Baltimore's Inner Harbor on our new sailboat, Bristol Rose.

Now that Bristol Rose is ours, we will move her to the Anchorage Marina at Canton in Baltimore.

The Anchorage Marina, Canton MD

This year I returned the sails to the maker, Kappa Sails to have them cleaned, checked for repairs and sunbrella UV covers added to the Yankee and Genoa ready for the summer. Typically boats seem to fill in the available time with jobs to do. Bristol Rose is no different. I have a short list of projects we want to attend to over the next year. These include:

• Engine Service. Previous owners put 2000 hours on motoring up and down the Intracoastal Waterway
• Brightwork 
• New TV
• Laptop computer, navigation & photography software
• Repace the Dinghy, we now have 2, a Trinka 10 and an Avon and a Honda 2hp outboard. I am thinking of getting a Walker Bay RIB
• New life raft and replace flairs
• Ham radio licence
• Windvane, still looking but like Cape Horn and Monitor
• Lots or organization, downsizing and packing stuff away

We will stay over some weekends and holidays. We can't wait to explore the Inner Harbor, Fells Point and Canton and enjoy the inner city location.