M/V MAERIN

We arrived here at Cocoa on Tuesday afternoon after a nice cruise from Port Orange. It was still pretty chilly, but we were quite comfortable in the sunny pilothouse. The lows overnight dipped into the 30’s on Tuesday night, but not low enough to require running the heat overnight, and no more freezing hoses! Water […]

6486 OK, enough of this. This is FLORIDA… it’s not supposed to be in the 20’s!!! There was snow and sleet on Saturday morning, and night time temperatures have been in the high 20’s. Daytime highs are at record lows. It hasn’t been this cold here for 35 years, and the records are dropping like […]

6435 Christmas Eve in Brunswick is promising to be a rainy affair with heavy rains predicted overnight, although temperatures are in the low 60’s and predicted to be in the 70’s Christmas Day. We attended Christmas Eve services at the Methodist church in town with cruising friends. It was a packed house! There will be […]

We arrived in Brunswick at 0730 Saturday morning after a 14 hour overnight from Savannah. We decided it would be better to do the overnight than run the ICW. The stretch from Savannah south through Georgia is some of the skinniest water in the ICW, and tides were running at low tide just about the […]

At this writing, we’ve been in Savannah for nearly a week. We arrived on Sunday the 29th after a very pleasant cruise from Beaufort, a relatively short run of just over 40 miles. Savannah is not typically part of the ICW cruiser’s itinerary, since it requires transit up about 8 miles of the Savannah river […]

We arrived in Beautiful Beaufort on Wednesday afternoon, after a leisurely run from the Ashepoo River where we spent a very peaceful night on the hook under cloudy skies. The section of the river where we anchored is very isolated, with very few signs of civilization. We anchored just off a dock at a hunting […]

5943 Beautiful Charleston, South Carolina was home again for 3 days! One of our favorite stopping points, Charleston has a charm that’s irresistible.More metropolitan than many of the other coastal ports, Charleston was once one of the most prosperous cities in the South, and the architecture confirms that fact. We met up with Jeff and […]

The stretch of ICW from Wrightsville Beach to Charleston, SC is among the most scenic parts of the whole of the ICW in our view. The waterway meanders past a myriad of golf courses as we pass through Myrtle Beach, through “Low Country” plantations and rice fields of South Carolina , through the marshes and […]

Wrightsville beach was a nice interlude last season and a good place to ride out 35 kt. winds as we found our way down the ditch. This year’s visit came about the same point on the calendar as last year’s, but the weather was considerably different, since this visit found us lounging on the beach […]

The timing of our departure from Ocracoke was perfect. We had a smooth trip across the sound to Oriental, where we dropped the hook in Green’s Creek. We set a couple of extra feet of chain out, and backed down on the anchor with a bit more power than usual, confident that we were set […]