HK wrote:
Best day of the year so far for boating on Chesapeake Bay. Accompanied
by wife and my in-laws, we got an early start from Chesapeake Beach,
headed up towards the Bay Bridge, came down through Kent Narrows,
visited St. Micheals for a while, then went as far up the Miles River as
the Route 370 bridge.

Wish the rest of the summer would be as temperate as today.

Some snaps:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...oating/027.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...oating/033.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...oating/037.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...oating/049.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...oating/055.jpg


Gas was $3.69+, diesel $2.59+ over at St. Michaels. Very light boating
traffic on the Bay.

We had a terrific day on Canandaigua lake two weeks ago today.
Perfectly clear, 70+, no wind.

Here's what we found:

http://www.mpnnow.com/news/view_stor...articleId=8558

"An hour earlier, a boater on Canandaigua Lake called 911 to report that
a cottage on Granger Point Drive in South Bristol was on fire..."

"...The Naples fire wasn’t nearly as bad. The cottage’s owner, Mike May,
was out of town running some errands when it started. He later arrived
at the scene and told Naples Fire Chief Pat Elwell he had left at about
8 a.m. and that a housekeeper had arrived a short while later. The fire
was limited mostly to a four-foot crawl space between a new roof and the
older flat roof, Elwell said. “We’re suspecting it was electrical in
nature,” he said."

"May lives in Florida in the winter months and had just returned to the
summer home over the weekend. His wife had not yet arrived, Elwell said.
May declined help from the Red Cross, and will be staying with family in
the Rochester area while repairs are made to the roof and the electrical
system of the cottage."

"Elwell’s crew was helped by firefighters from Bristol, Cheshire and
Honeoye."

“For that boater to catch it at that state actually is what allowed us
to get in there to make a quick stop on it to minimize the loss,” Elwell
said. “We were able to salvage all its contents. ...It was actually a
good save.”

YUP, that was us out on the water.

There was nobody else around for the ~ 1 hr we were down there. It's a
good thing we happened by!

Rob