on both the Museum’s 1922 deck boat, Elva C and on the skipjack Claud Somers, weather permitting. Unfortunately for us, the drizzle turns to thunder and lightning as the sky darkens, so we won’t have a chance to experience one of these antique wooden workboats firsthand.

For skipjack captain Gerhard Straub, taking out visitors is the best part of the job.

“It’s so cool to keep something like this running, and to give people who may have never been on a

This artifact is a Chesapeake log canoe, a refinement of the dugout used by local Native Americans.

sailboat a chance to get out and see what it is like.”

Fortunately, the weather doesn’t deter the exhibitors, especially the costumed volunteers aboard the Spirit of 1608, a replica of John Smith’s ship perched on the Museum’s front lawn. They provide the crowd with entertaining commentary and a wealth of information about the explorer, even showing us a copy of Smith’s original chart.

“It could still be used for navigation,” one of the crew points out. “It’s no more than six miles off at any point. That’s pretty amazing if you think about it.”

Wecatchem is a beautifully maintained 1948 Chris-Craft Sportsman.

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We finish off our afternoon in Reedville under cover of the pavilion, eating oysters and sipping craft beers, followed by a stroll through the Nautical Flea Market and a last look at Wecatchem.

“It’s just so cute,” I tell my husband.

And that night, despite owning seven boats, we dream about a little red runabout.

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Going to See the World Shipping out from Baltimore in the 1950s

by Rafael Alvarez

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y father Manuel—85-years-old and long removed from the Baltimore waterfront where he earned a living for nearly half-a-century—is frying eggplant the way his mother used to do (sliced thin, light coating of flour and a hint of black pepper) on Macon Street in what is now Greektown.

We are talking about the first time he went to sea—17-years-old in the summer of 1951, between his junior and senior years at Patterson Park High School where he met my mother and is still with her almost 70 years later. I’m scribbling and he’s cooking.

“I hated the food on my first ship,” he said. “My mother was such a great cook and everything that came out of the galley tasted the same. The steward said if I didn’t like it, there was salt and pepper on the table.”

On the kitchen table in front of me (everything important in my family, from homework to “straighten up and fly right” lectures, took place at the kitchen table) is a thick and battered ledger bound in red, the first 30 pages reserved for entering telephone numbers!

Printed by the National Blank Book Company of Holyoke, Massachusetts for the 1980 calendar year, the log had been my Rolodex when I landed on The Sun City Desk, soon abandoned as too cumbersome. With most of its pages still blank, I repurposed it in 2001 for stories from every relative and family friend who had worked on ships, the foundation for a multi-generational memoir I intended to write at sea.

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When I interviewed my father for the project in May of 2001, I was five months gone from the paper after two decades of chasing crime, bluesmen, nutbags, do-gooders, rabbis, and old Polish housewives who still hosed down the street gutters of pregentrified Canton.

Ultimately, the deep-sea proposal was deep-sixed by about a dozen publishers (they wanted to know how it turned out before I’d left the pier) and I wound up as an ordinary seaman on the cable ship Global Link out of Port Covington, working to make ends meet after what many thought an ill-considered leap of faith.

Now that Dad is up in age, I dusted off the red book and sat down with him to revisit what he’d told me long ago. Two characters stand out in my notes: the man who sparked the mysteries of the sea in my Pop’s adolescent imagination and one who put the fix in to get him aboard his first ship.

The first was Henrich “Harry” Jung, a one-legged German grocer who (like Ahab but not like Ahab) lost his limb in the lines of a sailing ship, or so he told my father in the late 1940s when Dad worked for him as a 50-cents an hour stock boy.

The other was Manuel Sanchez, my grandfather’s good friend from the 800 block of Rapolla Street, a seaman from the Canary Islands who became a shipping master for Bethlehem Steel’s ore boats. A big, Anthony Quinn sort of man, Sanchez was a well-known fixer around Fells Point, Highlandtown, and Sparrows Point and once got my uncle out of a teenage scrape involving a switchblade. Adjudication somehow involved taking the arresting officer out to lunch and talking things over.

Sanchez—whose house was firebombed on Halloween night 1946 by union thugs—was known to “recruit” non-union labor (usually waterfront

habitués somewhat inebriated when the deal was made) to work on ships when anyone who could heave a line was considered qualified. For a horse-trader like Sanchez, getting my 17-year-old father on a Beth Steel ore ship was a piece of cake.

“He really bullshitted me,” laughed Dad, turning the eggplant in the skillet and laying the golden-brown ones on a plate, covering each layer with a paper towel. “He said I was going to see the world and make good money while my friends were going on hayrides.”

At the time, my father was making pocket money shining shoes (“Drunks would stumble out of the bars on Eastern Avenue and give you a quarter,” he said), delivering newspapers (the death of FDR was a lucrative ‘extra-extra, read all about it’ edition), and hearing sea stories

worthy of Conrad as he swept the floors in Mr. Jung’s grocery in the 500 block of Macon Street.

“It’s a shame when you’re young and you come into contact with real characters like Mr. Jung,” said Dad, whose duties included taking a bus to have the old sailor’s prosthesis serviced. “You’re so busy being a kid you don’t really pay attention to what you’re hearing.”

Sanchez wasn’t lying when he told Dad that he would see the world: He sailed the Atlantic and the Pacific on the same day during trips through the Panama Canal. But his ports of call weren’t the great romantic harbors of Marseille or Shanghai. Not even Gotham City.

Over the summer of ’51 (when Nat King Cole’s “Too Young”—my parents’ song—topped the charts), Dad made a pair of 30-day, 8,700-mile Baltimore-to-

Chile round trips on the S.S. Chilore, a 25,000-ton freighter launched from Sparrows Point in 1946. It replaced a much smaller Bethlehem freighter of the same name, hit by German U-Boat torpedoes on July 15, 1942 near Cape Hatteras, where she was beached.

Dad first sailed on deck as an ordinary seaman, learning the ropes before going down below as a wiper in the engine room, the hot and noisy universe that became his livelihood.

“I was a young kid on board with all these alcoholic old-timers on one the lousiest ships you could get,” he said.

“But everyone knew I was Sanchez’s boy and nobody bothered me.”

Of Cruz Grande, Chile, and life aboard the ship that took him there, my father remembers many things, the most dramatic being the ore-rich mountains rising portside.

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“Big, mechanized bins came down the mountainside loaded with ore and they emptied into chutes that loaded the ship,” he said.

On board, some of the sea dogs perfected the making of wooden bird cages—whittling, sanding, and shellacking them for South American songbirds they brought home for friends and loved ones.

Dad bought a couple of canaries (“They were yellow and they sang,” he said) from a vendor on the pier, where he also had his first taste of goat cheese (he loved it) from other dockside hucksters.

“We never went beyond the pier,” he said. “I never went into town.”

Some of the crew were surely getting away from the pier as the town of La Higuera—population today about 1,200—was only 15 miles away.

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Dad gave one of the birds to his sister Dolores, now living in Chicago at age 90, and one to his future motherin-law, Anna Potter Jones (1911 to 1996) one of those Polish women from old Canton who washed down the sidewalk in the 2700 block of Dillon Street.

In addition to his first taste of tart and creamy queso de cabra, it was also Dad’s introduction to “stone cold alcoholics,” men who exploited his naivete when their rotgut ran out and the DTs beckoned.

“All they did was drink, work, and build bird cages,” said Dad, who’d been drinking homemade vino with meals since childhood and, like many Baltimoreans, lived in a neighborhood with a bar on every corner. But he didn’t know that hardcore drunks would risk death to swig shaving lotion to keep from going into withdrawal.

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“They’d send me up to see the captain to buy shaving lotion out of the slop chest,” said Dad, referring to staples the master sold for personal profit: cigarettes, aspirin, soap, razors and aftershave, some of which contained up to 75 percent of some form of alcohol.

After the second or third visit to get more, (my father didn’t do a whole lot of shaving as a teenager and the old-timers weren’t exactly getting dolled up to go to La Higuera or, even further away, the city of La Serena,) the captain refused to unlock the slop chest and the kid from Macon Street got wised up.

“Those rummies are drinking this stuff,” the captain told Dad, who then had to go back and tell men three times his age that the tap at the barbershop had run dry.

At the end of the summer, after his two runs from Sparrows Point to the bottom of the world and back, my father was so enthused by the life of a seafarer that he told his father, who had left Spain for ships with little more than the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, that he was quitting school to sail full-time.

My grandfather, for whom I am named as my son is named for my father, forbid it, arguing that, unlike the Spain of his youth, a good education was free in the United States and a diploma was the ticket to peace in the house and success in the world.

Upon Dad’s graduation from Patterson Park the following year— with America well into the Korean War—the draft board came calling and he was able to make it into the Coast Guard. Building on what he had learned in the engine room of the Chilore, the now 18-year-old Manuel took engineman courses at a Coast Guard school in Groton, Connecticut and the direction of his career was set.

In 1958, the year I was born and the year the Chilore on which he’d sailed was mothballed, Dad earned his chief engineer’s license and enjoyed a long and prosperous career with the now-defunct Baker-Whiteley towing company, established in Pennsylvania in 1876 to haul coal.

In 1970, my family—including the man who would not hear of his son dropping out of school and the short, round Italian lady who fried the best eggplant in all of Baltimore—visited the village in Galicia, Spain from which my grandfather left to begin his life as a marinero on tramp steamers between the World Wars.

That was the year the Chilore was broken up and scrapped.

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Rafael Alvarez is the author of Basilio Boullosa Stars in the Fountain of Highlandtown, a collection of short stories of Baltimore’s ethno-urban experience. He can be reached via orlo.leini@gmail.com.

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Down Yonder in the Pawpaw Patch Where dedicated foragers search for delicious September fruit. story by Henry Hong / photos by Kristen Rath

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f you’ve ever taken a stroll through the woods, trying to catch the gurgle of a nearby river through the white noise of swaying branches and rustling leaves as a caressing breeze wafts by, and been stopped dead in your tracks by the unmistakable aroma of rotting meat, take out your phone and drop a pin on that spot because you may have just stumbled into a pawpaw orchard.

If you’ve never heard of pawpaws, it wouldn’t be a surprise. Despite repeated attempts to raise awareness of the fruit, driven mainly by a passionate subset of food obsessives that includes foragers, farmers, chefs, and occasionally writers (ahem), it remains off of mainstream radar. This is probably due to its very short harvest period, compounded by its very high perishability, which makes it impractical as market produce.

The pawpaw is notable for being the largest fruit indigenous to North America. Pawpaw trees grow wild in a very broad range, from Florida to

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Nebraska and as far north as southern Ontario. It’s also sometimes referred to as the only tropical fruit that grows in a temperate climate, but it is actually a temperate species. The confusion may stem from the etymology of the name pawpaw (or sometimes “paw-paw”), which is said to originate from the word papaya, which the fruit does resemble in shape and color—oblong, ranging from the size of a small peach up to a medium-sized mango, with smooth green or yellow skin. The ripe flesh resembles that of better-known tropical fruits, and it is soft and custardy with mild flavors that are often described as banana-like, sometimes with pineapple and even vanilla notes. Nutritionally, they are similar to bananas—rich in potassium and magnesium and providing ample food energy and protein, but not much in the way of vitamins.

Pawpaws were known to area Native American tribes, who probably spread the plant westward from its native habitat on the East Coast. They were grown by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson on their estates, and famously provided sustenance to the Lewis and Clarke expedition in the early 1800s as they pushed westward and their rations began to dwindle. As trade and technology made other actual tropical fruits that were better suited for retail sale available to the average consumer, the pawpaw waned from American attention.

There are many cultivars of pawpaw, mainly because dedicated growers have been experimenting for years to catalog and subsequently breed fruit for desirable qualities, especially ones that would enhance market viability. In Maryland there are several growers—County Pleasure Farm, in Frederick County; and Two Boots Farm and Deep Run Pawpaw Orchard (said to be the largest in the

US), in Carroll County. They sell their pawpaws at farmer’s markets and online at earthy.com. Meadowside Nature Center in Rockville hosts the annual Pawpaw Festival in the beginning of September, which is the height of the season.

I found mine growing along the Patuxent River in a secret spot that I hope no one else knows about. Did I mention that the pawpaw is sometimes called a “hipster banana”?

These wild pawpaws (cultivar unknown) were smaller, about palm-sized, and had white flesh (it can be yellow), with several characteristic large black seeds (do not eat these) running down the center. The fruit is extremely mild, really just vaguely sweet, with a hint of floral aroma that could, at a stretch, be described as vanilla-y. Texture is

somewhere between a banana and a very ripe mango, with lots of juice. For cooking purposes, these would definitely need some added sweetness and possibly acid or salt to enhance the rather meek flavor. As such, pawpaws are best suited for applications with minimal competing flavors or that make use of its texture.

Preserves are a no-brainer, but ice creams, pies (especially in a custard base), and quickbreads in place of bananas are common.

If you aim to hunt for them in the wild, note that pawpaw trees prefer shady areas along rivers. The leaves and the trees resemble the more easily identifiable Southern Magnolia, with smooth gray bark, thin main trunks that branch out close to the ground, and large simple ovate leaves.

In late spring, pawpaw trees flower in

order to pollinate and bear fruit. Its main pollinators are flies, and thus the unpleasant aroma it produces as an attractant. Another visual clue are zebra swallowtail butterflies, which use pawpaw trees as larval hosts. The fruits are found under leaf clusters, and generally ripen in September.

There are few visual cues to indicate ripeness, the best method is to find ones that are easily picked or that have already fallen to the ground. And then it’s a race to eat, cook, or freeze as much as you can until next September. h *Way Down Yonder in the Pawpaw Patch, you may know, is a traditional campfire song for kids.

Henry Hong is a restaurant industry veteran and nationally syndicated food writer.

Pawpaw Quickbread INGREDIENTS 4 cups All-purpose flour 2 cups pawpaw pulp,

seeds removed 2 cups chopped pistachios 1 cup light brown sugar 1 cup sugar 1 cup softened butter

4 1 Tbs 2 tsp 1 tsp 1 tsp ½ tsp

eggs lemon zest baking powder lemon juice vanilla extract salt

PREPARATION 1. Preheat oven to 375 2. Grease 2 9-x-4-inch loaf pans 3. Cream together butter, sugar, and eggs using a mixer or whisk 4. Fold in pawpaw pulp, vanilla extract, lemon zest, and lemon juice 5. Sift flour with baking powder and salt, and gradually add to wet ingredients 6. Stir in nuts and evenly divide batter in the two baking pans.

7. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

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Aug 26—Sept 1 National Hard Crab Derby From the Miss Crustacean Pageant to the Boat

Aug 31- Sept 1 Colonial Beach Arts and Crafts Show A boardwalk lined with crafts, vendors

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Docking Contest, this is one of the Chesapeake region’s signature

and activities, this local favorite has been happening for more

Salisbury for the second year of this festival’s three-year residency

events. Other don’t-miss features include Friday’s crab cooking

than 50 years. Colonial Beach, Va., colonialbeach.org

there. Mississippi blues, Western swing, Armenian folk dancing?

contest , Saturday’s crab-picking contest, and of course, the

They’ve got all that. Local favorites include Rare Essence from D.C.,

71st running of the crabs in the Governor’s Cup. Crisfield, Md.,

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the Maryland Archaeology Conservation Lab, housing more than

Aug 29 – Sept 2

MAC Lab Tour See behind the scenes at

eight million artifacts from all over Maryland, at the Jefferson

American Music

Festival This year’s headliners include Lee Brice and 311, at this largest outdoor musical festival on the East Coast. Five days

National Folk Festival Hundreds of musicians

from every genre and every corner of the world are headed to

Cora Harvey Armstrong from Richmond, and Baltimore’s Lafayette Gilchrist. Downtown Salisbury, Md., nationalfolkfestival.com

Patterson Park and Museum, and then hike the museum’s 560

13-15 Norfolk In-Water Boat Show The

acres along the Patuxent. St. Leonard, Md., jefpat.org

Hampton Roads area’s only major in-water boat show returns to Waterside Marina and the Waterside district in Norfolk. Featuring

of performances, including Blind Boys of Alabama, Camper Van

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Beethoven, Dashboard Confessional, and a host of others spread

your grandchildren ask you what you did in the War Against the

across parks, stages, the beach, and the boardwalk. Virginia

Snakeheads, will you be able to proudly tell them you participated

Beach, Va., beachstreetusa.com

in the 2019 Channidae Championship? Or will you meekly tell

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them “Hush, child, the frankenfish will hear you,” and go back to

Settle into local music and storytelling at the Smithsonian

cowering in your stilt house? The choice is yours, but this is the last

Environmental Research Center overlooking the Rhode River

Channidae tourney this year. Woolford, Md., woolfordstore.com

and the Bay. 11 a.m.- 9 p.m, FREE but $30 parking or take a free

Aug 31- Sept 1

Virginia Beach

Rock N’ Roll Marathon American Music Festival got you psyched up? Burn off some of the festival food and beer and catch

Blackwater Snakehead Open When

a wide variety of new and used powerboats from dealers around the region. Waterside Drive, Norfolk, Va., festevents.org

shuttle, Contees Wharf Road, Edgewater, Md. serc.si.edu

great music at the same time at the simultaneous Rock ’n’ Roll

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Marathon. Races happen all weekend, starting with a one-mile

Seafood Festival returns to Sandy Point State Park, with non-stop

boardwalk run and ending with a half-marathon on Sunday.

cooking, music, and kid’s activities. We’ll be there, for the crab

Virginia Beach, Va., runrocknroll.com

soup cook-off and the beer and oyster tastings. Sandy Point State

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Maryland Seafood Festival The Maryland

Park, Annapolis, Md., abceventsinc.com

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Taste the Beaches Festival Taste local fare, listen to music, and explore

beachfront towns at this big block party celebrating Chesapeake Beach and North Beach, with live music and a live mermaid. Chesapeake Beach, Md., facebook.com/

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American Chestnut Land Trust, but also want to drink local and

many different species you catch, as well as how big they are.

car person? Then you probably already know about this annual

regional beer. Previously, we’ve had to choose, so it’s great that

Sherwood, Md., cbf.org

event, where collectors bring their rare and vintage automobiles

Sip and Save What if you want to support the

the ACLT has this yearly opportunity to assuage both our guilt and

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tours. Prince Frederick, Md., acltweb.org

at Baltimore’s Harbor East. Trawlerfest offers seminars and a

the Student Chapter of the National Antique Automobile Club of

look at offerings for the cruising powerboater. Baltimore, Md.,

America, to raise the next generation of gearheads. We’ll be there,

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trying not to spill our cocktails on the perfect upholstery and chrome.

