Guide to Cruising Chesapeake Bay 2010

Welcome to the 2010 edition of the Guide to Cruising Chesapeake Bay, and congratulations on choosing the best such guide available. There's a lot of information in these 368 pages, so if you're new to the guide, I suggest you have a look at the table of contents (page 1) and familiarize yourself with how the book is organized. You'll see that we divide the Bay's cruising territory into nine sections, north to south, from upper Chesapeake (Section 1) to the James River and Hampton Roads at the mouth of the Bay (Section 9).
Also take note of the eight-page fold-out section opposite the table of contents, which has not only a color-coded map of all nine sections and a primer on how to use the guide, but also a handy overview chart of the Bay (on a five-mile grid) and distance table to help you plan your cruises.

How To Use This Guide
Planning Chart
Distance Chart
Welcome
Cruising the Chesapeake Bay
Charge of the Light Brigade
Choptank River Cruise
Exploring John Smith's Water Trail
Bay Basics
Annual Chesapeake Bay Events
Chesapeake Museums
Navigator's Reference
Tidal Information

Section 1
C&D Canal to Back River
C&D Canal
Chesapeake City
Elk River
Bohemia River
Northeast River
North East
Susquehanna River
Havre de Grace
Sassafras River
Still Pond
Worton Creek
Fairlee Creek
Bush River
Gunpowder River
Middle River
Hart-Miller Island
Back River

Section 2
Patapsco River to Bay Bridge
Patapsco River
Baltimore's Boneyard Boats
Inner Harbor
Fells Point & Canton
Magothy River
Rock Hall, north of Chester River
Rock Hall
Chester River
Chester River
Chestertown

Section 3
Bay Bridge to Herring Bay
Whitehall Bay
Severn River
Annapolis 8c Eastport
Thomas Point Lighthouse
Historic London Town
South River
Rhode & West Rivers
Herring Bay 8c Rockhold Creek
Wreck of the Levin J. Marve
Kent Island 8c Eastern Bay
Kent Island Narrows
Wye River
Crab Counts
Miles River
St. Michaels
These are Log Canoes

Section 4
Choptank River to Patuxent River
Choptank River
Knapps Narrows
Tred Avon River
Oxford
Easton
Cambridge
Little Choptank River
Patuxent River
Solomons

Section 5
Potomac River
Smith Creek
St. Marys River
Historic St. Mary's City
Coan River
Yeocomico River
Breton Bay 8c St. Clements Bay
Wicomico River/Cobb Island
Colonial Beach
Port Tobacco River
Occoquan River
Alexandria
Anacostia River
Washington, D.C.
John Smith's Potomac

Section 6
Hooper Islands to Cape Charles
Smith 8c Tangier Islands
Honga River
Nanticoke River
Wicomico River
Salisbury
Deal Island
Big Annemessex River
Crisfield
Pocomoke River
Pocomoke City
Onancock Creek
Onancock
Cape Charles

Section 7
Smith Pt. to Rappahannock River
Little Wicomico River
Great Wicomico River
Reedville
Dividing Creek
Indian Creek
Dymer Creek
Antipoison Creek
John Smith's Rappahannock
Rappahannock River
Corrotoman River
Urbanna

Section 8
Piankatank River to York River
Deltaville Area
Piankatank River
Deltaville
MobjackBay
The Final Battle
York River
Yorktown

Section 9
Poquoson River to Rudee Inlet
Poquoson River
Back River
Hampton Flats
Hampton River
Hampton
Blackbeard the Pirate
James River
Pagan River
Smithfield
James River'Plantations
Elizabeth River
Portsmouth
Norfolk
Willoughby Bay
Lynnhaven Inlet
Rudee Inlet
Clash of the Titans

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Marinas
Restaurants
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