This past weekend showed the value (even entertainment) of monitoring Ch. 16. Saturday afternoon a sailboat sank off Greenbury Point in Annapolis. Lots of chatter about that. I was headed north up the bay so it was way behind me. Friend said it was a Sonar and there was some sort of Sonar regatta going on. One of the big Naptown tour boats was talking to the Coasties while some race committee boats got the 3 people off.
Sunday morning -- dead body floating off Herring Bay (south of Annapolis.) I gather it was a head boat captain found it and called it in to the Coasties. White male, tan shorts, no shirt, wearing a PFD. I wrote all that down and the lat and lon. The captain wanted to keep on fishing but the Coasties wanted him to stay with the floater. Then DNR got in on the action and called in for the lat/lon of the "package." Never heard anymore about it. Nothing in the papers so far.
Then Sunday about noon a boater called the Coasties to report a
dinghy was loose floating off Ft. McHenry near the channel. He kept saying it was on the Patuxent River -- which happens to be about 70 miles south of Ft. McHenry here in Baltimore. I finally got on the
radio to tell the guy it's the Patapsco River. He did corrent himself with the coasties. Then the guy who owned the
dinghy called in to say it was his and he was headed back up the river for it. So he didn't even miss it.
Just another day on the Chesapeake monitoring 16 (and 9, too.)
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