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August 2016 upperbayboating.com FREE photo by Thomas Scilopotti Your Local Guide to Happy Boating! August 2016 3 Upper Bay Boating P.O. Box 353 • Forest Hill, MD 21050 410-937-6866 • www.upperbayboating.com For advertising opportunities call Dave at: August 2016 410-937-6866 or email [email protected] Event listings from non-profits and advertisers are free. Listings may be sent to the above address or emailed to: Welcome Mulberry Street [email protected] all are welcome, there is no charge 5 6 for charitable events. 8 Boating Safely with Little Ones 10 Zebra Mus- Publisher: Dave Bielecki Editor & Graphic Designer: Hutch sel Update 12 Events 14 Rockin’ On The River Features Editor: Wendy Gilbert Photography: Donna Bedell, Tom Scilopoti, 16 Wounded Warrior Cruise 18 Confessions of a Dick Greenwood, Colleen Smart We are members of the Baltimore Co. 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[email protected] 410-937-6866 We lc ome Dave Bielecki, Publisher Welcome to the August Issue of Recently, automotive and pedestrian accidents were Upper Bay Boating reported by folks caught up in the ‘Pokemon Go uring our production cycle of putting the August UBB craze. Let’s hope we can together, we found ourselves in a heat wave. It hit D just enjoy our time out on 100 degrees, tying a record and the “feel like” tempera- the bay without another ture was 105! Almost too hot for boating; I said almost. distraction. Boat US has Even as the water temperature rises, I always enjoyed a few safety tips in this our days out on the water, no matter how hot it was. issue on that topic. Being out on the waters of the Upper Bay, beats staying We are starting to ashore any day. Oh by the way, just six months ago, we get more photo submis- had to deal with a record snowfall and frigid tempera- sions for the magazine tures. from readers. As we I was reminded of those colder days when a few of mentioned for the past several months, we came out with the advertisers start to discuss adding winter storage this magazine for Upper Bay Boaters, and we encourage information to their ads. It’s good to prepare, but I’m not you to make it your own by being a part of what we do. quite ready to go there yet. For now, let’s hope the tem- Besides for sending in photos or writing about your good perature moderates a bit, and wish for many more sunny times on the bay, please remember to support the adver- weekends. I hope most of you will stay in after Labor tisers whom ultimately are the one’s paying for your FREE Day and enjoy your boat for several more weeks. publication. This season, boating deaths and accidents were down 70% from 2015 and Stay Cool- we hope the trend continues. Restored Happy Boating, Dave ank Johnson is a bitter man. After losing his wife, Anne, to a long illness, he loses his faith. He becomes a creature of routine, spend- ing his days visiting his wife’s gravesite and hanging out with the H“baker’s dozen,” a group of guys who gather at the local diner for breakfast and car talk. When Hank receives news from his estranged daughter that Heart &Soul Heart he is about to become “Grandpa Hank”, his best friend, Joe, talks him into selling his house in Bakersfield and heading back east. “Babies have a way Restored of making things right again,” advises Joe. After Hank sets out on a cross-country odyssey in the old Dodge “hippie van” parked in his garage for years, he discovers that there’s more to trav- Heart eling than following a double yellow line. Restored Heart & Soul Restored Heart is a heart- warming adventure of a broken old man in a broken old van, restored with God’s help and some unexpected kind hearts along the way. “There’s more to a car than metal and parts,” Hank realizes as he faces setbacks that would &Soul try any man’s patience. “It’s more about the people who drive them and the stories that happen&Soul in them that make them classics.” is a book toDave Bieleckibe is thereleased publisher of a Mid-Atlantic late classic car show magazine, Car Show & Cruise Guide. He is also a director for the Custom & Classic Car Educa- August bytional theFoundation, publisher a group of like-minded folks tryingof to preserve their hobby for a new generation of enthu- this magazine;siasts. it is my first. Follow along DAVE BIELECKI DAVE Follow the progressISBN 978-0-9977727-0-8 at: on this Spiritual www.restoredheartandsoul.com Road Trip DAVE BIELECKI A Blue Heron hanging out on his Dock of the Bay on the Susquehanna. August 2016 5 And at this time of year, Wendy Gilbert Mulberry Street we also take note of the By Wendy Gilbert- Features Editor things we see on the Up- per Bay. Last weekend, One of my least favorite Dr. Seuss books of all there was an incredible time is “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry amount of boat traffic on Street”. the Northeast, The Elk I never liked the story, thinking it ludicrous with- and the Susquehanna out any of the fun I expected from dear Theodore. Flats. I may never quite I kept our copy at the bottom of the stack of books fall in line with the think- to read to my little girl, preferring “Go Dog, Go!” ing, but there’s nothing and “The Lorax”. more enticing to most Every now and then though, it was “Mulberry Upper Bay boaters than Street” time and I would often defer to my husband, a hot and sunny summer who didn’t fuss over bedtime stories like a writer so weekend day. often does. As we were entertain- Over the many intervening years, my husband ing out-of-town guests, we and I like to joke about the things that we see on figured they too might like our own version of Mulberry Street. to see some interesting boats on our midday cruise up and We walk the same roads pretty often, so see- down The Elk River. ing something amusing or unusual is a rare sight As always we were hoping to see one of those mas- indeed. We spy all sorts of wildlife and fortunate- sive container ships heading in or out of the C & D Canal. ly never seem to tire of our furry and feathered Those ships never fail to impress. friends. I’ve taken to Pokémon, Go! , so I am also On this particular Sunday afternoon all sorts of boats hunting my little cartoon creatures when I can. caught our eyes (and our ears). There is no shortage of go Rich may not like this, but I think Dr. Seuss would fast boats this summer. The brightly, if monochromatically heartily approve. colored, speed demons are often just a blur of yellow, red and orange. Or perhaps lime green. It felt like a page out of “Mulberry Street” as the mis- matched parade of boats streamed by. Sailboats of all sizes and configurations, power boats great and small, a barge or two in front of tugs, pontoons and on the shore- lines – a few PWCs and a constant stream of colorful kay- aks. Throw in a few Pokémon creatures and you’ve got a lively and colorful waterway. And yet, not one container ship was present. And then a trio of Japanese destroyers appeared. Silky gray and stealthy, they powered through the shipping chan- nel one by one on their way from Baltimore to Philadelphia and believe me, all heads turned. 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