Today marks our first anniversary as full time cruisers. It has been a tremendous adventure, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Just yesterday, after anchoring in a very small creek with swift currents, Sharon m…
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Property Tax
My sister Barb always says “no news is good news”, that applies to Big Run. We have been in Wrightsville Beach since last Wednesday and there is not much to report. We came to Wrightsville Beach because we needed re…
Thank You Captain
Despite the rain all day, today was a pleasure to be on the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW). We managed to get an early start at 0715 this morning at Hospital Point, Mile 0 on the ICW charts. As with last year, we took …
Let Us In
Some of the best news we had in a long time came yesterday in a phone call. We had received a letter from our insurance agent for the boat about a month ago, and Sharon did a follow up email last week. When Sharon d…
The Herding Effect
This October will be our first anniversary as full time cruisers. We have learned very much in that time. However, we do realize that there is more to learn. You can never be a consummate master of anything.&n…
Oh, That New Boat Smell
Morse Code III weighing anchor at Dun Cove On Wednesday, Sharon and I unofficially started our trek south. We left Reed Creek on the Chester River by 8 a.m. By 10:30 we were transisting Kent Narrows…
M/V Nellie Crockett
This is M/V Nellie Crockett of Georgetown, MD. In the above photo she is shown underway during an evening cruise on the East Langford Creek, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the eastern shore. Built in 1926 (som…
The Coast Of Africa
On Sunday morning, in what was to have been the trailing effects of Hurricane Irene as she moved up the coast towards New England, we were battered with some of the strongest gusts of the storm. As the day progressed the …
Goodnight Irene
It was last Tuesday, the day of the earthquake on the east coast, that Sharon and I decided to continue our trek north. We decided to head back to Rock Hall for a couple of reasons, but the most pressing reason was Hurric…
What’s Next?
The above photo is one that was taken last Monday one week ago. As we were heading north on the Chesapeake Bay to the Choptank River, we were watching weather radar as the storms developed to our west. The photo is …
