Practical Boat Owner

Challenges in the Chesapeake

Here in the Chesapeake we’ve been experiencing unusually hot weather. The days are scorching and the evenings… well, exciting! Clouds fluff up out of nowhere and give us the most incredible and vibrant lightning displays. It makes us humans feel very insignificant and I find myself in awe of the sheer power of nature. Keeping a close lookout, the wind and rain did not seem bad enough to cause huge alarm, and so we held tight for an hour until it moderated.

One such squall appeared very recently. We knew it was coming thanks to the WeatherBug app, which has proved to be

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