Mother's Day 2013

The SPARROW has reached her destination of Swansboro, NC. We left from Beaufort Saturday afternoon having waited for my crew to come in from Raleigh. We thought it appropriate to sail in honor of my Mother, Helen Louise Smith Wallace on Mother's Day into her home port for the first time. My crew, her grand daughter, Chelsea Lee and of course Kelly Belle.
The wind was up again, gaining and gusting over 20+ on the nose all the way West into the wind up the Intercoastal Waterway along the Bogue Sound/Banks. We didn't leave until 2pm and arrived at the narrow channel into our slip after dark at 8pm. We attempted to make the channel, but without light on the pvc pipe markers, we ran aground. The next morning, I saw where we ran aground on the point of a salt marsh sand bar. The channel is only 15 feet wide and the Sparrow is 10 feet wide so we were close....so we tied up at Dudley's for a few hours and in the morning dawn, I brought her in while Chels and the Belle slept.

After so many months of imagining her here and after so many weekends out of town in "little" Washington, NC, it felt so good to have her home! The marsh grass looks greener and the briny smell prickles the hairs on my neck, this is the place I've called home for the past 25 years ever since we sailed our 41' liveaboard S/V SNOWGOOSE north and found this little piece of paradise. Bogue Inlet and the White Oak River have been our water~fun playground on countless boats and adventures.

We look forward to bringing SPARROW into the bays, inlets and salt marsh creeks and allowing her to do what she does best.....sail into people's hearts!

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The Captain and her Sparrow