Merry Christmas from Maerin and crew! The rain in Charleston finally stopped, giving us an opportunity to make the Christmas Eve service at St. Philip’s Episcopal. St. Philips is one of Charleston’s many historic churches, built in 1836. The service was well attended, the music was wonderful, the message from the rector was memorable. As […]
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Overnight to Charleston
Dec 23rd 2014Cruise Log & Location & Southbound '14
We decided to push a bit and make for Charleston. We wanted to arrive before the bad weather predicted for Christmas Eve, so we kept with our initial plan to move from Belhaven to Morehead City, then outside to Wrightsville Beach, layover, then head through Snow’s Cut and on to Southport and head out the […]
Southbound!
Dec 18th 2014Cruise Log & Location & Southbound '14
Finally! Back on the water after a long 30 month hiatus from cruising. We slipped lines at 0448 on Friday 12 December. A late start, but unavoidable. Two days to Portsmouth, about 90 nm per day. We arrived at Portsmouth with an empty starboard fuel tank, and just gallons left in the port tank. We […]