Foreword
Significant changes have taken place since the first edition of this
Guide appeared nearly 30 years ago， not only in cruising conditions on
the Chesapeake， but also in tile Bay itself and the people who benefit
from its great natural resources in so many different ways. The boating
population of the Bay， like that of the nation as a whole， has approxi-
mately doubled ill the past quarter century， bringing with it new types
of recreational cratL new shore-based facilities to service them， arm
thousands of newly-converted landsmen to discover the pleasures and
penalties of cruising.
In preparation for this new edition we have re-explored Chesapeake
Bay and its tributaries more thoroughly than at any time since the late
Fessenden Blanchard made his initial explorations in 1948. The \"we\"
is more than editorial; for we have continued Blanchard s practice of
drawing heavily upon the knowledge of many other Chesapeake
boatmenIseveral hundred of them--who know their own rivers，
creeks， and harbors more intimately than any one cruising man could
ever hope to know them.
Two contributors to this edition deserve special recognition for
their invaluable assistance in covering areas they know well， or have
revisited recently. Samuel D. Foster， Jr.， an experienced Chesapeake
yachtsman whose home is on San Domingo Creek， St. Michaels， cruised
tile Upper Eastern Shore in his ketch-rigged motor-sailer Sonsy during
tile fall of 1972 and reported on extensive changes from tile C. gc D.
Canal to tile Choptank River. Carson Gibb， an Annapolis cruising
skipper， sailed his auxiliary sloop Cunegonde along the lower Eastern
Shore from the Little Choptank to Cape Charles on a survey cruise in
the summer of 1972， revisiting Tangier Sound， Smith and Tangier Is-
lands， Pocomoke Sound， and poking into most of the tidewater creeks
from Chesconessex to Kiptopeke on Virginia s Eastern Shore. Gibb s
cruise also took him across the Chesapeake Bay entrance to l，ittle
Creek on the Norlblk shore， and back up tile Western Shore as tar as
Mobjack Bay. His findings and perceptive observations are recolded in
Chapter VII and parts of Chapter VIII.
My own findings， fi om extensive cruising in my auxiliary yawl Brcr
Fox and consnhation with local authorities， cover the D/estern Shore
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