Monthly Archives: August 2024

Following the first storm the night we arrived, the weather was perfect. We decided to stay here as Forrest (sadly) was leaving us and we could get to the airport easily. It’s the perfect place to stop as it’s smack bang in the middle of York town, Williamsburg and Jamestown. So plenty of history toContinue reading “Wormley Creek and the start of America. Aug 21-24”

As with every trip there is always one nagging piece of equipment that will not work. Our days in Coinjock were spent squeezed into the lazarrette trying to figure out why the manual bilge is not working while Forrest ‘assists’? Brian our mechanic with the electric bilge. (He was a talker!) Seeing how they repairContinue reading “Coinjock to Portsmouth Aug17-19”

I love Beaufort NC (pronounced Bofort). Many of the houses are from early 18C and of course there is always the stroll around the graveyard. Best history lesson. This one starts at 1709 AD and has soldiers from the civil war buried there. A British general buried standing up ( pompous git I say ),Continue reading “A Day off the boat in Beaufort. NC And then up the ICW”

And so we headed off to the golf screen early Friday morning. The usual sighting, flying fish and dolphin to cheer us up on our way. First day and night was glorious, no moon in the sky so the stars were shining and you could see the Milky Way. Perseids a meteor shower was outContinue reading “3 Days at sea to Beaufort NC. Aug 9 -Aug 12”

My cousin Siobhan introduced us to Patrick our new crew member. he wanted to get some miles in for his Captains license. We thought he could cook and he thought M’Aingeal was sea worthy. Well I guess we were both right in a way. First thing in the morning he had to climb the mastContinue reading “July 12-21st Beaufort and back.”