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The Enchanting Waccamaw
Puffin slipped down the Waccamaw this afternoon on her way south, enjoying the first benevolent current of the day. (Continued…)
St James Marina
There was just the barest hint of a dark red sky at 6 am this morning when we pulled out of Mile Hammock Bay. Facing us was a dredging barge parked right outside the bay’s exit, in the middle of the ICW channel, with all its lights blazing, its genera…
Mile Hammock Bay
Saturday was a beautiful day for traveling, sunny and little wind. We saw lots of pelicans, and people fishing from shore or small boats. Even the bridge tender at Onslow Bridge was happy, and held the bridge for us for the couple of extra minutes we…
Morehead City
On Sunday we left pretty Slade Creek and later passed a large fleet of well- maintained shrimp boats tied up just past the Hoboken Coast Guard, and watched the coasties playing flag football for a few minutes – you need to slow down in this area so I h…
Entertainment at the Wilkerson Bridge
We celebrated daylight savings time by letting it trick us into a very long cruising day, about 80 statute miles in 10 ½ hours. We had an easy day and despite increasing winds in the afternoon, we moved along without feeling the effects, had no probl…
Finally Moving
Hurricane Sandy was kind to us and didn’t accelerate beyond Category 1. Both we and Puffin fared well in Portsmouth, Va. at Ocean Marine Yacht Center. The tall buildings and boats and naval ships nearby moderated the wind, so that we experienced on…
Preparing for Hurricane Sandy
I should assure our blog followers that we feel very safe here at Ocean Marine Yacht Center in Portsmouth VA. So far any impact of increasing winds has been softened here by other boats and tall buildings. There will be another two days before Hurric…
Gotta Move!
Chris Parker, the weather guru, is advising that Hurricane Sandy may hit the east coast hard. This news prompted us to move from our anchorage down to historic Portsmouth and tie up at a protected marina, Ocean Marine Center, right at Mile Marker Zero…
Another LayZ Day
We are taking another lazy day here in the Hampton River. Yes, we are surrounded by bridges and condos, but we still think this is a nice place to lay over. We don’t feel hemmed in, the sunsets are nice and there is no passing boat traffic to creat…
