This Rat Sailed

One of the bigger tasks (ok, two) that we needed to get done was upholstery on the boat. We bought a memory foam mattress with the intention...

I've been trying to figure out what to write for a while now.  It isn't easy these days. When someone stops cruising and moves back ...

We departed Beaufort for an overnight sail to Southport just before 4 PM in order to make the Beaufort bridge opening (saving us a little ti...

Well, as much as I hated moving on this time around, it was time to leave my friends at Dowry Creek marina outside of Belhaven. The storms h...

This post is out of sequence thanks to the interruption of hurricane Matthew. I don't believe any of these facilities were damaged by th...

As I previously mentioned, we were exploring some of the stops of the Albemarle Loop when we decided that hurricane Matthew was likely to be...

From my aviation days I've learned not to trust the local weathermen and their presentation of the weather.  As a result, I tend to look...