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After enjoying Charleston city life with good company and food (most recently, innovative tacos at Fuel, a former garage and now a funky and informal restaurant) for two weeks, the peace and quiet of Parrot’s Creek was a nice change. Our anchor set in…

That ripping sound some of our boat neighbors in Charleston heard this morning was simply the sound of PUFFIN finally leaving the dock. She’s been glued there since November 12 while we visited family and more recently treated ourselves to sightseeing…

Charleston is a great city to walk at night – the shop windows downtown are brilliant with displays and never more so than around Christmas. Many of the historic homes have light displays handsomely woven into the elaborate gardenscapes that typify s…

After a month’s in Vermont, we returned to Puffin and Charleston in mid December to be greeted by Christmas lights decorating the nearby boats, warm weather, and camellias in bloom. It takes a while, well not that long, to adjust to the absence of c…

Nov 11. We pampered ourselves and slept late, knowing we had a shorter day today. We left Bull Creek in the Waccamaw River and motored through Winyah Bay, then through the various canals making up the ICW. Gorgeous scenery, cypress swamps, many creek…

We had a lucky day on Tuesday: sighting egrets and diving dolphins; a favorable current that allowed us to make one bridge opening earlier than planned; proximity to a paddle wheeler (The City of Fredericksburg) that gets preferential treatment at brid…

You’ve been hearing the big picture from Captain Bob, and now you’ll hear the smaller details from Admiral Nancy. (Continued…)

As Puffin worked south down the Alligator River yesterday, a bird flying just off the water caught my eye. It didn’t look like a gull. It was bigger and its wings were batting the air as it reversed direction and then reversed direction again almost …

There was ice on the docks in Solomon’s, Maryland as Puffin finally departed Sunday with 5 other Krogens for warmer ports. Puffin has been in the Chesapeake since last May, returning from her first trip south – all the way to Georgetown, Exumas in the…

Puffin might look pretty good with a rooster-tail trailing several hundred feet like the ones we saw yesterday on the big offshore powerboats racing down the Patuxent. But it’s probably not gonna’ happen in the 7 knot club where Puffin hangs. (Co…