http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Appleseeds/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Appleseeds en-us Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:21:02 BST Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:21:02 BST The pace in Hampton was a tad more frantic than Deltaville. The boats for the 1500 were arriving every day and each no doubt had many things to accomplish. We arranged for our inspection for Monday morning as we wanted as much time as possible to rectify any shortcomings. Rick showed up bright and early the next morning and we went through the list point by point. Well it seems the frantic activit http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/British-Virgin-Islands/Tortola/blog-227109.html Season II on Appleseeds has begun with my return to Deltaville Virginia in mid September. Over the summer we had decided that our return trip to the Caribbean would not be a reverse of the Intracoastal Waterway but instead would be a ten day sail offshore from Norfolk Virginia to the British Virgin Islands the Caribbean 1500. The offshore decision made the list of things to do pale the list of http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Virginia/blog-227091.html Latitude 30 deg 20 min N 70 deg 20 min W 400 miles SE of Cape Hatteras 200 miles SW of Bermuda and 700 miles from BVI wind NE 30 to 35 kts seas 12 ft 3 reefs in the main 70 of our small jib surfing 9 to 10 kts. We have come through several squalls tonight and there is lightning all around its 5 AM black the wind is fairly steady the seas are building. At our last radio check the prev http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/British-Virgin-Islands/Virgin-Gorda/blog-225163.html