April 15 - Night (14th) is uneventful except for the young partyers who get back to the boat on the other side of the dock from us at 3:35 a.m. with a girl screaming at the top of her lungs (I first thought someone had woken up to find that some had died)and then playing rap at top volume for about a half hour. I’d identify the song but its lyrics are so crude that I know I would offend some readers - for those in the know, think of a female very explicitly telling you want she wants you to… Read the Full Log Entry

April 14 - After spending weeks and weeks buying food, drink and dry goods and then trying to find places to store them all in the boat, and an equal number of weeks of doing repairs and upgrades, we’re ready to go, or as ready as we’ll ever be, and we have a good weather window.  We have guests aboard for this trip, Jane and Steve Koenig, our friends from Boca, who sail out of Newport, RI.  We depart Boca Raton at 7:00 a.m. with a rising tide and we take the ICW to the Hillsboro Inlet. We… Read the Full Log Entry

Dec. 5 - It's finally sunny and warm and we do a bunch of chores and then walk around town in the afternoon.　 Not a bad town but like most, all of it is the ICW facing main street, after which there isn’t much. There’s a humungous new library and playing field complex. A lot of money has been thrown at the downtown lately. There’s also a terrific art deco Post Office. Except for being much smaller, it really reminds us a lot like the Lexington Avenue Post Office in NYC. When we return to the… Read the Full Log Entry

Nov. 29-Dec. 1 - Nothing much of interest to report. Shopped for food, did laundry and did some legal work. Plan to leave on the outside for Fernandina Beach tomorrow morning.

Dec. 2 - Wind and seas are down and we motor (next to no wind and what there is is on our nose) on the outside to Fernandina Beach. What pleasure not to have to worry about depth. Pass Fort Clinch at the mouth of the Fernandina Inlet. Reputed to be in exceptionally good shape because it was never involved in any… Read the Full Log Entry

Nov. 24-28. Welder just got a huge job from his biggest customer, so he has no time for us. I’m exploring other options for straightening the bow pulpit. The weather is just as bad as they predicted, and then the Thanksgiving Nor’easter came through with even bigger winds and lots of rain, so all and all a very dreary couple of days holed up in Brunswick, Georgia. We’re on a west facing T-dock and the West wind gusted all day on the 27th into the 30s scaring the “stuff” out of me, but there… Read the Full Log Entry

Nov. 17 - Leave early for St. Catherine’s Sound. Wind is light and seas calm. Whatever wind we had dies when we leave the exit channel and turn South, so it’s the "iron jenny" (engine for the non-sailors) today. Our course takes us right by the sea buoy at the Tybee Roads (Savannah River) entrance and as we approach it, dense fog sets in. Savannah is a major shipping port and I am riveted to the AIS (Automatic Identification System) targets entering and leaving the entrance channel, all of… Read the Full Log Entry

Nov. 10 - Wait for the right tide and time to make the nearby swing bridge which opens on the hour and make the short trip to Charleston and stop at the Charleston Harbor Marina which is at Patriot Point where the Yorktown (WWII aircraft carrier) and WWII submarine and destroyer are moored for touring. Tides run real fast here and despite having tried to time our arrival for slack tide, I didn’t quite get it right and it’s an adventure getting to the gas dock for pump out and then to our… Read the Full Log Entry

Nov 8 - Stay in Georgetown and “see the sights”. Visit the Rice Museum, which is fascinating. Georgetown County was for a long time the largest rice producer in the world and the guided tour of the museum addresses all aspects of the cultivation and commerce of rice. We were guided by a local young woman just out of high school who had never been out of Georgetown County, but was expecting to go on a trip to Montreal and a sailing adventure in the BVI’s. She was very sweet and informative,… Read the Full Log Entry

Nov. 5 - Well, I was told it had to happen, but I thought “not to me”. Anyway, after a nice start down the ICW in calm clear conditions we run hard aground while we are in the center of the channel right between the red and green markers that we are supposed to be between as the ICW passes the Shallotte Inlet in North Carolina. It’s a falling tide and we’re in trouble. Call Boat US and they’re there promptly. Told us we should have hugged the red markers at that point. Anyway, after… Read the Full Log Entry

Oct. 30/Nov. 4 - Stay with family for the week. Get to play some golf and some tennis and otherwise just "chill". Am surprised to be able to get Irene, my 87 year old mother-in-law with two artificial knees, not only onto the boat, but actually down into both cabins. Very nice. Got some tremendous help from Bill Gregory, Marina Manager at South Harbour Village Marina, which we very much appreciated. He’s a gem. Pix of Kryss and Irene, as well as some sunsets from prior anchorages attached.… Read the Full Log Entry