Sept. 23/24/25 - Waited for favorable tide and traveled 12 miles up the winding but generally wide and deep Chester River to Chestertown. Home of Washington College and and largest by far town in County, so large in fact that it actually has a couple of streets and a small natural foods store, but no supermarket, etc. It’s also the “County Seat” with the County Courthouse, which is why there are pix of all these incredibly quaint law offices.
Quite a number of houses date back to the 1700's and it’s home to the “Sultana” a replica of a 1700's square-rigged schooner that was used by the Brits to enforce the tea taxes. People are super-nice. Stayed on the anchor for the night of 23rd, and then came to the dock for the nights of the 24th and 25th. Met Brady Stroh who lives in Port Depot at the South end of the Susquehanna River shortly before it exits into the Chesapeake Bay. He is a professor of digital cartography and mapping, works on an antique skipjack, and cruises in a 32 ft.Chesapeake Bay deadrise motor vessel named Daisy when he can. His wife is a high-powered corporate lawyer with Hershey Chocolate, is addicted to tennis and doesn’t like the water. Had a nice evening chatting with him. He runs nature cruises on his boat from a web site.
Sept. 26/Oct. 2 - Hang out in Chestertown while Kryss goes to Summer Trios Board Meeting. Get a few boat things repaired and generally don’t do much except turn 65. Weather turns unseasonably warm, which is a nice change.