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Encore at Osprey Point, our home marina in Rock Hall, MD.
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Osprey Point is a beautiful marina. You can see our first Encore, a Prestige 420S, in the center of the photo.
MV Encore
We are Bob and Martha Frampton and this is our 2022 Prestige 460 purchased in May of 2023. She is a 46 foot cruiser with a flybridge, two staterooms, two heads, salon and galley. She is powered by two Volvo Penta IPS 600 engines running 435 hp each. This  boat replaces our Prestige 420S that we had for 5 years. It has a joystick in the cockpit, in addition to helm stations inside and on the flybridge, and makes docking a much easier task.

We are retired from many years in music and arts education and administration, and have spent the last six seasons cruising the Chesapeake Bay searching for all the pleasure being out on the water can provide. We have met many wonderful people, experienced many "adventurous" moments, and learned so much along the way. We have made two trips down ICW in the past four years . Our first trip took place during the fall and winter of 2020-21 and included a few cruises up and down the east coast of Florida. In the fall of 2023 we headed south again and made our way to the Bahamas during February and March of 2024.

Our home when not out on the water is the Osprey Point Marina in Rock Hall on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Rock Hall is very small town that is extremely active on summer weekends and eerily quiet during the winter months. Boaters share the town and the adjacent waterways with the local fishermen. 
When we started this adventure, we were hungry for information about the Chesapeake Bay and everything that we could take advantage of by boat. The various guides that are available are wonderful resources, but I was looking for even more. When the adventure expanded to the ICW and southern cruising grounds, we added more insights about the places we visited. Maybe this site will help some of you that are interested in a little more information about all of these locations.

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 Chesapeake Bay Anchorages

There are so many places to go, but of course we have found some favorites. We carry a stand up paddleboard and small dinghy to help us explore and enjoy the locations we visit.

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Marinas we have visited

On one of our first trips (an Escapade with Chesapeake Yacht Center) we ended up at the  Tides Inn Marina in Virginia off the Rappahanock River. It is a beautiful resort and we had a great time with the CYC gang and a number of Prestige Yacht owners.

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Heading South and
​Down the ICW

In October of 2020 we took our first trip down the ICW to Florida, our stomping grounds from many years ago.  We spent much of the winter of 2021 (during the pandemic) cruising up and down the east coast of Florida. In November of 2023 we began our next trip south with the goal of heading to the Bahamas during February and March 2024. Feel free to follow the adventure.