Native American Festival This pow-wow is

organized by the Nause Waiwash Band of Indians, made up of

Trawlerfest A big, in-water boat show

the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Musuem. This year’s beneficiary is

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, Md., smcde.org

descendants of local Nanticoke Indians, and features traditional

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dancers, singers, drumming, crafts, artists’ demonstrations,

Chesapeake Bay’s big annual party, featuring local food, beer,

29 Naturefest Get outside for a few hours in Runnymede

authentic Native food, a large silent auction and more. Vienna,

wine, live music, and a silent auction, as well as rubbing elbows

Park. Enjoy conservation and wildlife-themed stations throughout

Md., turtletracks.org/events

with the Alliance’s environmental award winners and supporting

the park, with bats, raptors, reptiles, bees, butterflies, and

their programs. 2000 Medical Parkway, Annapolis, Md.,

mammals—yourself included. Herndon, Va., herndon-va.gov

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Coastal Arts Market Handcrafted products only

at this monthly outdoor market featuring regional artists, so

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you can shop from a wide variety of locally made and home-

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grown products. Leonardtown Wharf Park, Leonardtown, Md.,

Blues, folk, and Celtic music with local and regional acts live on

start happens at 10 a.m., and advance registrants can watch in

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three stages. Free in the daytime, $10 from 6 to 9 p.m. Watermen’s

style from CBMM’s restored buyboat Winnie Estelle. Chesapeake

Museum, Yorktown, Va., visityortown.org

Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, Md., cbmm.org

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Corsica Awareness Day The Corsica River winds

through the farmland and forests of rural Queen Anne’s County and the Town of Centreville before entering the Chester River and the Chesapeake Bay. Were you aware of that? No? Then check out the water and environmental activities and exhibits at Corsica Awareness day, along with the Fishmobile, pony rides, petting zoo, Scales and Tails, and crafts for children. Corsica River Yacht Club, Centreville, Md., corsicariverconservancy.org

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Mermaid’s Kiss Oyster Fest Get your tickets now

for the 9th Mermaid’s Kiss Oyster Fest at the Baltimore Museum of Industry hosted by the Oyster Recovery Partnership in celebration of 25 years, leading the efforts to bring back the Bay’s keystone bivalve. Music, craft beers, wines, seafood, mermaids, and local shucks. Always a sell-out. mermaidskiss.org

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Rod and Reef Slam Fishing Tournament

Diversity of species is one way to judge an ecosystem’s success, which is why the Chesapeake Bay Foundation runs this tourney

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Maryland Lighthouse Challenge So you think you love lighthouses? Think you

know a lot about them? Well how many lighthouses have you seen in a weekend, huh? If you visit all 11, you can earn special souvenirs (That’s right, 11, they added one this year!) and, of course, bragging rights over your friends who don’t love lighthouses as much as you now do. There is also the option of a bonus cruise to see six more lighthouses. And two land-

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to St. Michaels and show them off at the Inn at Perry Cabin and

our thirst. Featuring live music, food, raffles, and farm and garden

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St. Michaels Concours d’Elegance Are you a

based non-mandatory bonus lighthouses! That’s 19 lighthouses! Various locations, cheslights.org

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Sturgeon Moon An ancient fish makes a comeback

by John Page Williams

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enturies ago, Indian tribes on the Great Lakes named the Sturgeon Moon for the run of lake sturgeon as summer ended. There’s no record that the Algonkian tribes of the Chesapeake named late summer’s full moon for the Atlantic sturgeon, but they certainly could have. They harvested the huge fish during the spawning runs up the Chesapeake’s big rivers in August, September, and October. They taught their netting and trapping techniques to the Jamestown colonists, and the sturgeon provided muchneeded protein to the colonists during the fall.

Over the intervening centuries, Atlantic sturgeon—generally smoked or pickled—became staple local food in the Chesapeake. On the James River, a nickname for them was Charles City Bacon, for one county where people commonly fished for them during spawning runs. Then, in the late nineteenth century, they became subjects of a regional gold rush, as watermen and their families learned to salt their eggs for caviar and ship the product to city markets by rail and steamboat.

It’s risky to base a fishery on a critter’s eggs, and doubly so for a species whose slow-growing females take fifteen-to-twenty-five years to mature and don’t necessarily spawn every year. The fishing community also didn’t learn a lesson from the fact that the average size of the fish was dropping. Predictably, the stock crashed around the turn of the twentieth century, and the fish

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became economically extinct on the Chesapeake’s rivers, with only a scant handful of fish turning up every decade, often killed by ship strikes in narrow river channels.

Virginia closed what was left of its fishery in 1972, and the Potomac River Fisheries Commission and Maryland followed suit in the early 1990s. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries closed all fishing for them in 1998. In 2012, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service declared four populations of the fish endangered—New York Bight (including the Connecticut, Hudson, and Delaware Rivers), Chesapeake Bay, Carolinas, and South Atlantic (lower South Carolina, Georgia, and Northeast Florida)—and the Gulf of Maine population threatened.

Sound like another sad fish story?

It might have seemed so, except that in the 1990s, Albert Spells, a senior U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service biologist on the James River teamed up with several other scientists and organizations to offer rewards to

watermen who brought in sturgeon alive for examination. Suddenly more fish began turning up, which has led to development of a loose teams of scientists from Virginia, Maryland, and other Atlantic states cooperating on sturgeon research with assistance from watermen who had been catching them while seeking other species.

Today, we know a lot more about the Chesapeake’s sturgeon, including the documented fact that they are reproducing naturally in at least three of our rivers, the James, the Pamunkey, and Marshyhope Creek on the northwest branch of the Eastern Shore’s Nanticoke River, with some evidence also in the Mattaponi, the Rappahannock, and the Nanticoke’s main stem in Delaware.

Tagging programs coupled with DNA

analysis from tiny fin clips over the past ten years have given us insights into these fishes’ amazing migrations up and down the Atlantic coast and their fidelity to their natal rivers. The team now knows more than a thousand sturgeon almost by name.

Dr. Matt Balazik, for example, who works out of the Virginia Commonwealth University Rice Rivers Center on the James River, has caught and tagged more than eight hundred in the past ten years, about five percent of which have been recaptured and released at least once.

Some have radio tags that register on receivers spread throughout the Bay and along the coast, so the scientists can track their movement.

Overfishing was certainly a major cause of damage to the stocks of Atlantic sturgeon throughout their

range, but dams have cut off access to spawning sites, siltation has damaged their spawning reefs and the benthic (bottom) communities on which they feed, and channel dredging has disrupted their behavior, and low dissolved oxygen on river bottoms also stresses or kills young fish. But don’t count them out yet.

Improvements in water quality, combined with protection and remarkable research attention (much of it funded by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration under the Endangered Species Act), appear to be allowing the fish to come back.

The fossil record tells us that these sturgeon have been around for 70 million years. They are remarkably resilient, if we give them a chance.

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of New York’s Long Island, was drifting squid strips for summer flounder when something powerful took his bait. After a tough fight, he netted a forty-inch, sub-adult sturgeon, which he quickly released.

Smart money would say that Long Island fish would have come from the Hudson, but, to weave in another story, the team working on the Pamunkey last October caught a large tagged female full of eggs.

According to the USFWS database, she had been caught in a research net and tagged off Long Island in 2006 as a subadult about the size of Falvey’s fish. Now, twelve years later, she had returned to her native river to spawn. Falvey’s fish could belong to any of the Atlantic populations, including the Chesapeake’s rivers.

It carried no tag, so its origin remains a mystery.

This year’s Sturgeon Moon arrived August 15, and Atlantic sturgeon are moving up Chesapeake rivers to spawn. In the upper tidal sections, you may see them breaching clear of the water in spectacular leaps. In fact, if you take a James River wildlife tour with Capt. Mike Ostrander (discoverthejames.com), you’ll have a fair chance. If you do see them, stay clear for your own safety and theirs, but savor the experience of seeing these magnificent animals in the wild.

A couple of the researchers will be posting photos of their work during the run, and Chesapeake Bay Magazine will make them available on social media. Stay tuned.

CBM Editor at Large John Page Williams is a licensed captain and Maryland fishing guide. He has been on staff at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation as an educator, writer and senior naturalist, saving the Bay since 1973.

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hesapeake seafood reigns supreme September 7 and 8 at the 52nd Maryland Seafood Festival at Sandy Point State Park. Chesapeake Bay Magazine will be there, as we were last year and years before, to slurp crab soup and render our opinion during the famous crab soup cook-off on Saturday starting at 11:30. You should be too.

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Our 2018 choice over all categories was La Prima Chef Kyle Vermeulen’s Voodoo Crab Soup, which won the alternative crab soup people’s choice award. Vermeulen’s team also crushed the vegetable crab soup competition, but we circled back for the Voodoo, again and again. Here’s the recipe:

Voodoo Crab Soup

courtesy of Chef Kyle Vermeulen, LaPrimaCatering.com

INGREDIENTS

PREPARATION

1 Medium Yellow onion 2 or 3 stalks of Celery 1 bell pepper 8 tbsp Unsalted butter ½ cup Flour 2 cloves Garlic (chopped) 2 ½ tbsp Creole spice (Tony Chachere’s or Joe’s Stuff from the New Orleans School of Cooking) 1 lb. Andouille Sausage 3 cups Clam Juice 1 ½ cups Beef Stock 1 large tomato (chopped) 1 ½ tbsp Worcestershire Sauce 2 tsp Kitchen Bouquet ½ tsp Fish Sauce Dash of Liquid Smoke 1 Bay Leaf 1 lb. Maryland Jumbo Lump Crabmeat

1. Slowly cook butter and flour together to make a dark roux.

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2. Sauté onions, celery, and peppers in butter for 5 minutes.

3. Add garlic, Cajun spice mix and andouille sausage and sauté for 10 more minutes. Set aside.

4. Whisk clam juice and beef stock into the roux until boiling and thick.

5. Add sautéed vegetable/ sausage mixture to the roux and set aside.

6. Add the remaining ingredients EXCEPT the crabmeat and cook over medium heat for 45 minutes.

7. Add the crabmeat and cook for 5 minutes.

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Redhead grasses growing tall to reach the surface of the water where they can absorb the maximum amount of sunlight for photosynthesis.

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A male blue crab swims in the redhead grasses near Swan Point in Round Bay.

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A juvenile white perch takes shelter within the redhead grasses near Swan Point in Round Bay.

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A dead oyster from Clements Creek covered in false dark mussels.

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Aerial view of grass beds near the mouth of Hopkins Creek in Round Bay.

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EQUAL BEFORE THE WIND

CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL ACCESSIBLE BOATING MAKES SAILING POSSIBLE.

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“IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOUR HANDICAP IS. YOU’RE ALL OUT THERE JUST FIGHTING WITH THE WIND AND THE CURRENT—IT’S ALL EQUAL. YOU’RE EQUAL.”

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None of which mattered to Sebastian Ploszaj of Baltimore, who didn’t know sub-prime sailing weather from Shinola. What he did know is that he had just spent the morning with his wife and two young kids racing in the 14th Recovering Warrior Sailing Regatta hosted by Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating (CRAB),

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t was not what one would consider prime sailing weather.

The breeze off Sandy Point in the mid-Chesapeake Bay was fickle and light. The current, as always in this particular piece of water by the Bay Bridge, was determined. The sky was overcast, the seas lumpy as day-old gravy.

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and he’d had so much fun at the helm that he was already signing up for a sailing class to learn more and thinking about how he would buy his own boat.

“I loved it. It actually gave me boat fever,” said Ploszaj, who was wounded twice during two tours in Iraq and has since retired from the Marine Corps. “I liked the racing, the atmosphere. The water makes me feel relaxed. What I like is, nowadays, everybody’s into technology. This brings you back to the basics, the essentials, sailing a boat with just the wind.”

His sentiments echoed those of Jay Streit of Severn, Md., a former Navy search-and-rescue expert and rescue swimmer who was injured in a helicopter crash during training in Nevada, and who started sailing with CRAB in 2017.

“The thing about sailing is, it doesn’t matter what your handicap is,” says Streit who, with his girlfriend, Dee Perry, a month-and-a-half later would win the 2019 Don Backe Memorial Regatta, one of CRAB’s premiere events, held out of Annapolis Yacht Club. “You’re all out there just fighting with the wind and the current—it’s all equal. You’re equal.”

Since its founding 28 years ago, this has been a core concept for CRAB, which in the past four years has experienced exponential growth and is now poised to achieve a major, previously unimaginable goal—an Adaptive Boating Center in the heart of Annapolis. During 2018’s six-month sailing season, CRAB’s volunteer skippers, crew, and landside helpers hosted 747 individual guests in over 45 events (a total of 2,535 volunteer hours), sailing in its fleet of six

Beneteau First 22As—boats designed for mobility-impaired sailors. Some 439 sponsors and donors helped support a range of programs, including Family Sail Sundays, when people with disabilities and their families can sail together for free; group sails for organizations such as the Maryland School for the Blind, and Baywoods Assisted Living; sailing camps for kids from underserved neighborhoods, run in collaboration with local police departments; regattas, and sailing clinics.

It is a gigantic amount of logistics, organization, and execution carried out from mid-April through October, all accomplished with two fulltime staff members, three part-time fleet directors, one summer intern, and a devoted corps of about 95 volunteers (as of 2018), many of whom have gone through a rigorous training process to become eligible to skipper or crew a

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Well known in the sailing community, Backe’s blend of gentle humor and unwavering determination earned him and his cause steady support and wide admiration, although despite his indefatigable efforts, CRAB often hung by a shoestring.

“Don was a fantastic big-picture guy and a dreamer,” says Lance Hinrichs, a lifelong sailor, former president of CRAB’s board, and a quadriplegic who has been in a wheelchair since 1982. “If you think about the idea of, ‘I’m going to start a handicapped sailing program, and it’s going to be a self-sustaining entity,’ that’s not really a realistic or rational thought, but despite it all, he did it.

Damn the torpedoes, full speed

LEFT: CRAB has developed accommodations for disabled sailors to make great things possible.

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help you onto that equal ground—or in this case, water—is powerful, life-affirming stuff.

The late Don Backe, who was paralyzed after a car wreck in 1987, knew this. A lifelong teacher and

sailor, he founded CRAB in 1991, and with a fleet of four Catalina Freedom Independence 20s—boats designed

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ahead. That didn’t make him a great administrator, though, and we were constantly struggling to pay the bills and keep the place going.”

When Backe’s health began to fail and he could no longer run the programs, the board sought an executive director who could take over CRAB’s operations. Eventually the board, now under the leadership of Brad LaTour, asked member Paul “Bo” Bollinger to step into the executive director’s role in 2016. A lifelong boater, Bollinger’s career included 16 years working for aviation professional and trade associations such as the American Association of Airport Executives, the Airport’s Council International, and the Air Traffic Control Association.

“One of our biggest accomplishments that I believe has fueled much of our growth is transitioning from a board-run organization to a staff-run organization,” says LaTour, an outgoing and dynamic entrepreneur who learned about CRAB in 2003 after a good friend was paralyzed in an accident. “It wasn’t always easy, but when you’re lucky enough to attract the leadership talent like we have in Paul Bollinger, you must seize the opportunity.”

As a force for CRAB, Bollinger is as determined as Backe was. Almost evangelical in his support for CRAB’s mission, he and the board have worked steadily to raise the bar, offer more programs, bring in more guests, and attract more donors and supporters. In 2017, CRAB replaced its fleet of four 30-year-old Freedom 20s with six new Beneteau First 22As (A for adaptive), accomplishing this feat with the help of Annapolis Yacht Sails and Beneteau, which donated the first two boats and sold the remaining four at cost. The Kagan Family Foundation funded the purchase of two boats, the Morris family funded a third in memoriam of their husband and

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Behind the scenes but no less important, the organization professionalized the training process for skippers, requiring a background check, developing a Volunteer Operations and Training Manual, and adding an apprenticeship period before skippers can take guests out sailing. The group published its first professional annual report in 2017 and worked to steadily climb the ranks in the international nonprofit ratings organization GuideStar, earning the top platinum status within three years, by 2018.

“Our growth over the past few years has been nothing short of energizing,” says LaTour. “I often share with my team that CRAB is a 28-year overnight success story. When I was elected president in 2017, my goal was to double the revenue within the next two years, not knowing how at that point, but convinced by CRAB’s legacy and the pureness of our work. That provided the confidence, and I knew we could grind through the rest, which resulted in achieving that goal in just the first year—including our first-ever successful bond bill campaign. That success really opened our eyes to what often leads to great results—thinking, ‘Why not CRAB?’ ’’ But growing pains always accompany growth, and CRAB has been no exception. Dock space at Sandy Point is limited, restricting the number and types of boats CRAB can have. More problematic is that as one of the state’s most popular parks, it’s not uncommon for Sandy Point to fill up and close early on summer days, barring access to CRAB clients. The Adaptive Boating Center, once an unthinkable dream, began to become a pressing reality.

“Bo was the one who latched on to it and said, ‘This is what we gotta do,’’’ Hinrichs says. “I think he came

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Don Backe, who passed away in 2013,” Bollinger says. “We hope to make it a reality not only for Don, but for the thousands of people with disabilities who will benefit from this premier facility and the new boating programs we will be able to offer.”

For volunteer skipper Ange Brock, the boating center will be a jewel in the crown of the sailing community in Annapolis and the larger Chesapeake region. An investment banker whose brother has special needs, Brock knew about CRAB for some time and began volunteering in 2017. By 2018, she was the group’s top skipper in terms of volunteer hours on the water. She likes the organization’s disciplined, professional approach. And she, like so many people associated with CRAB, believes deeply in its mission.

“It’s important to me to raise awareness that everyone has an ability, and I want to highlight people’s abilities over their disabilities,” Brock says. “This gives opportunities to a community that’s often ignored to enjoy the wonder and freedom of sailing. And I get to come down here, turn off the phone, and come to the water where everyone is friendly . . . You can’t have a sailing ego out here, because everybody is a volunteer and is out here for a heartfelt reason as opposed to a professional reason.”

Maude Laurence, who was CRAB’s top volunteer crew in 2018, learned about the group through her husband David, a sailor who was wheelchairbound after a suffering an aneurysm.

“When you’re in a wheelchair your world gets very limited,” Laurence says.

“When I first heard about this, I thought, ‘How are they going to do this?

I can barely get him into the bathroom!’

He was 6 foot 4, and they got him on a transfer platform and slid him right over to the boat, it was amazing. It lit everybody up. It was truly amazing.”

Two weeks after that first exhilarating sail, David died, and Laurence turned to CRAB. “I went from being a fulltime caregiver to being not a fulltime caregiver. It felt like a good thing for me to be able to do something, and frankly it’s been helpful in my healing,” she says. “It puts me on the water and lets me help people, I just consider that a joy. I’ve made a lot of friends at CRAB, and I get joy out of seeing a lot of the same faces over and over. You get to know them. It’s like coming home.”

Bollinger says that CRAB now has more skippers and crew that it ever has before.

