08/20/2007, Port Credit, Ontario, Canada
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05/04/2007, Catskill, New York
We switched crews in Beaufort, N.C. The girls drove my pickup back to Toronto and Stuart, Dirk and I headed out on the ocean. We had a uneventful passage with light airs and calm seas. After a days rest in NYC we motored up the Hudson and are now back in Catskill to lower the mast. More to follow....
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04/20/2007, Fernandina Beach, FLA
I cannot help but feel a little melancholy as this trip draws to a close in the next couple of weeks. But experiences had, lessons learned and friends made have made it a wonderful and worthwhile endeavor.
Many of you have been wondering what we've been up to lately... We waited for a 2-3 day weather window to cross to the Carolinas from Lucaya on Grand Bahama, but there was nothing even remotely accomodating in the forecast, so we decided to cross over to Florida, an easy day sail from Lucaya. The day started out warm, with blue skies and we caught two mahi-mahi about a half hour out of Lucaya. But shortly thereafter, the weather turned... the skies clouded over and we found ourselves punching through a predicted "benign" cold front amidst rain, thunder and lightening and high winds. No big deal, right? Once the front moved on through, the skies once again cleared and the wind died, leaving us to motor the remainder of the day. We arrived in Palm Beach, Florida with its mega-estates and chic restaurants just before night fell... a sharp contrast to the Bahamian out-islands we had just visited, where many natives live in small, substandard, partially completed accomodation and in Black Point at Lorraine's cafe, Lorraine decides what you will eat for dinner!
Each day since our arrival in the US, we look for weather to head back out into the ocean to make some real mileage north, but the wind is consistently from the north. Not good if you're heading north, as we are. So we've been putting in long days (90 to 100 miles) on the more protected ICW (IntraCoastal Waterway), enjoying the diverse scenery - endless salt marshes, spectacular dunes at the inlets, rampant development along the waterway.
In Vero Beach, David was Hero-for-a-day as he rescued an old tortoise from inevitable demise as she tried to cross a high-traffic roadway. The kids watched anxiously as David ran out during a break in traffic after several cars and a transport truck had run over the tortoise, wheels narrowly missing the fortunate creature!
We're currently in Fernandina Beach at the northern end of Florida, plying the dunes for shark's teeth, while we wait once again for weather (Sunday or Monday) to head into the open ocean, bound for points north. Wish us luck!
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04/17/2007, Vero Beach, FLA
Tortoise rescued from certain death on roadway... then released into the wild in a safer location. Sarah/Matthew - just think, your tortoise will be THIS BIG some day!
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