We upped anchor at 8:30 AM to make sure no issues with being ready for the 9 AM bridge opening to exit the Simpson Bay lagoon at St Maarten on Sunday June 7, 2020 in the year of the ‘Rona. I was fully mentally ready to jump in the...
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Don’t Take the Typical Exumas Route-A Tale of Two Bahamas
Tale 1: Two years back we left the US for the Bahamas with a plan of seeing the Exumas of which we had heard so much. Like many cruisers, we had plans of going at least to George Town, had read our Van Sant book, and had our route...
More Boat Work – Final Bahamas Prep Projects in Jacksonville
After all the boat work we did in our couple months in Annapolis, you’d think we’d be all caught up. Right? Wrong. Boat work is a constant. The harsh salt water environment we are in 24/7 insures that. The fact that our boat and diesel engine are 39 years...
A Tale of Two ICWs
If you’ve been following along with us here on the blog or watching our YouTube channel, you know that we took the slowest approach to going north on the Atlantic ICW possible. This past spring we stopped at virtually every city or cool anchorage along the way north. We...
Boat Work – Pre Season Projects in the Chesapeake
With a couple of idle months until the end of hurricane season, it was time for us to do our annual maintenance-a-palooza on Holiday. We had been watching the usual increase of leaks of various fluids from various sources, and aging parts were glaring at us from the running...
Hurricane Season in the Chesapeake Bay
Check out these maps and the info below to get more insight into our Youtube videos of our 3 and a half months cruising the Chesapeake Bay. It was our first time going into the area by boat, it was hurricane season, and we didn’t really know what to...
Places, Stories, and Thoughts of the Atlantic ICW Catfish Point, NC to Norfolk, VA (Mile Zero! Final ICW stats!)
June 24-June 26, 2018 3 days. 103 days since start. 83 nautical miles. 1138 total since start. Catfish Point to Elizabeth City 39 nautical miles. 1094 since start. 9 hours mostly sailing The theme of our passages as we finished the previous blog post was the big water areas...
Places, Stories, and Thoughts of the Atlantic ICW Mile Hammock Bay, NC to Catfish Point on the Alligator River, NC
June 12-June 23, 2018 12 days. 100 days since start. 182 nautical miles. 1055 total since start. Mile Hammock Bay to Beaufort, NC 37 nautical miles. 910 since start. 7 hours motoring Recall from the previous post that Mile Hammock Bay is smack dab in the middle of Marine...