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The July SpinSheet is on the Docks

Jellyfish, rainbows, afternoon thunderstorms… one more day until July in Chesapeake country, and there’s no such thing as a bored sailor.

Finding a place to anchor for fireworks is top priority, and the latest print edition and our online calendar are great starting points.

From Havre de Grace to Norfolk, there will be one mantra: party on deck.

Raft-ups and regattas, both club-style and competitive, take over the Bay all month long. The Eastport YC Solomons Invitational is in its 28th year as a popular point-to-point overnight race and will be open for registration up until a few days before the July 18 start. Southern Maryland SA has another terrific three-day Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge on tap July 20-22.

Also in the July SpinSheet:

• Prepping Your Crew for Hot, Hot
• Latherin’ Up in the Summer Sun
• Those Anchoring Blunders We’ve All Made (“Compassion in the Mud”)
• She Sails E-Scows by the Seashore: Women’s Sailing
• July 4 Chesapeake Traditions and More!

We are working on the August issue. Advertising deadline is July 10. (410) 216-9309

~M.W.

Cover photo from Screwpile Regatta 2007 by Mark Talbott/SpinSheet

Community with Character

On the balmy evening of June 26, Annapolis Maritime Museum (AMM) supporters and a smattering of Eastport residents (Eastportaricans) gathered on the Back Creek shore to celebrate the long awaited completion of Ginger Doyel’s book, Over the Bridge: A History of Eastport at Annapolis. The work, funded by AMM fans, secures the essential legacy of the maritime community that defined the Annapolis waterborne culture over the last two centuries.

Over the bridge, across Spa Creek from the urban core of Annapolis, is a community with a rich legacy. It is the land that author William Stevens dismissed as Annapolis’s “shabby and unfragrant neighbor” in 1937. In this compelling history, award-winning author Doyel illuminates memorable people, places, regional trends, and events that have defined Eastport for over three centuries. She interviewed more than 600 citizens and collected nearly 2000 photographs, 700 of which made it into the book.

The 368-page Over the Bridge will be available this September at Hard Bean Coffee & Booksellers in Annapolis and through AMM (annapolismaritimemuseum.org). gingerdoyel.com

by Ruth Christie

Above: Jeff Holland and Buck Buchanan (L-R), both from AMM, celebrate with Ginger Doyel.
Photo by Joe Evans / PropTalk Magazine