[Kyle]It’s been a while since we’ve posted a blog entry. It’s not because we haven’t been busy, quite the opposite. We’ve been so swamped wi...

[Kyle]As I left Portsmouth in the pre-dawn light, I was intending for once to have an easier day than the usual all-day push. I generally li...

[Kyle]I left a soon as it was light enough to do so for the first locking through the Dismal Swamp Canal. The morning was foggy as I wound m...

[Kyle]Day seven was going to be another boring day. It started with a long lonely trip down the Alligator River. There wasn’t much to do exc...

[Kyle]Well, my fix worked. The fuel leak is now gone. The starboard engine is now running like a champ, which it did dutifully the whole lon...

[Kyle]Rather than a schedule that would take every minute of daylight for the solstice day, I finally had a shorter one planned. I was even...

[Kyle]Although it was a shorter distance, day 4 turned out to take just as much time. I was back to using just the troublesome starboard eng...

[Kyle]This day was planned as my longest. It was necessary to run the whole day on both engines just to make sure I made it to my anchorage ...

[Kyle]Knowing I had little time to sleep and being wary of how well the anchor was holding, I slept little and fitfully. I was glad when my ...

[Kyle]After Maryanne had left for the airport, I backed out of the slip, turned Begonia within her own length with one engine in forward and...

[Maryanne]After our first sail and first offshore passage with Begonia we spent much of a day at anchor, shared a good meal and a great nigh...

[Maryanne]After the loss of Footprint, the winter and spring of 2012 has been spent searching for our next boat. Kyle has expended most of ...