Legend of the
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The Queen of the Bay Tiara presented to the top female angler at a QOB tourney is in recognition of our inaugural QOB tournament conducted in 2016 at Cape Charles, VA. The tiara represented in the original graphic of the epoch event shows a queen riding in on a dolphin wearing a tiara. The tiara is that of Lady Mary Boleyn, the sister of English Queen Anne Boleyn, and the mistress of Henry VIII. It is believed that the tiara was buried with her great-grandson Thomas West, Baron De La Warr, for which we get the name Delaware. Thomas West died at sea in 1618 on his second voyage back to Jamestown. He had been serving as governor-for-life of the fledgling colony. Some believe that Thomas West was buried at sea in the Azores, but current theories suggest he may have been buried at Jamestown. Either way, the tiara was buried with him and taken by the sea since most of the original Jamestown fort was eventually overtaken by the James River and pulled into the Chesapeake Bay.
The tiara was allegedly held in reserve as a dowry for Baron West’s daughter, Anne West, who had her sights set on the dashing Captain John Smith, Admiral of New England, and famous explorer of the Chesapeake Bay.
With the loss of the tiara to the waters, an epoch struggle ensued for its possession between the varied sea life of the Bay that included numerous thefts between rays, sharks, and dolphins, the three species that would rise to the top of the food chain. Over the centuries, the dolphins eventually took possession of it, and retained the tiara for a fair maiden who could prove herself worthy in a battle against the seas and the sky. The tiara has eluded the sharks and rays for many years due to the agility of the dolphins. Fighting among the species continues in a quest to get the tiara back to their royal hierarchies so as to honor their respective renowned queens who had possessed it.
The Inaugural 2016 QOB tourney set the stage for the ultimate showdown for recovery of the lost Lady Mary Boleyn Tiara. Maidens of the East Coast were called upon to show their mettle in a fight against the thieving sharks and rays. The eventual dame to rise to the occasion was, amazingly, from Williamsburg, VA, the heart of our first English settlement in the American Colonies. Her name became Sharkslayer” after a tussle with a sandbar shark on her first day of competition. A rumor circulates that she is a descendent of the West family (both of Baron West’s brothers would become Virginia governors).
On the final day of competition, a violent thunderstorm rolled in from the West. For the safety of the participants, the horn was blown to end the tournament, and the decks were cleared. Due to the fact that Sharkslayer had already been battling a massive cownose ray, she was permitted to continue. The storm from the West seemed to work in Sharkslayer’s favor in that she no longer had to deal with the other anglers on the pier. She would eventually land the monster in the driving rain, the biggest catch of the entire tournament, and no sooner had she done so, a massive lightning strike hit the Cape Charles tower. The dolphins, which had been seen in the vicinity of the pier, were summoned to deliver the bounty, the Lady Mary Bolyen Tiara, which had not been seen by humans in nearly 400 years. The tiara was then used to crown Sharkslayer as the “2016 Queen of the Bay”.
During the weeks which immediately followed her coronation, Sharkslayer would suffer tremendous nightmares featuring battles with numerous sharks and rays. Then, only two weeks after the tourney, a second QOB like tourney was conducted at Ingram Bay, on the West side of the Bay. The first species caught by the ladies of that tournament were massive cownose rays! With the British Embassy in Washington beginning to bear down on Sharkslayer (who claimed rightful ownership citing the salvage rights under maritime law), she was encouraged by the tournament directors (who had also been suffering scary dreams) to align herself with the dolphins and to return the tiara to their subsea locker.
The Lady Mary Boleyn Tiara is known to resurface upon subsequent crownings of the “Queen of the Bay.
The tiara was allegedly held in reserve as a dowry for Baron West’s daughter, Anne West, who had her sights set on the dashing Captain John Smith, Admiral of New England, and famous explorer of the Chesapeake Bay.
With the loss of the tiara to the waters, an epoch struggle ensued for its possession between the varied sea life of the Bay that included numerous thefts between rays, sharks, and dolphins, the three species that would rise to the top of the food chain. Over the centuries, the dolphins eventually took possession of it, and retained the tiara for a fair maiden who could prove herself worthy in a battle against the seas and the sky. The tiara has eluded the sharks and rays for many years due to the agility of the dolphins. Fighting among the species continues in a quest to get the tiara back to their royal hierarchies so as to honor their respective renowned queens who had possessed it.
The Inaugural 2016 QOB tourney set the stage for the ultimate showdown for recovery of the lost Lady Mary Boleyn Tiara. Maidens of the East Coast were called upon to show their mettle in a fight against the thieving sharks and rays. The eventual dame to rise to the occasion was, amazingly, from Williamsburg, VA, the heart of our first English settlement in the American Colonies. Her name became Sharkslayer” after a tussle with a sandbar shark on her first day of competition. A rumor circulates that she is a descendent of the West family (both of Baron West’s brothers would become Virginia governors).
On the final day of competition, a violent thunderstorm rolled in from the West. For the safety of the participants, the horn was blown to end the tournament, and the decks were cleared. Due to the fact that Sharkslayer had already been battling a massive cownose ray, she was permitted to continue. The storm from the West seemed to work in Sharkslayer’s favor in that she no longer had to deal with the other anglers on the pier. She would eventually land the monster in the driving rain, the biggest catch of the entire tournament, and no sooner had she done so, a massive lightning strike hit the Cape Charles tower. The dolphins, which had been seen in the vicinity of the pier, were summoned to deliver the bounty, the Lady Mary Bolyen Tiara, which had not been seen by humans in nearly 400 years. The tiara was then used to crown Sharkslayer as the “2016 Queen of the Bay”.
During the weeks which immediately followed her coronation, Sharkslayer would suffer tremendous nightmares featuring battles with numerous sharks and rays. Then, only two weeks after the tourney, a second QOB like tourney was conducted at Ingram Bay, on the West side of the Bay. The first species caught by the ladies of that tournament were massive cownose rays! With the British Embassy in Washington beginning to bear down on Sharkslayer (who claimed rightful ownership citing the salvage rights under maritime law), she was encouraged by the tournament directors (who had also been suffering scary dreams) to align herself with the dolphins and to return the tiara to their subsea locker.
The Lady Mary Boleyn Tiara is known to resurface upon subsequent crownings of the “Queen of the Bay.