I’m often surprised when I’m out in the bay just how shallow some areas are. I look for the crab pots because it seems they set them on the edge of the shallows. And HELLO from just across the bay!

Each and every one of his points is 100% correct. I spent 15 years in the USCGAUX teaching boating safety and crewing on safety patrols. I cannot emphasize enough just how important are his points. Thank you for making this video. Anyone who boats on the Bay needs to watch this!

@VagabondEpicurean

2 жыл бұрын

thanks and thank you for watching

Excellent advice never before spoken ! Thank you !

@VagabondEpicurean

4 күн бұрын

thank you for watching

Thanks! I plan to start using the bay in 2023 and this is all great information.

@VagabondEpicurean

Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching, you will have a GREAT time, be sure to stop in Rock Hall and North Point Marina. this was my home point for several years. If you get there please let Lorin, the owner know i Recommended them. ⛵🍷😎

I don't have a boat, but I still found this video REALLY informative.

I was Sailing on the White Lighting from Middle River to the Point Naval Academy and she Sank .. Swam too those big rocks and Lived for another 50 years ! Now she was donated St Michaels Maritime Museum .

@VagabondEpicurean

Жыл бұрын

wow

Somehow I missed this video. Thanks again for the solar/ battery install advice last year, the project was a huge success. See ya around Rock Hall.

@VagabondEpicurean

7 ай бұрын

thanks for watching. Happy holidays 🎄🥂🍻

Fabulous. Wish I saw this 3 years ago!

@VagabondEpicurean

Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching 🚤⛵

I'm learning how to drive my boat on the northern end where all those rivers meet we call it the convergence and you will learn how to drive the Chesapeake on those waters my friends. Safe travels.🤘

I will be cruising the bay for the first time, this year. This is good seamanship. Many thanks.

Thank you! Such a lot of really good information about the cruising area. We really appreciate your local knowledge!

Great points... worth watching a few times. Thanks!

This is probably the third time I've watched this video and I seem to learn something new every time. I've been out of the water for the past couple of years and will be downsizing from my 50' schooner to my old 25' Westerly Centaur that's been patiently waiting in my barnyard for me to come to my senses and go back to her. I've finally retired and I want to spend the next few years "cruising" the Chesapeake Bay in a way that I couldn't back in the days of my work-week life. It was a 'real busy' time trying to single-hand that steel behemoth, but the Centaur was always a good-keeping, easy sailer. With a tiller-steering auto-pilot, sailing (even motoring) was always pleasant and it'll be nice to get back to it. Thanks for a great video!!

@VagabondEpicurean

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. I am sure you will have fun on the Bay :)

@hifi6638

8 ай бұрын

Centaur’s, Westerly’s in general, are perfect Bay boats.

Thank you for sharing a lifetime of lessons learned. Very insightful!

@VagabondEpicurean

Жыл бұрын

your welcome and thanks for watching, Happy boating

#17: leave a float plan with landlubber and call them as soon as you've safely returned. Radios sometimes break. Phones can fall into the drink.

@VagabondEpicurean

Жыл бұрын

good points, thanks and thank you for watching

Thank you

Great Video! I'm an Eastern Shore Native, we claim the Bay as our backyard.

This was really great to watch. Good to see you Dom

Hey neighbor! I grew up in Deale and now live in Friendship.

Great video on the Bay, sailed here for the last 25 years, you nailed it.

@VagabondEpicurean

2 жыл бұрын

thank you :)

As new owners of a Catalina 27 on the Rhode River, this video is super helpful for my husband and I. We're trying to learn all we can before we get out on the bay in the spring, so thank you for making such an informative guide!!

@VagabondEpicurean

Жыл бұрын

I glad this was helpful, thanks for watching and i hope you will Subscribe

Thank you. Great Video.

@VagabondEpicurean

Жыл бұрын

thank you for watching, happy cruising :)😎🌞

That is a great list of things to be aware of period thanks for sharing

Good morning ☀️

Great video! Really good information, presented in straightforward way. I plan to be sailing those waters next month. Thanks!

