Chesapeake Bay Cruising
Our Chesapeake Bay Cruising section features insights from liveaboards, tips and stories on cruising the Great Loop and Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), along with expert tips about boat maintenance and safety. For charter vacation stories visit our powerboat chartering section.
September 20, 2016
“Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?” Gordon Lightfoot wrote those words about Lake Superior, but they could easily describe the waves of the Chesa
September 17, 2016
September 16, 2016
We shared Tom Debacco and Kate Payne's story of departing on a Great Loop cruise in our August issue.
September 9, 2016
Fish weirs and duck blinds and an occasional string of clam markers bobbing in the water lined the shores of the lower Chester River as we made our way at a slow six knots one sunny August afternoo
August 31, 2016
Pleasure Boating in the Land of Pleasant Living
August 15, 2016
Talk to boaters about the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), and the first thing you’re likely
July 28, 2016
She was our second home. We lived aboard her for two winters out of the four years we owned her.
July 20, 2016
Did you ever wish you could take a sabbatical, sell your car, throw a bunch of stuff away, rent out your house, and embark on a yearlong adventure? So did Tom Debacco and his fiancée Kate Payne.
June 30, 2016
Powerboaters: Have you ever waved cheerfully at a sailboat crew and gotten stony silence—or worse—in return? It isn’t that sailors are snobbish (though some are).
June 6, 2016
When I tell people that I am a recent graduate of St.
March 15, 2016
Preparations begin days in advance, usually as we tie up from our last outing.
March 2, 2016
A marina is a facility that rents out slips where boat owners can keep their vessels, while a boatyard maintains and repairs boats.
December 16, 2015
It was November 2012 before Hans and Peggy Bjarno got to realize their dream of becoming snowbirds.
Finally retired, they took their 43-foot Albin trawler Aqua Vitae down the 1088-mile Intra-
November 25, 2015
Funky and Fragile in a Keysie Kind of Way
When friends in Florida invited us to cruise the Keys with them, we were quick to accept their kind offer.
October 26, 2015
Our 2014 boating season on the Chesapeake had been close to perfect by Labor Day's official closing of summer, unusually trouble free with respect to weather and mechanisms, especially when compar
October 21, 2015
Life after Looping
We moved aboard Destinées in April 2013.
September 22, 2015
Those who are used to heading to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for PassageMaker’s TrawlerFest will venture to a new location October 1-4: the Bay Bridge Marina in Stevensville, MD, on the Eastern Shore sid