ST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is helping boaters get ready for warmer weather with a Boating Essentials course in February, and a Chart Navigation class in March. Both courses take place in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium on the Miles River in St. Michaels, Md., with participation limited, with advanced registration needed. […]
Continue ReadingDOVER, DE – DNREC’s Division of Fish & Wildlife announced today that the Haven Lake boat ramp and parking lot, located near Milford, will be closed for upgrades beginning Monday, November 26, and continuing through December 21, 2018 weather permitting. The upgrades include the addition of a courtesy dock, extension of the existing ramp, and […]
Continue ReadingDOVER, DE – DNREC’s Division of Fish & Wildlife announced today the anticipated nearly six-month closure of the Phillips Landing Boat Ramp west of Laurel for reconstruction and expansion of the boat ramp beginning Monday, November 12, 2018 and continuing through April 30, 2019, weather permitting. The portion of the parking area closest to the […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – Following a historic two-year restoration project, 1889 bugeye Edna Lockwood was relaunched into the Miles River during the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s annual OysterFest on Saturday, October 27, 2018. Edna, queen of CBMM’s floating fleet, has spent the past several years having her nine-log hull completely replaced by CBMM shipwrights and […]
Continue ReadingLEWES, DE – DNREC Fish & Wildlife Natural Resources Police announced today that additional No Wake signs are being installed to extend the current No Wake Zone in the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal southward to the Rehoboth Bay. The extended No Wake Zone will begin in the vicinity of Bay Vista Marina and extend to the Canal […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – On Sunday, November 4, 2018 from 2-4 pm, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is hosting a Maryland’s Four Centuries Project seminar featuring Maryland Dove Captain Will Gates presenting research and development for a new replica of Maryland’s first ship. The seminar is one of four in a series hosted around the […]
Continue ReadingEnjoy a free slate of presentations and talks by experts in Chesapeake and maritime culture, history and literature throughout the weekend! PRESENTATIONS FEATURED PRESENTERS: FRIDAY, 7:30 PM. SEF Holt Center Join John Brady, President of the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, tells the story of the USS OLYMPIA, one of two remaining U.S. warships from […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Model Guild is offering a beginner’s model boatbuilding workshop from 9am-5pm on November 17 and 18, with limited participation and advanced registration needed. The weekend workshop includes instruction on carving a solid half-hull model of the historic Chesapeake Bay tugboat Delaware. This model is band-sawed from […]
Continue ReadingDELAWARE CITY – DNREC Fish & Wildlife Natural Resources Police officers rescued a 61-year-old Newark man on October 7, 2018 after he was swept into a large culvert pipe under Port Penn Road while crabbing from a kayak near Delaware City. A Fish & Wildlife Natural Resources Police officer on routine patrol was alerted that […]
Continue ReadingSt Michaels – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation are inviting the public to see and climb aboard the skipjack Stanley Norman during her October 15-18, 2018 stay at CBMM in St. Michaels, Md. On Thursday, October 18, 2018 you can climb aboard Stanley Norman, with dockside tours offered from 10-2:00 […]
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