“The youngest volunteer skipper is a former Yale women’s sailing team member, and we have skippers in their 60s who have retired or sold their boats and still want to sail with people who greatly appreciate their devotion to teaching people with disabilities how to sail,” he says. “We even have a skipjack captain from the Eastern Shore, and many more with a variety of backgrounds.”

Hinrichs believes that the empowering nature of what happens at CRAB—for the guests and volunteers alike—has helped it survive, grow, and thrive. It’s something that Don Backe knew in his heart from the beginning.

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Nick Carter makes his stand next to a willow oak on his property in Greensboro, Md.

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Walking with Nick Carter through his thirty-three acres of greenwood boughs and shimmering leaves, a bog fed by a vernal spring, all set on the upper reaches of the Choptank River, is to experience a burgeoning forest through the eyes of its steward. One who also happens to be a legendary naturalist, a champion for the Bay, salty to the bone, irreverent, funny, and always unflinchingly honest.

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t is early summer, and Nick Carter leads the way, clearly happy in his element—shin-deep in the muck, walking stick for balance. The lush canopy sways with the wind, and streaks of sunlight flare through the hardwoods and pine, brightening the skunk cabbage and sphagnum moss that thrive in the damp leaf duff. He is naming the plants, pointing out rattlesnake plantain orchids growing wild just off the footpath and describing the patch of pink lady’s slipper up the way. He is a human encyclopedia, not just on the inhabitants of this natural world, but on how the ecosphere works together as a sustaining system, how it breaks itself down, re-nurtures itself, and becomes more diverse and richer over time. He is fascinated with the mechanisms of natural recycling and hydrologic systems—how a brush pile filters rainwater, forcing it to slow down and disperse; how an engraver beetle creates an artistic pattern on a dead cedar tree, gradually turning it to compost; and how the soft forest floor acts like a giant sponge, capturing surface water and nutrients, filtering them, and enabling life to prosper.

Carter and his wife Margaret bought their property in 1966. He’s shown me photos.

Originally it was a somewhat bare-bones farmhouse surrounded by poor, sandy soil, unfit for tillage.

“It was only being farmed for the subsidy,” he tells me.

He points to a rotting stump: “There was hardly a tree on the front half of the property. But the single red maple that stood right here spawned hundreds more.”

Looking around, he huffs in satisfaction.

“Margaret and I agreed to let the land turn natural. We both knew that forest is the best land use for the Bay. That was 53 years ago. So, we terminated the farming agreement. First, the weeds started coming back—trumpet vine, broom sedge—then we started to get some little pine trees. It took fifteen years for the hardwoods to get a footing. Southern red oak and willow oak came first, ’cause they have the smallest acorns, and the squirrels and birds often misplace or lose them. Then came the sweetgum, white oak, maples.”

Carter has a deep, throaty voice, but within the intimacy of his woods he seems to speak in a reverential whisper.

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“There was a ditch running through the property and I blocked it with some stumps, and when it’s wet, we have this thriving bog. And on the property downgradient from us, there is Rosemary’s spring, where the groundwater absorbed by and through our restored forest, bubbles out cool and clear…”

My wife loves the rain,” he says. “Margaret relishes when this dry, droughty soil is wet and all the plants flourish.” He plucks a damp, elongated leaf from a plant and shows it to me.

“This is called a New York fern,” he says, a mischievous glint in his eye. “They say it’s called that because it’s pointed at both ends, like a New Yorker’s head.”

It was 1965, a year before they bought their farm, when he began working at the Maryland Department of Game and Inland Fish, which soon after became the Department of Natural Resources. Growing up near Norfolk, Nick had obtained a biology degree from Old Dominion and a master’s in fish ecology from the University of Washington and began to put these to work. For thirty-five years he served the state.

Shortly before his retirement in 2000, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources named its library after him: the W.R. “Nick” Carter III Library.

During his career, Carter played an increasingly influential role in key policy issues, relying on science to advocate for what he describes as “the silent voices out there, the rivers, the ecosystem.” When the Conowingo Dam expanded its use of hydropower generation and shad and herring were suffocating by the thousands, he found a solution. When it became apparent that the state intended to heavily increase its dredging to deepen the Bay’s shipping channel to better compete against Norfolk, he helped craft a balanced approach for the rehabilitation of Poplar Island—using the millions of cubic yards of dredge material and creating what is now over 1,000 acres of low marsh, high marsh, and upland habitat. Carter annually conducted fish surveys using seine and gill nets, weirs he constructed, and other methods, and he can argue convincingly that the Choptank River is the most important striped bass spawning ground on the Atlantic Coast.

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Pink lady’s slipper blooms on the forest floor on the Carter property.

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Over time, as he describes it, he became the person at DNR who wrote the fisheries agency’s comments on permit applications.

“Whenever there was a proposed development that would modify the aquatic environment,” he explains, “I became the one to provide the comments. It was very broadening work and went on for two decades. I had to deal with US Department of Agriculture, the state and federal highway commissions, the US Army Corps of more battles than i won. Engineers, private but we won quite a few. developers, you name it. I was privileged to be the advocate, the voice for the land and the water. I owe a great debt to my scientist friends and colleagues all over the region who would help me prepare the data and the science to support my positions. I lost more battles than I won. But we won quite a few. And

moved the needle on many others. Though after a while, I must say, when they’d hold a meeting on a project it got to be like, “Oh shit, here comes Nick again with the bad news…”

Still, he was always able to buffer his stewardship with a sense of humor. When the nutria, a South American pest similar to a beaver, began to threaten our marshes, he held nutria barbeques. He also became known for spicing up pot-luck dinners with marinated possum and racoon ready for the grill.

Throughout his career, Carter has loved to teach. High school and college students routinely spend a day with Nick walking his land or exploring the creeks and rushes of the Choptank aboard his skiff. He works with educational programs at Salisbury University, ShoreRivers, Adkins Arboretum, Gunston School, the Master Naturalist Program (administered by DNR), and many others. He has invented or salvaged an array of teaching props, including a way to measure and feel the pincher strength of a blue

Carter leads the way through a bog that helps filter water.

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Maybe you’ve heard of my campaign to reduce overpopulation? Condoms for a Cleaner Chesapeake?” Nick reached into his pocket, smiling, and pulled one out. The package read “Save the Bay.”

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been very lucky in my life,” Carter “I’ve ruminates. “Been able in my work, and in

he first time I met Nick was in 2008. That September he offered to show me how to harvest the wild rice that grows in Watts Creek, a tributary of the upper river. As we paddled along that day, he pointed out the plants that filled the wetlands: yellow spatterdock lily, cardinal flower, and orange jewel weed, a favorite of hummingbirds and an antidote for poison ivy, he explained. As kingfishers and wood ducks outraced us, he began lamenting over how much of the forests on the surrounding land had been removed. “What you see from the water,” he pronounced, sweeping his arm across the landscape, “is an illusion.

From the river, the woodlands appear thick along the shore, but the trees only exist on the very thin edge of these farms. Less woods and more farmland translates into more nutrients washing into our rivers. More pollution.”

He nodded forward as he poled the boat.

Ahead, the willowy rice stalks glistened like green lace in the morning. “Population drives environmental degradation,” he continued. “We cut the forests to create more and more food.

An eastern fence lizard, one of dozens of reptiles and amphibians on Carter’s property, rests on a fallen tree.

my whole life, to follow and put into practice my beliefs.“ We sit after our walk, sharing tea in the natural garden outside their renovated farmhouse. “The kids grew up here. My daughter named it Druid Hall, after she learned that Druids were the priests of the earth. And Margaret did all this,” he motions around. “Look at all these beautiful pollinators she planted—that field of asters, those coreopsis, these waves of milkweed for the monarchs. You know it can take up to 1,000 years to create one inch of topsoil. Nature takes her time. It will take another 250 years for all this to turn into an old growth forest. Right now, we have over 200 species of plants, 80 species of birds, over 25 different mammals and 25 reptiles and amphibians that inhabit our property. And as it matures, it will only become more diverse. We’re hoping to find the right people to turn this over to, who will protect it and allow it to continue to unfold as it remakes itself over and over. We will all be needing more old growth forests.” KKK September 2019

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crab’s claw. When a right whale washed up on shore years ago, he salvaged its vertebrae using a chain saw. The bleached remains adorn his farm as sculpture to this day. Carter’s guided ecology trips on the upper rivers, infused with his mirth and vast knowledge, have become sought-after. At the non-profit ShoreRivers’ film festival last year, a half-day river trip guided by Nick Carter sold at silent auction for $2,000.

When the second-place finisher learned he hadn’t gotten it, he asked Nick if he could purchase a second trip.

In 2015, Bay naturalist and writer Tom Horton and photographer Dave Harp published Choptank Odyssey, a masterful book of essays and photographs of the Choptank River. The initial essay, describing the headwaters of the river, is all about Nick and Margaret’s property.

The first sentence reads: “If I were the Choptank River, it’s on Nick and Margaret Carter’s place I’d want to be born….” Horton and Harp went further, and chose to dedicate the book to “ W.R. Nick Carter III, scientist, educator, poet, steward—a clear and persistent voice for the Choptank River.”

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Looking out to 2050, Carter is concerned. “One aspect of public policy I’ve observed,” he says, “and it’s pretty near a law, is that as more development lurches forward, government will be forced to ratchet down environmental controls to accommodate it. And more people will require more development. I don’t like being regulated any more than the next fella. I want to pee off my porch if I feel like it. Run naked through the woods if I choose. But these natural systems need protection. Need regulation. And when you interface population growth with increasing climate change, more extreme storm events, more and fiercer runoff—well, these forests, these natural systems become more important than ever.

They serve as essential buffers, sanctuaries that can help balance adverse forces produced by harmful environmental changes.”

Nick is a fan of the naturalist writer Aldo Leopold, and particularly fond of an essay in Leopold’s Sand County Almanac, titled “Odyssey.” It tracks an atom, X, through geologic time. Initially buried in rock in the Paleozoic, X is eventually sucked into a root that’s found a crack in the rock. The root is eaten by a mouse, the mouse taken by a hawk, and X is transformed and reincarnated thousands of times through the ages as it is recycled as part of a continuum in a natural system. “It is really so simple,” Nick tells me. “To let nature mostly alone, do nothing as much as we can, let it thrive, and when we have to modify it, do it wisely; take the long-term view, knowing that we are, in the end, wholly dependent on a naturally functioning nature. It is not a concept that comes easily to folks. Few people seem to understand it, though it is essential if we are to survive. If more people could just grasp it and embrace it in their lives and in our policies, I’d have real hope.”

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he War of 1812’s Chesapeake Campaign is remembered for its tragedies (the burning of the Nation’s Capital), its triumphs (the defense of Fort McHenry) and its musical legacy (the Star-Spangled Banner). It’s also memorialized by stories of Davidesque defiance against that military Goliath, Great Britain.

Some of those stories might even be true.

In St. Michaels, for instance, legend famously has it that enemy warships overshot the town after citizens hung lanterns in trees. In Urbanna, townspeople supposedly disguised their defenselessness by fashioning a faux fort. Likewise it’s said in Worcester County that locals shouldered cornstalks and marched by firelight, their silhouettes simulating weaponry they didn’t possess.

But just how stupid were these Brits? Did the leaders of His Majesty’s forces really have clotted cream for brains?

Scott Sheads, a retired National Park Service ranger, has studied the War of 1812, written books about it and helped to develop the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail. He offers an obvious answer. “They’re the enemy. The enemy is always stupid,” says the author-lecturer, breaking into one of his I-love-this-stuff laughs. He’s in his element, the research library at Fort McHenry National Monument, the park where he worked for nearly 40 years and where he still volunteers. A devoted

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history sleuth, he’ll happily lose himself in the pages of a digitally archived old newspaper (“I have no social life,” he jokes) or tramp a weed-choked 19th-century battlefield.

In researching potential Star-Spangled Banner Trail waypoints, he and fellow historian Ralph Eshelman spent five years visiting more than 1,200 sites around Chesapeake Bay. “Graveyards, churches, homes, sunken vessels—anything to do with dead people we were after,” Sheads says.

They examined military documents, diaries and newspaper accounts, American and British, relating to the war.

Afterwards, they incorporated their field and scholarly research into a layman’s guide to historic sites. Published in 2010, The War of 1812 in the Chesapeake, co-written with historian Donald Hickey, features concise, illustrated accounts designed to expand the public’s limited perception of the war, Sheads says.

“Fort McHenry and the bombardment and Dolley Madison. That’s it. That’s people’s memory of what the War of 1812 was about,” he says. “Our idea was to introduce new characters to the story besides Francis Scott Key.” In researching the guide, Sheads and Eshelman unearthed dozens of stories, not all of them readily provable. So they wrote another book, Chesapeake Legends and Lore from the War of 1812, which tries to sort fact from fancy. “History is sometimes derived from fabricated stories that have become so ingrained in our traditions that they have become ‘fact,’” they write in the book’s foreword.

Sheads calls the War of 1812 “probably the most important event that ever happened in Chesapeake Bay. There were a lot of these legends going around. I’d hear a lot of them here [at Fort McHenry].”

Family stories invariably star one of the teller’s relatives. “Everybody wants a piece of the action,” Sheads says. “It’s human nature.”

An elderly woman once brought her grandchildren to Fort McHenry and asked Sheads to verify family lore: that on the night of the fort’s infamous bombardment the children’s great-greatgrandfather grabbed the flagpole after it was struck by cannon fire. Sheads echoes the family narrative: “And he wrapped his burly arms around that flagpole and held it so Key could write the National Anthem!” Sheads laughs so hard his chair tilts. He says he politely debunked the story, offered the kids a more fact-based account of the battle and managed to assuage grandma too. “She was quite gracious about it.”

Occasionally, historical truthfulness lands him in hot water. Sheads once appeared in a History Channel documentary and discussed the death of British General Robert Ross, shot during the Battle of Baltimore in September 1814. Resentful Baltimoreans confronted him about his unforgiveable omission: He didn’t mention Baltimore’s boy heroes, Daniel Wells and Henry McComas, the young sharpshooters generally credited with the deed.

“Most likely, yes, those two young boys were the ones who shot him,” he says. “But I can’t prove it.”

Sheads believes residents got mad because they relate so closely to the story. “That happened in their neighborhood,” he says. “Wells and McComus—they’re [considered] the heroes of the Battle of Baltimore.” True story: Sheads once helped a little boy raise Fort McHenry’s flag only to learn afterwards the lad was General Ross’s great-great-great grandson.

Sheads and Eshelman investigated more than 50 folktales for Legends and Lore. Not all were included. We’ve assembled our own war stories of the we-outwitted-the-British variety. We’ve rated them on our own War of 1812 truth scale ranging from bombs bursting in air to four bright stars.

Where historic sites or evidence remain, we list local resources.

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The Lanterns Ruse

COMMUNITY CUNNING The Lanterns Ruse—St. Michaels, Md. LEGEND: As the oft-told story goes, this Eastern Shore town spectacularly pranked the British during the Battle of St. Michaels. Using the pre-dawn hours as cover, Brits attacked the shipbuilding port Aug. 10, 1813. They first disabled a gun battery guarding the harbor and then returned to their ships to fire in darkness on the village. Legend takes over here.

Warned of the enemy’s plans, town fathers decided that what they lacked in cannons they’d make up for with cunning.

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duped the British into aiming their guns too high. Attackers withdraw. Town saved. Future tourism slogan born: “The Town That Fooled the British.”

Our Truth Score:

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FOLKLORE FORENSICS: “A fairly easy one to do,”

Sheads says of his investigation. “I went to the newspapers first.” He says he found nada—until 1886. That year the

Baltimore American published an interview with an 86-yearold man who said he was present (at age 13) when the lanterns were allegedly hung. Newspapers celebrating the battle’s centennial perpetuated his tale, which historians gradually debunked. Military accounts proved dawn had arrived by the time of the cannonade, making the target visible. Nor did the town have time to prepare. “Myth,” Sheads and Eshelman declare of this beloved story in Legends and Lore—adding, “which may not be such a bad thing.”

OH, SAY YOU CAN SEE: Proof of some British

competence? The Cannon Ball House, struck that day by a ball that crashed the attic and bounced down the stairs. It’s a private residence, but the town is awash in accessible 1812-era history, told especially well at St. Michaels Museum and Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.

IMPROVISED WEAPONRY Pine Tree Catapult—Calvert County, Md. LEGEND: British forces roved the Patuxent River in 1814,

chasing Commodore Joshua Barney’s barge flotilla while plundering towns, warehouses and plantations. Among their targets was Abington Manor, a plantation on the upper Patuxent’s eastern shore whose mansion was set ablaze August 22. The house was largely spared when a heavy rainstorm and servants doused the flames, but Maryland militiamen sought revenge. They reportedly sank two British barges with an unusual bluff-top bombardment. Using pine saplings as a makeshift catapult, “they rained flaming bales of wool, soaked in tar” on the enemy vessels, whose commander ordered his remaining ships scuttled, according to one later account.

The Faked Fort­— Urbanna, Va.

Our Truth Score:

LEGEND: With enemy ships menacing towns along the

FOLKLORE FORENSICS: Eshelman and Sheads found

Rappahannock River, Urbanna residents were getting nervous. They had neither the weapons nor manpower to engage the invaders. What to do? Folklore says they decided to build a “fort,” an earthen wall hastily erected on a hilltop overlooking the entrance to Urbanna Creek. To make their creation plausibly fort-like and menacing, they added cannons—phony ones. “They took wagon wheels, placing them in position, and mounted tree trunks in between pointing out of the creek,” according to one written account.

“Fort Nonsense” was ready for war. But which war? Some accounts claim the fort duped the British in 1814; others say Union gunboats in the Civil War.

Our Truth Score: FOLKLORE FORENSICS: In Signatures in Time: A

History of Middlesex County, historian and Urbanna native Larry Chowning writes that Fort Nonsense appeared in 1814 in response to British attacks along the river. Ironically, the primary source for the alternative version is a distant relative of his, he says. “Other books cite a similar Civil War story and attribute [it] to Edmonia Palmer, who was my greatgrandfather’s sister. I never knew her, but from what I’ve heard I can’t imagine she would make it up.”

OH, SAY YOU CAN SEE: An early 20th-century house known as Fort Nonsense stands on the site of its Urbanna namesake. (Not to be confused with Fort Nonsense Historical Park in nearby Mathews County, which includes the remains of a once-functional Civil War earthwork, built with slave labor.)

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no contemporary catapult story and believe this may be a fanciful depiction of two different events in which the house was burned but no skirmishing British barges were lost. “An interesting story that must be considered a myth,” they conclude. Plus, ponder the mechanics of flinging large flaming objects from pint-sized evergreens. Pull back sapling.

Load and ignite bale. Watch it incinerate catapult and/or operators instead.

OH, SAY YOU CAN SEE: Abington Manor is gone; only a namesake road remains. For fact-based war accounts see “Farmers, Patriots and Traitors: Southern Maryland and the War of 1812,” an exhibit at Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum in St. Leonard.

