History lesson
May 30, 2019 Thursday Annapolis Yacht Basin, Annapolis, MD 0 nautical miles.
38°58’29.5″N 76°29’05.3″W
38.974848, -76.484801
Elevation: 0 ft Tides: 2 ft
Breakfast at Chick and Ruth’s Delly. Pledge of Allegiance is said M-F at 8:30 and 9:30 on Saturday and Sunday. Breakfast was a half-pound jumbo blue crab cakes. They were the best we’ve ever eaten. I’m going to have to stop eating them now because nothing else will ever compare.
If you are EVER in Annapolis you must have one at Chick and Ruth’s Delly.
Standing up to say pledge 
Along the Way
Off to the Naval Academy
Frat Row? (Officers Quarters) 
Naval Academy Chapel
Naval Academy Chapel dome
John Paul Jones crypt in the bottom level of the chapel. He is known as
the father of America’s Navy
Imagine him standing behind a cannon yelling
“I have not yet begun to fight,” in response to a request for his surrender at the Battle of Flamborough Head during the American Revolutionary War.
US Naval Academy Museum, Preble Hall
English shipwright-modelers built scale models of ships (dock models) from ~1600 to 1830’s . The second floor of the museum had fifty models on display, donated by a private collector. Each model was an incredible work of craftsmanship. It was as overwhelming as the Smithsonian Museums. Zoom in on the pictures to truly enjoy the details!!!!!
know the ropes 
cannons 
quarter deck 
figure head 
captains quarters and stern
During the French Revolution and Empire Wars (1793-1815) thousands of French sailors and soldiers were captured and incarcerated in English prisons. Prisoners of war whittled away time carving bones from their meat rations and sticks, putting together models with what every they could find. The prisoners could sell the models at public open fairs in the prison or near by markets. Working singly or in teams they produced decorative boxes, game boards, spinning jennies, guillotines and vessels. With their profits they could by food or clothing from the town merchants.
The first floor had traditional Navy History.
Maryland State House (Capital) and about town
This is believed to be the exact spot where Washington stood when he resigned as General of the Continental Army, officially ending the American Revolutionary War.
A capital parking spot 
Governors Mansion across the street
We also stopped for a 12 pack on the way home.
Design on box is the Maryland state flag
Taking down the marina flag.
Floccinaucinihilipilification
Annapolis is the oldest state capitol in continuous legislative use. It once served as the capital of the fledgling United States in 1783 – 1784 where the Continental Congress would meet. It is also where the Treaty of Paris was signed.
Four of the 56 signatures found on the Declaration of Independence came from residents of Annapolis, Maryland: William Paca, Samuel Chase, Charles Carroll, and Thomas Stone.
John Paul added “Jones” in later life to hide from law enforcement for a killing a man that he claimed was in self-defense.
Nauti Words
Figurehead
Origin: An ornamental figure placed on the front of a ship, under the. Originally a religious and/or protective emblem. The custom continued but for purely decorative purposes. Hence the term figurehead – a leader with no real power or function except to ‘look good’ or appeal to a certain group.
Know the ropes
It’s a whole different perspective once you looked at the ship models. There are miles of roles in in the rigging. A sailor needed to know the principals for each type of sail. The only way of keeping track of the rope functions was to memorize where each of them went. It took an experienced sailor to “know the ropes”.
Drolleries and Yuks
Downtown restaurant sign.
