Nov 9/10th – We love it when we decide to stop and explore a new place. Today our new destination was Bald Head Island. This Island is right at the mouth of the Cape Fear River and fortunately we had excellent weather so the seas were not a …
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Short Days
Nov 6th – Woke up to the sound of diesel engines being fired up in the distance. For a few days it had been one sound we hadn’t heard. Sure enough the big Kady Krogens and Acapella were heading out of their slips. We began to ready the Summer Win…
River Dunes Marina , Oriental, NC
November 3rd/5th – The captain rose in the morning and I could hear him chuckling. When I asked him what was amusing , he told me that he couldn’t see anything outside. We were totally socked in with thick fog. Oh well, so much for getting an early&nbs…
Alligator River/Pungo Canal
November 2nd – Before releasing the lines in the morning we checked NOAA weather to see if the forecast had changed. NOAA had predicted NW15-20 and they were to be ‘subsiding’. As we were travelling we were trying to decide whether to anchor in our fir…
Coinjock, NC
Misty Morning on the Great Bridge WallOctober 31st/Nov 1 – Shortly before 8am we rose to release the lines from the wall only to discover there was ice on the deck of the boat. Even with boat shoes it was precarious trying to maneuver on deck. We had o…
Heading down the ICW at a snails pace
Waiting for the Gilmerton BridgeOctober 26th/30th – Getting through Norfolk, VA takes a little planning and proper timing. Norfolk, Va is MM 0 of the ICW and for the first 20 miles, everyone moves at a snails pace. Why you ask? Well, there are 5k…
Portsmouth, VA
Oct 24th/25th – Released the lines from the dock and let the Summer Wind take us down the York River. Our cruise down the York River into the Chesapeake Bay was relatively calm. Unfortunately when we reached the mouth of the Chesapeake the winds had pi…
Destination Yorktown!!
Summer Wind gets front row seats to weddingOctober 22nd/23rd – Many of you may remember we tried to visit Colonial Williamsburg last year. We had travelled all the way up the St. James River to the Chicahominy River to an isolated marina, no where near…
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Thai HotOctober 21st 2011 – In order to give the seas on the Chesapeake a little more time to settle, we enjoyed a leisurely breakfast in the morning. Slowly we raised our anchor and gave it a good wash down after being dug in the mud f…
A day or two for the ‘honey do’ list
October 19th, 2011 -Here we are tucked into a nice protected anchorage in Mill Creek on the Great Wicomico river while mother nature does what she does best out on the Chesapeake Bay. There are 15 -20 knot winds with 30 knot gusts out of…
