Join the group for a two-hour sail on the Nathan of Dorchester at Cambridge, MD. She is located within walking distance of the Cambridge Yacht Club, where our Labor Day festivities will be held.
The Skipjack Nathan of Dorchester was built, and is maintained and operated, by volunteers of the nonprofit Dorchester Skipjack Committee in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, on the Choptank River. A Coast Guard licensed commercial passenger vessel, the Nathan sails as a goodwill ambassador to ports throughout the Chesapeake Bay, a symbol of the region’s maritime history and watermen’s way of life.
Commissioned on the Fourth of July, 1994, she is the youngest—and very likely the last—skipjack built to be an oyster dredge boat. Designed by Harold Ruark along the lines of a previous family-built and -operated skipjack, Oregon, she is a medium-sized dredge boat capable of harvesting and carrying about 200 bushels of oysters.
She has been converted to a passenger vessel and is capable of carrying 20 passengers plus her crew.
Sail the Nathan
Sep 6 - 1:30 - 4:00pm
Price: $25pp
Bring: BYOB and light appetizers to share
NOTE: this is limited to the first 20 people who sign up. Please email Madi Yates at hmsindy57@gmail.com if you would like to be placed on a waiting list.
Learn more about the Nathan at http://www.skipjack-nathan.org.
If there is a cancellation due to weather, we will be refunded our payment and you will get a credit for a future event.
