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Ship Shape: Get on board and take a seat - you don't need to own a boat to enjoy the area's waterways.

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From: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
Date: 20070915
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Byline: Rob Hiaasen

Sep. 15--Go. Get out on the water -- because a day on the water can be better than a day on land. As Kenneth Grahame wrote a century ago in his famous children's classic, The Wind in the Willows, "There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."

From motoring around creeks and harbors in a water taxi to taking a quiet sunset cruise to the Bay Bridge to watching your kids play buccaneers on a pirate cruise, the Baltimore-Annapolis area offers plenty of opportunities to mess about in boats. If you're ...

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