Tuesday 4/12/11 With our mission complete at Jekyll Island we decided to continue our journey. Only problem was the forecasted thunderstorms that were to move through in the morning. After waiting for the rain it finally came but not with t…
Old North State
There is no other way to put it than we are on the move. With time running out on our Great Loop adventure we are buckled down and forging North. I must say when we first left Florida we felt sad as we looked around and saw less and less bo…
Great Loop Date 03.08.2011: Found in Newfound Harbor…
Day #208 (Tuesday): 3197.0 total miles (31.7 miles)Port #74: Newfound Harbor; between Little Torch Key and Big Pine Key, FL(Is the chart looking confusing yet? This trip is the Blue Line.)OB began retracing her wake as soon as we left K…
Ft Lauderdale, FL to Charleston, SC 24 Mar – 14 Apr 2011
24 March 2001 Ft Lauderdale to Lake Worth, FLOur last morning in Ft Lauderdale we shot this photo from the bridge of the boat.The grounds were lovely where we stayed. But…time to move on!Our “backyard” in Ft LauderdalePassing through Palm Beach, …
South of Broad
Early morning light shines kindly on Charleston’s historic and definitely pricey residential neighborhood, the entirety of Charleston south of Broad Street. Newspapers lie on doorsteps waiting for retrieval. Residents are out walking their dogs. Pickup trucks infiltrate the neighborhood as preservation craftsmen come in for their day’s work. They seem quite in context as this […]
Getting Back to Normal
I returned on Tuesday evening after a better day of travel than going home. My flight into Fort Lauderdale was delayed by only a half hour. My darling daughter had the foresight to send me off with a packed lunch which i grazed on all day, a chicken …
4/14/2011 HILTON HEAD ISLAND TO BEAUFORT, SC
THURSDAYTOTAL MILES TRAVELED TODAY: 23 NM DOCKED AT: DOWNTOWN MARINA OF BEAUFORTICW MILE MARKER: 536.2SUNRISE: 6:56 SUNSET: 7:51HIGH: 77 &n…
Exploring Nassau
We arrived at New Providence Island after a “trawler” day of travel from Highborne Cay. The seas were almost flat calm, the winds light and the skies clear. Cruising through the Yellow Banks and identifying (avoiding) the coral heads was easy. We a…
Dealing with Westerlies in the Exumas – Hawksbill Cay to Nassau
View from Russell RuinsThe prevailing winter winds in the Bahamas are out of the NE; the prevailing winds in the summer are out of the SE. It is generally not difficult to find an anchorage with easterly protection since the majority of the cays in the…
Dubai
We were loaded yesterday and it was quite impressive. Then we were watched over by our new Ukrainian friend Nikita, a crewman on the BBC Everest who got us coffee and helped get us onto our launch in the bumpy seas. We arrived at the Male&#…
