I second that, but you have to dig them out.
One exception is the very obvious Captain James, a ship-shaped restaurant whose
dock is an oyster bar (in season) on a water taxi route in the cove we always
anchor in just east of the Fell's Point water taxi terminal.
The water taxi pulls up to a float at the the restaurants' dock. We use this
dock as one of our dinghy docks. We tie up to the water taxi's floating dock
but on the fixed dock side of so our dink is under the fixed dock and mostly
hidden.
The last time we dined there we had the best crab cakes we have ever
experienced, almost solid crab, just enough additives to bring out the best in
the crab. Everything else was excellent too.
The owner is Greek and an ex-Merchant Marine as I am. We had a party of five.
He came out of the galley and entertained us, including a round of drinks on
the house. He also invited our boat guests to park in his parking lot for the
few days they were visiting us. It was a wonderful meal.
Our favorite bar there is the Dead End (should be the Bitter End!), whose rear
entrance we can see from our anchorage. We land the dinghy at the marina in
that line of sight. We just tie up to a seldom used boat at the quay (there
are many of them), gain its deck, then up to the (rather high) dock and swagger
ashore.
We also found the Baltimore Aquarium one of the best we have enjoyed. The
whole Inner Harbor was full of interesting pastimes. Even saw a solar powered
trash bin. I suppose it had a compacting device in it.
Loved the tall ship Constellation. Read about the restoration in Wooden Boat.
They wanted to save all the interior but it was of no structural strength so
they built a shell hull of enough strength to not require any framing.
Essentially the dry docked the ship, hydraulic jacked the keel straight,
removed all the planking and replaced it with a three-layer, strip-planked (2x8
planks) hull. The inner two layers at 45 deg to horizontal and the outside
layer horizontal to simulate the original planking.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Julington Creek
30 07.695N 081 38.484W
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Sent: 2/5/2009 3:36:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] baltimore Question
floridak...@aol.com writes:
Would you recommend stoping there on the great loop?
Baltimore, certainly.
Some fine places to eat, particularly if you like Italian, but there are many
of others too. I think the place we enjoyed the most was Fells Point.
You might get there when the old time boats are having their pirate wars which
is always interesting.
and there are couple of quite historic boats to go through.
BTW there are a couple of spots to anchor if that is your style.
Carl
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