Month: February 2023

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The questions remain… is a sailboat an inanimate object? Or does it/she have power, influence, a mouth to God’s ear – devil’s ear? From the time I decided to sell the boat events, unusual events, one might say mystic events started to occur. Events that delayed or halted the selling activity. Damage to the boat… Continue reading It was the best of times, and absolutely worst too.

I woke up at first light and turned on the VHF to listen in on the local channel 16 chatter. As I’m making breakfast, there is a Weather Alert… beep, beep, beep, then… A Tropical Storm Warning for the area from Charleston, SC to Hatteras, NC out 20 nautical miles… What the hell? That me!… Continue reading OMG, What? [Jul 2, 2022]

Up at dawn, 3 egg omelet, a piece of butter bread, and two cups of tea. By 7:30 am I’m underway and everything is just as it should be. I have a couple of known trouble spots to get by, but I’ve been this route before. One of the big inconveniences is that I have… Continue reading Progress, just agonizing bit-by-bit progress. [Jul 1, 2022]

I am up at dawn, quick breakfast, and push off, motoring to the middle of the channel heading for downtown Wilmington, I make it past the first try, that’s an improvement. Now I’m passing the Port of Wilmington (a bit further downriver) and I hear a louder-than-normal exhaust noise. Seriously? I go below and the… Continue reading Plan B. [Jun 30, 2022]

I’m up at dawn, but people are living in the houseboats on this dock and I’ve got to wait until at least 9:00 am before firing up the engine. So, I sit contemplating all the ways this could fail, all the things I need to watch, and how long it has to work at the… Continue reading Plan A. [Jun 29, 2022]

I call all the local Marinas close to me to see if they have any slips so that I can repair the exhaust, but I can find no marina with an open slip. I keep making the circle bigger and bigger but to no avail. Next, I call the local TowBoat US office and they… Continue reading Time after, time, after time. [Jun 28, 2022]

at 10:30 pm the engine sounds different to me and I can smell what seems like exhaust fumes, I also start to notice what looks like steam coming out of the cabin. I go below and the smell of exhaust is much stronger, it is also hotter inside the cabin than I would expect at… Continue reading The wicked witch? [Jun 27, 2022]

Since it’s Sunday I can’t leave the marina until 9:30 am  (late start for the employees), I motor north and exit Port Royal Sound into the Atlantic at 11:45, set the sails, engage the autopilot, and we are sailing under ideal conditions once again. Charleston would be 15 hours, Georgetown would be 27 hours, and… Continue reading Offshore. [Jun 26, 2022]

Up early, a quick breakfast of Cheese Crackers and tea, I’d like to make Hilton Head today, but everything would have to work out perfectly for that to happen. We’ll give it our best. I head in the right direction this morning, thank God, and we are making OK progress, but when I traverse the… Continue reading No place to rest my head. [Jun 24, 2022]