Marina

People in Bowleys Quarters say Milton Rehbein is easy to like. He's a native of the tight-knit shore community in eastern Baltimore County. And he put in or rebuilt just about everyone's pier or bulkhead. But his plan to turn the old family marina into upscale condominiums has divided a waterfront hamlet still coming to terms with change in the aftermath of a punishing tropical storm. How strong are feelings running in Bowleys Quarters? The local community association has endorsed the proposal - and opponents say they will push to impeach the group's president at what is expected to be a stormy meeting tonight.

A man's body was pulled from the water near Holiday Hill Marina in Anne Arundel County on Wednesday night, fire officials said, though a cause of death has not been announced. The fire department was called about a man in the water near the marina, in the 3900 block of Callawasse Road in Mayo, about 8:10 p.m. Upon arrival, firefighters went to pier 6, where they found and removed the body of an unidentified male from the creek. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, a county fire spokesman said.

The man who runs many of Baltimore's marinas, a former captain in the Israeli navy, prefers the sky to the sea. The only boat he owns is a gondola, which he keeps tied up at his marina in Canton. "I love aviation; that's my passion," said Dan Naor, 47, chief operating officer of Baltimore Marine Centers, as he stood next to a cherry-red helicopter on a recent weekday. He flies it - not as often as he'd like - from Pier 7 in Canton, the base of another business he runs, Baltimore Helicopter Services.

In October, Waterfront Partnership's Healthy Harbor Initiative released the State of Baltimore's Harbor Report, an assessment of the current health of Baltimore's Inner Harbor and its surrounding tributaries. According to the study, the water quality received an overall poor score. Anyone walking near the Inner Harbor can see from the bulkhead that the water is littered with trash, debris and pollutants, unfortunately making it unsafe for swimming and fishing. An unsettling contributor to this problem is the fact that of Maryland's 600 marinas, only 25 percent are currently designated as a Maryland Clean Marina by the Department of Natural Resources.

On January 1, 2005, MANDY MARINA GRIFFIN. On Friday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICE, 5151 Baltimore National Pike from 11 A. M to 3 P.M. At 4 P.M, Mrs. Griffin will lie in state at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, 651 Mt. Olive Road, where she can be viewed until 8 P.M. On Saturday, the family will receive friends from 11 to 11:30 A. M with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-233-2400.

Marina Rios Chaconas, age 80, died Wednesday, December 19,2007 at her home in Ocean City. Born in Baltimore she was the only child of the late Peter Efstratios and Voula Arniotis Rois. She is survived by a son Aristides Evan Chaconas and his wife Christina Marie and their children Elizabeth Ann and Peter Rois Chaconas of North Carolina and a daughter Angel Chaconas and her husband James Gallagher of Ocean Pines. Marina was a graduate of Eastern High School in Baltimore and received secondary education from both University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University majoring in languages.

Services for Ethel Marie Hansel, who once operated a marina in Deale, will be held at 11 a.m. today at the Barranco and Sons Funeral Home, Ritchie Highway and Robinson Road, Severna Park.Mrs. Hansel, who was 79, died of heart failure Wednesday at her home at the Queen Anne's Marina, where she lived with a son.At the Kent Island marina, her home since 1983, she became known as "Gran" to the commercial waterman whom she would greet upon their return to the dock.Earlier, she and her husband, William R. Hansel Sr., operated a grocery store and then a marina in Deale.

Owners of a South River marina have asked the state Court of Special Appeals to strike down an Anne Arundel County zoning rule that is preventing them from expanding the marina.The attorney for Holiday Point Marina in Selby Bay says the county is overstepping its bounds in a 1979 zoning rule that bars new boat slips less than 2,640 feet from a shellfish bed.The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) imposes a less stringent, 1,500-foot buffer. According to plans submitted by marina owners Frederick and Maureen Mershon, the nearest slip would be about 1,800 feet from an oyster bed.For nearly a decade, the owners have been trying to double their marina to 299 slips.

The newspaper advertisements ask: "What's Happening Under The Hanover Street Bridge?"The answer, according to the ads: Fried rattlesnake, $5.75, available Wednesday through Saturday at a waterfront watering hole known as the Dead Eye Saloon.Another answer, according to city officials: The operator of the Baltimore Yacht Basin, a marina owned by the city but run by a private company, has shortchanged taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. And he's run up this tab while operating his popular saloon in a structure built in part with government money on government property.

A Virgina bank has initiated foreclosure proceedings against the developers of the International Yachting Center in Canton, Baltimore's largest marina and boat storage facility.In documents filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City during the summer, representatives of Perpetual Savings Bank of Alexandria, Va., claimed that four entities affiliated with the Boston Street marina owed the bank more than $3.4 million as of July 12 and that interest was accruing at the rate of $918.22 a day.More than $1.7 million was owed on a loan of $1.9 million, and nearly $1.7 million was owed on promissory notes in the amount of $1.55 million and $875,000, according to court documents.

