Chesapeake Catboaters
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WBOC TV 16 - 2007
The Chesapeake Catboat Association (CCBA) was caught on film in 2007 during their annual Spring Long Cruise, by local TV out of Salisbury, MD. The cruise destination as planned by CCBA Commodore Marc Cruder with his Wittholz 25 Wanderer, was to the lower eastern shore of Maryland.
Member Larry Antonik hosted a total of eight (8) catboats, including his own Marshall 18 Purrrfection, and the yawl-rigged Marshall 22 Muskrat, down in a remote marsh area known as "Dames Quarter."
This pristine, largely unchanged and natural part of the Chesapeake Bay is seldom visited by sail powered vessels, much less catboats, so it didn’t take much for this group of shallow draft sailors to be noticed by the locals.
Feature writer and photographer Charles Paparella of WBOC TV 16 met the catboat cruisers along the way at their mid-cruise stop in Vienna, MD on the Nanticoke River. Charles put together this nice piece which aired on Father’s Day 2007 - just one day after the completion of the cruise. The four minute clip, with underway video footage from the deck of CCBA member Rich Mclaughlin’s Marshall 22 Tenacity, melds the wayward nature of Chesapeake Catboaters and their owners with the priceless rewards of a natural escape - just in time for Father’s Day.
Member Larry Antonik hosted a total of eight (8) catboats, including his own Marshall 18 Purrrfection, and the yawl-rigged Marshall 22 Muskrat, down in a remote marsh area known as "Dames Quarter."
This pristine, largely unchanged and natural part of the Chesapeake Bay is seldom visited by sail powered vessels, much less catboats, so it didn’t take much for this group of shallow draft sailors to be noticed by the locals.
Feature writer and photographer Charles Paparella of WBOC TV 16 met the catboat cruisers along the way at their mid-cruise stop in Vienna, MD on the Nanticoke River. Charles put together this nice piece which aired on Father’s Day 2007 - just one day after the completion of the cruise. The four minute clip, with underway video footage from the deck of CCBA member Rich Mclaughlin’s Marshall 22 Tenacity, melds the wayward nature of Chesapeake Catboaters and their owners with the priceless rewards of a natural escape - just in time for Father’s Day.