Here's my problem.

We've got the boat in the water and it is about ready to go. So far
so good. We have the whole summer (except for our granddaughter's
wedding in August, and some doctor's and dentists appointments) to
sail around in the Chesapeake. I have some ideas about where to go,
but maybe there's stuff I haven't thought of.

Our marina is on the Maryland side of the Potomac so that's the
starting point. It takes us about an hour to get from the marina to
the Bay. I prefer to go with the wind obviously and I like to eat in
restaurants and not to have to travel for too long in a day.

Where we've been by boat:

1998 - Galesville (where the boat was when we bought it) to the
Patuxent where we kept the boat for two years after we bought the boat

1999 - Patuxent to Bodkin Creek, and moving to a marina in the
Potomac. Also cruised over to Honga River and anchored there.

2000 - Potomac, Cove Point, Oxford, Selby Bay, Harness Creek, Bodkin
Creek, Baltimore, Rock Hall, Queenstown, Corsica River, Chestertown,
Shaw Bay, Cook Cove (Choptank), Oxford, Solomons Island.

And then starting down the ICW 2000, Reedville, Deltaville, Chisman
Creek, Ft. Monroe, Hampton and Norfolk

2001 - coming back up the ICW Norfolk VA, Salt Creek, Cooks Landing,
Indian Creek. I can't remember what we did that summer - I think we
went around to the Patuxent, and up to Breton Bay on the Potomac. Then
down the ICW Indian Creek, Sarah Creek and Norfolk.

2002 - Bob had a heart attack in the Bahamas. We came back up the ICW
from Norfolk via Stingray Point. We visited our daughter in England
and took a narrowboat trip, but we didn't go back down the ICW in the
fall of 2002

2003 - Visited Tangier Island, and Crisfield. Down the ICW via an
anchorage off Gwynn Island in the Piankatank and Portsmouth.

2004 - Back up the ICW - Norfolk and Indian Creek. Two trips - one
Tangier, Crisfield, Reedville and the other Jackson Creek, Mobjack
Bay, and Broad Creek. Also went across the Potomac to Coles Point for
lunch with our son's family.

2005 - We didn't go much of anywhere.

2006 - Ditto as my mom died (at almost 97) and I was completely
involved in clearing up her estate, plus Bob was having his teeth out.

2007 - after we sold my mom's house in July, we did a short Labor Day
cruise Tangier, Crisfield, Onancock, Reedville.

We've never been to St. Michaels because every time I plan to go there
either the wind is wrong or it is a holiday weekend. Never been
farther north than Baltimore.

My idea is to do a lot of sailing, because I also want to go through
the Panama Canal, and I've booked a trip through it and down to Peru
and back for this fall. Problem is, we have to leave November 3rd and
Bob is complaining (already) about having to pull the boat out of the
water at the end of October. I'd really love it if the trip was later
in the year, but it's not. It was the only trip I could find that
started and ended in the US on a small cruise ship (since Bob hates
the big ones)

We pretty much have covered the bay if there is a north wind which is
all we seem to get. Where should we go if we get a good south wind for
a couple of days?