Dates: June 19 thru June 26

Please keep Joe Rolfes, Cruise Director, advised of your plans. Here's a convenient email link: mailto: Joe (This means the Cruise Director needs each boat's name, length, draft, beam and electrical requirements....)

Boats Signed On:

Destination(s): Note: Destinations are subject to change on the water depending on weather and group preferences.  Be sure to provide your cell phone to the Cruise Director and monitor VHF CH 78.  For Lat/Lon, and distances, Click Here for the 2010 cruise details on Google Groups.

Sat 6/19	Depart MD Marina 1000, rendezvous at Lake Ogleton, Severn River (Anchor)
Sun 6/20	Sail to Phillips Creek., Little Choptank, (Anchor)
Mon 6/21	Short trip to Slaughter Creek Marina to relax at the pool & dinner ashore (Marina)
Tue 6/22	Anchor on Peachbottom Creek, Tred Avon River (Anchor)
Wed 6/23	Lunch in Oxford, then slip at Tilghman on Chesapeake Marina with a cookout on shore overlooking the Choptank - beautiful (Marina).
Thu 6/24	Cross the Bay via Knapp Narrows to Harness Creek, South River.  Take a walk in the park, go shopping, take a nap. (Anchor)
Fri 6/25	Anchor on Mill Creek., Whithall Bay; farewell dinner at Cantler's Restaurant.
Sat 6/26	Home James, and don't spare the knots.

Note: Waypoints provided as a general routing guide only. Not to be used for navigational purposes. Always consult a current chart, USCG Notice to Mariners and visual sightings.

Marina Plans: Marina reservations are in-place for those boats listed above. Be sure to advise the Cruise Director if your plans change.

Slaughter Creek Marina

Tilghman on the Chesapeake Yacht Club 1-800-RELAXED 410-886-2389

Special Plans:

Communications: Fleet 8 monitors and uses VHF channel 78 as a working channel

Monitor channel 9 for hailing
Monitor channel 16 for hailing, emergency & distress

Click here for full chart of VHF Channels

Links:

Tides: Find tides at NOAA's tides-online

NOTE: The Chesapeake Bay Operational Forecast System (CO-OPS,) has changed to www.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov

Weather: www.weatherunderground.com Enter Zip code for specific areas.,
OR.... Get it all from the horses mouth at...

Tolchester Bouy: Click Here for current conditions

Or go here: NDBC Chesapeake Bay Map
Then, click on the bouy you want to see.

Dial a Data Bouy directly on your cell phone:

Call 888-701-8992 then, when prompted, "1" then Station ID (below)
(program this on your cell phone for use on the water.)

For Tolchester, Station TCBM2, dial "82262#"
For Baltimore, Station BLTM2, dial "25862#"
For the complete list of real-time data buoys, Click Here

Coast Pilot 3 - 38th Edition, 2005, current version from NOAA: http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/nsd/coastpilot3.htm

Light Lists from USCG Nav. Center (Note: the Light List publications are not corrected. Use the link for the corrections to obtain the updates for the latest version of the publication.) http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pubs/LightLists/LightLists.htm

NOAA Raster Navigational Charts (Free)
http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/index.htm