Cruise the Chesapeake!
Whether it's a weekend escape or a or a two-week getaway, Upper Bay or Southern Bay, we've got some ideas to share about where to sail on the Chesapeake Bay. From urban slips to anchorages in quiet coves, you'll find reasons enough to cruise all season!
Three-Day Middle Bay Cruise
~Submitted by Kathleen Kryza
Day 1 Anchor at Eagle Cove on the Magothy River
Day 2 Baltimore; Harbor East Marina, walk/cab to a ball game
Day 3 Rock Hall, MD; with a slip at either Haven Harbour North or South, borrow bicycles and ride to town, have dinner at the newly renovated Waterman’s Restaurant
Weeklong Northern Bay Cruise
~Submitted by Sue Mikulski
Option 1
Day 1 Eagles Cove on the Magothy
Day 2 Cross the Bay to the Eastern Shore to Worton Creek, anchor out
Days 3-4 Sassafras River; anchor out one night and spend one night at one of the marinas in Georgetown
Day 5 Return back to the Bay and to Fairlee Creek; anchor out
Day 6 Rock Hall; anchor or reserve a marina slip
Option 2
Day 1 Eagles Cove on the Magothy
Day 2 Bodkin Creek, just south of the mouth of the Patapsco River
Day 3 Havre de Grace
Day 4 Worton Creek
Day 5 Fairlee Creek
Day 6 Rock Hall
Weeklong Middle Bay Cruise
~submitted by Carol Hanson, America’s Boating Club Wilmington
Day 1 North Point Marina in Rock Hall, MD
Day 2 Rhode River, south of Annapolis; anchor out
Day 3 Herrington Harbour Marina
Day 4 Little Choptank, Hudson Creek; anchor out
Day 5 Oxford, MD; slips or anchor out
Day 6 Lay Day in Oxford; tour Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and visit town
Day 7 Dunn Cove off Harris Creek in the Choptank, anchor out
Day 8 Annapolis; Port Annapolis Marina
12-Day Southern Bay Cruise
~Submitted by Susan Theuns
Day 1 Herrington Harbor South
Day 2 St. Leonard’s Creek off the Patuxent River; anchor out—high shores, deep water; dinner at Vera’s in Lusby, MD
Day 3 Crisfield, MD; Sommers Cove Marina
Day 4 Lay Day in historic Crisfield
Day 5 Fleet’s Bay, south of the Potomac, north of the mouth of the Rapahannock; anchor out
Day 6 Cape Charles, VA; Town Harbor Marina
Day 7 Lay Day in Cape Charles
Day 8 Gloucester Point, VA; slips at York River Yacht Haven on Sarah Creek
Day 9 Deltaville, VA; anchor out or grab a slip at Fishing Bay Marina
Day10 Great Wicomico River; anchor out in Mill Creek
Day 11 Smith Creek off the Potomac; anchor out
Day 12 Solomons Island; Zahniser’s Safe Harbor Marina; dine at La Vela
