Getaway in a Glass

Take a seat at the bamboo bar, loosen up your tie, and let a tiki guru demonstrate how to transform your boat or backyard into a tropical cocktail pleasure cove.   Meeting mixologist Tom Brown at Herrington Harbor Marina would have been perfect.  That’s where he keeps his 26-foot 1979 Chrysler sloop, and we could have […]

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Beating the Winter Blues with Franks and Planks

What a wretched time of year! At our house, we’re sick of hearing weathermen’s false promises about inches of snow and receiving only rain and mud. We’re tired of looking at bare trees with no leaves – and we’re starting to get itchy for crabs. It doesn’t help that we still have months to wait […]

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A Toast to the Chesatiki Bay

As we walk onto the crab deck, I can’t suppress a smile when I see a pair of red and yellow plastic palm trees. With the rolling Chesapeake farmlands as a backdrop, they look like two happy misfits determined to inject a little tropical spirit into the landscape. We’ve seen this phenomenon plenty of times […]

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