Faux Guns—Maryland’s Eastern Shore LEGENDS: Legends and Lore cites several stories in which crafty locals repurposed ordinary objects to mimic muskets, hoodwinking the enemy. The most documentable tale allegedly occurred in the wee hours of May 19, 1814, along the Big Annemessex River in Somerset County. A militia captain ordered local men to patrol the shoreline with sticks on their shoulders while he dispatched ships to repel a British raiding party. (The authors recount a similar, undated and undocumented tale in Worcester County near Chincoteague Bay in which the phony army, its leader on horseback, used cornstalk “guns” and trooped around a campfire.)

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FOLKLORE FORENSICS: Eshelman and Sheads say the Somerset County ruse, while unproven, is at least credible because a local newspaper documented the incident within days of its supposed occurrence.

OH, SAY YOU CAN SEE: Worcester County’s notable

contribution to the war was naval hero Stephen Decatur, born in Sinepuxent near Berlin. His birthplace no longer stands, but the U.S. Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis holds Decatur artifacts.

Bee Bombs—Mathews County, Va., et al LEGEND: The Jan. 11, 1898, edition of the Baltimore Sun

contained a third-hand account of a painful prank played on British sailors aboard a gunboat off Mathews County during the war. A local boy found an inhabited wasps’ nest, which he sealed by plugging its entry with mud. Shown the boy’s prize, the sailors asked what it was. A nest of hummingbirds, he explained, can’t your hear them? He gave them the buzzing nest and left. “The British took out the mud plug and at once the escaping wasps ‘proceeded to business,’” the Sun reported. “They never stopped their work until they had made everyone of the British sailors jump into the water to escape.”

Our Truth Score: FOLKLORE FORENSICS: The Sun article cited an

unnamed source in Crisfield. Newspapers often reprinted stories that appeared in other papers, says Sheads, who found detailed accounts of Chesapeake war encounters in New England newspapers, for instance. He and Eshelman traced

this tale to the father of a Crisfield customs collector. They also found variations of it, involving hornets’ nests, set in Lower Marlboro, Md., and during the Battle of Baltimore.

Does a swarm of p-o’d bee stories lend them credence?

Sheads thinks yes.

OH, SAY YOU CAN SEE: The large, sphere-shaped

paper bees’ nests found in the Chesapeake are made by either baldfaced hornets (a large wasp) or aerial-nesting yellowjackets (medium to large wasps). We advise against making bee bombs with either.

HOMETOWN HEROES & HEROINES John & Matilda O’Neill—Havre de Grace, Md. LEGEND: When British forces attacked Havre de Grace on May 3, 1813, most local militiamen took to the woods. Except for one. Lt. John O’Neill single-handed a cannon at the so-called Potato Battery on Concord Point until the weapon recoiled and smashed his leg. Undeterred, he limped into town, wielded a musket and continued to resist until taken prisoner. The legend’s denouement has O’Neill’s teenage daughter rowing out to Rear Admiral George Cockburn’s frigate to successfully plead for her father’s release. For her bravery, the admiral gave Matilda O’Neill his gold-mounted, tortoiseshell snuffbox.

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Our Truth Score: FOLKLORE FORENSICS: Lieutenant O’Neill’s heroics are well documented, and Havre de Grace demonstrated its undying gratitude by naming him the first keeper of Concord Point Lighthouse. Matilda’s role is murkier. Dad never specifically mentions her in recounting his release. In Legends and Lore, Eshelman and Sheads say documents indicate town magistrates petitioned to free POW O’Neill, although Matilda may have made a personal appeal to Cockburn, too. The authors also conclude from examining it that the admiral’s “snuffbox” is curiously free of tobacco stains or odor, meaning it was probably a decorative trinket.

OH, SAY YOU CAN SEE: In Havre de Grace, a circa

1812 cannon stands where O’Neill manned the Concord Point battery, and a plaque on Union Avenue marks the site of Matilda’s home. In Baltimore, the Maryland Historical Society has both the chivalrous Cockburn’s tortoiseshell box and an ornate sword presented to John O’Neill by admiring Philadelphians in 1813.

Kitty Knight—Georgetown, Md. LEGEND: When the British burned the twin Sassafras River

villages of Fredericktown and Georgetown on May 28, 1813, one woman is credited with preventing Georgetown’s complete devastation. Catherine “Kitty” Knight reportedly defied His Majesty’s forces when—having destroyed nearly everything else—they set fire to an elderly woman’s house and another next door. It’s said Knight pleaded successfully with Admiral Cockburn to spare the dwellings, even stomping out the flames herself. A more embellished version has Knight declaring, “If you burn this house, you burn me with it.”

Our Truth Score: FOLKLORE FORENSICS: Historians cite oral

remembrances by participants, but the most eloquent testimony to Knight’s actions was published upon her death in 1855. Her obituary in the Cecil Whig states: “Her appeal so moved [Cockburn] that he ordered the troops to their barges and left unburned a church and several houses standing at Georgetown.” The never-married Knight is buried with other members of her prominent family in Old Bohemia Churchyard, Warwick. Her tombstone honors “a maiden fair with courage bold.”

OH, SAY YOU CAN SEE:

Knight later purchased one of the houses she saved. Today, the Kitty Knight House survives as an inn and tavern whose owner rescued and restored the hilltop structure, which incorporates both Kitty-spared houses.

As Sheads sees it, history is composed of actual events as well as the stories we tell.

“These legends, whether they’re true or not— and there’s some truth to them—they are part of the story,” he says. “That’s why we remember them today.”

The Chesapeake’s War of 1812 legacy should include more than a lawyer-turned- anthem-writer and a First Lady who rescued a priceless portrait, he argues.

Residents of places other than Baltimore and Washington need ownership of their stories, too, he says. “That’s all people want in life; let me be a part of something.”

And what of the blundering British? Well, think of the story General Ross’s great-great-grandson can tell his kids: I raised that flag my forefather fought to capture. h

Maryland native and award-winning contributor Marty LeGrand writes about nature, the environment and Chesapeake history.

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Shortcuts T How to Buckle Your Swash

by Capt. Jody Argo Schroath

his is a piece about shortcuts that you can take, under the right circumstances, while boating on the Chesapeake.

I am crazy about shortcuts and will sometimes go miles out of my way just to use one—the Daugherty Canal for example. But more on that later. Some people drive miles out of their way to visit teepee-shaped motels or Sinclair Oil stations shaped like dinosaurs. My taste just runs to shortcuts, which I feel at least serve some purpose. My two-part definition of a shortcut is a route that saves time and distance, but also includes an element of uncertainty. That is, you might or might not make it through. It’s a bit of a gamble, see. Sound like fun? Read on.

THE “PIECE OF CAKE” SHORTCUTS shoaling, as the current pushes sand Let’s start with a couple of pretty easy shortcuts that nearly all of you already know. This is also where I lull you into a false sense of security.

Kent Narrows See? You know this one and have very likely already used it. This shortcut makes it easy to get from Eastern Bay to the Chester River, saving a whopping 20 miles. This route also includes a treasure trove of restaurants, marinas and dock bars. The channel itself is straight-forward and well-marked.

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and silt around like an underwater bulldozer. Shoaling usually begins around the upriver-side green markers. The good news is that the Army Corps of Engineers does its own bulldozing every few years, usually before the shoaling gets too bad. This was last done in the fall of 2018.

There are two bridges, one is fixed at 65 feet and the second is a bascule with a closed clearance of 18 feet. During the season, the bridge will open on the hour and half-hour.

Finally, the red-green nav aids change sides at the bascule bridge.

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Here’s another well-known mid-Bay cut-through, this one between the Bay and the Choptank River. Cruisers coming from the south are more likely to use the river’s entrance, but those traveling down from Annapolis, Baltimore, Rock Hall and points north, as well as those crossing from Herring Bay benefit from this shortcut. This route is so well used, in fact, that the Knapps Narrows bascule bridge with a 12-foot vertical clearance is said to be the busiest drawbridge in the nation, with an average of 10 thousand openings a year, or nearly 30 a day. The bridge opens on demand.

The Narrows saves a modest six miles if you’re headed upriver to Oxford or Cambridge, more if you are going up to Dunn Cove for the night. But it also allows boaters to avoid the current and chop that often make the river entrance a contest of wills.

Like Kent Narrows, Knapps offers restaurants and marinas along the passage. And like Kent, the Knapps channel is vulnerable to shoaling, especially on the Bay side. The good news is that Knapps was dredged in the spring of 2018, so for 2019 and 2020 boats up to six feet draft should be fine.

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THE “INTERESTING” SHORTCUTS We now arrive at the flip-a-coin category of shortcuts. My favorites! In other words, you might make it; you might not. Assuming you can follow a channel like it’s your job, your success now depends almost entirely on depth. And depth, like Caesar’s Gaul, is divided into three parts: how much your boat draws, where you are in the tide cycle, and whether the wind has been blowing water into or out of your shortcut. Once you have weighed all that in the balance and the omens are favorable, you can proceed. But, unless you draw only slightly more than a rubber duck, do so slowly and carefully. Be ready to hunt and peck for the channel if the depth begins to look alarming. And remember, worse case, you got that far, so you can always turn around and retrace your steps. Tip: Turn on your tracker before you start.

DAUGHERTY CANAL

Daugherty Canal With that cheery prelude, let’s look at Daugherty Canal, which you are going to want to put on your list of must-doif-you-can-do, which is likely to run in the four-foot ballpark for a bit at the northern end.

The Daugherty Canal is a short cut between the Big Annemessex and Little Annemessex rivers. What? Well, to orient you, Crisfield is on the Little Annemessex River, and the Daugherty comes out right in its backyard. That still doesn’t explain why it exists— perhaps the Corps of Engineers got a new dredge in 1939—but nevertheless it’s pretty cool. First, it gets you to Janes Island State Park, where you can take

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your dinghy and explore miles and miles of wild beach along Tangier Sound and miles and miles of trails.

Bring a lot of mosquito repellant. And it gets you easily to and from Crisfield, which is a good place to visit too.

If you are coming from the north, come into Tangier Sound by way of Hooper Island Strait and head south until you get to the Big Annemessex River. It’s just south of the Manokin River, which you’ve probably never heard of either. Make for the south shore of the Big Annemessex and look for the channel markers about a mile and a half upriver. The markers soon split left and right. Be sure to take the right channel.

You will definitely not float your boat if you go the other way. (I am speaking from experience here.) From there, you are only about three miles from Crisfield. After the shallow bit I mentioned earlier, the water will be six to eight feet deep, though the channel is narrow, narrow, narrow at the south end. Also, the markers change sides about half-way through, as does the current direction, which is slightly disconcerting. You’ll see what I mean.

That’s all there is to it. But be sure to soak up the beauty of the wide wild marshes as you pick your way through.

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BROAD CREEK

Broad Creek This is a perfectly lovely shortcut if you are traveling between Crisfield and the Pocomoke River or even Crisfield and Onancock because it cuts out the trip

you otherwise have to make out and around Watts Island. Watermen use Broad Creek all the time, and it’s well marked. The hitch is, the bottom is constantly in flux, so you can never be absolutely sure the deep water will be where it’s supposed to be, especially on the north, or Crisfield, end.

This spring, as I was coming out of the Pocomoke River I could see ahead that Pocomoke Sound was an Alabama cotton crop of wind-blown foam. It was going to be a miserable 16-mile slog out to Watts Island before I could turn north on Tangier Sound for the 12-mile leg up to Crisfield. So, I called Crisfield Towboat US and asked Chris Parker whether he thought I could make it through Broad Creek. Broad Creek is about 10 miles from the Pocomoke River entrance and then only another five miles to Crisfield.

Now that’s a shortcut! I gave Parker my

draft, which is just under 4 feet, and he considered a minute and then replied, “Well, the channel changes every day, but yes, you probably can make it.”

That was good enough for me.

I left the Pocomoke channel halfway between green “9” and red “8” and headed north to Broad Creek’s outboard marker, red “2bc”. Up the channel I went, warily watching my depth sounder. To be honest, I can’t really tell you what the creek looked like, because all my attention was on the channel markers and the depth sounder.

About half-way through, the markers stopped, but the water continued comfortably deep. As I reached the north end and the final marker, green “1” which now marked the opposite side of the channel, the depth read five and a half before returning to six just before I reached the Crisfield channel. Done!

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THE “DON’T BE SILLY” SHORTCUTS Here are some shortcuts you are unlikely or ill-advised to take unless you are a local and know how it’s done, or you are a visitor in a rubber-duck-type craft, and you are following a local. Most of these have both shallow water and low bridges; some have shallow, restless channels though no bridges. Most have local navigation marks, since the Coast Guard has long since thrown up its hands over the situation.

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This is the famous, or more accurately infamous, shortcut across the shoals between Milford Haven and the Bay. It is also the shortcut I would most like to do someday, partly because it’s there, as Mallory said of Everest, and partly because it cuts off a sizeable amount of time and 10 miles, if you happen to find yourself in Milford Haven visiting Gwynn’s Island and want to head south down the Bay. Or if the Milford Haven bascule bridge is out of order—which is not unheard of.

It is probably possible to get through Hole in the Wall with a draft of four feet or so, but it would take a calm day and Job-level patience.

There are private marks, but shoals often extend into the channel beyond them. Tip: Pay up your towing insurance.

The Honga River, which feels utterly and completely like the end of the world, would likely be a much more popular spot for anchoring if there were a way to cut between the Honga islands. “Is there any way to cut through from the Honga back to the Bay?” I am asked with surprising frequency. “Nope,” I reply. There are, in fact, two cut-throughs used by locals. One is a shoal-draft channel between Upper Hooper Island and Lower Hooper Island, and the other, slightly deeper one, is between Upper Hooper Island and the mainland.

This second course is marked with PVC posts of uncertain interpretation and is crossed by a 24-foot fixed bridge. The preferred route is to go out the way you came in, which is around the bottom of Lower Hooper Island.

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This is the old shortcut to Back Creek off the York River. It is marked with private aids to navigation, though it is no longer dredged. I’m not recommending it, though I’m sure locals use it with impunity. It does cut off about five miles over the usual trip around the Goodwin Islands shoal.

The Others There are a few other limited-use shortcuts on the Bay, but these are up one river or another, so I’ll just mention them here. There is a fairly usable one if you can get under a 17-foot bridge between St. George Island and the

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Potomac River, and there are a couple of unrestricted thoroughfares on the Pamunkey River at the top of the York and the Chicahominy River off the James. I know you are unlikely to visit either, but you should, especially the Chicahominy, which is like no other river on the Chesapeake.

I won’t mind if you don’t even to take the shortcut.

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QUAIL & PHEASANT SEASONS VIRGINIA Wild Birds: Nov. 9 – Jan. 31 Hunting Preserves: Sep. 1 – Apr. 30

Worth a Shot Upland bird hunting remains auspicious as game habitat improves.

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f it’s an epic Canada goose toll you seek, look no further than Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Dove and turkey hunting can be outstanding in Virginia, and of course both states offer world-class striper and red drum fishing. One of the great things about the Chesapeake Bay is there is no shortage of places to drop a line all the way down off a pier, from shore, from a bridge, or a skiff, dingy, paddle board, canoe, or kayak. Who knows how many personal-best fish, and probably a few state records, have been set by folks plunking down bloodworms to while away the hours?

Upland game bird hunting? Ummm, not so much. Especially if your gold standard is wild quail and pheasant hunting in upland-hunting meccas such as Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska.

Many moons ago, I accompanied a friend on my first upland bird hunt, a pheasant experience on a Maryland Eastern Shore preserve. I didn’t have a clue what I was doing or what to expect. The details of that outing have long since faded, but I do remember being riveted by the bird dog—a Brittany spaniel, I think. She had a resplendent white coat, speckled with splotches of orange. I

also remember missing birds, a lot of them, which is probably why I’ve blocked out that experience except for the working canine.

She would charge determinedly from thicket to thicket, inhaling, loading, and looking for birds. “Get birdy, Candie, git birdy” shouted her handler in his thick Eastern Shore drawl. “Come on, girl find ’em.” I cannot swear the dog’s name was actually Candie, or if it was spelled with an “ie” rather than a “y.” But I do know she was incredibly passionate about her work, and that alone made the afternoon enjoyable.

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MARYLAND Quail: DNR Managed: Nov. 2 – Dec. 14 Private land east of I-83: Nov. 2 – Feb. 15 Private land west of I-83: Nov. 2 –Jan. 15 Pheasant: Nov. 2 – Feb. 29

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Another time, at a friend’s suggestion, we hunted woodcock at the Green Hill Complex that is part of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Chesapeake Forest Lands Hunting Program. We walked along a second-growth pine forest, scouting around the dense cover butting up to an open, nearly worn-out field. As we crept along, I whispered, “I think I heard one whistling off to our left; what do they sound like?” He looked at me like I sprouted a third eyeball. Apparently, woodcock are silent most of the time.

Habitat Challenges As in real estate, exceptional upland bird hunting, particularly for quail and pheasant, boils down to location, location, location—specifically, quality habitat. In the Chesapeake region, sadly, prime upland bird land is in short supply. As you’d expect, the most challenging aspect for someone new to upland hunting is finding such places. Public hunting lands that hold enough quail and pheasant are rare, particularly in Maryland. The culprits at the root of the habitat loss are familiar: clearing hedgerows for development, industrial agriculture, and the loss of native grasses and insects. Add an increase in predators, and it’s a hard row for wild quail and pheasants.

Bob Long supervises the Upland Game Bird Project (turkey, grouse, quail, and pheasant) for Maryland’s Wildlife and Heritage Service, part of the Department of Natural Resources.

He says that some small, isolated wild bobwhite quail populations still exist in the southern and central parts of the state, but populations have declined by more than 95 percent in the past 50 years, mirroring similar declines throughout the birds’ range across the U.S. “Those wild quail that remain are found on the Eastern Shore,” Long

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says. “Even there, it is difficult to find locations where they’d be considered thriving. The only exceptions are where intensive, large-scale habitat management is taking place.”

Long adds that wild, ring-necked pheasants are even less common than quail, and huntable populations have not existed in several decades.

In 2018, Maryland’s DNR introduced a pilot program to allow for pheasant hunting on stocked public lands. The agency expanded it in 2019, though it’s limited to first-time hunters.

(Contact Nancy Doran, nancy.doran@ maryland.gov, for more information).

There are other upland bird options, chiefly ruffed grouse and woodcock. In western Maryland, popular public lands for grouse include the Savage River State Forest, Mt. Nebo Wildlife Management Area (WMA), and Green Ridge State Forest.

“Early in the season, woodcock can be found in moist woodlands with abundant shrub cover in the western part of the state,” Long says. “Mount Nebo [Garrett County] is a prime location.” He adds that when conditions allow, woodcock winter on the Eastern Shore, which makes hunting good at public lands such as Millington WMA, Pocomoke State Forest, and E.A. Vaughn WMA from November through January.

