August 13th Robinhood Marine Center, Georgetown, Maine

It's been a long time since the last post. We proceeded up LI Sound to Stonington for a couple of days. Then a long day up to Onset, Ma. getting in at 2:30 in the morning. It was a beautiful night and couldn't resist keeping on going. Spent a few days in Onset doing laundry, groceries, water and fuel. Always enjoy stopping there.
Then leaving at 10:30 am to catch the current for transiting the Cape Cod Canal made it all the way to Maine. Arriving at Robinhood at 2:30 the next afternoon. What an enjoyable sail, sailing most of the way.
Now enjoying Maine for a couple of weeks. Boothbay for a couple of days, Tenants Harbor to meet up with Cape Dory Cruise and on to Carvers Cove on Vinylhaven. Stopped at Calderwood for lunch and short walk on the Island. No lobsters so far this year.  Off to Rockland for one day needed Propane and water.
From there up to Warren Island and Belfast. Had never been to Belfast really enjoyed it for 3 days. After this long beautiful day sailing all the way to Maple Juice.  Then back to Robinhood having to motor the whole way.
We've received an offer on Solmar and need to hang close to Robinhood for a survey. We'll know more later.

July 23rd Pt Jefferson NY

July 14th stayed one more day in Delaware City had a nice visit with Ray and Beth our friends from Texas. They delivered much needed beer and I used the bike to get a few groceries and crab cakes from the local seafood market. Yum!
July 15th headed down the Delaware, nice ride with the tide sailing about half way. Then wind died and we motored the rest of the way to Cape May. Anchored at Coast Guard Station and took off bright and early up the NJ Coast.
July 16th - 17th up the NJ Coast not much wind sailed when we could but motored most of the way. Arrived at Sandy Hook early am, anchored outside the channel in NYC waiting for the tides for transiting the East River. Timed it right and had a very nice trip to Pt Washington.
July 17th - 18th free mooring in Pt Washington, groceries and hardware store stop.
July 19th - 23rd due to weather stayed longer than expected in Pt Jefferson. Anchored 3 nights, Setauket mooring one night and PJL mooring the other. Had our bottom cleaned by Kevin of Barnacle Busters, Solmar may get back to NE a little quicker now!

Mike our launch driver with Port Jeff Launch.

July 13th

From Baltimore we headed up the Chesapeake to the Sassafras River. Thought the engine was a little sluggish so we stopped at a marina in Georgetown, Md. Sailing Associates can't say enough about this place. They treated us like they'd known us all their lives. Gave us a few ideas to try before charging for the mechanic to look at it. Then took Bob just 45 minutes to bleed some air out of the fuel line and we were on our way. Beautiful spot, not a lot to do but very relaxing. Spent 2 nights on a mooring there and mechanic's time. Bill was only $120.00.
Then on up to Chesapeake City, I lost my wallet so we had credit cards replaced here. Plan was to stay 3 days but weather got in the way and we stayed another day. Today we arrived in Delaware City, getting AutoPilot looked at and tachometer replaced. Will rest and explore tomorrow then hopefully we'll head down the Delaware.

June 20th - July 2nd Updated, stayed until the 7th

Boat is in Old bay marina near Baltimore. Visiting with Beth and Ray (friends we met in New Bern). Quick trip to New Bern in a rental car to pick up the van, drove to NH, visited with family and friends and flew back to Baltimore. Thanks Cal for the ride to the airport. Also, thanks to Beth and Ray in the Big Red Truck from Texas for all the rides. Lots of fun excursions.

Beth, Ray, Deb and Brian

 

Hope to move on up the Chesapeake tomorrow, we'll see if the weather cooperates or not!





June 18th

visited St Michaels, Galesville, Harness Creek and now Annapolis. Unable to upload pictures, will try later.

June 8 - 11



 June 8th headed up to St Leonard's Creek, anchored off from Vera's Beach Bar for 3 nights avoiding weather. Bikini contest and poker run just happened to be on Saturday.
we anchored off from the beach with a few beers and enjoyed the sights.

 

June 10th we returned to Solomons to reprovision, do laundry and take showers.



June 7th

June 5th Arrived at Solomons, Md. Spent the night on anchor. Will move to St Leonards Creek up the Patuxent River to wait out the next round of weather. Anchored at Veras Beach Bar, it's kind of neat like being in the islands on the Chesapeake. LOL

June 4th Reedsville

Weather forecast hasn't been the best, most of the weather has missed us but hasn't been good out on the bay. Tomorrow we'll try to head for Solomons, will probably hunker down there for a few days from what we are hearing for weather right now.

June 1st

I believe the map link is working now. Let me know if it isn't.  We are in the Chesapeake. Anchored at Sandy Point near Reedville, Va. We'll be here a couple of days waiting for some weather to pass by.

May 30th

We've arrived in Great Bridge. Enjoyed good company through the Dismal Swamp, terrific weather so far.

Be sure to visit My Maps-Headed North 2013 for our current location. I'll try to keep this up to date. Just realized this may not work, will fix when we have better internet

May 25th Headed North

We cast off the lines from New Bern Grand Marina at 9:25 am. Headed down the Neuse for a 30 mile sail to Broad Creek just out side the entrance to River Dunes. Great spot to anchor.

February 7th Still enjoying New Bern

We are still enjoying everything New Bern has to offer. 

Mike and Pearl stopped for 2 days on their way south, what a nice surprise.

I went to Florida to meet my Sister and Rowley at my Mom's. Then 2 days at the beach, it was a little cold but we didn't care.

 Looks like big foot had been on the beach before us.

Linda picked out a great spot right on the beach to stay.

 

We've been busy exploring the Outerbanks, visting the Governer's Mansion in New Bern and working on the boat.  Time just seems to fly by.  It's been nice having the car so that we can go on road trips when ever we feel like it. We have a great community of friends here, getting together every morning for coffee, taco night is Wednesday, jazz night is Thursday.  And, of course oysters at MJ's on Tuesday.

 

Road trip to little Washingtion, where New Bern has bears they have crabs. We're trying to explore a few places to see if we want to visit them by boat.

 

Shriner's Parade, I've seen a few of these before but a whole parade of nothing but different cars.  They are having a ball even though it was a very cold day.

 

Oh by the way if you know of anyone that's looking for a boat, please let us know.

We aren't sure what the next step will be, another sailboat, trawler, land yacht, who knows.  Need to sell this one first and we are not in any hurry.

 



Dec30th Back in New Bern after Christmas with Mom

Returned to New Bern today after spending Christmas with Mom in Lakeland.
Had a nice relaxing stay, helped Mom with a few things. Visited an orange grove, can't go to Florida without getting some oranges. Also lunch with Ernie & Andrea, they came over from Largo. Always fun to see them. Trip down was straight through and one stop on the way back. We found a great Barbeque place called Dukes Barbeque in Walterboro, they even had a drive through. We'll definately stop here again.

 Sandhill Cranes on the golf course outside Mom's kitchen window.

Mom and I picking out tomatoes and oranges at the grove.

 History of Tuskegee Airmen

Monument in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen

This is an amazing story, just happened to drive by the sign for this.