Late Coffee…Early Cocktails

We finally made a multi-day passage without being chased in by a cold front.  Of course this was the second half of another offshore passage that was interrupted by a cold front, but we can live with a Fernandina, FL to Beaufort, NC passage rather than a Miami to Beaufort passage.  Unfortunately our 57 hours [...]

We were rolling up the channel into Beaufort, NC, attempting for the first time to anchor in their congested waterfront anchorage.  We’d never ventured to anchor there before due to the many stories we’d heard of swift currents, tangled anchors, dragging boats and skulking shoals.  The tension was mounting as we wound our way up [...]

We enjoyed two lovely days of travel before the weather forecasts sent us running for cover.  The earliest forecast predicted 25 knot winds gusting to 30 for Wednesday, but also pointed out that this low could be affected by the remnants of tropical system Ida.  Past experience has taught us that the weather forecasts would [...]

Despite managing better than 50% of our spring migration out in the Atlantic rather than in the ICW, waterway closures continue to plague our progress towards those latitudes approved by our insurance company for hurricane season.  We’d already engaged the afterburners and hurdled (felt more like hurdling than hurtling) through the aquasphere to clear the [...]

After two nights at a Georgetown marina, we learned that the ICW had reopened north of us even though the Myrtle Beach fires still smoldered. We slipped our lines, motored past an alligator trying to escape the biting insects and wound our way up the Waccamaw River.  We spent a lovely night anchored in Enterprise [...]