[Kyle] Day 1 We left Morehead City at just after 1am. Our weather window had opened up the previous day at around noon with a cold frontal ...

[Maryanne] For those of you in your office reading this, there is no need to wish you were here. Apart from the first half a day, the rest ...

[Kyle] At last, the time has come for us to leave the U.S and head offshore to the tropics. A very nice man (Steve) from Customs and Border ...

[Kyle] We left the anchorage second this time on a gray morning into increasing headwinds. The only other boat in sight was a larger Lagoon ...

[Kyle] We Started off this morning with everybody else (although they all seemed to get up later than we did) and headed through the Alligat...

Sailing under main and Screacher [Kyle]Our next day had us heading south from Elizabeth City to the mouth of the Pasquotank river into Albem...

[Maryanne]Elizabeth City is well known on the ICW for its great welcome for boaters. The ladies generally receive a rose, and there are alw...

[Maryanne]The ICW from Norfolk southbound has two routes. We chose the less direct route through the Dismal Swamp Canal .... Now I know th...

Finally heading south from Portsmouth [Kyle]Due to the combination of the complexities of bridge opening times and the paucity of places to ...

[Maryanne]WOW! What a last week or so in Norfolk. Our friend Peter Y helped complete the fiberglass work for the emergency steering, before...

[Maryanne]OK, so I took the weekend off! Kyle came home, and we put on our sails (back from the sail maker with a clean bill of health) and...

[Maryanne]Yay! We are back in the water; our courtesy flags have arrived; guidebooks are aboard. Things are moving well towards to our lea...