Fifteen years ago, scouts for Hollywood director David Dobkin asked to use the Schooner Woodwind II, a 74-foot sailboat docked in Annapolis, for a “commercial.” The Schooner Woodwind II is an ...

Annapolis got back on the water in May when Gov. Larry Hogan ended coronavirus restrictions on recreational boating. Now the charter and excursion fleet in Annapolis is afloat once more. Watermark, ...

Sharon Bubel, a tourist from Atlanta, stands at the helm of the schooner Woodwind II as it glides from Annapolis Harbor into the Chesapeake Bay on a breezy Wednesday afternoon. As Bubel delicately ...

‘Two, six, heave,” commands captain Nathan Hesse. Another passenger and I pull hard on the rope attached to the mainsail of Woodwind II, sending it slinking up the yacht’s 64-foot mast. “Two, six, ...

Another passenger and I pull hard on the rope attached to the mainsail of Woodwind II, sending it slinking up the yacht’s 64-foot mast. “Two, six, heave,” Hesse booms out again, and again we pull.