We left Liberty Marina early, in order to catch the rising tide and get a free ride up the river. It is really interesting watching New York wake up Oh yeah – I forgot – New York the city that never sleeps.  Well, some of the city was sleeping and woke up. We passed…

  We came through the outer harbour in heavy fog. Ahead of us, we could just see the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, and as we came closer it loomed out of the fog. We still couldn’t see New York, just whiteness ahead of us. There was a lot of traffic here – many giant prams were…

  It’s June 13 and getting close to 10 a.m., time for the lock to open. The lock signifies the end of our Intracoastal Waterway adventure – at least for now. It’s Lars and Bente’s 2nd week on Capri. I’ve spent the morning explaining to Lars, who has never been through a lock before, how…

After our little run-in with someone’s man overboard mannequin test dummy (see previous post), we turned north and set all our sails. We had 12 knots of wind coming from aft so we hoisted everything we had and all of a sudden we were doing 6.5 knots. Excellent sailing and we got ourselves divvied up…

  In Great Bridge, there is not only a great bridge, there is also a decending lock, which we must go through before we can breathe freely on the blue ocean and set our course directly for New York City. But before we can enter the lock we must wait for the rush hour over…

  We’re coming up to end of our ICW adventure. We’ll spend the night at Great Bridge landing which is just before the only lock on the ICW.  So early tomorrow morning, we’ll go under the Great Bridge and through the lock – exiting into the Norfolk river and harbor – and finally into Chesapeake…

  We were joined in Carolina Beach by our friends, Bente and Lars who will sail with us the next couple of weeks.  Lars and Vinni studied for their Yachtmaster Ocean captains tickets together and Lars was floored when we invited them to come. He is part owner of a 29 foot sailboat and never…

  We are going inland with SY Capri but it may be unrealistic. The local tribes say it is quite unthinkable. With seven feet, your draught is far too much, they say. Vinni and Carsten – Master and Commander respectively or is the other way around, on S/Y Capri – disagree on this. Carsten is…

  We spent the night at Jeremy Creek which is also where the town of McCellanville is located.  Jeremy Creek marina is a shrimping harbor and filled with shrimp boats that can get out into the Atlantic through Five Fathom Creek. We asked the dockmaster if there was a supermarket nearby and he told us…

After 10 days of freeloading on Debbie and Marshall we decided that we couldn’t just keep on free-loading here in Charleston. So we’re sailing off to Carolina Beach where they have a summer cottage and we’ll free-load off them there for a week or so! Actually we are going to their summer cottage but we’re…