After Brunswick, Florida was finally just a hop, skip and jump away. After a surprisingly chilly several months along the ICW, I kept joking that as soon as we hit Florida the temperature would jump by 20 degrees. I wasn’t serious, but as luck would have it, almost literally as we crossed the GA/FL borderRead more…
With Savannah behind us, we were hoping to make it to Florida as quickly as possible. Unfortunately the weather had other plans. A pretty big front was moving in & bringing thunderstorms and some significant winds. After some quick research, we decided to tuck in at the Brunswick Landing Marina in Brunswick, GA. Not tooRead more…
Ah, Georgia – the most dreaded stretch of the ICW. It is a land of twists & turns, 8 foot tides, ripping currents and treacherous shallows that must be transited with care. Many try to go offshore from South Carolina to Florida and bypass Georgia altogether. We certainly entertained that idea but a good weather window neverRead more…
We were of course shaken up after our misadventure as we were leaving Charleston. We kept going over it in our heads to see what we could’ve done different, how we could have prevented it. Now we’d have to figure out how to get the replacement oars which means we’d have to stay somewhere longRead more…
On January 29th, after many goodbyes and thank yous to everyone at the Charleston City Boatyard for taking care of us for two months, we set out for our next destination, our first since the big debacle. While we were in the Charleston area for two months, we were pretty far from the city centerRead more…
It’s been kind of hard to write a post since leaving Oriental, mostly because it’s much more fun to write about the fun exciting days of cruising than the crappy, everything-goes-wrong-broken-boat days of cruising. But that’s exactly where we are. The passage from Oriental to Beaufort was uneventful, and we spent a nice evening checkingRead more…
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…
After leaving St. Michaels, our next destination was Solomons Island. Heard a lot of good things, and decided to check it out. We didn’t want to do the whole trip in a day, so we decided to hook around through the Knapps narrows and spend a night off Tilghman island. We had been through the narrowsRead more…