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 […]
Archive for December, 2014
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 […]
Refit list
Dec 22nd 2014Life aboard
During our hiatus, Maerin underwent some maintenance, refit and some upgrades of some systems. The maintenance on a cruising vessel is never ending; as the old saw goes, cruising is repairing the boat in exotic places. Since we planned the time away from cruising, we wanted to take advantage of not living on the boat […]
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 […]
End of the Hiatus!!
Dec 11th 2014Cruise Log
Our cruising hiatus is about to end! We are poised to finally slip lines and head south, none too soon as it’s already mid-December and we’re still in the slip at Stansbury! We are awaiting delivery of some new floor coverings, the last item on our get-out-of-Dodge list. Our house is once again on the […]