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Home» Blog»chesapeake bay maritime museum

chesapeake bay maritime museum

Recently I took a vacation in Maryland.  I had a great time and saw a ton of historical sites.  There is so much history there,  you cannot wrap your head around it in just one trip.  I played the tourist and went everywhere, it was a blast.

One day we took a drive up to St. Michaels , a recommendation from ‘1001 places to see before you die’ book, out by Chesapeake Bay.  We visited the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, it was really cool.  It’s on the Bay and is steeped in rich history about fishing, hunting, sailing, boats, and the fisherman culture.

I snapped a few pics, actually a lot of pics, but these made the cut today.

chesapeake bay maritime museum sign

chesapeake bay maritime museum skipjack
Beautiful skipjack at the entrance
skipkack restoration shop
A machine shop for boats


Pretty interesting to see how other people work their trade. This is a restoration shop for boats, where they fix and rebuild all the exterior elements.

skipjack being restored
skipjack being restored

skipjack restoration shop
different tools used for restoration

boat rebuilding tools
boat rebuilding tools

skipjack restoration shop
where restoration magic happens

All the hard work is paying off, this skipjack looks beautiful, it’s almost done. You can walk up to it an see the workmanship. What a difference, the wood looks amazing.

skipjack being restored
skipjack almost restored

hooper strait lighthouse
Hooper Strait Lighthouse

The original lighthouse was located out in the straight, in 1966 they moved it to the museum for preservation. It looks like an actual house from the outside, but inside it is all about function. These men must have froze out there during the winter. Judging by the skinny stairwell, you had to be pretty thin to work here.
When the lighthouse was moved to the museum, they renamed it the Screwpile Lighthouse.

screwpile lighthouse
Renamed the Screwpile Lighthouse

screwpile lighthouse name change
How the name change came about

gigantic screw
Screws used to anchor lighthouse

These are the biggest screws I’ve ever seen. Nothing like this in our machine shop, I don’t think Dorman even makes anything this big.

chesapeake bay lighthouse view
view from the lighthouse

We like engines, so I couldn’t resist snapping shots of this diesel tugboat engine. Look at the size of those gears and rods.

diesel boat engine
diesel tugboat engine
tugboat diesel engine
huge mechanical parts
diesel tugboat engine
gigantic chain and sprocket

 

tugboat diesel engine
This engine is a beast

A trip to the bay wouldn’t be complete without some hunting guns, decoys, and a duck blind, right??
They had so many decoys on display, ducks and geese, the migratory pattern, and various guns.

duck decoys
duck decoy display

duck blind
duck blind replica

hunting guns for waterfowl
big hunting guns for waterfowl

waterfowler firemarms
waterfowler firearms

skipjack boat model
skipjack boat model

The end of the tour has models of all sorts of skipjack boats. The store was closed or I would have my very own model. This was a great day, I felt immersed in the culture of Chesapeake Bay. It is tough work being a fisherman, long days of physical labor in tough conditions. Boat restoration is no picnic either.

I give the museum a big thumbs up for providing so much diversity of the Chesapeake Bay area. I recommend you stop by if you are in the area.

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3 Comments

  1. Renate
    November 7, 20123:35 am -

    Great read. I’m looking forward to cheking out more comments later.

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  2. Tracey Munson
    October 22, 20121:24 pm -

    Thank you for your visit to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and for posting about your visit. We have changing exhibits to look forward to, time and again, including a new War of 1812 exhibit launching next spring. You can also keep up with our boat restoration and more

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  3. Carina
    October 21, 20122:13 am -

    Some truly quality content on this site, saved to favorites .

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