The Mad Sailor

I noticed the governor allocated 50 million dollars to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. That sounds great, but I’m betting he knew it wouldn’t get through the state legistature. First they cut it half then it just … disappeared … poof! Nice! When will Annapolis learn that Maryland IS the Chesapeake Bay. This state has a long history of blaming everyone else for the Bay’s problems. This year Maryland is limiting the crab harvest and declaring the crab industry a disaster so they can get money from Washington. It says (here) that this money will employ watermen to help clean up the bay. Hmmmm….that’s nice, but it still doesn’t address the storm runoff and waste treatment problems that plague Maryland. We just keep treating the symptom instead of the disease.

I had to get new flares for both boats last week. Orion has a new money making scheme that I do not appreciate at all. They now sell their flares in packs of four and advertise it as better than Coast Guard requirements. The requirement is three flares and in over 40 years of boating I’ve never used one. So buying four is, in my humble opinion, STUPID! Stop that Orion, bad boy, … bad, bad boy!