Thank you so much for the precious details as I am planning my first cruise on my Cherubini across the bay from Baltimore. Great information!

Thank you for this.

I’m a new sailor learning in Wisconsin and I find this very informative even for the Great Lakes

What a nice guy! Thank You for all these tips.

@VagabondEpicurean

2 жыл бұрын

your welcome

We’re heading to the Bay in less than 25 days. 🎉

As a new cruiser, long time beer can racer, I appreciate your advice. DNR has some pretty good maps showing active pound nets. I was able to digitally upload them to my plotter. Thanks for the great video!

GREAT ADVICE!!!

I dont sail but this video applies to both, power and sailboats. Very informative, very helpful. Thank you !

@VagabondEpicurean

6 ай бұрын

thanks for watching 🍷🚤

You'd be surprised how silent a tugboat pushing a barge at Waterside Norfolks Elizabeth River is .

Excellent!

It’s so interesting to know you are living and fishing on Top of Meteor crater that is 53 miles in diameter. The meteor hit 35 million yrs. Very close to Cape Charles. The diameter reaches across the Chesapeake Bay toward Hampton. If you look at a map of the mouth of the James River near Hampton you can see where the River turns upwards slightly before it enters the Bay. That is a ridge of the crater.

@VagabondEpicurean

2 ай бұрын

thanks for the info ☺

Excellent video, thank you.

@VagabondEpicurean

2 жыл бұрын

your welcome, thanks for watching

[thank, you again for you're info and you're video]👍

Very instructional video!!!

Great video and real pertinent information. I spent time on the bay and it’s a great place. The only thing I’d add is look behind you often. It may be 95 and sunny in front of you and completely black behind you and coming faster than you think. Like maybe 15-20 minutes and you think it’s an hour away cause it’s hard to judge the distance on the water when you can barley see the hazy shore. Also keep an eye out for ships coming up behind you. The bay is great. Relax and enjoy. But don’t become complacent.

@VagabondEpicurean

2 жыл бұрын

good advice, thank you and thanks for watching

Great video Dom! Thanks for sharing! ... Oh also you might want to have your starboard front piling checked.... It was moving around. Might not be good in a storm.... 😎👍⚓

@brianluck84

3 жыл бұрын

She's gotta little flex for such calm conditions

Great video, feel like I got a personal tour guide of the Cheaspeake! Would love to see a similar style one done on the Delaware Bay, beaches and Cape May cruising. Looking forward to the next one

@christinafidance340

3 жыл бұрын

There is close to NOTHING on the Delaware Bay.... no marinas or gas. There’s plenty once you reach the ocean, but in my experience, the DE Bay is just an obstacle to cross, and with all of the large ships & barges and the tendency for the bay to get choppy, it’s important to only travel it during the day and in good weather. There’s not much online about it though, simply because there’s simply just not much there. It’s not so much a cruising place for pleasure boaters, just a way to get to the ocean.

The lower bay can get very nasty FYI, waves slap the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel 28'+ quite often just with usual storm surges. I've been aboard a 50' crab dredge boat off of Cape Charles and had the pilothouse blown out by a wave.

Great vlog, might want to include jellyfish.

[thank, you for you're video]👍

@VagabondEpicurean

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching 🥂

Very informative! Thank you! My husband and I moved onto a 1987 Silverton last year and since it’s not a sailboat and gas is pretty expensive on it, we are still exploring the bay even after a year!!! Our marina is right outside of Chesapeake City.

@tommyboyce5027

3 жыл бұрын

same i’m 14 my grandparents have a 2000 silverton we are on the bohemia

Can get pretty rough around the Wolf Trap light too.

Dom can you recommend a good cruising guide to the Chesapeake?

Excellent presentation! Lots of knowledge and experience. The only question I have is: Is the water in the Chesapeake Bay wet? Thank you very much for passing your experience on to us!