In Virginia the picture is rosier, at least for quail, says Corey Lett, president of the Southside Virginia chapter of Quail Forever.

“I always work to get hunters excited about the sport and tradition.

We stay positive and get kids involved with learning the sport and habitat,” he says. “I always tell people, please do not give up on the quail. They’re making a comeback, but we have to help with habitat, limiting the number killed when we find a covey, marking where you see a covey, and keeping an eye out.”

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Upland bird hunting is steeped in tradition, and those who do it regularly say there’s no prettier sight than a working bird dog quivering with excitement over a covey of wild birds.

Any well-rounded Chesapeake outdoors person would do well to give upland bird hunting a try, if only to capture that memory.

Captain Chris Dollar is a licensed fishing guide, tackle shop owner, all-around Chesapeake outdoorsman with more than 25 years experience in avoiding office work.

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1984 SailMaster 62 62’ SailMaster $339,000 Gulfstar ..........................

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1984 62 Gulfstar SailMaster $339,000 ..........................

62 62 Gulfstar SailMaster $339,000 .......................... ..........................

62 SailMaster .......................... $339,000 62 SailMaster $339,000 ..........................

62 $339,000 ..........................

62 $339,000 $339,000 ..........................

62 $339,000 .......................... $339,000 $339,000 $339,000 $339,000 38’ 38’ 2004 2004 Hunter 38’ Hunter 38’ 2004 2004 38 38’ Hunter ...............................................

38 38’ 2004 Hunter ...............................................

2004 Hunter 38 38’ ...............................................

Hunter 38 38’ 2004 ...............................................

2004 38 38’ Hunter ...............................................

38 38’ Hunter 2004 ...............................................

2004 38 Hunter 38’ ...............................................

38 Hunter 38’ 2004 $129,000 ...............................................

2004 $129,000 38 38’ Hunter ...............................................

38 38’ 2004 Hunter $129,000 ...............................................

2004 $129,000 Hunter 38 38’ 34’ ...............................................

Hunter 38 38’ $129,000 2004 34’ 1990 ............................................... $129,000 2004 38 1990 Hunter 38’ Cabo 34’ ...............................................

38 Hunter 38’ 2004 $129,000 Cabo 34’ 1990 ...............................................

Rico 2004 $129,000 38 1990 34’ Hunter 38’ Cabo Rico ...............................................

38 34 34’ 1990 Hunter $129,000 38’ 2004 Cabo ............................................... ...........................................

34 1990 Rico $129,000 2004 38 38’ Cabo 34’ Hunter ...........................................

Rico ...............................................

38 38’ 2004 Cabo 38’ 34 34’ 1990 Hunter $129,000 ...............................................

Rico 2004 ...........................................

38’ 2004 34 1990 $129,000 Hunter 38 34’ Cabo Rico ...........................................

2004 34 ...............................................

Hunter 38 $129,000 Hunter 38’ 34’ Cabo 1990 ...........................................

34 ...............................................

Rico $129,000 38 Hunter 38’ 2004 1990 ...........................................

Cabo 34’ Rico ...............................................

38 2004 38 34 38’ $129,000 Hunter Cabo 34’ 1990 ............................................ ...........................................

38 $85,000 ..........................................

34 Rico 38 2004 $129,000 Hunter 1990 34’ ..................................... $85,000 .....................................

Cabo Rico 2004 38 34 34’ 1990 Hunter $129,000 Cabo ............................ ...........................

38 $85,000 34 1990 Rico Hun $129,000 Cabo 34’ ...................... ...................... $85,000 Rico 38 Cabo er 34 34’ 1990 $129,000 $85,000 ..............

Rico 38 ............

34 1990 $129, $85,0 Cabo Rico 34’ ......

34 $1 C 3 1 62 1984 Gu s$339,000 a..........................

Sa62 Mas 62’ 1984 e 62 Gulfstar SailMaster 62 $339 1984 62 000 Gu ..........................$339,000 s a Sa Mas e 62 $339 000 38 2004 Hun e 38 38’ 2004 Hunter 38 ...............................................$129,000 38 $129 2004 000 Hun e 38 34 1990 Cabo R co 34 34’ 1990 $129 Cabo 000 Rico 34 34 ...........................................$85,000 1990 $85 000 Cabo R co 34 $85 000 47 1982 Vagabond 47 Ke ch $130 000 37 2004 Ta an 3700 $195 000 34 2018 Ta an 345 A mo New $280 000 Ketch ason n .............................. .. h ’........................

84 .................

40,000 ...........

1984 53 $140,000 53’ ....................................

Mason Ketch 53 53’ 1984 ....................................

Mason $140,000 Ketch 1984 53 $140,000 Mason 53’ ....................................

53 Mason 53’ $140,000 1984 ....................................

Ketch 53 $140,000 1984 Mason 53’ ....................................

Ketch 53 Mason 53’ 1984 .................................... $140,000 Ketch 53 $140,000 ....................................

Mason 53’ Ketch 53 ....................................

Mason $140,000 53’ 1984 Ketch $140,000 1984 53 53’ ....................................

Mason Ketch 53 53’ 1984 ....................................

53’ Mason $140,000 Ketch 1984 53’ 1984 $140,000 53 Mason ....................................

1984 Ketch 53 Mason $140,000 ....................................

Mason 53’ Ketch $140,000 53 Mason 53’ 1984 ....................................

Ketch 53 1984 53 53’ $140,000 ....................................

Mason Ketch Ketch 53 53’ 1984 $140,000 Mason ....................................

Ketch 1984 53 .................................... ....................................

Mason $140,000 Ketch 53 ....................................

Mason $140,000 Ketch 53 .................................... $140,000 Ketch 53 .................................... $140,000 Ketch $140,000 .................................... $140,000 .................................... $140,000 $140,000 $140,000 $140,000 $140,000 $140,000 37’ 37’ 2006 2006 Hanse 37’ Hanse 37’ 2006 370 2006 37’ Hanse 370 37’ 2006 ..............................................

Hanse 2006 ..............................................

370 Hanse 37’ 370 Hanse ..............................................

37’ 2006 370 ..............................................

2006 37’ Hanse 370 ..............................................

37’ Hanse 2006 ..............................................

2006 370 Hanse 37’ 370 ..............................................

Hanse 37’ 2006 $132,000 ..............................................

370 2006 $132,000 37’ Hanse 37’ 2006 ..............................................

Hanse $132,000 2006 ..............................................

370 $132,000 Hanse 37’ 34’ 370 Hanse ..............................................

37’ $132,000 2006 34’ 1987 370 .............................................. $132,000 2006 1987 Hanse 37’ Express 34’ 370 ..............................................

Hanse 37’ 2006 $132,000 Express 34’ 1987 ..............................................

370 2006 $132,000 1987 34’ Hanse 37’ Alsberg Express 370 34’ 1987 Hanse $132,000 37’ 2006 Alsberg Express ..............................................

1987 370 $132,000 2006 37’ Express 34’ Built Hanse Alsberg 370 37’ 2006 ..............................................

Express 37’ 34’ 1987 Built Hanse $132,000 Alsberg 2006 .............................................. ............................

37’ 2006 1987 370 $132,000 Hanse Alsberg 34’ Express ............................

Built 2006 370 Hanse $132,000 ..............................................

Alsberg Hanse 37’ 34’ Express 1987 Built 370 $132,000 .............................................. ............................

Hanse 37’ 2006 1987 Built Express Alsberg 34’ 370 ............................

370 ..............................................

2006 Built 37’ $132,000 Hanse Express Alsberg 34’ 1987 370 ........................................... ............................ $48,000 ..........................................

37 2006 $132,000 Hanse 1987 34’ Built $48,000 Alsberg ....................................

Express 2006 370 34’ 1987 Hanse Built $132,000 Alsberg Express 370 ........................... $48,000 ...........................

1987 Hanse $132,000 Express 34’ Built ...................... $48,000 Alsberg .....................

370 Express 34’ 1987 Built $132,000 Alsberg $48,000 370 ............. ............

1987 $132, $48,0 Alsbe Expr 34’ .......

Buil $1 A E 3 1 B 53 1984 Mason 53Ketch Ke 53’ ch 1984 Mason 531984 Ketch 53 $140 1984 ....................................$140,000 000 Mason 53 Ke ch $140 000 37 2006 Hanse 370 37’ 2006 Hanse 370 ..............................................$132,000 37 $132 2006 000 Hanse 370 34 1987 Exp ess A.............................................. sbe 34’ g2006 1987 Bu $132 Express 000 Alsberg 34 1987 Built $48 000 Exp ............................$48,000 ess A sbe g............................

Bu $48 000 47 2000 Pa po 470 CALL 37 1996 Hun e370 375 CALL 34 Ta an 3400 $135 000 ulfstar 50 aster ilMaster .. ’........................ ar 84 .................

65,000 ...........

1984 $165,000 50’ ..........................

SailMaster Gulfstar 50’ 50 1984 SailMaster Gulfstar $165,000 ..........................

50 1984 Gulfstar 50’ SailMaster Gulfstar 50’ $165,000 1984 SailMaster 50 $165,000 1984 SailMaster Gulfstar 50’ ..........................

50 Gulfstar 50’ 1984 $165,000 ..........................

50 1984 $165,000 SailMaster Gulfstar 50’ ..........................

50 SailMaster Gulfstar $165,000 50’ 1984 ..........................

50 $165,000 1984 50’ ..........................

SailMaster Gulfstar 50’ 1984 50’ SailMaster Gulfstar $165,000 ..........................

50 1984 50’ 1984 $165,000 Gulfstar ..........................

SailMaster 50 Gulfstar $165,000 Gulfstar 50’ SailMaster ..........................

50 $165,000 Gulfstar 50’ 1984 SailMaster ..........................

1984 SailMaster 50 50’ SailMaster $165,000 Gulfstar ..........................

50 50’ 1984 SailMaster $165,000 Gulfstar ..........................

1984 50 Gulfstar SailMaster $165,000 ..........................

50 Gulfstar SailMaster $165,000 .......................... ..........................

50 SailMaster .......................... $165,000 SailMaster $165,000 ..........................

50 $165,000 ..........................

50 $165,000 $165,000 ..........................

50 $165,000 .......................... $165,000 $165,000 $165,000 $165,000 37’ 37’ 1998 Pacific 37’ Pacific 37’ 1998 1998 Seacraft 37’ Pacific Seacraft 37’ 1998 Pacific Crealock Pacific Seacraft 37’ Crealock Pacific Seacraft 37’ 1998 1998 Seacraft Crealock 37’ Pacific 37 Seacraft ................

Crealock 37’ Pacific 1998 37 ................

1998 Crealock Seacraft Pacific 37’ 37 Crealock Seacraft ................

Pacific 37’ 1998 37 $175,000 ................

1998 $175,000 Seacraft Crealock 37’ 37 ................

Seacraft Crealock 37’ 1998 37 Pacific $175,000 ................

1998 Crealock $175,000 Pacific Seacraft 37’ 37 34’ Crealock Pacific Seacraft ................

37’ $175,000 1998 37 34’ 2001 $175,000 1998 Seacraft 2001 Crealock Pacific 37 37’ Mainship 34’ Seacraft ................

Crealock Pacific 37 37’ 1998 $175,000 Mainship 34’ 2001 ................

Crealock 1998 $175,000 Seacraft 2001 34’ Pacific 37 37’ Mainship Crealock Hardtop Seacraft 34’ 2001 ................

Pacific 37 $175,000 37’ 1998 Mainship Hardtop 2001 ................ $175,000 1998 Crealock Seacraft 37 37’ Mainship 34’ Pacific Pilot ................

Hardtop Crealock Seacraft 37 37’ 1998 Mainship 37’ 34’ 2001 Pacific $175,000 Pilot ................

Hardtop 1998 37’ 1998 Sedan...................

2001 $175,000 Crealock Pacific Seacraft 37 34’ Mainship Hardtop 1998 Sedan................... ................

Crealock Pacific Seacraft $175,000 37 Pacific 37’ 34’ Mainship 2001 Hardtop Pilot ................ $175,000 Seacraft Pacific 37’ 1998 2001 Sedan...................

Crealock 37 Mainship 34’ Pilot Hardtop Seacraft 1998 Sedan...................

Seacraft ................

Crealock 37’ 37 $175,000 Pacific Mainship 34’ 2001 Pilot Hardtop Seacraft Sedan................... ................

37 1998 $175,000 Crealock Pacific SOLD 2001 34’ 37 Sedan...................

Mainship Pilot Hardtop 1998 Crealock SOLD Crealock Seacraft 34’ 2001 ................

Pacific 37 $175,000 Mainship Pilot Hardtop Crealock Seacraft 2001 Sedan............... ................

Pac $175,000 SOLD 37 Mainship 34’ Sedan..........

Pilot Hardtop ................

Seacraft SOLD 37 Crealock Mainship 37 34’ 2001 c$175,000 Pilot Hardtop .............

Seacra ............

Crealoc SOLD 37 Sedan 2001 $175, Main 34’ Hard ......

SOL Sed Pil Cr $1 M 3 3 2 H 50 1984 Gu s$165,000 a..........................

Sa50 Mas 50’..........................

1984 e1998 50 Gulfstar SailMaster 50 $165 1984 501998 000 Gu ..........................$165,000 s a50 Sa Mas e 1984 50 $165 000 37 1998 Pac c Seac a 37’ C 1998 ea ock Pacific 37 Seacraft 37 Crealock $175 1998 000 Pac 3750 c................ ................$175,000 Seac 34 2001 C Ma ea nsh ock p 37 Ha 34’ d op 2001 P o$175 Mainship Sedan 000 Hardtop 34 2001 Pilot SOLD Ma Sedan................... nsh p Ha d op P SOLD o000 Sedan SOLD 47 1982 SSailMaster even 47 CC $130 000 37 1998 Pac cPacific Seac a50 C ea ock 37 Enco eaDeck $135 000 34 1995 Pac fic Seac aPilot C ea ock 34 $89 n alon anneau .. eck ’eau 07 9 .................

99,000 ...........

2007 ...................... $299,000 49’ Deck Jeanneau Salon 49 ......................

49’ 2007 Jeanneau $299,000 Deck Salon 49 2007 $299,000 Jeanneau ......................

Deck 49’ Salon 49 Jeanneau ......................

49’ $299,000 2007 Salon Deck 49 $299,000 2007 ......................

Jeanneau Deck 49’ 49 Salon ......................

Jeanneau 49’ 2007 $299,000 Deck 49 Salon 2007 $299,000 Deck ......................

Jeanneau 49’ Salon 49 ......................

Jeanneau $299,000 49’ 2007 Salon Deck 49 ...................... $299,000 2007 Deck 49’ Jeanneau Salon ......................

49 49’ 2007 49’ Jeanneau $299,000 Salon Deck 49 2007 49’ 2007 $299,000 ......................

Jeanneau Deck 2007 Salon 49 ......................

Jeanneau $299,000 Jeanneau 49’ Salon Deck 49 $299,000 Jeanneau 49’ 2007 ......................

Deck 49 2007 Salon ......................

49’ $299,000 Jeanneau Deck 49 49 Salon 49’ 2007 $299,000 Jeanneau Deck Deck 49 ......................

Salon 2007 Deck ......................

Jeanneau $299,000 Salon Salon 49 Jeanneau ...................... $299,000 Salon Deck 49 ...................... ......................

Deck $299,000 49 Salon ...................... $299,000 Deck 49 Salon ...................... $299,000 Salon ...................... $299,000 $299,000 Salon $299,000 ...................... ...................... $299,000 $299,000 $299,000 $299,000 37’ 1977 1977 37’ 37’ 1977 1977 37’ 37 Gulfstar 1977 ...............................................

37 Gulfstar 1977 ...............................................

Gulfstar 37’ 37Gulfstar 37’ 1977 ...............................................

37 1977 ...............................................

37 37’ Gulfstar 37 37’ Gulfstar 1977 ...............................................

1977 37 Gulfstar 37’ ...............................................

37 Gulfstar 37’ 1977 $57,500 ...............................................

1977 37’ $57,500 37 37’ 1977 ...............................................

37 Gulfstar $57,500 1977 ...............................................

Gulfstar 37’ $57,500 33’ 37 Gulfstar 37’ 1977 ...............................................

33’ 37 2015 $57,500 ...............................................

2015 $57,500 37 Gulfstar 37’ Tartan 33’ ...............................................

37 Gulfstar 37’ 1977 Tartan 33’ 2015 $57,500 ...............................................

1977 101 2015 33’ $57,500 37 Gulfstar 37’ Tartan 101 ...............................................

33’ 2015 -37 Gulfstar 37’ 1977 NEW Tartan $57,500 ...............................................

2015 -2015 1977 NEW 37’ 101 Tartan $57,500 33’ 37 Gulfstar IN 37’ 1977 101 Tartan 37’ ...............................................

-33’ 37 2015 STOCK......................

Gulfstar IN NEW $57,500 1977 37’ ...............................................

1977 101 -2015 STOCK......................

Gulfstar NEW 33’ Tartan 37 1977 101 IN -Gulfstar Gulfstar NEW 37’ 33’ ...............................................

Tartan 2015 37 $57,500 STOCK......................

IN -STOCK......................

Gulfstar NEW 37’ ...............................................

1977 2015 101 $57,500 STOCK......................

37 IN Tartan 33’ 101 ...............................................

37 -STOCK......................

37’ 37 Gulfstar IN Tartan NEW 33’ 2015 $57,500 ..........................................

-.........................................

STOCK......................

37 1977 Gulfstar 101 NEW CALL 2015 33’ $57,500 Tartan IN ...................................

1977 101 CALL 33’ 2015 -Gulfstar STOCK..................

37 NEW Tartan IN $57,500 2015 -Gu ..........................

STOCK.............

37 NEW 101 CALL Tartan $57,500 33’ IN .................... s 101 CALL Tartan -33’ 37 2015 STOCK... ar IN NEW $57,500 ............

101 CALL -37 2015 STOC NEW Tarta $57, 33’ 101 CA IN - N T 3 2 S $ 49 2007 Jeanneau 4937’ 49’ Deck 2007 SaGulfstar Jeanneau on Gulfstar 49 Deck 49 37’ $299 2007 Salon 000 Jeanneau ......................$299,000 49 Deck on $299 000 37 1977 GuSa............................................... s a 37 37’ 1977 Gulfstar 37 ...............................................$57,500 37 1977 $57 500 Gu s a1977 33 37 2015 Ta an 101 NEW 33’ N STOCK Tartan $57 500 101 -$57,500 NEW 33 2015 IN CALL Ta an1977 101 NEW N CALL STOCK CALL 44$339,000 2005 Ta an............................................

4400 $339 000 37 1994 Pac cGulfstar Seac a4600 C$339,000 ea ock 37 Sab e......................... $129 000 34 2019 Ta an 345 O de Oc obe CALL n 0........................................ rtan .............................. .. ’........................

03 .................

