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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?

Chesapeake City on the C&D Canal
 

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

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On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:31:12 -0000, Skip Gundlach
wrote:

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...

Thanks, very helpful.

I was there by car about 10 years ago and remember thinking it would
be an interesting place on a cruise. We passed by on our trip south
two years ago but went on to Baltimore because of scheduling issues.

Glad to hear that you and Lydia are getting your boat issues resolved
and making good progress south bound.

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On 2007-09-23 21:14:18 -0400, Wayne.B said:

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?

Skip's recommendations are sound, but you almost *have* to get some
crabs at the Tap Room.

Personally, I'd rather overnight on the Bohemia, just a few miles
further. Veazey Cove is a favorite spot.

--
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Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:57:21 GMT, Jere Lull wrote:

Skip's recommendations are sound, but you almost *have* to get some
crabs at the Tap Room.

Just got back from dinner there. Excellent. I'd been there before by
car about 10 years ago but couldn't remember the name of the place.
The dockmaster at Chesapeake Inn mentioned it and I recognized it as
soon as we walked up the hill.

Tomorrow we are going to Bohemia River. Any recommendations there?

The good news at Chesapeake City is that the entrance channel depths
are significantly greater than on the charts. The trick is to stay
close to the Corps of Engineers dock on the eastern side as you are
coming in. We never saw less than 9 feet at mid tide.

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On 2007-09-25 23:20:12 -0400, Wayne.B said:

Tomorrow we are going to Bohemia River. Any recommendations there?

As far as I know, there's still nothing on the Bo. They've been talking
about building one for decades.

I'm out of date with any of the restaurants on the Sass, as I the Kitty
Knight House seemed empty and for sale when we went past last week --we
got married there 2-3 owners back-- and it's been so long since we were
in the place across the river that I forget the name of it.

A few other-marina sources say that the new chef at Tolchester is
pretty good. I enjoyed the one meal I had there. (We usually leave the
dock a half hour after hitting the parking lot.)

As I think about it, we eat out so often, we'd would be poor restaurant
guides. ("Out" on the hook, of course. ;-)

About the only place we've eaten this season is Woodies in North East,
which we recommend. The "waterman specials" I had were fantastic and
the crabs were some of the best we've had in years.

--
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:30:54 GMT, Jere Lull wrote:

As far as I know, there's still nothing on the Bo. They've been talking
about building one for decades.

I'm out of date with any of the restaurants on the Sass

We ended up at the Granary restaurant on the Sass. Very good, and
dockage is a reasonable $1.25/ft with Boat US membership.

Chesapeake City on the C&D Canal
 

On 2007-09-27 06:26:16 -0400, Wayne.B said:

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:30:54 GMT, Jere Lull wrote:

I'm out of date with any of the restaurants on the Sass

We ended up at the Granary restaurant on the Sass. Very good, and
dockage is a reasonable $1.25/ft with Boat US membership.

Oh GOSH, how could I forget such a name! They've had an admirable
reputation for years through multiple ownerships. Our wedding-day
breakfast was there, and I have no reason to expect less than fantastic
offerings from them since.

My abject apologies for not remembering the Granary's name.

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Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:19:54 GMT, Jere Lull wrote:

My abject apologies for not remembering the Granary's name.

No problem, several local folks in Chesapeake City recommended it. We
ended up staying a second day and taking the dinghy all the way east
to the end of the river - very scenic.