After a week in Oriental, our engine was running like new thanks to the awesome folks at Deaton’s Yacht Services. With our engine purring we set out to make up some time. First hop was pretty short, just down to Beaufort. We could have bypassed it, but I really wanted to check out the town.Read more…
The trip from Bellhaven to Oriental was long, but uneventful. We weren’t even sure we were going to make it in one day, but with some favorable winds and a bit of motor sailing we were making good time. As we transited the Pamlico river, we passed a bustling seafood dock. According to activecaptain, boatsRead more…
Yesterday was one month since we cast off our lines. One thing that has surprised me about this whole “cruising” thing is how little downtime there is (hence the irregular blog-post schedule). We are inevitably either on the move (in which case one of us is steering and one of us is on lookout sinceRead more…