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Sailing Vessel Lynx - Docking Fee Waiver - For the purpose of waiving the fees for docking the Sailing Vessel Lynx at the Annapolis City Dock for ten days in October 2022.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Resolution 53-22
Introduced by: Alderman Ross
Co-sponsored by:
A RESOLUTION concerning
Sailing Vessel Lynx - Docking Fee Waiver
FOR the purpose of waiving the fees for docking the Sailing Vessel Lynx at the Annapolis City Dock for ten days in October 2022.
WHEREAS, the organizing committee, comprised of Annapolis constituents, is requesting a docking fee waiver for the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, sailing vessel Lynx, owned by the nonprofit foundation The Lynx Educational Foundation, which is visiting the Annapolis City Dock during the period of October 19 through October 29, 2022; and
WHEREAS, the Maiden is currently on tour and she will be open for public tours while docked in downtown Annapolis; and
WHEREAS, S/V Lynx is a reconstruction of the topsail schooner Lynx built in Fells Point, Maryland, by Thomas Kemp in 1812 to be an American privateer schooner sailing in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812 with the goal of attacking British ships; and
WHEREAS, the original Lynx carried six 12-pounders and a crew of 40 men for only a month before being captured at the mouth of the Rappahannock River by the British; and
WHEREAS, S/V Lynx was rebuilt and launched in 2001 from Rockport, Maine, and serves as a living history museum; and
WHEREAS, Annapolis is one of the East Coast visits for S/V Lynx this boating season and will be reaching out to local area schools and community groups; and
WHEREAS, The LYNX Educational Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan, educational organization, dedicated to hands-on educational programs that teach the history of America's struggle to preserve its independence; and
WHEREAS, the City of Annapolis, in recognition of the Lynx's mission to promote the history of the Chesapeake Bay and tradit...
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