Everglades City's annual Blessing of the Fleet drew stone crab boats Saturday, hundreds of spectators. Stone crab season starts Oct. 15.

The annual boat-docking competition at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is part of a circuit that travels to about 10 towns in mostly rural shoreline areas in Maryland and Virginia in August and ...

The motor boat is modeled after the “Darlene” from the 1980s but is of a type that dates back to the early 1900s. The two plan to keep the boat at their dock on St. John Creek.