Saturday, June 21, 2014 (Morehead City to Dowry Creek): This is a late blog post. The date is actually May 19, 2015. The website was trashed sometime during the last Fall. With the diligent help of Jennifer at Rooted ID in Charleston we are back online. As we travel we keep a careful ship's log and a diary. Reconstructing the weblog from now on is not contemporaneous but reproduced from our handwritten logs.
Thursday, June 19, 2014 (Charleston to Bald Head Island (outside): We are underway, finally. A litany small but consequential failures held us back. The AC system got balky—the worst of the problems—due to plugged raw water hoses. Traveling sans AC is not the end of the world. However, without humidity control everything below decks would get damp and mildewy. The fix was not bad. Marsh Marine came to the rescue and during the repair he found a basic design flaw in the raw water
Day 295, February 10, 2013 (Charleston, SC): Sequel made home port in good order at 13:55 on February 10, 2013, to a welcoming committee of friends Theo, Joan and Perry, Janet and Carl, Jerry and Jenny, and McKenzie. As we were backing into our old slip at The Bristol Marina the feeling of accomplishment hit. Our log says that we covered 5,260 nautical miles, which translates to 6,050 statute miles. More than remembering every one of those miles we
Day 293, February 8, 2013 (Windmill Harbor, Hilton Head, SC): It is hard to believe that we have come full circle. We will cross our wake on Sunday morning, February 10, 2013, having traveled 6,040 statute miles through 18 states and 2 provinces in Canada. We remember the people we traveled with along the way, the people we’ve met where we landed, and the vastness of the land traveled.