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COLTON'S POINT (Oct. 8, 2007) --- After a slow Saturday for crowds at the annual Blessing of the Fleet, a sparkling afternoon led to a large crowd of pleasure boats and an occasional workboat coming out in force on Saturday night to the Potomac River where one of the finest displays of fireworks witnessed by fans of any age was put on from a barge in the river. 
What Saturday lacked in attendees, was made up for on Sunday when people swarmed to the Potomac River Museum at Colton's Point and a constant shuttle of vessels carried thousands out to St. Clements Island so they could see the newly built lighthouse and see the cross which marks the site of the landing of the settlers from England on March 24, 1634 as well as the first Catholic Mass in the English colonies. 
The oyster buyboat Samuel M. Bailey brought a Catholic priest out to bless the crew of the Maryland Dove and then blessed sailboats, cabin cruisers, jet skis, speed boats and a few work boats which circled through the channel between the mainland and the island.

The Captain and the Light:  Left, the Captain of the Dove oversees a crew who prepare to unfurl sails to make a run down the river. Right, the interior of the rebuilt lighthouse shows the support for the lens which will be placed at the top.
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The Samuel M. Bailey, a 55-year-old oyster buy boat which is outfitted to take parties out on the Potomac for cruises, dinners and tours, donates its services to the Blessing of the Fleet each year.  Below, the vessel comes along side the Maryland Dove to offload some passengers.  Above, the oyster buy boat appears to be giving the Dove a push, but it's an optical illusion, that isn't the way it works.  The Dove has diesel engines and powered its way up the Potomac for the Blessing, unfurling its sails for show for the crowd as it arrived off of Colton's Point.
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A crew of local volunteers have rebuilt the St. Clements Island Lighthouse in excruciating detail after the design of the original lighthouse which a bored US Navy blasted out of existence in the 1930's.  The lame excuse that it was needed as for target practice is belied by the abundance of German WWI ships as well as surplus ships available for that purpose.  But no one wants to say that there were lead bottoms in the Navy. There are still many surplus ships for target practice so we hope the Navy doesn't blow this new lighthouse away.  Joe St. Clair and Don Kropp have been the driving forces for this historic reconstruction.   The lighthouse is also known as Blackistone Island Lighthouse, the original name of the island which the historically correct are bantering around just to confuse people.  ST. MARY'S TODAY photos

Visitors to the island come by boat, its the only way to get there.  A water taxi is available on weekends from the museum at Colton's Point.  ST. MARY'S TODAY photos

These views of the Blackistone Island Light or St. Clements Island lighthouse show the very careful masonry work being performed by the volunteers who are bringing back the structure at a fraction of what it would cost were the government doing it. ST. MARY'S TODAY photos