April 2024

Mac is the Chairman of the Board of the Directors of the Pride of Baltimore Foundation. The year 2023 and early 2024 has been eventful with Pride of Baltimore II. We spent four-plus months in Georgia re-planking some aging planks in the hull with the full crew held over. He sent the pictures below. The last one shows their return to Baltimore in April. They were scheduled to return the day of the Key Bridge accident and had to delay for a week in Annapolis while a channel was opened.

reported by Bill Hardy '61

A view up the port side of the hull. Pride II’s frames and frame assemblies are a wood called Santa Maria.

 

 

Pride of Baltimore II ready for launch at Thunderbolt Marina in Savannah, Georgia

 

Pride of Baltimore II passing by the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge