Chesapeake Bay News
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October 27, 2015
Check out this 2-minute video of the WaterCar Panther, the most fun vehicle ever for those who like to drive fast on land, on dunes,
October 26, 2015
The El Faro is a 40 year old, 790-foot U.S. flagged containership that left Jacksonville, FL, on September 29 bound for San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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 23, 2015
A bay trolling rod not designed to handle the hard strike of a full grown striper or the weight of the lures attached to it does you no good. So we talked to some local rod experts to find the best…
October 22, 2015
When the leaves still cling to the trees, it’s hard to imagine the first morning you have to scrape the ice from your windshield. It’s even harder to imagine next spring.
October 22, 2015
With the temperature cooling down (sometimes quite dramatically), anglers can start dreaming and preparing for fall fishing tourneys.
October 21, 2015
Happy 'Back to the Future' Day!
October 21, 2015
Life after Looping
We moved aboard Destinées in April 2013.
October 20, 2015
October 19, 2015
The purpose of this three-part series of articles is to share some ideas and provide some advice but with no specific recommendations or endorsements. So, you want to buy a boat?
October 14, 2015
The 15th Annual Wye Island Electric Boat Marathon is a 24-mile electric boat race held in the Miles River near St.
October 14, 2015
We’ll admit that when we land at the boat show, we have an agenda: as many boats as possible. We crawl over them and squeeze under them; we kick gunwales and poke berths.
October 13, 2015
Each summer, the Maryland DNR conducts an annual survey to track the reproductive success of Maryland's state fish.
October 8, 2015
There are lots of other good fishing spots in the Commonwealth’s part of the Chesapeake that don’t get all the publicity. A prime example is the fishing grounds at and inside the mouth of the…
October 7, 2015
In part one of this two-part series I discussed horsepower, its characteristics, and the measurement thereof.
October 6, 2015
Below is the statement presented by Maine Maritime Academy's President Brennan during the community informational meeting