After dropping the hook in the middle of the night, we awoke after a good night’s sleep to find ourselves in a beautiful spot just off an island that’s part of a nature preserve. We started off by ourselves but as the day wore on, we got more and more neighbors until there were 8 […]
Alternately, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”. Now that our world revolves entirely around weather, we dedicate a lot of time to checking forecasts. We use Predict Wind, Sailflow, Windy and TZ iBoat, plus Weatherbug and Weather Underground to check local forecasts at our current location and our destination and conditions in between and […]
Beaufort is one of those places that I could absolutely see myself calling home. Much like Cape May, it’s reminiscent of Cape Cod in little subtle ways that are hard to describe. Some are obvious – the National Seashore, the commercial fishing, the tourism – and others are more of a feeling. I love the […]
One of the best things about this lifestyle is getting to meet so many other people with similar interests. Another member of the Catalina Owners Association reached out and offered to meet up and help us provision or get anything we needed. We were already well stocked, just having done a provisioning run in Belhaven, […]
This was exactly what I needed – an absolutely gorgeous, low-stress trip. We had early morning fog that had burned off by the time we got under way and before we passed Belhaven town, the clouds were burning off too. The wind was too light to sail, but it turned out to be the perfect, […]
We split our time in Belhaven between being on the hook in Pantego Creek and a slip at Dowry Creek Marina. We had some amazing weather, from stunning sunrises to intense thunderstorms and two days of all-day silent skies. While the nights were cool, the days were comfortable. We took a couple dinghy cruises – […]
Today was one of the days I was most looking forward to on this trip. When we did this trip with our friend, I was in awe the whole time and I couldn’t wait to do it on our boat. It’s one of those places that you truly have to experience to fully appreciate, and […]
I was glad to see the sunrise, and by the time we finished breakfast, the parade of boats heading south was already under way. As we navigated the twisty section of channel immediately following our anchorage, I was especially glad that we’d been able to drop the hook. Being over-tired, I was prone to being […]
It was too dark to see the daymarks, but we were in an area where missing the channel meant a high probability of running afoul of fish stakes, grounding or both. Not knowing where the channel was headed, it was hard for me to buoy spot. I pulled up the charts on Chris’s phone in […]
I was so excited to finally be starting the ICW, but today was not without its challenges. The wind was up, and it made getting off the dock and getting fuel difficult. That delayed us enough that we didn’t think we could make the 1100 lock for the Dismal Swamp, and missing that meant we […]