Here’s an update on boating restrictions in Maryland and Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay. The regulations invoked for COVID-19 are quite a bit different between the two states. Although the impact has been minimum on…
Chesapeake Bay Hurricane Hole Boatyard and Marina – “Fort” Dickerson Harbor MD
It’s time to be thinking of a Chesapeake Bay Hurricane Hole marina or boatyard if you live in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, DC or New Jersey. With hurricane Dorian churning toward Florida and…
Grand Banks Maintenance Reduction
First in a series of articles on upgrading your older Grand Banks to a more maintenance-friendly vessel. We will be covering lots of creative ways to achieve this goal. This article focuses on teak rails…
3rd Rudder for a Grand Banks
The third rudder is, to some, like an extra teat! However, there are folks who like cruising along the coast apart from the waterway. For them good sea manners are essential. This is a new…
LED Lights for your boat
There are many benefits to having LED lights in your boat. The single-most feature is less power draw from your batteries. Battery life is always of concern especially if you tend to anchor out where…
Grand Banks 42 Renovation
We had a customer come in cold just from reading he blog where he determined we could do all the things he needed to upgrade his Grand Banks 42 to the condition that it should…
Unsolicited Testimonial
If you read my daily blog you will already know about this product. After trying all the expensive prop coating products we struck the mother lode with this one. The product is Pettit Prop Coat…
Burger 85 Gets a Custom Hardtop
In the summer of 2013 this Berger 85 came to Oxford Yacht Agency / Dickerson Harbor Boatyard to have a custom hard top designed, built and installed. Most of the work was performed at our…
Custom Grand Banks Work - Teak Sun Deck
The owner of this Grand Banks 42 Classic will be using a davit system for his dinghy. Since the space where the dinghy is usually stored will be empty, he decided to have a teak…
Engine Room Makeover
One can only imagine the nightmare of the first time a do-it-yourselfer tackles a Grand Banks engine room. This usually leads to a “re-renovation” by a service yard. We were lucky enough (unlucky enough) to…
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