Time spent on the water is another world from cars, malls and parties. 

Lessons learned on the water develop character and wisdom.

·          The Bay supports more than 3,600 species of plants, fish and animals, including 348 species of finfish, 173 species of shellfish, an over 2,700 plant species.

·          Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia have restored 2,283 miles of riparian forest buffers along rivers and streams in the Bay watershed. 

Annapolis was named in honor of King James II's youngest daughter, Princess Anne. Annapolis became the Maryland Colony's capital in 1695. From 1783-1784, during the American Revolutionary War, Annapolis was the country's capital.

Anne Arundel County was named for England’s Lady Anne Arundell, beloved wife of Cecil Calvert, second Baron of Baltimore, Ireland. Married at 13 and the mother of many, her intellect was legend, and her love of the arts strong. The expedition to Maryland was planned in her sitting room in Tisbury, England. History records that both she and her husband, Cecil Calvert, longed to voyage to the New World, although neither made it. Her son Charles, the third Lord Baltimore, and Cecil’s younger brother Leonard Calvert, who later became Maryland’s first proprietary governor, were the first family members to step on Maryland soil. Anne Arundell died at the age of 34. Her husband had engraved on her tombstone, “Farewell, you most lovely of earthly beauties.”

The following year, in 1650, the General Assembly of the Maryland colony named Anne Arundel County in her honor.

Maryland is named for Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England, who issued the original proprietary grant to the Calvert family. Maryland is nicknamed The Old Line State because its heroic "troops of the line" won praise from George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.

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Larry Crippen of Fishing Creek Farm

Jay Phillips of Quay Harbour

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