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CommunitySea Scout Miller sails aboard Coast Guard Cutter Eagle
Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008
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This year the Coast Guard invited six Sea Scouts to sail on the Eagle for three, one-week cruises out of California ports. Morgan was one of only six scouts to be selected in the nation to attend these cruises. She attended with Ordinary Sea Scout Chip Lovejoy from Georgia.
She flew to California on Saturday, July 26, and boarded Eagle the next day in San Francisco. She was provided a trainee berth and a tour of Eagle. The Cutter got underway on July 28.
Morgan received training in the ‘‘School of the Ship” where she was instructed on safety equipment and climbed the rigging to her duty station about half way up the main mast. Morgan was treated as and received the same training as the Coast Guard Cadets while on board.
When she returned, Morgan started preparing for her required Quartermaster cruise where she will be in total command of a 46-foot schooner with a crew of four to six Sea Scouts. Quartermaster is the highest rank in Sea Scouting, similar to Eagle rank in the Boy Scouts.
Morgan is a member of Sea Scout Ship 548 sponsored by Holy Angels Church in Avenue.
For more information on Sea Scouting, go to www.SeaScoutShip548.com, or call 410-326-4291.
Singer-songwriter Kirby to performAug. 17
Boats, harbors and beaches are usually the main themes of Scott Kirby’s music, and Chesapeake sailors will hear first-hand this nautical wordsmith on Sunday, Aug. 17, as Kirby brings his brand of acoustic beach-folk music to the Southern Maryland Sailing Association clubhouse in Solomons.
Appearing with Kirby will be guitarist Dave Edmisten.
The concert starts at 4 p.m., and doors open at 3 p.m.
Originally from New Hampshire, Kirby spent most of his youthful summers along the coast of Maine. At age 19, he purchased his first sailboat. He is now on his fifth boat.
‘‘I have had the good fortuneÊto sail up and down the east coast, asÊwell as the Caribbean and the Med,” Kirby said in a press release. ‘‘I have had several musicians tell me they think that listeners connect with my songs because folks are very smart and can sense authenticity in a song. If I was trying to write songs about being a cowboy, it might not workÊso well. People can sniff out a faker pretty quickly.”
Kirby spent 15 years living in Key West. He now splits his time between Key West, New Hampshire and touring the eastern-half of the country.
‘‘I haven’t played in Solomons before,” he said in the release, ‘‘but I do have an interesting connection to the place. I sail on a pretty famous sloop built there at the Davis Boatyard in the 1930’s called Trivet. Alan Miller, the owner of Pepe’s Cafe in Key West, is a wooden-boat fanatic, and recently did a full-blown restoration of this classic and keeps her up in Boothbay, Maine, where I have had the pleasure of some beautiful days onÊher.”
A sandwich menu provided by Issac’s Restaurant and the SMSA bar will be open.
Kirby’s music can often be heard on Radio Margaritaville on Sirius Radio’s channel 31.
See www.smsa.com for information on tickets ($15 each), or e-mail scottatsmsa@yahoo.com.
