We headed out of Beaufort yesterday morning for an overnight run past Cape Fear to Charleston. We were rewarded with an escort of dolphins as the sun came up. That happened several times during a dark and moonless night. One one occasion there was photoluminescence in the water and all I saw was these pale green glows streaking by under the water. It was very surreal. Actually sailing fast at night is pretty surreal in its own right.
Now, after some great sailing, we are motoring through a completely windless second dawn (photo above) and expecting to get to Charleston at about 3pm. Close to the 36hrs we anticipated.
We are a Brit and an Australian now based in the wonderful community of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. We have a delightful home there but a couple of years ago we began to feel a bit over-domesticated so we thought we would buy another boat and head south. [...]It felt like a crazy fantasy at the time but here we are.....
Leela, a Bristol 38.8 has turned out to be a wonderful cruising boat for us. Some might find it a little cramped by modern standards but it feels like just the right balance of living space and storage to us. She sails like a dream. She is remarkably well balanced and is comfortable in pretty [...]