Buy Boat Dorothy at Annapolis Harbor

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=50 BGCOLOR="#333366" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Buy Boat Dorothy at Annapolis Harbor - 1969</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=165 BGCOLOR="#993300" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="132" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 35 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id102.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dove Passing Greenbury Point"><U><B><IMG SRC="007151d0.gif" border=0 width="21" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Eagle and the Hawk at Baltimore harb"><U><B><IMG SRC="008151d0.gif" border=0 width="21" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="35" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="20" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" 16 x 20 Pen Ink"><U><B><IMG SRC="00d0d1d0.gif" border=0 width="13" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="27"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" 16 x 20 Pen Ink"><U><B>Return to 16" x 20" pen and ink page</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=430 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div>   <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT>           </div> <div> <B>Annapolis harbor has been providing anchorage for water craft of all types for over three hundred years since Thomas Todd opened his shipyard on Spa Creek.  A vital revolutionary war port, Annapolis became a center of the Chesapeake Bay fishing industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</B></div> <div> <B>               </B></div> <div> <B>Today the City Dock in Annapolis continues to reflect the wide ranging cross section of the various water craft that work the Bay.  Interspersed with increasing numbers of pleasure boats are examples of the working water craft common in the Chesapeake Bay.  Until the late 1960s large numbers of skipjacks, buy boats, and smaller deadrise boats regularly docked here at the end of the winter work day.  Buy boats buying oysters as in this scene were common in the late afternoon.  Crowding soon forced the skipjacks and large boats to other dockage such as Kent Island; however, the smaller crabbers, tongers and clammers still make their way here in the winter months.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This scene is viewed from the south side of the City Dock near the Yacht Club looking towards the United States Naval Academy at the South end of Farragut Field and Ricketts Hall.  The buildings in the distance are part of the Naval Surface Warfare Center located across from the Naval Academy on the other side of the Severn River.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dorothy</B><B> was about 50 feet long and very typical of her type.  The 38 foot </B><B>Sea Gal</B><B> was built in Annapolis in 1948.  </B></div> <div> <B>               </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>