39,000 ........... ............................................

4600 2003 $339,000 46’ Tartan 4600 46’ 2003 ............................................

Tartan $339,000 ............................................

4600 $339,000 Tartan 46’ 4600 Tartan 46’ $339,000 2003 ............................................

2003 ............................................

Tartan 46’ 4600 ............................................

Tartan 46’ 2003 $339,000 4600 2003 $339,000 Tartan 46’ 4600 ............................................

Tartan $339,000 46’ 2003 ............................................ $339,000 4600 2003 46’ Tartan 46’ 2003 46’ ............................................

Tartan $339,000 2003 46’ 2003 ............................................ $339,000 4600 Tartan 4600 Tartan $339,000 Tartan 46’ ............................................ $339,000 4600 Tartan 46’ 2003 ............................................

4600 4600 2003 ............................................

46’ $339,000 Tartan 4600 ............................................

46’ 2003 $339,000 ............................................

Tartan 2003 ............................................

4600 Tartan $339,000 Tartan ............................................

4600 ............................................ $339,000 4600 ............................................ $339,000 $339,000 $339,000 $339,000 $339,000 $339,000 $339,000 $339 000 37’ 37’ 2009 2009 Tartan 37’ Tartan 37’ 2009 3700 2009 37’ Tartan 3700 37’ 2009 ccr Tartan 2009 ccr 3700 Tartan .....................................

37’ 3700 Tartan .....................................

37’ 2009 ccr 3700 2009 ccr .....................................

37’ Tartan 3700 ccr .....................................

37’ Tartan 2009 ccr 2009 3700 .....................................

Tartan 37’ 3700 ..................................... ccr 37’ 2009 $269,000 ccr 3700 2009 $269,000 37’ .....................................

Tartan 3700 37’ .....................................

2009 ccr Tartan $269,000 2009 ccr 3700 $269,000 Tartan .....................................

37’ 33’ 3700 Tartan .....................................

37’ $269,000 2009 33’ 2004 ccr $269,000 2009 2004 ccr .....................................

Tartan 37’ Hunter 33’ 3700 ccr .....................................

Tartan 37’ 2009 $269,000 Hunter 33’ 2004 ccr 3700 .....................................

2009 $269,000 33 33’ Tartan 37’ Hunter 3700 ..................................... .................................................

33 33’ 2004 ccr Tartan $269,000 37’ 2009 Hunter .................................................

2004 ccr $269,000 3700 2009 .....................................

37’ Hunter 33 33’ Tartan 3700 .....................................

37’ 2009 .................................................

Hunter 33 37’ 33’ 2004 ccr Tartan $269,000 2009 .................................................

37’ 2009 2004 33 ccr $269,000 3700 Tartan .....................................

33’ Hunter 2009 .................................................

33 3700 Tartan ..................................... $269,000 Tartan 37’ 33’ Hunter 2004 ccr ................................................. $269,000 3700 Tartan 37’ 2009 2004 33 ccr .....................................

Hunter 33’ 3700 2009 ................................................

33 ccr .....................................

37’ $269,000 Tartan Hunter 33’ 2004 3700 $74,000 ........................................... ccr 37 2009 $269,000 ccr .....................................

Tartan 2004 33 33’ $74,000 Hunter 2009 ccr ..................................

3700 ................................. .................................

33 33’ 2004 Tartan $269,000 Hunter 3700 ............................ ........................... $74,000 2004 Tar $269,000 ccr Hunter 33 33’ $74,000 3700 an ccr .................. ..................

Hunter 33 33’ 2004 $269,000 $74,000 3700 ............ ............

2004 33 ccr $269, $74,0 Hunt 33’ .....

33 ccr .... $2 H 3 2 46 2003 Ta2003 an 4600 46’4600 2003 Tartan 4600 ............................................$339,000 46 $339 2003 000 Ta an4600 4600 $339 000 37 2009 Ta2003 an 3700 cc 37’ 2009 Tartan 3700 ccr 37 $269 .....................................$269,000 2009 000 Ta an3700 3700 33 2004 cc$339,000 Hun e2004 33 33’ 2004 $269 Hunter 00033 .................................................$74,000 33 2004 $74 000 Hun e3700 33 $74 000 44 1982 Cape Cod Me37’ ce 44 $85 000 37 2006 Han e44 370 $85 000 33 2015 Ta an 101 T3700 ade n37’ $169 900 89 son .............................................. ........................................ .............................. .. ........................ .................

35,000 ...........

1989 44 $235,000 44 Mason ................................................

44 1989 44 Mason $235,000 ................................................

1989 44 Mason $235,000 44 ................................................

44 Mason 1989 44 $235,000 ................................................

44 1989 $235,000 Mason 44 ................................................

44 Mason 1989 44 $235,000 ................................................

1989 44 $235,000 Mason 44 ................................................

44 Mason 1989 $235,000 44 ................................................

1989 44 $235,000 44 Mason ................................................

44 1989 44 44 Mason $235,000 ................................................

1989 1989 44 44 Mason $235,000 1989 ................................................

44 Mason Mason $235,000 44 ................................................

44 Mason $235,000 1989 44 ................................................

44 1989 44 Mason 44 $235,000 ................................................ ................................................

44 1989 Mason 44 $235,000 ................................................

1989 Mason $235,000 ................................................

Mason $235,000 ................................................

44 $235,000 ................................................

44 $235,000 $235,000 $235,000 $235,000 $235,000 $235,000 $235 000 37’ 37’ 2004 2004 Tartan 37’ Tartan 37’ 2004 3700 2004 37’ Tartan 2004 # Tartan 81 2004 # 3700 Tartan 37’ ....................................

81 3700 Tartan 37’ 2004 .................................... # 81 3700 2004 #37’ Tartan ....................................

81 3700 # 37’ Tartan 2004 ....................................

81 # 2004 3700 ....................................

Tartan 37’ 3700 ....................................

Tartan # 37’ 2004 $190,000 81 # 3700 2004 $190,000 37’ ....................................

81 Tartan 3700 37’ 2004 .................................... # Tartan $190,000 81 2004 # 3700 $190,000 Tartan 37’ ....................................

81 33’ 3700 Tartan 37’ $190,000 2004 ....................................

33’ 2000 # 3700 $190,000 2004 2000 #Tartan 37’ ....................................

Nauticat 81 33’ 3700 # Tartan 37’ 2004 .................................... $190,000 Nauticat 33’ 2000 81 # 3700 2004 $190,000 ....................................

2000 81 33’ Tartan 37’ 331Motor Nauticat 3700 ....................................

33’ 2000 # Tartan $190,000 37’ 2004 331Motor Nauticat 81 # $190,000 3700 2004 37’ ....................................

Nauticat 81 33’ Tartan 331Motor 3700 Sailor 37’ 2004 ....................................

Nauticat 37’ 33’ 2000 # Tartan $190,000 331Motor Sailor 81 2004 37’ 2004 2000 # $190,000 3700 Tartan ....................................

331Motor 33’ Nauticat 81 .....................

2004 Sailor Tartan $190,000 ....................................

Tartan 331Motor 37’ 33’ Nauticat 2000 ..................... #Sailor Sailor 81 $190,000 3700 Tartan 2004 2000 # ....................................

Nauticat 331Motor 33’ 81 .....................

3700 Sailor 3700 2004 # 37’ $190,000 ....................................

Tartan Nauticat 331Motor 33’ 2000 ..................... $150,000 Sailor 81 3700 # 37 2004 $190,000 # Tartan 2000 .................................... $150,000 33’ 81 .....................

331Motor Nauticat 2004 # Sailor 3700 .................................

33’ 2000 ..................... ................................

Tartan 81 $190,000 331Motor Nauticat $150,000 Sailor 3700 2000 ..........................

Tar $190,000 #$150,000 Nauticat 33’ .....................

81 331Motor 3700 Sailor an #Nauticat 33’ $150,000 .................

2000 81 $190,000 331Moto 3700 Sailor $150,0 ...........

2000 #$190, 331M Naut 81 .......

33’ #Sa $1 ...

3 N 8 ..

3 2 $ 44 1989 Mason 44 44 1989 Mason 44 ................................................$235,000 443700 1989 $235 Mason 000 44 $235 000 37 2004 Ta an 3700 #81 37’ 81 2004 Tartan 3700 #44 37 81 $190 2004 ....................................$190,000 000 Ta an81 3700 33 2000 # $235,000 81 Nau ca 331Mo 33’ o2000 2000 Sa $190 Nauticat o$235,000 000 331Motor 33 $150 2000 000 Nau .....................$150,000 ca 331Mo o81 Sa o $150 000 43$380,000 2009 Ta an 4300 #37’ 19 $339 000 37 2007 Ta an 3700 Deep Kee $173 000 32 2019 Legacy 32 O.............................................. de Oc obe CALL n 0........................................ rtan .............................. .. ’........................

04 .................

80,000 ........... ............................................

4400 2004 $380,000 44’ Tartan 4400 44’ 2004 ............................................

Tartan $380,000 ............................................

4400 $380,000 Tartan 44’ 4400 Tartan 44’ $380,000 2004 ............................................

2004 ............................................

Tartan 44’ 4400 ............................................

Tartan 44’ 2004 $380,000 ............................................

4400 2004 $380,000 Tartan 44’ 4400 ............................................

Tartan $380,000 44’ 2004 ............................................ $380,000 4400 2004 44’ Tartan 44’ 2004 44’ ............................................

Tartan $380,000 2004 44’ 2004 ............................................ $380,000 4400 Tartan 4400 Tartan $380,000 Tartan 44’ ............................................ $380,000 4400 Tartan 44’ 2004 ............................................

4400 4400 2004 ............................................

44’ $380,000 Tartan 4400 ............................................

44 2004 $380,000 ............................................

Tartan 2004 ............................................

4400 Tartan $380,000 4400 Tar $380,000 ............................................

4400 an ............................................ $380,000 4400 ............................................ $380,000 $380,000 $380,000 $380,000 $380,000 $380,000 $380 000 37’ 37’ 2008 2008 Tartan 37’ Tartan 37’ 2008 3700 2008 37’ Tartan 3700 2008 ccr Tartan 2008 ccr 3700 Tartan .....................................

37’ 3700 Tartan .....................................

37’ 2008 ccr 3700 2008 ccr .....................................

37’ Tartan 3700 ccr .....................................

37’ Tartan 2008 ccr 2008 3700 .....................................

Tartan 37’ 3700 ..................................... ccr 37’ 2008 $249,000 ccr 3700 2008 $249,000 37’ .....................................

Tartan 3700 37’ .....................................

2008 ccr Tartan $249,000 2008 ccr 3700 $249,000 Tartan .....................................

37’ 33’ 3700 Tartan .....................................

37’ $249,000 2008 33’ 2014 ccr $249,000 2008 2014 ccr .....................................

Tartan 37’ Tartan 33’ 3700 ccr .....................................

Tartan 37’ 2008 $249,000 Tartan 33’ 2014 ccr 3700 .....................................

2008 $249,000 101 2014 33’ Tartan 37’ Tartan 3700 .....................................

101 33’ 2014 .............................................. ccr Tartan $249,000 37’ 2008 Tartan 2014 .............................................. ccr $249,000 3700 2008 .....................................

37’ 101 Tartan 33’ Tartan 3700 .....................................

37’ 2008 101 Tartan 37’ ..............................................

33’ 2014 ccr Tartan $249,000 2008 37’ 2008 101 ..............................................

2014 ccr $249,000 3700 Tartan .....................................

33’ Tartan 2008 101 3700 Tartan ..................................... $249,000 Tartan 37’ 33’ Tartan 2014 ccr .............................................. $249,000 3700 Tartan 37’ 2008 2014 101 ccr .....................................

Tartan 33’ 3700 3700 2008 101 .............................................. ccr .....................................

37’ $249,000 Tartan 33’ 2014 $149,000 3700 .......................................... ccr 37 2008 $249,000 ccr .....................................

Tartan 101 2014 $149,000 33’ Tartan 2008 ccr ..................................

3700 101 .................................

33’ 2014 ................................

Tartan $249,000 Tartan $149,000 3700 ...........................

2014 ...........................

Tar $249,000 ccr 101 $149,000 Tartan 33’ 3700 an ccr 101 ..................

Tartan .................

33’ $149,000 2014 $249,000 3700 ............

101 ........... $149,0 2014 ccr $249, Tarta 33’ 101 ccr .... .... $2 T 3 2 $ 44 2004 Ta2004 an 4400 44’4400 2004 Tartan 4400 ............................................$380,000 44 $380 2004 000 Ta an4400 4400 $380 000 37 2008 Ta2004 an 3700 cc 37’ 2008 Tartan 3700 ccr 37 $249 .....................................$249,000 2008 000 Ta an3700 3700 33 2014 cc$380,000 Ta$380,000 an 101 33’ 2014 $249 Tartan 000 101 ..............................................$149,000 33 $149 2014 000 Ta an 101 $149 000 42 2000 Moody 42 CC $122 700 37 1989 Sunbeam 34S $55 000 32 1995 Ca a..................................... na 320 $39 500 43 .............................................. ........................................ .............................. .. ga ’........................

97 .................

79,000 ...........

1997 $179,000 43’ ..................................................

43 Saga 43’ 1997 ..................................................

Saga $179,000 1997 43$179,000 Saga 43’ ..................................................

43Saga 43’ $179,000 1997 ..................................................

43$179,000 1997 ..................................................

43 Saga 43’ ..................................................

Saga 43’ 1997 $179,000 43 1997 $179,000 ..................................................

43 Saga 43’ ..................................................

Saga $179,000 43’ 1997 43 $179,000 1997 43’ ..................................................

43 Saga 43’ 1997 43’ ..................................................

Saga $179,000 1997 43 43’ 1997 $179,000 Saga ..................................................

43 1997 Saga $179,000 Saga ..................................................

43 $179,000 Saga 43’ 1997 ..................................................

43 43 1997 ..................................................

43’ .................................................. $179,000 43 Saga 43 1997 .................................................. $179,000 Saga 43 1997 Saga .................................................. $179,000 43 Saga .................................................. $179,000 43 ..................................................

43 $179,000 $179,000 $179,000 $179,000 $179,000 $179,000 $179,000 $179,000 $179,000 $179 000 36’ 36’ 1994 1994 Sabre 36’ Sabre 36’ 1994 362.....................................................

1994 36’ Sabre 362.....................................................

36’ 1994 Sabre 1994 362.....................................................

Sabre 36’ 362.....................................................

Sabre 36’ 1994 362.....................................................

1994 36’ Sabre 362.....................................................

36’ Sabre 1994 362.....................................................

1994 Sabre 36’ 362.....................................................

Sabre 36’ 1994 362.....................................................

CALL 1994 36’ Sabre 362.....................................................

CALL 36’ 1994 Sabre 1994 362.....................................................

CALL Sabre 36’ 32’ 362.....................................................

CALL Sabre 36’ 1994 32’ 2004 CALL 1994 2004 36’ 362.....................................................

C&C 32’ CALL Sabre 36’ 1994 C&C 32’ 2004 99362.....................................................

CALL 1994 2004 32’ Sabre 36’ 99Trade 362.....................................................

C&C CALL 32’ 2004 Sabre 36’ 1994 Trade C&C 2004 362.....................................................

CALL In 1994 36’ C&C 32’ Sabre .....................................

99Trade 362.....................................................

CALL In 36’ 1994 C&C 36’ 32’ 2004 Sabre Trade 991994 36’ 1994 362.....................................................

2004 CALL In Sabre 99Trade 32’ C&C .....................................

1994 362.....................................................

CALL In Sabre Trade Sabre 36’ 32’ C&C 2004 .....................................

99362...................................................

CALL In Sabre 36’ 1994 2004 .....................................

99C&C Trade 362.............................................

32’ CALL In 362............................................

1994 36’ .....................................

Sabre C&C Trade 32’ 2004 362...................................... $79,000 9936 CALL In 1994 Sabre 2004 32’ 99Trade ....................................

C&C CALL In 1994 362.............................

32’ 2004 Sabre Trade ...............................

C&C 362....................... $79,000 992004 Sabre In CALL C&C 32’ $79,000 .....................

99Trade 362...............

In CALL C&C 32’ 2004 ................

Trade $79,000 362 992004 In CALL $79,0 99Trade C&C 32’ ......

In CA T C 3 2 43 1997 Saga 43 43’ 1997 Saga 43 ..................................................$179,000 43 $179 1997 000 Saga 43 $179 000 36 1994 Sab e43’ 362 36’ 1994 Sabre 362.....................................................

36 1994 CALL Sab e362.....................................................

362 32Sabre 2004 C&C CALL 99 T ade 32’ n992004 C&C CALL 99Trade 32 In 2004 $79 .....................................$79,000 000 C&C 99 T ade n$79,000 $79 000 42 2003 Hun e 426 DS $142 000 37 2005 Bene eau 373 $110 000 32 2015 Legacy 32 $299 000 on ..........................................

4 ................................ .... arson ’..........................

81 ...................

35,000 .............

1981 42’ ............................................ $35,000 424 Pearson 42’ 1981 424 Pearson ............................................ $35,000 1981 Pearson 42’ ............................................ $35,000 424 Pearson 42’ 1981 424 $35,000 ............................................

1981 $35,000 424 Pearson 42’ ............................................

424 Pearson 42’ 1981 ............................................ $35,000 1981 ............................................ $35,000 424 Pearson 42’ 424 Pearson 42’ 1981 ............................................ $35,000 1981 42’ ............................................ $35,000 424 Pearson 42’ 1981 42’ 424 Pearson ............................................ $35,000 1981 42’ 1981 Pearson ............................................ $35,000 424 1981 Pearson Pearson 42’ $35,000 424 ............................................

Pearson 42’ 1981 $35,000 424 ............................................

1981 424 42’ 424 Pearson ............................................ $35,000 42 1981 424 Pearson ............................................ $35,000 ............................................

1981 ............................................

Pearson 424 $35,000 Pearson 424 $35,000 ............................................ ............................................

424 $35,000 424 ............................................ $35,000 $35,000 $35,000 $35,000 $35,000 $35,000 $35,000 $35,000 $35 000 36’ 36’ 1987 1987 Freedom 36’ Freedom 36’ 1987 1987 36’ Freedom 36 36’ 1987 Freedom .............................................

36 1987 .............................................

Freedom 36’ 36 Freedom 36’ 1987 .............................................

36 1987 .............................................

36’ Freedom 36 36’ Freedom 1987 .............................................

36 1987 .............................................

Freedom 36’ 36 Freedom 36’ 1987 .............................................

36 $62,500 1987 .............................................

36’ $62,500 Freedom 36 36’ 1987 Freedom .............................................

36 $62,500 1987 .............................................

Freedom 36’ $62,500 32’ 36 Freedom 36’ 1987 32’ 1995 $62,500 .............................................

36 1987 1995 $62,500 .............................................

