Summer 2009 - Life in the City We arrived in Baltimore and took a slip at the Anchorage Marina a few days before the big 4th of July weekend. This is a great marina for live aboard cruisers, since it has a West Marine a block away, a Safeway supermarket across the street and at least 50 bars & restaurants within walking distance. As usual we were assigned docking space on their outer floating pier due to our width of 22’. This provided us with a good view of all of the vessel traffic entering Baltimore harbor. We saw schooners, skipjacks [View Full Entry]

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Cruising the East Coast - 2009 We really enjoyed our month long stay at Brunswick Landing Marina. This was our longest marina stay since leaving Kemah, Texas back in October of 2007. The facility at Brunswick Landing was first class. All wide concrete floating docks, with a nearly new shore-side bathhouse, laundry and cruiser lounge in close proximity. Best of all the laundry was free. They also had free wifi and cable TV at every slip. We cashed in enough American Express membership rewards points to pay for a rental car for the month we spent in Georgia. This allowed us [View Full Entry]

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The Trip Back to the USA - 2009 We planned to leave Georgetown as soon as the regatta was complete but Mother Nature had different plans. We were held up for 10 days waiting for a series of cold fronts producing vigorous North and North East winds to 20 and 25 knots to pass by. Finally on Sunday March 29th we sailed from Georgetown, Great Exuma. This trip took us out into Exuma Sound which has water reaching over 2000’ deep and 35 miles wide between Great Exuma and Cat Island. We had a nice SE 12-16 knot breeze but the [View Full Entry]

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Last year we left Georgetown prior to the beginning of the annual Regatta due to our needed saildrive repairs. This year we made sure that we stayed and experienced this truly unique cruising experience. The Georgetown Cruising Regatta has been going on for the past 29 years and attracts boats from all over the Bahamas and some come over from Florida strictly for this event. This year approximately 350 boats were in the harbor for the festivities. The second day started the competition for the many other events. Cameron entered the “Texas Hold’em Poker tournament and place [View Full Entry]

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The Bahamas - Winter 2009 We arrived in Georgetown a week before our daughter Julie and her fiancé Dan were due to fly in. Everyone out cruising cautions to never set arrival deadlines but in order to enjoy visits from family and friends it is necessary to be in a certain place at a certain time. Luckily the weather cooperated and we were able to sail in before their arrival date. This extra week gave us a chance to catch up with other cruising friends we met last year in the Bahamas. There were already about 55 boats anchored in Georgetown [View Full Entry]

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The Bahamas - On To the Exumas We arrived in Lucaya, Grand Bahama Island, on the afternoon of Friday November 28th after a 25 hour sail from Vero Beach, Fl. The trip was mostly uneventful with light winds and calms. Not a bad way to make a Gulf Stream crossing. We checked into the Grand Bahama Yacht Club, a fancy marina in Lucaya. From there it is easy to clear Bahama Customs and Immigration. Next, we decided to spend a couple days there waiting out a predicted strong storm system which was to pass during the next two days. On Monday [View Full Entry]

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The Trip South - 2008 We arrived at the St. Mary’s River inlet after an overnight trip from Charleston, SC. We traveled out on the Atlantic Ocean, first in a calm but later with following wind and seas, that built to 22 knots and 6-8 feet. Once in the inlet, our first stop was just off the National Seashore at Cumberland Island. This is the first Barrier Island north of the Florida state line. We had made plans to meet up with our Canadian friends, Doug & Sharon, on the Beneteau 405 “About Time”. They had stored their boat in a [View Full Entry]

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The Trip South - 2008 We began our trek back to the Bahamas by leaving our temporary summer home in Middle River, MD on Tuesday October 14th. On the way out the river, our new friends Opie & JT were just returning from their commercial crabbing and came along side Double-Wide to wish us well and to pass along a bottle of wine for the voyage. The wind was light but we were determined to sail as much of the Chesapeake Bay as possible so we struggled in a light 5-7 knot breeze out of the SW. Early in the afternoon [View Full Entry]

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Summer on the Chesapeake Bay Nancy and I docked in Dark Head Creek at the home of friends Curtis & Chris Wroten in early June after completing our 1180 mile journey up the East Coast from Fort Pierce, Florida. We enjoyed the six week trip but were glad to finally be tied to a secure dock for a change. It seemed as soon as we arrived, the weather turned extremely hot and humid. Chris insisted that we move into their guest bedroom and enjoy the air conditioned comfort of their home. After a couple of days Chris and Curtis told us [View Full Entry]

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