With the winter dredge season now done, some skipjacks are ready to raise sails again - not for catching oysters but for carrying people of all ages out on the Bay. This second season, the teaching season, runs from April into November. This year at least nine skipjacks will be carrying educational and recreational and sightseeing tours.
Skipjack trips are offered by a number of environmental organizations, an outdoor school and by the dredge boat captains who pioneered this form of environmental education: Ed Farley and Wade Murphy of Tilghman Island and Jack Russell of St. George's Island. Here, working up from the south, are the boats, captains and contact numbers.