Freedom 36 36’ Catalina 32’ Freedom .............................................

36 36’ 1987 Catalina 32’ 1995 $62,500 .............................................

1987 1995 32’ $62,500 Freedom 36’ 36 320 Catalina 32’ 1995 Freedom 36’ 1987 .............................................

36 320 Catalina ............................................. $62,500 1995 1987 .............................................

36’ .............................................

Catalina $62,500 32’ Freedom 36 320 36’ 1987 Catalina 36’ 32’ 1995 Freedom .............................................

36 320 ............................................. $62,500 1987 36’ 1987 1995 .............................................

Freedom 320 ............................................. $62,500 32’ Catalina 36 1987 Freedom 320 Freedom 36’ 32’ Catalina 1995 ............................................. $62,500 .............................................

36 Freedom 36’ 1987 1995 ............................................. $62,500 .............................................

36 Catalina 320 32’ 1987 36’ .............................................

36 Freedom Catalina 320 32’ 36 1995 ............................................ $62,500 $42,500 36 1987 ........................................

Freedom .......................................

36 1995 .......................................

32’ $62,500 $42,500 320 Catalina 1987 .................................

32’ 1995 Freedom 320 Catalina 36 ............................. $62,500 $42,500 1995 Freedom ........................

36 Catalina $62,500 32’ $42,500 320 ..................

Catalina 32’ 1995 36 320 $42,500 .............. $62,500 1995 ..........

36 $42,5 320 ........

Cata $62, 32’ 32 C .

3 1 42 1981 Pea son 424 42’ 1981 Pearson 424 42 ............................................$35,000 1981 $35 000 Pea son36 4241987 F eedom 36 36’ 1987 Freedom $35 000 36 .............................................$62,500 36 1987 $62 500 F eedom32361995 Ca a na 320 32’ 1995 Catalina $62 500 320 .............................................$42,500 32 1995 $42 500 Ca a na 320 $42 500 $ 42$170,000 2001 Boa 42 $170 000 36 1984 Cape Do y..............................................$42,500 36 $99 000 30 2015 C&C 30 $139 500 na ........................................ .............................. .. ’........................ talina 01 .................

70,000 ........... .............................................

2001 $170,000 42’ 42 Catalina 42’ 2001 .............................................

42 Catalina $170,000 .............................................

Catalina 42’ 42 42’ $170,000 2001 .............................................

42 2001 .............................................

42 Catalina 42’ .............................................

42 Catalina 42’ 2001 $170,000 .............................................

2001 $170,000 42 Catalina 42’ .............................................

42 Catalina $170,000 42’ 2001 ............................................. $170,000 2001 42’ 42 42’ 2001 42’ .............................................

42 Catalina $170,000 2001 42’ .............................................

2001 $170,000 Catalina 2001 $170,000 Catalina 42’ .............................................

42 Catalina 42’ .............................................

2001 42 2001 .............................................

42 42’ 42 $170,000 Catalina ............................................. .............................................

42 2001 42 $170,000 Catalina .............................................

2001 Catalina 42 $170,000 Ca .............................................

42 $170,000 a .............................................

42 na $170,000 42 $170,000 $170,000 $170,000 $170,000 $170,000 $170,000 $170,000 $170,000 $170 000 35’ 35’ 1979 1979 Bristol 35’ Bristol 35’ 1979 1979 35.5 35’ Bristol 35’ 1979 ..............................................

Bristol 1979 ..............................................

35.5 Bristol 35’ 35.5 Bristol 35’ 1979 ..............................................

35.5 1979 ..............................................

35’ Bristol 35.5 ..............................................

35’ Bristol 1979 ..............................................

1979 35.5 Bristol 35’ 35.5 Bristol ..............................................

35’ 1979 $42,500 ..............................................

1979 35.5 35’ $42,500 Bristol 35.5 35’ 1979 ..............................................

Bristol $42,500 1979 ..............................................

35.5 Bristol 35’ $42,500 32’ 35.5 Bristol 35’ 1979 32’ 2016 .............................................. $42,500 35.5 1979 2016 .............................................. $42,500 Bristol 35’ 32’ 35.5 ..............................................

Bristol 35’ 1979 Legacy 32’ 2016 $42,500 ..............................................

1979 35.5 2016 32’ $42,500 32 Bristol 35’ Legacy 35.5 Downeast 32’ 2016 32 ..............................................

Bristol 35’ 1979 Legacy $42,500 Downeast 2016 ..............................................

1979 35.5 35’ Legacy $42,500 32’ 32 Bristol 35.5 35’ 1979 Legacy Downeast 35’ 32’ 32 2016 ..............................................

Bristol .................................. $42,500 1979 Downeast 35’ 1979 2016 ..............................................

32 ..................................

35.5 Bristol $42,500 32’ Legacy 1979 Downeast 32 35.5 Bristol Bristol 35’ 32’ Legacy 2016 $42,500 .............................................. ..................................

Downeast 35.5 Bristol 35’ 1979 2016 $42,500 ..............................................

32 ..................................

Legacy 32’ 35.5 1979 35.5 Downeast 32 ..............................................

35’ ..................................

Bristol Legacy 32’ 2016 $42,500 35.5 Downeast .........................................

35 1979 .................................. ........................................

Bristol SOLD 2016 32’ $42,500 32 Legacy 1979 ..................................

SOLD 35.5 Downeast 32’ 2016 32 Bristol ..............................

Legacy $42,500 35.5 Downeast 2016 Br .........................

SOLD Legacy $42,500 32’ 32 s35.5 ...................

SOLD Legacy Downeast o 32’ 32 2016 ...............

35 $42,500 SOLD Downe 2016 ...........

32 ..........

5 Lega $42, 32’ SOL Do 32 L 3 2 $ 42 2001 Ca2001 a $170,000 na 42Catalina 42’ 2001 Catalina 42 .............................................$170,000 4235.5 $170 2001 000 Ca aCatalina na 42 $170 000 35 1979 B42 sCatalina o 35$170,000 5 35’ 1979 Bristol 35.5 35 1979 $42 500 B s o.............................................

35 32 5Legacy 2016 Legacy 32 Downeas 32’ 2016 Legacy $42 500 32 Downeast 32 2016 SOLD ..................................SOLD Legacy 32 Downeas SOLD 421983 2018 Legacy 42 PS Ava ab Now $895 000 36 2001 Bene eau 361 $69 900 28 2009 McKee C a$45,500 F32 eedom 28 CC $79 000 &C .......................................... ................................ .... ’..........................

83 ...................

52,000 .............

0..............................................

1983 40’ CB $52,000 40 C&C 40’ 1983 CB ..............................................

C&C $52,000 40 1983 ..............................................

C&C 40’ CB $52,000 40 40’ 1983 CB .............................................. $52,000 40 CB .............................................. $52,000 40 C&C 40’ CB ..............................................

C&C 40’ 1983 $52,000 40 ..............................................

1983 CB $52,000 40 C&C 40’ CB ..............................................

C&C 40’ 1983 $52,000 40 ..............................................

1983 40’ CB $52,000 40 C&C 40’ 1983 CB 40’ ..............................................

C&C $52,000 40 1983 40’ 1983 ..............................................

C&C CB $52,000 40 1983 C&C C&C CB $52,000 ..............................................

40 C&C 40’ CB $52,000 ..............................................

40 40 1983 CB CB ..............................................

40’ 40 C&C $52,000 CB ..............................................

40 1983 ..............................................

C&C $52,000 40 1983 ..............................................

CB C&C 40 $52,000 CB C&C .............................................. $52,000 40 ..............................................

CB 40 $52,000 .............................................. $52,000 $52,000 $52,000 $52,000 $52,000 $52,000 $52,000 $52,000 $52 000 35’ 35’ 1989 1989 Hunter 35’ Hunter 35’ 1989 1989 35.5 35’ Hunter 35.5 35’ 1989 Legend Hunter 1989 Legend Hunter 35.5 35’ Hunter 35.5 35’ 1989 ................................

Legend 1989 35.5 ................................

Legend 35’ Hunter 35.5 Legend 35’ Hunter 1989 ................................

1989 ................................

35.5 Hunter 35’ 35.5 ................................

Legend Hunter 35’ 1989 $45,500 ................................

Legend 1989 35.5 35’ $45,500 Hunter 35.5 35’ 1989 ................................

Legend Hunter $45,500 1989 ................................

Legend Hunter 35.5 35’ $45,500 32’ Hunter 35.5 35’ 1989 ................................

32’ Legend 2008 $45,500 1989 35.5 ................................

Legend 2008 $45,500 Hunter 35’ 32’ 35.5 Legend Hunter 35’ 1989 ................................

Legacy 32’ 2008 $45,500 Legend 1989 ................................

35.5 2008 32’ $45,500 32 Hunter 35’ Legacy 35.5 ................................

32’ 2008 ..............................................

Legend 32 Hunter 35’ 1989 Legacy $45,500 ................................

2008 ..............................................

Legend 1989 35.5 35’ Legacy $45,500 32’ 32 Hunter 35.5 35’ 1989 ................................

Legacy 35’ ..............................................

32’ 32 Legend 2008 Hunter $45,500 1989 ................................

35’ 1989 ..............................................

Legend 2008 32 Hunter 35.5 32’ Legacy 1989 ..............................................

Hunter 35.5 Hunter ................................

35’ 32’ Legacy 2008 Legend $45,500 ..............................................

35.5 Hunter ................................

35’ 1989 2008 Legend $45,500 32 Legacy 32’ 35.5 1989 35.5 Legend ..............................................

32 35’ Hunter Legacy ................................

32’ 2008 $275,000 $45,500 35.5 Legend ..........................................

35 Legend 1989 Hunter ................................

2008 $275,000 32’ $45,500 32 Legacy Legend 1989 35.5 ................................

32’ 2008 ................................

32 Hunter Legacy $275,000 $45,500 35.5 ...........................

2008 ........................... ..........................

Hun Legend $275,000 Legacy $45,500 32’ 32 ....................

Legend 35.5 Legacy er .................

32’ $275,000 32 2008 $45,500 35 ...........

Legen $275,0 2008 ...........

32 5 Lega $45, 32’ Leg ..... ....

32 L 3 2 $ $ 40 1983 C&C 40 CBC&C 40’ 1983 C&C 40 CB ..............................................$52,000 40 1983 $52 000 C&C 40e CB $52 000 35 1989 Hun e40’ 35Legend 51983 Legend 35’ 1989 Hunter 35.5 Legend 35 1989 $45 ................................$45,500 500 Hun eCB 35 32 5Legacy 2008 Legend Legacy 32 32’ 2008 Legacy $45 500 32 ..............................................$275,000 32 $275 2008 000 Legacy 32 $275 000 41 2003 Ta an 4100 Deep Kee $179 000 36 1984 Kadey KPacific ogan Mana ee $125 000 27 1987 Pac fic Seac aHunter O 500 on $38 000 c craft .............................. .. cific ’........................

98 ................. t 15,000 ...........

1998 $215,000 Seacraft 40 40’ Pacific ................................

Seacraft 40 40’ 1998 Pacific $215,000 ................................

1998 40 $215,000 Pacific Seacraft 40’ ................................

40 Pacific Seacraft 40’ $215,000 1998 ................................ $215,000 1998 Seacraft 40 Pacific 40’ Seacraft ................................

40 Pacific 40’ 1998 $215,000 ................................

40 1998 $215,000 Seacraft Pacific 40’ ................................

40 Seacraft Pacific $215,000 40’ 1998 ................................ $215,000 1998 40 Seacraft 40’ Pacific ................................

Seacraft 40’ 1998 40’ Pacific $215,000 ................................

1998 40’ 1998 $215,000 40 Pacific Seacraft 1998 ................................

40 Pacific Seacraft $215,000 Pacific ................................ $215,000 Seacraft Pacific 40’ 1998 40 Seacraft 1998 Seacraft ................................

40 40’ $215,000 Pacific Seacraft ................................

40 1998 $215,000 40 Pacific ................................

1998 40 40 Seacraft $215,000 ................................ ................................

40 Seacraft Pac $215,000 ................................

Seacraft 40 c $215,000 Seacra ................................ $215,000 ................................

40 $215,000 ................................

40 $215,000 $215,000 $215,000 $215,000 $215,000 $215 000 35’ 35’ 2004 2004 Hunter 35’ Hunter 35’ 2004 2004 356 35’ Hunter 356 35’ 2004 ...............................................

Hunter 2004 ...............................................

Hunter 356 35’ Hunter 356 35’ 2004 ...............................................

2004 356 ...............................................

35’ Hunter 356 ...............................................

35’ Hunter 2004 ...............................................

2004 356 Hunter 35’ 356 ...............................................

Hunter 35’ 2004 $75,000 ...............................................

2004 356 35’ $75,000 Hunter 356 35’ 2004 ...............................................

Hunter $75,000 2004 ...............................................

Hunter 356 35’ $75,000 31’ Hunter 356 35’ 2004 ...............................................

31’ 1986 $75,000 2004 356 ...............................................

1986 $75,000 Hunter 35’ Bristol 31’ 356 ...............................................

Hunter 35’ 2004 Bristol 31’ 1986 ...............................................

2004 356 31.1 31’ $75,000 Hunter 35’ Bristol 356 ...............................................

31’ 1986 Hunter 35’ 2004 ..............................................

Bristol $75,000 ...............................................

1986 2004 356 ..............................................

35’ 31.1 Bristol $75,000 31’ Hunter 356 35’ 2004 31.1 Bristol 35’ ...............................................

31’ 1986 Hunter .............................................. $75,000 2004 35’ ...............................................

2004 31.1 1986 Hunter 356 .............................................. $75,000 31’ Bristol 2004 31.1 356 Hunter ..............................................

35’ 31’ ...............................................

Bristol 1986 $75,000 356 Hunter ..............................................

35’ ...............................................

2004 1986 $75,000 31.1 Bristol 31’ 2004 356 31.1 ...............................................

35’ Hunter Bristol .............................................

31’ 1986 $75,000 356 .......................................... .........................................

35 2004 Hunter ........................................

1986 31.1 31’ $75,000 $52,500 Bristol ...................................

2004 31.1 356 31’ 1986 Hunter ..............................

Bristol $75,000 $52,500 356 1986 Hun .......................... .........................

31.1 Bristol $75,000 31’ $52,500 ....................

356 31.1 Bristol er 31’ 1986 ............... $52,500 $75,000 356 ............

31.1 1986 ......... $52,5 Brist $75, 31’ 31. ..

B 3 1 $ 40 1998 Pac c Seac a 40’ 40 1998 Pacific Seacraft 40 40 $215 1998 ................................$215,000 000 Pac c40 Seac a 40 $215 000 35 2004 Hun e40’ 356 35’ 2004 Hunter 356 ...............................................$75,000 35 2004 $75 000 Hun e40 356 31 1986 B$75,000 s$215,000 o1986 31 131.1 31’ 1986 Bristol $75 000 31.1 ..............................................$52,500 31 1986 $52 B s27 o356 31 1$52,500 $52 500 41 2005 Ta an 4100 CCR $249 000 36 2008 Hun e 36 $89 000 27 2016 Fou W nn 275 Exp e $89 900 c craft .............................. .. cific ’........................

02 ................. t 74,000 ...........

2002 $274,000 Seacraft 40 40’ Pacific ................................

Seacraft 40 40’ 2002 Pacific $274,000 ................................

2002 40 $274,000 Pacific Seacraft 40’ ................................

40 Pacific Seacraft 40’ $274,000 2002 ................................ $274,000 2002 Seacraft 40 Pacific 40’ Seacraft ................................

40 Pacific 40’ 2002 $274,000 ................................

40 2002 $274,000 Seacraft Pacific 40’ ................................

40 Seacraft Pacific $274,000 40’ 2002 ................................ $274,000 2002 40 Seacraft 40’ Pacific ................................

40 Seacraft 40’ 2002 40’ Pacific $274,000 ................................

2002 40’ 2002 $274,000 40 Pacific Seacraft 2002 ................................

40 Pacific Seacraft $274,000 Pacific 40’ ................................ $274,000 Seacraft Pacific 40’ 2002 40 Seacraft 2002 Seacraft ................................

40 40’ $274,000 Pacific Seacraft ................................

40 2002 $274,000 40 Pacific ................................

2002 40 40 Seacraft Pacific $274,000 ................................ ................................

40 Seacraft Pac $274,000 ................................

Seacraft 40 c $274,000 Seacra ................................

40 $274,000 ................................

40 $274,000 ................................

40 $274,000 $274,000 $274,000 $274,000 $274,000 $274,000 $274 000 1988 1988 O’Day 35’ O’Day 35’ 1988 35 1988 35’ O’Day ..................................................

35 35’ 1988 O’Day ..................................................

1988 35 O’Day 35’ 35 O’Day 35’ 1988 ..................................................

35 35’ O’Day 35 O’Day 1988 ..................................................

1988 O’Day 35’ ..................................................

35 O’Day 35’ 1988 .................................................. $33,000 35 1988 35’ $33,000 O’Day ..................................................

35 35’ 1988 O’Day .................................................. $33,000 1988 35 O’Day 35’ $33,000 31’ ..................................................

35 O’Day 35’ 1988 31’ 1989 $33,000 ..................................................

35 1988 1989 $33,000 O’Day 35’ ..................................................

Pacific 35 31’ O’Day 35’ 1988 ..................................................

Pacific 31’ 1989 $33,000 35 1988 1989 Seacraft 31’ $33,000 O’Day 35’ Pacific ..................................................

35 Seacraft 31’ 1989 O’Day 35’ 1988 Pacific .................................................. $33,000 1989 35 1988 35’ 31 Pacific $33,000 Seacraft 31’ O’Day ..................................................

35 35’ ..................................

1988 31 Pacific Seacraft 35’ 31’ 1989 O’Day .................................................. $33,000 ..................................

1988 35’ 1988 1989 Seacraft 35 O’Day 31 $33,000 31’ Pacific 1988 Seacraft ..................................................

35 O’Day ..................................

O’Day 31 35’ 31’ Pacific 1989 $33,000 ..................................................

35 ..................................

O’Day 35’ 1988 1989 31 $33,000 Seacraft Pacific ..................................................

31’ 35 35 ..................................

31 Seacraft 35’ O’Day Pacific .............................................

31’ 1989 ............................................ $33,000 35 .................................. $74,500 35 1988 O’Day 1989 Seacraft 31 31’ ...................................... $33,000 $74,500 Pacific 1988 35 .................................

Seacraft 31 31’ 1989 O’Day Pacific ............................. $33,000 35 ............................ $74,500 1989 O31 Pacific Seacraft ....................... $33,000 31’ Day $74,500 35 ..................

31 Pacific Seacraft 31’ 1989 $74,500 ...............

35 $33,000 .............

1989 Seacra $74,5 31 Paci $33, 31’ Sea ...

3 P 3 1 $ 40 2002 Pac c 35’ Seac35’ a 40’ 40 2002 Pacific Seacraft 40 40 $274 2002 ................................$274,000 000 Pac c..................................................

