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| Linda using Ped-O-Pilot |
It was another beautiful day to be on the water. The Chesapeake Bay was calm enough Linda could use the ped-o-pilot. She drove most of the voyage this way (that would be with her feet). Brian turned off the ped-o-pilot when we approached the channel for Slaughter Creek. The
Slaughter Creek Marina dock master had given us instructions on how to navigate the channel yesterday.
“Stay close to Green Daymarks 3 and 5. At Green 5, turn 90 degrees to Green 7. Pass Green 7 three feet on the wrong side and head for the center between Red 8 and Green 9. After marks 8 & 9, proceed to the marina”.
After all that we hailed the marina on radio and called their phone number, but there was no answer. We took the first T-head. The dock master arrived as we were setting our lines. He had been mowing the grass. While checking in at the marina office some
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| Interior of Palm Beach Willie's |
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| Exterior of Palm Beach Willie's |
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The barge as it appeared in ABC/
Warner Bros. TV show Surfside 6 |
watermen came in after unloading their boat of crab-pots and loading them on a truck. I remarked that there was a very noticeable lack of crab-pot buoys in the bay. One of them said that there is a parasite that is affecting the blue crab all over the Chesapeake Bay. After checking in, we did chores. We went to Palm Beach Willies Tiki-Bar for dinner after chores for their special — prime rib.
Palm Beach Willie’s is a barge nestled between land and a pier for outdoor dining. The two story barge was once a set for an ABC television show called “
Surfside 6” that aired from 1960-1962. It was about young ‘hot body’ detectives in Miami Florida. The United States Coast Guard purchased the barge from the production company after the show was canceled and moved it from Miami to its current location to be a training facility. A few years ago the Coast Guard sold the barge to the current owners. The building was remodeled into a restaurant and named for the owner’s dog. This place is popular with the locals. The prime rib was excellent.
