Follow me, Miss B, our two cats (Dora and Boog, aka. The Misfit Crew) on our crazy epic adventures aboard the SV Haven, a 38' Kadey-Krogen.
No, it's Iowa. Oh wait. Wrong movie. Great place though. Most days. Usually. Beautiful fireworks at night along the beach. When the Captain wakes, we will get some video of those posted too. We are heqded to dock to fix this beautiful girl as best we can. Some days there is nothing better than the… Continue reading Is This Heaven?
And you turn yourself around.... Lewes, Delaware has some amazing history that we honestly knew nothing about. During the War of 1812 (Apeil 6 and 7, 1813, to be precise) the British fired over 800 projectiles into the town and several buildings still bare the marks. We watched some sunfish sailboats practicing throughout the days… Continue reading You do the Humpty Dumpty
The eggplant capital of the world. The armpit of America? The place where driving the tunnel is as much a game of Russian Roulette as not. And yet, we are here. 😄 So, we are technically on the Delaware side of the river, but we are pretty close to New Jersey. We are going to… Continue reading You’re How Close to Jersey?
Well, Ocean City has been a trial for both of us. Dora is hearing enough new noises to keep her on the boat but our dockmates keep tabs on her anyway. Boog.....is Boog. But he is also happy to be at the dock. We are happy to report that we have tried a variety of… Continue reading Time to breathe
Day 1 at the dock. Some could argue we got some sleep. Some could argue we figured things out. Those people are silly and you all knew that. With so many to-do items it can be hard to sleep and unwind. We tried. Valiantly. Jason found a bilge pump switch which seemed to match the… Continue reading Ocean City…..did that just happen?
...It's going to happen out there. Ah, the wisdom of Captain Ron (if you haven't seen the movie, it's a sailing classic.) We have been seriously behind in keeping you all up to date with regard to our adventures. Tuesday morning we pulled up anchor around 9 a.m. from Wrightsville Beach, NC, and started our… Continue reading If It’s Going to Happen…
We knew today was going to be a busy day. We needed to do a couple of runs to the fuel dock with our fuel cans since the marina is in shallow waters. And by we, it was Jason. Then we were going to head into Wilmington proper. My grandparents retired to Wilmington in 1990… Continue reading A Trip Down Wilmington Lane
Happy Sunday, all! This was the day of recuperation and sight-seeing that we were hoping for for the past few days at sea. We headed into Wrightsville Beach to see what it had to offer. The City Dock isn't too far from the anchorage and has a memorial/thank you to firefighters as you come off… Continue reading Wrightsville Beach and Caterpillars?
Or we would sail (well, motor and motorsail and ....SAIL!!) 350 miles from Mayport, Florida to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. First mate sleeping Second mate sleeping Just over 74 hours underway and things were getting a wee.....crazy. The first and second mates were dozing whenever they could. And apparently photographic evidence has already been leaked,… Continue reading I would walk 500 miles, then I would walk 500 more
We set our sights on Charleston yesterday and just continued to head north. Around 11pm or 1 am (I should probably keep better track), the jib was rolled out, the winds were between 12 and 18 knots across the beam and...the engine was turned off. It was beautiful. The night passed quietly. The moon in… Continue reading Truckin’ North
