Day 270 - Dragon Boats

Miles cruised 32, fuel purchased $261, gallons purchased 116, slip fee $145, daily high temperature 82°fWe cast off from the Annapolis City Dock at 11:00 am and motored over to the Annapolis City Marina for fuel and a pump out. The City Marina is privately owned. I am sure they fool lots of boaters into thinking they are the municipal marina.Dale and Andy in Annapolis.Annapolis harbor and the Chesapeake were both jammed with boats. It is after all a beautiful warm, sunny Saturday. Entering Baltimore harbor we passed by Fort McHenry which is the fort that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Star Spangled Banner.Fort McHenry is hiding behind the trees.We are docked at the Baltimore City Inner Harbor Marina. There is a Rusty Scupper restaurant at the marina. I made reservations for the four of us at 6:45 pm since it is a Saturday night. Our second option was 8:45 pm.The harbor requires a $35 permit to tie up at the city dingy dock. That is an annual fee. If someone buys CL and does the Loop they could save $35 if they return to Baltimore in less than a year.The green sticker is the Baltimore harbor dingy dock permit.The value added to the dingy dock permit is that the dingy dock is right next to the Hard Rock Cafe outdoor floating bar.There is a place in the Baltimore inner harbor where families can rent dragon boats to paddle around with foot pedals.Dragon boats.On Sunday we will celebrate Father's Day by walking to the nearby Orioles baseball stadium and watching them play the Toronto Blue Jays.We will stay in Baltimore for three nights and then cruise to the Bohemia River Yacht Club for one night before cruising south to Cape May, New Jersey.Bonus photoCarl (Chef) Wooden - quote of the day."Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.”Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Kurt Vonnegut Jr. November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Vonnegut attended Cornell University, but dropped out in January 1943 and enlisted in the United States Army. He was deployed to Europe to fight in World War II, and was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was interned in Dresden and survived the Allied bombing of the city by taking refuge in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. After the war, Vonnegut married Jane Marie Cox, with whom he had three children. He later adopted his sister's three sons, after she died of cancer and her husband died in a train accident.Sent from my iPad