Category Archives: Florida to Virginia

It blew hard and rained this morning and while it was just ok this afternoon we decided to wait another day. It looks like better weather tomorrow to cover the 70 miles to Annapolis where we will catch up with … Continue reading →

Thank you Portsmouth and Norfolk, although your weather delayed us, it was fortuitous as we were amazed by your features and your people were magnanimous with their hospitality. We left Portsmouth at 7.30am in ideal conditions with no wind and … Continue reading →

  Check out the 8am weather screen shot capturing that we are experiencing our briskest morning yet. The lower figure of -5 is the ambient temperature taking into account windchill. To compound the experience it was an extremely high tide … Continue reading →

The small craft advisory weather warning is still in place, reduced back from Tuesday night to Monday night. But Tuesday still has 15-20 knots and from the North together with a leftover sea. So our departure now looks like Wednesday. … Continue reading →

         We made a tough decision to stay put again today even though there was a 6 hour window of reasonable conditions this afternoon.  It blew hard overnight, 45  knots at times and continued through to midday. … Continue reading →

Gracie slumming it with Eider at the Portsmouth free dock basin outside the Renaissance Hotel. We took the ferry across to Norfolk to checkout the battleship USS Wisconsin and the Nauticus Museum. TJ and Julie came by in the afternoon … Continue reading →

Our flotilla of Harmony, Cellar Door and Gracie at the Welcome Centre of the Great Dismal Swamp State Park. This place would be even more beautiful in Fall/Autumn when the leaves change color. There used to be a pub called … Continue reading →

   When I was a teenager my father bought me a moth class sailing dinghy and two years later I built one of these craft myself. The moth class originated in Elizabeth City in 1929 and this morning we visited … Continue reading →

Left the Alligator River Marina at 7.30am in grey conditions but little wind. Albemarle Sound has a formidable reputation because it is shallow and when the wind opposes the tidal current it piles up making it tough boating. Today was … Continue reading →

  We stayed put in the Alligator River on Easter Saturday morning as the winds turned Northerly at 20 knots which is not what we wanted to cross the shallow Albemarle Sound. So a somewhat lazy time at anchor under the … Continue reading →