#chesapeake

[fatchance]

Elaine's zinnias.

[frankietankbaker]

Here's a painting I recently did. This one's for my old man

[sophiologism]

i love the south. the ozarks and ouachitas, the piney woods, southeast texas, the mid-south, the lower delta, cajun country, the cumberland plateau, the deep south, new orleans, central appalachia, the smokies, the piedmont, the gulf coast, chesapeake bay, the south atlantic plain, the outer banks, the carolina beaches, the lowcountry, all of north florida… i just love it here and i love being from here. i love how diverse an area it is with so many different cultural identities and yet we all have solidarity due to common struggles and experiences. it has a lot of issues, and we as southerners have a lot of work to do, but i’ll never give up on us and our home.

[henk-heijmans]

Carolina dog: celebration on the Chesapeake, Virginia - by Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914 - 2000), English

[t13shoots]

[unteriors]

Township Road 1119, Chesapeake, Ohio.

[preblesboys]

Haven Beach VA

[snowydragonsden]

ryuuko and chesapeake by Chiyu

This was an illustration I commissioned for my dear friend Web_Trekker. Chesapeake is their ship-girl OC and I love her design to pieces. Thank you so much for bringing her to life <3

[madmonksandmaenads]

HI SLUTS! Guess who got high and started looking through sailboat racing archives? THIS GIRL! I have returned from my spiritual journey to deliver onto you the choicest of Skipjack and "Log Canoe" photos. You're welcome.

Skipjacks are oyster harvesting ships designed around a legal loophole. Oyster dredgers had their power legally limited by being restricted to only one mast, so how do you keep dredging more oyster. STUFF THAT ONE MAST WITH AS MUCH SAIL AS POSSIBLE

Look at her! One Mast, 4 sails, 0 problems!

With the advent of motor boats many skipjacks and their cousins the "Log Canoes" were abandoned in favor of motorized dredgers. In boggy marshes these princes of the Chesapeake were left to molder, open graves for all to view their majesty in decay.

modern skipjacks are a popular racing vessel and they are beautiful sights dancing on the bay. I just want these two boats to kiss so bad.

"Log Canoes" are the smaller, crazier cousins of the Slipjacks. Originally made from hollowed out logs, they were continuously optimized for SPEED! This is because the first oysterman to return to the Buy Boat(big boats that bought fresh oysters from other boats to sell in market) would get the best price for their oysters, so every day was racing day.

Log Canoes have also become a modern racing boats carrying on the tradition of teeny tiny boats going ridiculously fast. You can see in these photos that they are so small, and their sails are so big, that they need "Boardmen" whose job it is to put down and then sit on long boards. These sluts are living counterweights to make sure that when the boat is moving perpendicular to the wind it doesn't capsize.

and if they mess up they will capsize, and then you're left looking like an idiot until you either manage to right the ship or the regata's official comes by in their boat.

Also I don't know why but middle-aged dads have never looked sluttier than when they are hanging off a tiny sailing vessel with their legs all stretched out trying not to fall into the Bay.

[oneechanblog]

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[20th-century-railroading]

Spiritless by James House Via Flickr: CSXT 1, before being named the "Spirit of West Virginia", is caught westbound at Chesapeake, WV. March 1997

[thesingalongsong]

“It was hot in the arena

Good men die like dogs

My hero plays to no one, in a parking lot

Even though there's no one around

He broke a leg and the house came down,”

[firebird7479]

Bobby Champion - Volume 3. Getting Over. Chapter 9. (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1504339311-bobby-champion-volume-3-getting-over-chapter-9?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=Firebird7479 BASED ON A PROPOSED TV SERIES. WRITTEN BY A PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER When high school wrestling star Bobby Tyson learns that his girlfriend, Jennifer, is pregnant, he turns down his wrestling scholarship to Oklahoma State University, against the advice of everyone around him. He wants to embark on a career in the world of professional wrestling. He marries Jennifer and together, they raise their son, Nicholas. Bobby struggles to keep his family together as he tries to make a name for himself as he rises up the ranks towards the world's heavyweight championship.

[travel-with-kat]

Elk Neck State Park, MD 🌅

[junyphotos]

Photos from the Chesapeake Bay

[harveyspictures]

Sunset on Back Creek, Sassafras River in the Chesapeake, October 18, 2024