A Perfect Day
In my last post, I left off with Victory anchored at Wrightsville Beach, part way through her passage down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) with s/v Santiago from Norfolk, VA to West Palm Beach, FL. I’m going to set that thread aside for a moment and...
Passage to Florida, Part One (Norfolk, VA to Wrightsville Beach, NC)
The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AICW) was Victory’s watery highway from Virginia to the anchorage in Florida we used as the jumping off point for our Gulf Stream crossing to the Bahamas. Parts of the ICW are arrow-straight, man-made links between natural...
Into the Ditch
On November 2, 2022, it was time for Victory and her crew to reluctantly part ways with Kiwi Ken. We had traveled with Ken all the way from Atlantic Highlands, NJ to Yankee Point Marina in rural Lancaster County, VA. But now Ken’s Shannon 28 Southern Journey...
Catching Our Breath
It feels like a lot of water has passed under Victory’s keel since my last blog post back on October 4. Back then, we were on a town mooring in Port Washington, NY, waiting for some particularly nasty weather to pass. Now it is November 1, 2022, our wedding...
School of Hard Knocks
As I write this, Victory and her crew are holed up in Port Washington, NY, on the doorstep of New York City. We are once again waiting out several days of fierce winds and rain. The remnants of the human tragedy known as Hurricane Ian have decided to take up...
Good Times, Good People
We spent a surprisingly large proportion of what was supposed to be our Maine cruising time doing boat projects and boat life projects. Tasks included finishing up the transition to liveaboard life (e.g., setting up as Colorado residents again after all these...
