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4/15/2011 FROM BEAUFORT, PAST CHARLESTON AND ON TO ISLE OF PALM, SC
FRIDAYTOTAL MILES TRAVELED TODAY: 69 NM DOCKED AT: ISLE OF PALM MARINAICW MILE MARKER: 458SUNRISE: 6:54 SUNSET: 7:52HIGH: 75 &n…
Saturday Market
It’s always fun to see what a community’s Farmer’s Market has to offer. In American cities the markets vary widely – everything from struggling to exist to well established institutions. Charleston’s market seems to be seasonally established and a Saturday morning must for many. The crepe and omelet tents had what I would consider too […]
Friday Bay Point Marian to Rosemary Beach, near P.C.
Friday afternoon Joshua, Sunshine, and the boys picked us up at the marina. We drove over to Rosemary Beach which is about 20 miles East of Bay point. We stopped at a Publix to pick up groceries then on to the condo to get settled. We walked …
The City of Steel.
As we pulled out of the last lock on the Dismal Swamp Canal, it was pretty clear that we weren’t in Kansas anymore. The water quickly changed from the clean amber pure water in the canal to a dark murky industrial soup. Norfolk Harbor is kn…
BACK ABOARD ENVOY IN MARMARIS, TURKEY
We arrived back in Marmaris on Tues 12th after spending a great weekend with our daughter Amy in London in beautiful sunny weather.TRAVELWe flew to London using Emirates and were impressed – food and service great, roomy economy class seats, and a gene…
Slow Speed Motion Testing With Wind Horse
Vic Kuzmovich, NAIAD’s stabilizer guru, was out with us aboard Wind Horse today doing slow speed stabilization tests as a model for the FPB 112. There is a video link at the bottom of this blog so you can see the results for yourself.
The faster we go the more stable the ride, and our stabilizer […]
Friday, 4/15/11
N 33′ 45.567′/ W 078′ 48.050′ Osprey Marina, Myrtle Beach, SC Hauled anchor @ 7:25 a.m. Windlass resisted its job of pulling up the anchor so Luke had to pull 70 feet of chain plus 44 lbs. of anchor. Got my workout this a.m. Sunny, 21 kts. from east. Current against us all day. Slowed cruising […]
April 15 – Tarpon Springs, FL
Day 40 – Time To Move OnThe Landing at Tarpon SpringsThe marina we are officially staying at is across the river from where our boat is. They didn’t have room for us last weekend at the marina…so they put us at a private dock next to the Sp…
Wednesday and Thursday; April 13 and 14, 2011
Wednesday (Coquina Yacht Club to South Harbour Village Marina, NC): Left about 08:30 and stopped 1 mile down the waterway at Crickett Cove Marina at Mile 345.0. They have the cheapest fuel in this area; Gas $3.70 and Diesel $3.65. We …
