Museum Ships Weekend

This weekend was the Maritime Weekend for Museum Ships.  I was only on the radio for a couple of hours Saturday night, on 20m.  There was about S5-7 noise on my end, and I didn't even have a balun up...just a 20m dipole about 15 feet high on a painter pole with some coils of coax.  I got to speak to KK5W aboard the USS Cavalla submarine in the radio room, berthed in Galvaston Bay, TX.  The USS Stewart, a destroyer escort counted as a dual credit.  I contacted the W5LEX station on board the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi, TX.  A contact was made with K1USN at the maritime museum in Braintree, MA.  Another contact was made to KK4TE, the Alabama QSO party.  He wasn't aboard the USS Alabama, but he has a cool QSL card of it.  While I was waiting for KK5W to come back on the air after a break--they had a major pileup, I got to chat with K1LDL maritime mobile, who was on his 24 foot sailboat off Gloucester, MA.  He and I had been trying to get through the pileup for a while.  I don't know if he made it or not.  I just happened to be scrolling by when they came back on the air and I made the contact with no competition.  During all this searching up and down the band, I managed to get through a lot of noise and talk with SP9LJD of Poland.  I was especially happy to get this as it is my first QSO with Poland.  I hope he sends me a QSL card!