Herrington Harbour, Pier and Beach Area, July 21, 2009

We had a bit of a work on the boat - part of the day.
And I made everybody stand here for this shot.............
A little get together on the pier.
We were havin mudslides......
Hmmmm, hmmm, good!
They have a very nice beach right on the Bay.

Where's my cabana boy?

And Dawn catchin the rays....

Herrington Harbour South Marina, Mango's Dinner, July 20, 2009

We left Port Annapolis and went to Herrington Harbour South. We lucked out and had good seas, 1 ft. waves, and sunny skys. Then it started to cloud up and it did rain a bit later. We did get to spend the afternoon at the pool and then left for dinner at a restaurant right here called "Mango's". Really good food again.
I must say, we do eat good on these trips!
The group.
The Greco's had some of their friends join us for dinner.

Yes, Frank and Pat finally made it, Yeah!!!!

We had the waitress anounce that there was only one special for the evening, done 3 different ways.

Fried Eel, Baked Eel, and Smoked Eel...............................

This was only a joke!

As the story goes, Frank got delayed for the first 3 days of the trip. He had an overheating problem on one of his engines. They did this and that, and everything else they could do and check and then finally, looked inside the oil cooler........... there was an eel stuck up in there.

Had to get a screwdriver and long nose plyers to get him out.

Runs fine now!

Frank is very appreciative of all the people that stuck with him and stayed to work on his boat to get him underway. He said Bob and Fred worked all day!

Way to go guys, and I Thank You as well.

My man..... "Frank", he was eating a dinner role. We were hungry.

Sorry Frank, I couldn't resist.

I am always taking the pictures so I'm rarely in them. So I ask Jason to grab this one of us.

Port Annapolis Marina + Deck, July 19, 2009

They have a really nice deck area that we were able to capture as "ours" for the evening.
We grilled out and had great food along with a relaxing time.
The Socha twin boys came out.

Barb brought a cake that was to die for.

And the Greco's.

Port Annapolis Marina + Our Boats, July 19, 2009

This is NOT from one of our boats, but can you guess what it is?
It is a crab pot - rope / line cutter.............
We saw it on the shaft of one of the big sail boats that was on land.
The thing is really sharp, and will deffinitely do a number on your fingers...... so I guess it will cut a crab pot line or two.

This is sail boat country so I guess it stands to reason we'd be put in a slip next to sailboats.

Most everybody else got put along the side of a long pier.

Port Annapolis Marina + Pool, July 18 / 19, 2009

Well, when we first got here at Port Annapolis Marina, it wasn't too long before we left and went into the town of Annapolis to do a Pub Crawl. That means doing a lot of bars and what not. I did manage to leave the group and take Nicole and Kevin to Ben and Jerry's to get my usual "ice cream" for the day. Mmmm, mmm, good. We also had various bits to eat along the way which kinda took care of dinner. But I forgot my camera for this part of the trip and therefore didn't get any pictures of the "good times" we had. There are plenty of stories to tell though.

Here are just a few pictures of the marina and pool area where we stayed.

Pool side.
Very nice pool.

2009 Vacation Trip Itinerary

Well, we are about to undertake this years vacation trip on our boat.
And it has been requested by many people that I do the blog thing again and give some pictures and updates of our whereabouts. So, here is our basic Trip Itinerary with links to the web sites for the places we are heading to this year.
The tail end of the Trip is kinda being left open so I can have some flexibility to do what ever we want as I know things can change with us - on the water that is!
Check them out:

