[Rhodes22-list] Robert's Question on free charts... Lee will you comment on this picture...

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hey, Lee thanks for the explanation of the long 
rectangular body of water just south of the 
bridge. Fred and I were looking at the chart Ed 
posted and we both said: I don't think I've ever 
noticed that, I wonder what it is? I think that 
whenever we've gone past we've either been 
sighing with relief (southbound) or watching 
carefully to see who is coming through or just 
ahead of us (northbound). In any event usually 
concentrating on what the current is doing. Both 
Piney Narrows (left) and Mears (right) always 
struck me as really busy places. We've stopped 
for fuel at each of them over the years. Looks 
like prices at the Narrows are not too different 
than Rock Hall though I'm not sure there are many 
$2500 slips left in RH proper. Kent County has 
quite a few slips at the various public landings. 
Most of them are pretty primitive with the 
exception of the ones in the middle of Rock Hall 
harbor which have water and electric. (Info at 
http://www.kentcounty.com/gov/pubworks/landings.htm) 
The web site says there's a waiting list for all 
slips but a lot of the ones at some of the 
smaller landings like Spring Cove seem to be 
empty most of the time. I think I'm happier at 
the private marina with more folks around to watch over my boat.

Mary Lou
1991 R22  Fretless
Rock Hall, MD



At 08:38 AM 3/20/2008, you wrote:
>Ed, Interesting real estate market. About 2/3s 
>up the picture on the left side are some shaded 
>rectangles that are covered piers.  I don't 
>think they house any sailboats due to the height 
>of the roofs.  Two years ago a friend of mine 
>bought one of the slips for $75,000.  No condo, 
>just the slip, and he has a monthly maintenance 
>fee. Just south of those slips on the other side 
>of the highway is a long rectangular body of 
>water.  Those are the county slips.  About three 
>years ago the County doubled the price of the 
>slips from $300 to $600 a year.  A lot of the 
>watermen were so upset that they left, and the 
>County opened the slips up to non-commercial 
>recreational boating county citizens.  Last time 
>I checked I was #72 on the waiting list.  It's a 
>deal but you do get what you pay for. For a 22' 
>foot boat with minimal draft, most of the slips 
>around the Narrows run about $2,500 to $3,500 a 
>year. Lee Tootle wrote: > > Robert said he tried 
>and they did not work.  I have not had problems 
>using > the North and South Carolina maps until 
>I reformatted my hard drive.  On > Wednesday, I 
>redownloaded the maps pages that I posted and 
>was able to use > them again.  When I saved the 
>previous version there was evidentially a > 
>registry code that was not saved. > > I would 
>suggest the following.  Clean the old version 
>off your hard drive. > If you know how and are 
>comfortable, clean registry by hand.  Then go 
>to: > > 
>http://www.maptech.com/support/downloads.cfm?plid=17 
>to download > viewer. > > Follow directions to 
>download view.  Even with high speed access, it 
>takes > a few minutes.  Because all the maps 
>will take up a lot of space, I like > to create 
>a directory directly in "C" Drive and save all 
>programs and data > (maps) to that specific 
>directory.  > > Go back to: > > 
>http://www.freeboatingcharts.com/ > > And 
>download maps that you want.  I prefer to a the 
>whole region so that > you can have contiguous 
>viewing.  That can take a lot of time 
>downloading. > Let the thing download and go 
>have a cup of coffee and read something or > 
>take the dogs for a walk. > > Remember this is 
>just a 'sampler' of the whole program which you 
>can > purchase.  If you want to take the stuff 
>on a boat, I would purchase the > program and 
>maps on CD just to have a hard copy with 
>me.  Since I do not > loose sight of land and 
>usually just sail along, I seldom use hard 
>copy > maps or my gps. > > While the program is 
>design so that you cannot print out maps from 
>the > free version, I have a screen print 
>routine that allows me to save a > screen of 
>anything as a picture (Tiff format) and print 
>that. > > Again, for home use, it works 
>fine. > > Lee, will you provide detail 
>description of this 
>picture? > > 
>http://www.nabble.com/file/p16177175/Lee%2Bwill%2Bprovide%2Bdetails.gif  
> > Lee+will+provide+details.gif > > Ed K > 
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