Day 328 – at St. Michaels Marina, St. Michaels, MD - May 29, 2012

As predicted, it was EXTREMELY warm here in St. Michaels today.  While Fred was doing his engine checks this morning, he discovered that the AirSep unit on the starboard engine was loose.  After trying to tighten it unsuccessfully, Fred removed it and discovered that the flange was bent and would not tighten properly.  A little straightening work and a call to Walker Engineering (the company who makes the unit) for advice and the AirSep is successfully re-installed.  We will be looking to replace this unit somewhere along the line, but fortunately we don’t need to do it within the next few days.

We visited the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum today.  This is a mostly outdoor museum celebrating the way people live, work and play on the Bay.  There is an amazing boatyard where traditional boat builders restore Bay boats.  They are currently working on restoring a skipjack sailboat.  Their boat yard has some of the most amazing boat building tools.  This was definitely Fred’s favorite part of the museum.  We also got to climb the Hooper Straight Lighthouse which was moved from Hooper Strait to the museum in 1966.
 
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Hooper Strait Lighthouse

the Boat Yard building at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

old wooden blocks hanging in the Boat Yard building

the current restoration project - a skipjack sailboat

the underside of the skipjack sailboat

a new rudder post being worked on while the original post sits on the workbench

this is the biggest band saw I have ever seen



a nine log canoe turned into a race boat - they have a fleet of these boats that
race on the bay - when the boat tacks, the boards the crew are hiking out
on have to be moved from one side of the boat to the other

looking at Boreas and the St. Michaels Marina from the Hooper Strait Lighthouse