The summer of upgrades Summer of upgrades photos As usual, we planned to spend the summer north of North Carolina for hurricane season. We decided that going all the way to Nova Scotia was simply too far a trek for us after doing so last year. We are proud of our 10,000 …
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Passage making again-What a difference a day makes. https://photos.app.goo.gl/abC99kiSVj8QZkgD6 We spent a month at Ft. Pierce City Marina. Time seemed to get away from us. We got lots accomplished, more about the month of projects, but we are finally ready to get some miles under our hull, and we set up a route for a …
Family rendezvous x 2 https://photos.app.goo.gl/Vs7ZafNhFriCsVsq7 When I had been in NZ last year, we had talked about a cruise that my brother Jonathan and his wife Nicola were planning for April-May, which was to start in San Diego, travel south along Mexico and Central America, transit the Panama Canal, and then after a stop at …
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Life in the Bahamas We are settling into our boat routine. We are anchored off of Jacks Bay, just south of Black Point Great Inagua. We are happily the only boat in the anchorage. We spent a night at Little Bay three days ago, took a 4 mile walk to Blackpoint Settlement, looked over the …
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Heading South Again https://photos.app.goo.gl/1hoOJ1xG4VwIyqPB2 The temperatures have plummeted. Winter has come early in the US. We feel that we are moving south a bit too late, as we are running our heating on the boat to keep warm. We are supposed to be south where it is warm. We took some time off the …
https://photos.app.goo.gl/akGGZKxUD7IQEtpe2 https://photos.app.goo.gl/OGTQjQXGp06z0bVt2 We spent 3 nights at anchor en route to Washington DC. The first of these was in an area called Little Choptank which had been recommended to us. It was a nice spot but we found much shallower depths than on any of our charts, and pulled up anchor in only …
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/CvyFYAWDRcc71dA23 After our three weeks of maintenance at Washburns Boat Yard, we headed further north to Kent Island, just across the Bay from Annapolis for Trawler Fest, held at Bridge Marina, Kent Island, MD. We could not get slip space at the Bridge Marina, but we found reasonable rates at the …
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/X8OVfrsJhuXMFSBV2 We’ve spent the last month and a half or so in two places. We decided to find a nice marina with a GOOD RATE, so that we could do some minor repairs, and have some items shipped to us. York River Yacht Haven Marina, was a great find. Located across the bridge …
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We left our North River anchorage and followed a large barge into the ICW. The upper reaches of the river turned into another canal but with good width and depth. The barge continued to travel in front of us at a slightly faster speed which helped as we exited the Coinjock canal and followed …
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We have spent 8 months so far on Southern Star, literally living our five year dream to own one of these gorgeous boats which allows us to safely and comfortably travel, explore and if we choose, stay in beautiful places, interesting towns and remote locations. We have travelled 2500 nautical miles through the Bahamas, and …
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