Dan: Let’s settle a debate: Which is the higher cruising floor, the Chesapeake or Narragansett Bay? Personally, I’ll take Rhode Island over the tartar sauce-covered crustacean capital any day!
Wendy: Dan, Dan, Dan. You reveal your New England blinders so shortly. One doesn’t use tartar sauce when consuming the native Chesapeake delicacy Callinectes sapidus, the blue crab that prompted a Pulitzer Prize-winning e-book, the culinary bonne bouche that sailors and boaters like to eat whereas imbibing Natty Bo and hanging out on the many terrific native dock bars and eating places—really easy to entry on the Bay, and for therefore many extra months than up in Ye Olde Narragansette. It’s Previous Bay, Dan. Previous Bay. Let’s simply begin there.
Dan: Begin there…finish there for all I care. Two hours with surgical instruments to get a pair scoops of crab—excuse me, Callinectes sapidus—is enjoyable as soon as, after that it’s known as overrated, even it if it comes with a intelligent T-shirt proclaiming: “I acquired crabs in Annapolis.” I’ll accept a cocktail in Newport, THE crusing capital of America. New England boaters have style. Natty Bo…hah.
Wendy: Oh, we’re taking place this path once more, huh, THE Crusing Capital of America? Wah, wah. Let’s transfer on to one thing much less primarily based in doubtful opinion. As in, when do you truly get out in your very tasteful yaaaachts up there? You guys are nonetheless as much as your knees in mud in March after we are already launched. When was the final time you went boating on Boxing Day? We’re out practically year-round, with out resorting to a Franklin-style expedition. Hmm. Perhaps not the most effective reference truly. Sorry.
Dan: Your greatest promoting level for the Chesapeake is that you’ve got shorter winters? In my world, you possibly can simply open the throttles and head south like correct snowbirds. The very fact is, Narragansett Bay has all of it. You possibly can gradual issues down in Wickford, cruise within the wake of Herreshoff in Bristol. If metropolis life is asking, you possibly can head to Windfall. After which there’s Newport, the place you possibly can tour mansions by day and dodge bachelorette events by evening. Okay, that final level is definitely a win for you.
Wendy: And now we have all that too, between Annapolis, Baltimore, St. Michael’s, and Kent Narrows, all inside a stone’s throw. And but, we even have 4,480 sq. miles of rivers, coves, protected anchorages, and locations to meander. All with out rocks. And fog. Can’t touch upon the bachelorette hordes. Sorry, our Bay is the most important estuary within the U.S. of A., and you possibly can spend a lifetime right here and nonetheless not discover all of it. And wealthy historical past? Come on. James Michener didn’t write Narragansett, did he? Nope. He didn’t.
Dan: I believe you simply got here up with the area’s new tourism slogan: “The Chesapeake: An incredible place to meander.” Inform you what, I’ll blast all the way down to Annapolis on my Bertram so we are able to decide the measly morsels of flesh from a crab whereas poking round deserted coves. Then you possibly can take two weeks to sail as much as Narragansett Bay the place we are able to have a meal that doesn’t should be coated in Previous Bay to masks the style.
Wendy: You’re on. Have a straw boater I can borrow to mix in? I’ll convey the Previous Bay.
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