Adventures of Enka: SailBlogs

Escaping Gabrielle

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:55:19 -0500

It all started innocently enough, a friend (Matt) participating in the MS Bike Ride in New Bern asked if I was interested in providing transportation and accommodations for the weekend. After two years of day-sailing and only a few days of even that in the last year, it was impossible to pass up. The admiral was busy with mid-terms so I decided to take my 4-yr-old daughter, found another guy (Brian) for crew and took the Friday off. Time to make a weekend of it... (Continued...)

So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:26:47 -0500

Begged a friend to go sailing with us last weekend. Goal was to sail across the Neuse to Adams Creek and look for the porpoises we saw there before. At least it gave us a destination other than zig-zagging across the river. Drove down Saturday afternoon and slept on the boat Saturday night. It almost got chilly, I was pleasantly surprised. Of course all three of us got bit by mosquitoes pretty bad carrying bags to the boat before we covered ourselves in bug juice and ran away to the restaurant. In April I wiped a lot of mold from about every surface and did a lot of de-mildewing. It seems to have held. The outside of the boat needs another scrub but the inside was in pretty good shape. At least clean enough for Matt (who is pretty alergic) not needing to go sleep in the car. (Continued...)

Memorial Day 2005 Ocracoke trip

Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:14:14 -0500

Although I brought the digital camera with every intention of taking over a hundred pictures, we ended up taking 40 and I killed a few with wrong settings. (Continued...)