Thursday, June 30, 2011

Long Passage Norfolk to New York, we are in Hop-O-Nose now

We have an awesome weather to do the passage from Norfolk to New York, 2 nights in the ocean.

We are posting the photos now the story will come soon..

Today Saber Tooth will cruising as a Power Boat..


Captain was busy working on deck, fixing the starboard light



We were at Waterside Marina, facing the city of Norfolk



Anchored at Willoughby Bay, watching the sunset



We were leaving Norfolk



Long passage for Captain..sleepy?



Surrounding by Dolphins



Leaving Norfolk together with Mytyfyne





Entering New York Harbour at dawn













It took 4 hours to get here from the entrance channel



Mooring at 79th Street Yacht Basin

Strolling in New York



Cruising Hudson River












One night in Highland Landing



Look carefully where you go, don't hit this floating stump

















Working hard preparing the demasting

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Norfolk...waiting for the next weather window

It has been a while that we have had the time and energy to do some updates here. The engine project and the heat has been quite tiring ... but now we are much further north and a little cooler in the evenings ...

These images and comments are for updating our passage from Fernandina Beach, June 11 until today, June 22. We are in Norfolk, Virginia, at Waterside Marina.

We left Fernandina Beach on June 11 and took outside route from Fernandina Beach, Florida (SM 717) to Charleston, South Carolina (SM 465), it's about 260 miles. It took us about 20 hours.


The sunset is always spectacular in the middle of ocean..




We met again Crackerjack (Ray and Bonnie) in Charleston. We shared a great evening and dinner together.




Just few miles in the entrance of Charleston we hit a log..so here we are again..arranging to haul the boat to check the propeller


I don't think we can fit in between these monster ships..


We found Pierside boat yard to haul Saber Tooth.
It took 2 days to fix the propeller, launched the boat again and move on ...
We decided to take the ICW since the weather window was not good for an outside passage ...


Natures wonder along the ICW





























We were in Morehead City, North Carolina, dinner at Sanitary Restaurant, sitting on the patio and watching this Laughing Seagul flying around looked for crumbs..






The storm was approaching us while we were cruising in Pungo River








Tied up at Great Bridge before the lock


We met Christine and Peter Watson, Mytyfyne, travelled together until Norfolk





We spent the afternoon in the Nautical Museum .. home of the Battleship Wisconsin. They also had displays on the oceans and weather ... it is really well done.



This 4 foot long moray eel is like the one that we were snorkling with in the Bahamas, on Jeep Reef with Bob and Judy. The only difference was that the Jeep Reef one was bigger.









Don't forget to check our Mermaid Story