S/V Sjokolade

We arrived in Beaufort yesterday at about noon and have been wandering around the docks and town since. Another Morgan owner, Jeff L, brought us out to his Morgan 382 that he is rebuilding and we spent a fascinating morning looking into all the nooks and crannys of that marvelous boat. It was a great education on what might be done, and if it presented itself to Jeff, he did it! I am envious of the details he is so unsparing of, and he is envious that I am on my boat.

We are on the city docks in Beaufort and it is a great place to stay with immediate access to a long dockside stretch of main street shops and resteraunts, museums, and library.

If the weather predictions hold true we are leaving Monday for the Masonboro inlet to Wrightsville Beach in Wilmington. There I will change crew from Randy to Ben and continue south either inside or outside with a goal of reaching Miami by the 31st or so.

Oh. And I saw my first real live dolphins outside of an aquarium yesterday, except we might have seen them leaving Lunenburg, NS a few years ago, but I was way too excited about that trip to pay any attention to wildlife. This time, I was on my own boat on my own journey, having my own personal firsts, and the presence of the dolphins was like an affirmation that I was going in the right direction.