2009 Vacation Trip Itinerary
July 18th, to 31st, 2009
Lee and Dawn
“Dawn Rae” III
1999 Sea Ray, 310DA, Express Cruiser,

Sat. July 18th, Port Annapolis Marina, Annapolis, MD
Sun. July 19th, Port Annapolis, http://www.portannapolis.com/
Mon. July 20th, Herrington Harbour South Marina, Friendship, MD
Tues. July 21st, Herrington Harbour South, http://www.herringtonharbour.com/
Wed. July 22nd, Spring Cove Marina, Solomons, MD
Thurs. July 23rd, Spring Cove, http://www.springcovemarina.com/
Fri. July 24th, Vera’s Beach Club, Lusby, MD
Sat. July 25th, Vera’s Beach Club, http://www.verasbeachclub.com/
Sun. July 26th, Corinthian Yacht Club, Ridge, MD, http://www.cycchesapeake.com/
Mon. July 27th, Tangier Island, Parks Marina, VA, http://www.tangierisland-va.com/
Tues. July 28th, Smith Island Ewell, MD, www.smithisland.us/marina.htm
Wed. July 29th, Selby Bay Yacht Club, Edgewater, MD, http://www.sbyc.info/
Thurs. July 30th, Trip Home! Crescent Yacht Club, Essex, MD ?
Fri. July 31st, Crescent Yacht Club, Essex, MD ?
Sat. Aug. 1st, Crescent Yacht Club, Essex, MD ?

Rockfish Story, May 20th, 2009

Well, I posted this fish story on my other boating blog and thought I'd mention it over here for my other friends. So I don't repeat the story in 2 places, check out the write up of the story and pictures at:
http://www.seaharley.blogspot.com/
Here are just the pictures.
Rich, with a 34" Rockfish.

And Barry with a 36" Rockfish.

Click on the photo to sea how big the fish is!

The crew!

Wax ON, Wax OFF

Well it is that time of year again. Time to clean up the boat and get her ready for spring commissoning.

So.... do you wanna help? I'm serious. I can use ya.

Just give me a call.

Sorry that there haven't been any boating adventure stories lately. But they'll be coming along soon.

I've already been working on the boat though. I've done lots of stuff.

I just need to make it all happen and make it come together.

I've got a splash date of Sunday, April 5th, 2009 at 9 AM.

If you help, I'll take you for a ride.

We have a Snow Storm!

Right now we are having a snow storm. We are expecting 6" to 9". Who knows?
It will be the first real snow storm of this season.

And then, we have boating season just around the corner in about a month.
I'll be having to start; "Wax ON, Wax OFF" in just a few weeks.

I just fishing my Tambour Door (roll-up door) project on our 310DA Sea Ray.
If you care about that kinda stuff, go to my other blog at:
http://www.seaharley.blogspot.com/

Have a good day!

As it turned out, we barely even got a dusting of about an inch. I think I'm gonna go to weather school.

Brianna's a STAR! "The Butterfingers Angel"

I just have to deviate from my normal boating blog stuff and make a special tribute to my niece Brianna. She has been pursuing acting and has done quite a bit of acting in her short amount of years. She's been in a number of plays and has landed some leading roles.

Last night, we had the pleasure of seeing her perform in a play called "The Butterfingers Angel" etc., etc. This is a cute play that is put on by the "REP STAGE" at the Howard Community College in Columbia Maryland. This play is rather funny and actually made for a nice night out. Besides seeing my niece, we had an enjoyable time.

I wasn't allowed to take pictures during the performance, BUMMER! So I had (and you'll have) to settle for the ones below that I took before and after the show.

The name of the play is actually longer than I stated above. All of the actual credits are listed below.

Remember to click on the actual pictures below and they will enlarge for you to see them better.

I managed to get this one before the play. Here she is on the right. She's with "Mary" in the middle, and the "Butterfingers Angel" on the left.

After the show at the credits bulletin board. Her show picture is in the middle, upper left side.

All of the cast.

Brianna had several parts but is listed here as part of the Children's Ensemble.

We are so very proud of her. There's no doubt she'll be making it really big time in the future. She's got it!


Info about the REP STAGE:

http://www.repstage.org/Productions/Butterfingers/index.html


And just some of the reviews:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/performing-arts/the-butterfingers-angel-mary-and-joseph-herod-the-nut-and-the-slaughter-of-12-hit-carols-in-a-pear-tree,1152445.html

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/121296/article020.shtml

http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/10/the-butterfingers-angel/

http://www.explorehoward.com/arts/13812/theater-review-butterfingers-catches-rep-happy-mood/

http://www.explorehoward.com/arts/13512/theater-preview-rep-stage-readies-butterfingers-angel/

http://www.howardcc.edu/about_hcc/news_and_events/Current_Advisories/2008-11-07.html

You might wanna check this one out yourself!