@VagabondEpicurean

2 жыл бұрын

yes, most of the time LOL thanks for watching

@McGrew100

2 жыл бұрын

@@VagabondEpicurean Glad you caught the humor! I grew up around that part of the bay and after 40 years away, we're planning on moving to the Kent Island area in the next year or so. I hope to be able to meet you in person if we do make it back. Thanks again!

@VagabondEpicurean

2 жыл бұрын

😄

#17 Eye protection...... hat, glasses, umbrella, tarp, ect...

@VagabondEpicurean

Жыл бұрын

good ideas, thanks

[I, own a 1989, 25ft fiberglass searay cabin boat]

Anyone able to advice on how to cut through the shoal coming into Rock Hall? I draw 4 feet in a Tartan 34c.

@yepiratesworkshop7997

2 жыл бұрын

It's been a couple of years since I've done it, but there are two range lights you can line up as you're coming out of Baltimore, down the Patapsco. Once, we went straight across the Swan Creek Bar into Rock Hall that way. This was on a 50' schooner with a 4-foot draft. I plan to get over there sometime this year in my little Westerly Centaur (3-foot draft) and sound out as much of the Swan Point Bar approach as I can. I hate it when I have to go all the way down to GC-1 or GC-3 to get into the channel. With the schooner and a little breeze, I can always heel her over a bit and get unstuck. With the Centaur's twin keels, it's a little different. In sand, grounding the Centaur's not a problem, the keels act like a water tunnel and the prop wash digs her out. In some of the Bay's sticky mud it's a bit more of a problem to get unstuck.

@danbernstein4694

Жыл бұрын

the prior response is correct. Line up on the range lights- I come in direct across Swann Point Bar at the the range light, aiming just to port as you pass the inner light. You may have only inches to spare, but over many years with a 5 foot draft never once even "touched bottom" (there).

Thank you very much, Dom. That was a very informative video. And the shirt you were wearing is much nicer than the HORRIBLE ones you have worn in the past. ;-)

Thank you kind sir!

@VagabondEpicurean

Жыл бұрын

your welcome, happy holidays ❄

Hello, Would it be alright to cross the bay from Chesapeake Beach to Cambridge in a 13 ft Boston Whaler?

@VagabondEpicurean

23 күн бұрын

depends on the weather, i know a person who travels all around the bay in Whaler, not sure of the size but i know its around that 13ft mark. Be safe, have fun and thanks for watching

[I, normally run to the mouth of the bay on out to the ship channel to bouy #48

Thank is there a place that I could fish from the shore I am in baltimore city had a stroke can't get around as good as I use to

@VagabondEpicurean

3 жыл бұрын

i will look in to it

@downhillsteve

3 жыл бұрын

Are you near Harbor Hospital? If yes, there is a boat ramp in there lot and I’ve seen lots of folks fishing there.

@darkerbrother1

3 жыл бұрын

You can also fish from Fort Howard (Dundalk) or Fort Armstead (Curtis Bay) I forgot that if you are a veteran there is no charge for a lot of the county and state parks You can also fish at North Point state Park in Dundalk

[im 5 mins to the Chesapeake bay I'm on the va and Potomac side of the Chesapeake bay]

“Not being involved”term goes a long way for safe boating.

I would like to take my 12 foot inflatable, 10hp motor on the chesapeake this year. Is there a place that is reasonable on a calm low wind day?

@darkerbrother1

3 жыл бұрын

You can launch from Sandy Point State Park right off of rt50 It’s at the Bay Bridge

Common sense boating , the only way to boat,sail or power.

I stopped watching right at the start… “it’s a Sandy bottom”… LOL!

Sounds to me like the best thing to know is not to go there

@VagabondEpicurean

2 жыл бұрын

what! this is a great cruising area. Thanks for watching

@SongSwan

2 жыл бұрын

@@VagabondEpicurean Perhaps but the whole video was full of warnings

@VagabondEpicurean

2 жыл бұрын

@@SongSwan i would like people to be safe and have fun :)

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