April Fool

Vessel Name: April fool
Vessel Make/Model: Pearson 38
Hailing Port: Annapolis MD
04 April 2014 | Little Alligator River NC
Almost home
23 March 2014 | Thunderbolt GA
On to Savannah
21 March 2014 | Georgia
Cumberland Island National Seaashore
21 March 2014 | St. Augustine Florida
Traveling North
18 November 2013
Fernandina Beach-St. Augustine
15 November 2013
St. Simon's Island
13 November 2013 | Delegal Creek
Delegal Marina
10 November 2013
Charleston to Beaufort SC
07 November 2013 | Charleston
Visiting Charleston
04 November 2013 | Graham Creek SC
Half way to Florida
01 November 2013 | Southport NC
Catching Up
26 October 2013 | Dowry Creek Marina off the Pungo River NC ICW M131.8
Dismal Swamp and Beyond
22 October 2013 | Portsmouth
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04 April 2014 | Little Alligator River NC

Almost home

At the rate we are moving we should be home next Wed. or Thurs. The last three days have been wonderful--sunny, 80 degrees and calm. The wind is picking up tonight though, SW 11 with 20-23 gusts but we are in a well protected anchorage on the Little Alligator River. Tomorrow we will be crossing the Albermarle [...]

23 March 2014 | Thunderbolt GA

On to Savannah

We left Cumberland Island after waiting for the fog to lift, headed for St.Simon's Island. We stopped there on our way south; it is beautiful with many large live oaks. And we liked the Coastal Kitchen near our marina--great food, especially the shrimp and grits. And the marina delivers great muffins [...]

21 March 2014 | Georgia

Cumberland Island National Seaashore

We spent our first night on a mooring in Fernandina Beach FL after a cool cloudy trip from St Augustine. It was a long day but we wanted to make it to Cumberland Island National Seashore early the next day. We made good progress with only one bridge opening and a favorable current most of the time. We got to the Cumberland Island anchorage at 10:30 a.m. on Wed. and soon took the dinghy to a park dock. We spent several hours on Cumberland Island, walking trails to the ocean and to ruins of a mansion built in the late 1800's by a Carnegie. Most of the island is now part of the park. We saw wild horses and turkeys and many shore birds. The only way to get there is by boat; a ferry runs from St. Mary's GA. It was cloudy and cool but no wind so it was not a bad day for exploring. Definitely worth a return trip--there was much more to see.

21 March 2014 | St. Augustine Florida

Traveling North

Tues., 3/18/14: We are leaving today to make our return trek to Annapolis. We have had a wonderful time but are ready to get on our way again. We did go south as far as Vero Beach in early February, looking for some warm weather. And it was much warmer than St. Augustine. We made stops in Daytona Beach, [...]

18 November 2013

Fernandina Beach-St. Augustine

When we got up this a.m., we had a nice surprise, muffins and a newspaper

15 November 2013

St. Simon's Island

When we left the marina (located on Skidaway Island) the wind was not as strong but there was a 3 knot current to deal with. We made it out of the slip all right, thanks to a permanent slip holder who guided us out. Not so with our friends--they hit another sailboat, but fortunately the damage wasn't [...]

Charleston to Beaufort SC

10 November 2013
Comfortably warm
We left Charleston early (for us) on 11/08 to make a 9 a.m. bridge opening. Many bridge openings require planning or we could be circling to wait for an opening. Bridges open on the hour, some on the hour and half hour, and some on demand. We have done very well with openings, have not had to wait too long. We made good time with a favorable current, so we went farther than our intended anchorage. We anchored on Rock Creek, a beautiful winding creek with marsh on one side and large trees on the other. The next day our destination was Beaufort SC. There is a Beaufort NC as well and each is pronounced differently. Beaufort SC is Bew-furt; NC is Bow-fort. Hard to remember. We had a short run, arrived at the Downtown Beaufort Marina at 11:45. Beaufort is a small-scale Charleston, beautiful old homes dating from the early 1800, huge live oaks dripping with Spanish moss and many lovely gardens. We stayed in Beaufort for another day, enjoying the use of the marina's courtesy car for provisioning and exploring the town. We ate well, lots of what they call southern low country cooking, Brunswick stew, low country boil, collard greens, grits, shrimp and grits--shrimp and grits for breakfast anyone? They were on the menu at the restaurant where we had breakfast. Beaufort has a wonderful waterfront park with many bench swings. We have noticed that many of the parks in the south have swings instead of the usual park benches, and they are well used. On our way today, past Savannah to anchor on the Herb River which is off the Wilmington River in Georgia. We went by Parris Island--the water tower said "We Make Marines"--Daufuskie Island which was the location of "The Water Is Wide" by Pat Conroy, and Hilton Head. We crossed the Savannah River's shipping channel into Georgia just as a freighter came out of Savannah. We stopped on the Wilmington River at a marina in Thunderbolt for diesel. Thunderbolt, a small town, has the distinction of being the only town in the US with that name. The Herb River is a popular anchorage; there are several other boats anchored nearby. The weather was cool but sunny today, and will be tomorrow, but predictions are for cooler and windy weather for the next couple of days after that.
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