On Sep 23, 9:14 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
We're going to be in or near Chesapeake City in a couple of days.

Does anyone have recommendations for restaurants and/or dockage in
that area? The boat is a Grand Banks 49 trawler drawing 5 1/2 ft. How
much room is in the anchorage area?

Hi, Wayne,

We've just come from there.

The anchorage is subject to how many come in before you. However,
it's got room for quite a few, and isn't so deep that you'll need lots
of scope.

However, if you get there timely, you can dock for free, either where
we went aground (you won't) at the end, a 45* angle to the canal, or
one of the two spots on the floating dock right next to it.
That has electric and water available on the honor system for $10, or
free without those otherwise there and at the end and in the
anchorage.

As to restaurants, we can heartily recommend the Yacht Club (name, not
reality), one block west and two blocks south. It was recommended to
us by a local boater we later saw in a town council meeting on the
storefront offices. He also recommended the local eaterie for
breakfast but I've forgotten the name - something funky. If it
weren't for our timing on the need to get out with the high tide,
which came an hour before dawn, we'd have taken that one as well.
Read my latest for my comments on fenders, though...

When we called the town for docking info, they recommended Bayards, a
lovely white-tablecloth restaurant on the corner as you go west on the
canalside street. We didn't go there, preferring the recommendation of
another boater (the local), but the prices wee comparable to the Yacht
Club. If you go there (YC), tell them we sent you

As a whole, the town is absolutely charming, and, as we find
everywhere, the people are unfailingly warm, even the fisherfolk whose
pier we took (the floating docks were full). As we walked into the
restaurant (a very high cuisine, but very casual atmosphere, place), a
couple outside recognized us as being the boat which just docked, and
welcomed us to the town.

Hope that helped...

L8R

Skip

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