I’m not sure I ever imagined myself voluntarily heading out into the Atlantic Ocean at 3 a.m. on a 43’ sailboat. But that’s exactly where I found myself on January 4 and I was pumped. Our first destination was Carolina Beach, NC. We planned to sail approximately 65 miles in the ocean and then tuck […]
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After traveling for five straight days, we decided to take a few days off to enjoy Beaufort, NC. This is one of my favorite spots along the ICW. There are palm trees lining the ICW, tourists in the streets and dolphins in the river. It is the first place where it feels like we have
We finally left Deltaville for the season on Friday, December 20. We were still waiting on the delivery of our life raft but we decided that we couldn’t wait in Deltaville any longer. We had a good weather window, despite the cold and we decided to take it. Our plan was to try to get south
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Getting the engine work wrapped up and moving onto the boat was a big step but we had a lot more planned. We spent the next month and a half working through our long list of projects. The most complicated project, by far, was installing a forward-looking sonar (FLS) system. The purpose of an FLS
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