Dear Members and Fellow Boaters, Ground Hog Day has passed and I am so looking forward to another year of boating on the Chesapeake Bay. I trust all of you are doing the same. We’re kicking off the 2023 season with our annual meeting, which will be held this year …
Maryland Maritime Heritage Foundation Club members participated in the 2022 Annapolis Keels & Wheels event held on September 17th at the Annapolis Yacht Club (AYC). It was a picture perfect day and the event was well attended, with wooden boats displayed both on land and in the water for all participants and …
All – Wow! What a Show! The First annual Maryland Maritime Heritage Festival is in the books and was, by all accounts, a tremendous success! Everyone had a good time, which is what it is all about! The participants who brought their cars and boats, the hundreds of visitors to …
February 13, 2022 Members of the Maryland Maritime Heritage Foundation were the guests of Ronnie Cutts of the Cutts and Case Shipyard in Oxford, Maryland, on February 12, 2022. There’s just something about old boats, and when you put them together with both new and old friends on a beautiful …
What better way to spend Valentines weekend than messing about old boats, enjoying fine dining and a B&B in Oxford! Join us Valentines Saturday at 1:30 for a tour of the Cutts & Case Shipyard in Oxford, MD led by Ronnie Cutts. If you like wood boats, you won’t want …
Here is Ralph Cattaneo’s article on his John D. published in the January 2022 issue of PropTalk. https://mdmhf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/PropTalk_January_2022_p40-41_RalphCattaneo.pdf
The cover is off and we are ready to begin work on the “John D” at the Firehouse. She is a classic launch with a very storied history. Year of construction: 1981 LOA: 21′ Beam: 7′ 6″ Draft: 2′ Design: Launch Propulsion: 30hp Atomic 4 Original owners: Sir Bernard Ashley …
This 1974 Cape Dory Handy Cat was moved into the MMHC facility in Galesville, MD with some member assistance over the weekend for some TLC. She’ll get a complete freshening up with refinished teak rub rails, fresh paint on her hull, boot stripe and deck as well as a new …
Talented restorationists like Ebby DuPont nurture tired old wooden boats back to their head-turning original glory. Wooden boats have an organic appeal. But beneath the gleam resides all the toil, effort that can be counted in sheets of sandpaper, brush strokes toward perfection, and time spent rounding up dust. The …
A wooden Lyman is known for its ride. They feature a “clinker-built” hull planking that in a wooden boat model works with any chop in such a way that it cuts through the chop, delivering a ride that is sublimely softer than a hard-chine fiberglass boat. The same hull shape done in fiberglass …