Seac a1988 40 $274 000 35 1988 O..................................................

Day35’ 35 35 35’ 1988 O’Day 35 ..................................................$33,000 35 1988 $33 000 O Day 35 31 1989 Pac c Seac a 31’ 31 1989 Pacific $33 000 Seacraft 31 31 1989 $74 ..................................$74,500 500 Pac c1988 Seac a 31 $74 500 c craft .............................. .. cific ’........................

96 ................. t 39,000 ...........

1996 $239,000 Seacraft 40 40’ Pacific ................................

Seacraft 40 40’ 1996 Pacific $239,000 ................................

1996 40 $239,000 Pacific Seacraft 40’ ................................

40 Pacific Seacraft 40’ $239,000 1996 ................................ $239,000 1996 Seacraft 40 Pacific 40’ Seacraft ................................

40 Pacific 40’ 1996 $239,000 ................................

1996 $239,000 Seacraft Pacific 40’ ................................

40 Seacraft Pacific $239,000 40’ 1996 ................................ $239,000 1996 40 Seacraft 40’ Pacific ................................

Seacraft 40’ 1996 40’ Pacific $239,000 ................................

1996 40’ 1996 $239,000 40 Pacific Seacraft 1996 ................................

40 Pacific Seacraft $239,000 Pacific 40’ ................................ $239,000 Seacraft Pacific 40’ 1996 40 Seacraft 1996 Seacraft ................................

40 40’ $239,000 Pacific Seacraft ................................

40 1996 $239,000 40 Pacific ................................

1996 40 40 Seacraft Pacific $239,000 ................................ ................................

40 Seacraft Pac $239,000 ................................

Seacraft 40 c $239,000 Seacra ................................

40 $239,000 ................................

40 $239,000 ................................

40 $239,000 $239,000 $239,000 $239,000 $239,000 $239,000 $239 000 40 1994 Hun e40 40 5 $69 900 36 2020 Ta an 365 # 2 Sep embe CALL 27 1992 No Sea 27 $59 000 35’ 35’ 1984 1984 Southern 35’ Southern 35’ 1984 1984 35’ Southern Cross 35’ 1984 Southern Cross 1984 Southern 35 35’ Cross ..................................

Southern 35 35’ 1984 Cross ..................................

1984 35 35’ Southern Cross ..................................

35 35’ Southern 1984 Cross ..................................

1984 35 Southern 35’ Cross ..................................

35 Southern 35’ 1984 Cross .................................. $67,500 1984 35’ 35 $67,500 Southern Cross ..................................

35’ 35 1984 Southern Cross .................................. $67,500 1984 Southern 35 35’ $67,500 27’ Cross ..................................

Southern 35 35’ 1984 27’ 1980 $67,500 Cross ..................................

1984 1980 $67,500 35 Southern 35’ Cross Pacific 27’ ..................................

35 Southern 35’ 1984 Cross Pacific 27’ 1980 $67,500 ..................................

35 1984 1980 Seacraft 27’ $67,500 Southern 35’ Cross Pacific ..................................

35 Seacraft 27’ 1980 Southern 35’ 1984 Cross Pacific .................................. $67,500 1980 1984 35 35’ Orion Pacific $67,500 Seacraft 27’ Southern Cross ..................................

35 35’ 1984 Orion Pacific Seacraft 35’ 27’ 1980 Southern Cross .................................. $67,500 27 1984 35’ 1984 1980 Seacraft Southern 35 Orion w/ $67,500 27’ Pacific 27 1984 Cross Seacraft ..................................

Southern 35 Trailer Southern Orion w/ 35’ 27’ Pacific 1980 $67,500 Cross ..................................

27 Trailer Southern 35’ 1984 1980 Orion $67,500 Seacraft 35 Pacific w/ Cross 27’ 27 ......

1984 Orion Seacraft ..................................

35 35’ Trailer Southern Pacific w/ Cross 27’ 1980 Cross $67,500 27 ...... $52,500 ..................................

35 Trailer 1984 35 Southern 1980 Seacraft w/ Orion Cross 27’ $67,500 27 $52,500 Pacific ..................................

1984 35 Trailer ......

35 Seacraft w/ Orion 27’ 1980 Southern Pacific .............................

Cross $67,500 ............................

Trailer 27 ......

35 $52,500 1980 Sou Orion Pacific Seacraft Cross w/ $67,500 27’ ......................

27 $52,500 ......

Trailer Orion hern 35 Pacific Seacraft w/ 27’ 1980 ......

Cross $52,500 $67,500 27 .............

Trailer 35 1980 Seacra Cross $52,5 Orion w/ Paci $67, 27’ 27 ....... .....

Sea 35 Tr O w P 2 1 40 1996 Pac c Seac a 40’ 40 1996 Pacific Seacraft 40 40 $239 1996 ................................$239,000 000 Pac c40 Seac a 40 $239 000 35 1984 Sou he n C oss 35’ 35 1984 Southern Cross 35 35 1984 $67 ..................................$67,500 500 Sou he n 27C 1980 oss 35 Pac c Seac a 27’ O 1980 onPacific 27 $67w500 TSeacraft a e 27 Orion 1980 $52 500 Pac 27 w/cTrailer Seac a......O$52,500 on 27 w T a e $52 500 $ .......................................... ................................ .... ’.......................... l83 ...................

55,000 I............. mk 1983 39 .............................................

39’ $55,000 Cal mk III 39’ 1983 Cal .............................................

39 III $55,000 1983 mk .............................................

39 Cal 39’ $55,000 mk III Cal 39’ 39 1983 $55,000 .............................................

III mk 39 1983 $55,000 .............................................

Cal 39’ mk III .............................................

39’ 1983 39 III $55,000 mk .............................................

1983 39 $55,000 Cal 39’ mk III Cal 39’ 1983 .............................................

39 $55,000 III2001 mk 1983 .............................................

39 39’ $55,000 Cal III 39’ 1983 39’ Cal .............................................

39 $55,000 III 1983 39’ 1983 mk .............................................

39 Cal $55,000 mk III Cal 39 Cal 39’ $55,000 .............................................

III mk 39 Cal 39’ 1983 39 $55,000 ............................................. mk III mk 1983 39 39’ .............................................

Cal III $55,000 mk III 39 1983 .............................................

Cal .............................................

39 $55,000 III 1983 mk .............................................

39 Cal $55,000 mk III Ca ............................................. $55,000 mk 39 ............................................. mk III $55,000 ............................................. $55,000 $55,000 $55,000 $55,000 $55,000 $55,000 $55,000 $55,000 $55 000 35’ 35’ 2001 2001 Tartan 35’ Tartan 35’ 2001 3500 2001 35’ Tartan 3500 35’ 2001 ............................................

Tartan ............................................

3500 Tartan 35’ 3500 Tartan 35’ 2001 ............................................

3500 2001 ............................................

35’ Tartan 3500 ............................................

35’ Tartan 2001 ............................................

2001 3500 Tartan 35’ 3500 Tartan ............................................

35’ 2001 $152,000 ............................................

3500 2001 $152,000 35’ Tartan 3500 35’ 2001 ............................................

Tartan $152,000 ............................................

3500 $152,000 Tartan 35’ 27’ 3500 Tartan 35’ $152,000 2001 27’ 1984 ............................................

3500 $152,000 2001 1984 ............................................

Tartan 35’ Pacific 27’ 3500 ............................................

Tartan 35’ 2001 $152,000 Pacific 27’ 1984 3500 2001 $152,000 1984 Seacraft 27’ Tartan 35’ Pacific 3500 Seacraft 27’ 1984 ............................................

Tartan $152,000 35’ 2001 Pacific 1984 ............................................ $152,000 3500 2001 35’ Orion Pacific Seacraft 27’ Tartan 3500 35’ 2001 Orion Pacific Seacraft 35’ 27’ 1984 ............................................

Tartan $152,000 27 2001 35’ 2001 Seacraft ............................................ $152,000 3500 Tartan 27’ Pacific .......................

27 2001 Seacraft 3500 Tartan $152,000 Tartan Orion 35’ 27’ Pacific 1984 ....................... ............................................

27 $152,000 3500 Tartan 35’ 2001 1984 Orion Seacraft ............................................

Pacific 27’ .......................

27 3500 3500 Orion Seacraft ............................................

35’ $152,000 Tartan Pacific 27’ 1984 .......................

27 3500 $48,000 .........................................

35 2001 $152,000 ........................................

Tartan 1984 Seacraft Orion 27’ .......................

27 $48,000 Pacific 2001 ..................................

3500 Seacraft Orion 27’ 1984 .......................

Tartan $152,000 Pacific 27 3500 $48,000 1984 Tar $152,000 .........................

Orion Pacific Seacraft 27’ ......................

27 $48,000 3500 an ...................

Orion Pacific Seacraft 27’ 1984 ................. $152,000 $48,000 3500 27 1984 Seacra ........... $152, $48,0 Orion Paci .......

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2 1 40 1985 TaCal an 40 $107 900 36 2019 Legacy 36 #2001 839 nIII Annapo $585 000 24 2000 McKee C1984 aOrion 245 $39 000 39 1983 Ca 39 mk 39’ 1983 Cal 39 mk III .............................................$55,000 39 1983 $55 000 Ca 39mk mk $55 000 35 2001 Ta1983 an 3500 35’ 2001 Tartan 3500 ............................................$152,000 35 $152 2001 000 Ta an 3500 27 1984 Pac............................................ c Seac a 27’ O 1984 on $152 Pacific 27 000 Seacraft 27 Orion 1984 $48 000 Pac 27 .......................$48,000 c2001 Seac a O on 27 $48 000 &C .......................................... ................................ .... ’..........................

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57,500 III .............

81988 38’ Mk $57,500 38 ...........................................

C&C 38’ 1988 Mk III C&C ........................................... $57,500 38 1988 IIIC&C 38’ Mk ........................................... $57,500 38 38’ 1988 Mk III $57,500 38 1988 III Mk $57,500 38 C&C 38’ ...........................................

Mk III C&C 38’ 1988 ........................................... $57,500 38 III 1988 Mk ........................................... $57,500 38 C&C 38’ Mk III C&C 38’ 1988 $57,500 ...........................................

38 III 1988 38’ Mk $57,500 ...........................................

38 C&C 38’ 1988 Mk III 38’ C&C $57,500 ...........................................

38 1988 III 38’ 1988 C&C Mk $57,500 ...........................................

38 1988 C&C C&C Mk III 38’ $57,500 38 ...........................................

C&C III 38’ 1988 Mk $57,500 38 38 ...........................................

1988 Mk III Mk 38’ 38 C&C $57,500 ...........................................

III Mk III 38 1988 C&C $57,500 ........................................... ...........................................

38 III 1988 Mk C&C ...........................................

38 $57,500 Mk III C&C $57,500 38 ...........................................

III Mk 38 ........................................... $57,500 Mk III ........................................... $57,500 $57,500 $57,500 $57,500 $57,500 $57,500 $57,500 500 34’ 34’ 2006 2006 Beneteau 34’ Beneteau 34’ 2006 2006 34’ Beneteau 343 2006 Beneteau 343 2006 ..........................................

Beneteau 34’ ..........................................

Beneteau 34’ 2006 343 ..........................................

2006 34’ Beneteau 343 ..........................................

34’ Beneteau 2006 343 ..........................................

2006 Beneteau ..........................................

34’ 343 Beneteau 34’ 2006 343 $94,000 ..........................................

2006 34’ $94,000 Beneteau ..........................................

343 34’ 2006 Beneteau 343 $94,000 2006 ..........................................

Beneteau 34’ $94,000 26’ ..........................................

343 Beneteau 34’ 2006 26’ 2014 $94,000 343 ..........................................

2006 2014 $94,000 Beneteau 34’ Tartan 343 26’ ..........................................

Beneteau 34’ 2006 Tartan 343 26’ 2014 $94,000 ..........................................

2006 Fantail 2014 26’ $94,000 ..........................................

Beneteau 34’ Tartan 343 Fantail 26’ 2014 34’ 2006 Tartan 343 $94,000 ..........................................

Daysailor 2014 2006 34’ Fantail Tartan $94,000 26’ ..........................................

Beneteau Daysailor 343 34’ 2006 Fantail Tartan 34’ 26’ 2014 Beneteau 343 $94,000 2006 ..........................................

34’ 2006 Fantail Daysailor 2014 -$57,500 Beneteau $94,000 26’ Tartan Demo............. ..........................................

2006 Fantail Daysailor -$57 Beneteau Beneteau 34’ 26’ Tartan 2014 Demo............. $94,000 343 Daysailor ..........................................

Beneteau 34’ 2006 2014 Fantail $94,000 --24 Daysailor Tartan 26’ 343 Demo............. ..........................................

2006 Fantail -34’ Beneteau Tartan 26’ 343 2014 Demo............. $94,000 343 .......................................... $84,000 34 2006 -Beneteau Fantail 2014 26’ $94,000 343 Demo............. ..................................... $84,000 ....................................

Tartan Daysailor 2006 -Fantail 26’ 2014 Demo.............

Beneteau Tartan $94,000 343 $84,000 Daysailor 2014 Bene -Fantail Tartan $94,000 26’ 343 Demo............ $84,000 Daysailor .....................

-Fantail Tartan 26’ 2014 Demo....... eau ............... $84,000 343 $94,000 Fantail Daysai 2014 -$84,0 343 Tarta Dem $94, 26’ .......

Fan Day -T D 2 $ 38 1988 C&C 38 MkC&C 38’ 1988 C&C 38 Mk III 38 ...........................................$57,500 1988 $57 500 C&C 38343 Mk $57 500 40...........................................

1997 Pac fic Seac a34’ 40 CALL 35 1999 Ta an 3500 CALL 24 1987 Pac fic Seac a343 Dana $49 000 34 2006 Bene eau 343 34’ 2006 Beneteau 343 34 ..........................................$94,000 2006 $94 000 Bene eau 26 343 2014 Ta an Fan aBeneteau 26’ Daysa 2014 o Tartan $94 Demo 000 Fantail 26 Daysailor 2014 $84 000 Ta Demo............. an Fan aDaysailor Daysa $84,000 o..............................

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Hanse 385 CALL 38’ 2015 Demo New Hanse -2015 ..............................

New 385 CALL Hanse 38’ Demo ..............................

385 CALL Hanse -38’ 2015 Demo New ..............................

CALL -2015 New Hanse 38’ Demo 385 ..............................

CALL - New Hanse 38’ 2015 Demo - 385 New ..............................

385 CALL 2015 Demo 38’ ..............................

385 CALL -Demo New Hanse 38’ 2015 ..............................

- 2007 New CALL 385 2015 38’ Demo ..............................

Hanse CALL 385 38’ 2015 Demo 38’ New Hanse ..............................

-2015 38’ 2015 New CALL 385 Hanse Demo ..............................

2015 CALL 385 Hanse -Hanse Demo 38’ New CALL 385 ..............................

-Hanse 38’ 2015 New Demo CALL 385 ..............................

385 2015 New 38’ Hanse Demo 385 -Beneteau New 38 CALL ..............................

2015 New Hanse Demo -Bene CALL ..............................

2015 New 385 Demo Demo Hanse 385 ..............................

-2007 Demo Hanse CALL New .............................. ..............................

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385 CALL New Demo ..............................

385 -eau New Demo CALL ..............................

New CALL Demo ..............................

CALL Demo ..............................

CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL CALL 34 34’ 34 34’ 2007 2007 Bene Beneteau 34 34’ Bene Beneteau 34 34’ 2007 eau 2007 34 34’ Bene Beneteau eau 343 34 34’ 2007 Bene Beneteau 343 .......................................... eau Bene Beneteau 34 34’ .......................................... eau 343 Bene Beneteau 34 34’ 2007 eau 343 ..........................................

2007 34 34’ Bene Beneteau eau 343 ..........................................

34 34’ Bene Beneteau 2007 343 .......................................... eau 2007 Bene Beneteau ..........................................

34 34’ eau 343 Bene Beneteau 34 34’ 2007 343 $95,000 eau ..........................................

2007 34 34’ $95,000 Beneteau eau ..........................................

343 34 34’ 2007 Bene Beneteau 343 $95,000 .......................................... eau Bene Beneteau 34 34’ $95,000 26’ eau 343 Bene Beneteau 34 34’ 2007 26’ 2014 $95,000 eau 343 ..........................................

2007 2014 $95,000 Bene Beneteau eau 34 34’ Tartan 343 26’ ..........................................

Bene Beneteau 34 34’ 2007 Tartan 343 26’ 2014 $95,000 .......................................... eau 2007 Fantail 2014 26’ $95,000 ..........................................

Bene Beneteau eau 34 34’ Tartan 343 Fantail 26’ 2014 Beneteau 34 34’ 2007 Tartan 343 $95,000 .......................................... eau Weekender 2014 2007 34 34’ Fantail Tartan $95,000 26’ ..........................................

Bene Beneteau eau Weekender 343 34 34’ 2007 Fantail Tartan 34 34’ 26’ 2014 Bene Beneteau 343 $95,000 2007 .......................................... eau 34 34’ 2007 Fantail Weekender 2014 Bene Beneteau $95,000 26’ Tartan -.......................................... eau 2007 Fantail Weekender 343 Demo..........

Bene Beneteau Bene Beneteau 34 34’ 26’ Tartan 2014 $95,000 -CALL eau 343 Weekender Demo.......... ..........................................

Bene Beneteau 34 34’ 2007 2014 Fantail $95,000 eau Weekender Tartan eau 26’ 343 2007 Fantail Demo..........

34 34’ Bene Beneteau Tartan eau 26’ 343 2014 $95,000 343 .......................................... $96,000 Weekender 34 2007 Bene Beneteau Fantail 2014 26’ $95,000 343 -..................................... $96,000 ....................................

Tartan Weekender eau Demo..........

2007 Fantail 26’ 2014 Bene Beneteau -..............................

Tartan eau Demo.......... $95,000 343 $96,000 Weekender 2014 Bene Fantail Tartan $95,000 343 26’ eau -$96,000 Weekender .....................

Demo.........

Fantail Tartan 26’ 2014 eau -............... $96,000 343 Demo.... $95,000 Fantail Weeke 2014 $96,0 343 Tarta $95, 26’ .......

Fan We De T 2 -$ 38 2015 Hanse 385 New 38’385 2015 Demo Hanse -Hanse New 38 2015 Demo CALL Hanse ..............................

385 New Demo CALL CALL 34 2007 Bene eau 343 34’ 2007 343 34 ..........................................$95,000 2007 $95 000 Bene 26 343 2014 Ta an Fan aBene 26’ Weekende 2014 Tartan $95 000 Demo Fantail 26 Weekender 2014 $96 000 Ta an --..........................................

Demo..........

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Weekende $96,000 Demo $96 000

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