We wish we’d had some time to explore Casco Bay – we passed so many pretty little spots – but we’re trying to get up to Belfast to get our estimate done there too, so it was time to move on. We’d heard so much about Boothbay that we had to add it to our […]
Sailing into Portland was another bucket list experience – we’d vacationed here almost 20 years ago and I remember talking way back then about how cool it would be to arrive on our own boat someday. For a lighthouse nerd (me), it was so incredibly cool to pass so many (I promise you’re going to […]
Friday morning we sailed for Portsmouth. We chose to get an early start so we could catch what little breeze was forecast for the day, and sailing out past Beverly was beautiful. We sailed past little rocky islands that looked like what we imagined Maine would be like, past Hospital Point Lighthouse and Bakers Island […]
The Cape Cod Canal has been a bucket list thing for both of us for years, and we were super excited to finally do it. It was a gray, damp and chilly morning, and Chris and I were dressed for full-on winter… we even put on sneakers. But nothing could dampen our spirits as we […]
Buzzards Bay has a (well earned) nasty reputation. In the summer, there’s a consistent southwesterly afternoon sea breeze, and with up to 5.5kts of current at its peak, the ebb tide flowing out of the Cape Cod Canal can cause some gnarly standing waves. Growing up nearby, this was not news to us, so we […]
Arriving back on Block is one of my favorite things in the world. I always look forward to our time here, even if this year it’s unusually short. We arrived to find another club member already on the HYC mooring, and while we normally would have rafted up, the wind was blowing 20-25 and they […]
Saturday morning, we slipped the morning lines to sail up to the Chester River. We were determined to get in at least a little bit more Chesapeake Bay cruising, and the Chester River looked like a great place to start. We raised the sails just past the mooring field and had a wonderful, fast sail […]
As soon as we closed our laptops for the day, we had dinner and hauled anchor to head to Annapolis. It’s about a 25 mile trip, and we knew we’d be arriving after dark, but with no dinghy to get us to shore, waiting until the weekend wasn’t practical. It was a nice evening on […]
After making our grand entrance at York River Yacht Haven, the rest of the week was, thankfully, a quiet one. Memorial Day was supposed to be stormy so we didn’t have grand plans, but we took an Uber over to Yorktown and wandered the streets a bit. We took the Riverwalk to the American Revolution […]
Once we were anchor down in Wrightsville Beach, we raised the yellow Q (quarantine) flag to signal that we were not yet cleared into the US, and Chris submitted our application on the Customs and Border Patrol ROAM app. We broke out the two Strongbacks I picked up in Marsh Harbour to celebrate our passage […]