Tidewater Yacht Service Center in Port Covington was named winner of the 2012 Maryland Clean Marina contest in the large boatyard category. The business was commended by the Department of Natural Resources for taking steps to protect the environment such as: having a recycling program for plastic shrink wrap, oil, cardboard, glass and plastic; taking part in oyster aquaculture to help clean the water; installing fixed and portable pump out stations; and...

J. Dennis Carper, a Baltimore County marina owner and yacht builder who was a decorated World War II veteran, died of stroke and dementia complications Dec. 25 at his Essex home. He was 91. Born near New Castle, Va., he worked on the family farm at Meadow Creek outside Roanoke. While at a church function, he met Gertrude Esther Hanks, a girl from nearby Covington who was a minister's daughter. They married in 1942. The couple lived in Virginia while he attended a school for aircraft mechanics.

If a little green might help restore Baltimore's ailing harbor, how can a lot be bad? That's the question city, state and federal officials are pondering as they weigh a local marina magnate's plan to fill an unused corner of the Inner Harbor with a large floating marsh. Inspired by a pair of pint-sized experimental wetlands placed in the harbor two years ago, Dan Naor has proposed building a much larger one, covering 1.6 acres of open water in the Harborview marina off Key Highway.

One of the great summer pleasures that comes with living in Maryland is the opportunity to get on a boat and paddle, motor or sail your way around the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Few places in the U.S. are better suited for boating, and the state's geographic blessing has produced economic rewards for its citizens - an estimated 35,000 jobs produced by a $2 billion industry. But these are not the best of times for those in the boating industry. The economic recession of 2007 hit hard, and the recovery has been slow.

A 40-foot cabin cruiser was completely destroyed Wednesday, when it caught fire, while berthed at the Anchorage Marina in Canton. Multiple fire units responded at 3:40 p.m. to the pier in the 2500 block of Boston Street, city fire officials said. Crews isolated the boat in the water to prevent the fire from jumping to other nearby boats and brought the blaze under control by 4:05 p.m., said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a fire spokesman. No firefighter was injured. No one was on the boat at the time and no other boats at the marina were damaged, officials said.

A 40-foot cabin cruiser caught fire in the Anchorage Marina in Canton Wednesday afternoon, bringing multiple fire units to the pier where it was docked, city fire officials said. Units responded to the marina in the 2500 block of Boston Street, which has slips for purchase and rent, about 3:40 p.m. and isolated the boat in the water to prevent the fire from jumping to other boats nearby, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a fire spokesman. The fire was brought under control about 4:05 p.m., Cartwright said.

An affiliate of Perpetual Savings Bank of Alexandria, Va., was the high bidder yesterday for 99 boat slips and related property at the 500-slip Anchorage marina in Canton with an offer of $2 million.S.A.D. Realty, a Perpetual affiliate that represents the bank's "special assets division," will become the new owner of the boat slips once the sale by Atlantic Auctions is ratified by the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.S.A.D. also will take control of a four-story dockmaster's office and sales center for the marina, the largest in Baltimore and a symbol of its waterfront renaissance during the 1980s.

Federal authorities have informally recommended against allowing a Pasadena marina to add five boat ramps and 10 boat slips.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recommended that state officials deny Pleasure Marine Center, in the 1701 block of Poplar Ridge Road, a tidal wetland license because nearby waters are a spawning and nursery ground for yellow perch.In a recent letter sent to Del. Joan M. Cadden, who represents the area, NOAA officials also said the agency would like boat ramps at nearby Fort Smallwood Park to be upgraded.

The man who runs many of Baltimore's marinas, a former captain in the Israeli navy, prefers the sky to the sea. The only boat he owns is a gondola, which he keeps tied up at his marina in Canton. "I love aviation; that's my passion," said Dan Naor, 47, chief operating officer of Baltimore Marine Centers, as he stood next to a cherry-red helicopter on a recent weekday. He flies it - not as often as he'd like - from Pier 7 in Canton, the base of another business he runs, Baltimore Helicopter Services.

A blaze Sunday at an Edgewater marina destroyed a storage shed and damaged three sailboats. Anne Arundel County Fire Capt. James Rostek said 94 firefighters responded to a four-alarm brush fire at 1:59 p.m. at the Holiday Point Marina in the 3700 block of Beach Drive Boulevard. The fire was under control by 4 p.m., and extinguished by 5 p.m. No civilian or firefighter injuries were reported, Rostek said. The cause of the fire is under investigation. The outbuilding destroyed was located on marina property, Rostek said.