M/V MAERIN

Savannah is one of our favorite stops. This trip marks our sixth visit, all of which have been on our southbound legs. One of those visits was not aboard Maerin but on Celebrate  when we moved Celebrate from the Chesapeake to Brunswick, GA. We arrived on Wednesday the 18th, after a pleasant if short cruise […]

From Beaufort, we made the 30nm run to an anchorage off Daufuskie Island. We generally bypass this section of the ICW in favor of an outside run to avoid “problem areas” along the ICW. “Problem area” generally indicates skinny water. If I may digress a bit, perhaps I can shed some light on what skinny […]

Charleston is always a favorite stop, we seem never to tire of walking or biking the streets of this historic port, always enjoying the sights of its beautiful homes and neighborhoods. We arrived Friday morning after a stopover at Price Creek. Our traditional stopover is at Charleston Maritime Center, where the staff is friendly, helpful […]

From Bird Island, up anchor at 0705 Wednesday and headed back to the ICW, bound for Georgetown. This particular section of the ICW transits the Waccamaw River. The route is a scenic cruise through “low country” cypress swamps and marshlands. The whole route is deep, so no worries about grounding and it makes for a […]

We left Wrightsville Beach Tuesday morning headed south. The day’s cruise was highlighted with a trip through “the rockpile”, a notorious section of the ICW where it passes through the Myrtle Beach area. The ICW channel is somewhat narrow in this section, and the sides of the channel are carved out of rock. Many vessels […]

Our cruise from Oriental to Swansboro was uneventful, and the rain let up as we started, so our weather was sunny and warm with temps in the 70’s. We’ve anchored in the river adjacent to Swansboro on previous occasions, and enjoy walking the streets of this sleepy historic town. Swansboro dates from 1783. It has […]

Since we have no particular itinerary, as we made our way through Hampton Roads and into North Carolina, we decided to take a side trip to Ocracoke from Oriental. We had spent a few days in Portsmouth, took the passenger ferry and revisited Norfolk.  Because our last few trips were late in the season, we […]