New York, New York After a couple days in a quite anchorage at the entrance to the NY/NJ harbor, we sailed into the upper New York bay, past the Statute of Liberty and Ellis Island this morning to a marina across from Manhattan. This is a busy place. Our commercial vessel tracking system (AIS) showed […]

Some things don’t change. Before departing for our long sail to New York, we had a wonderful dinner at Still Pond, Delaware. The menu was indicative our past experiences: 1997 Rosemount Mt. Blue Shiraz/Cabernet Sauvignon (from our time in OZ)Tri-tip steak (from living in California’s central coast)Tomato, Feta and Basil salad (from good friends in […]

After a long hot day sail we reached St Michael’s, a quite and charming little town in Maryland. We plan to spend a few days here finishing up projects that didn’t get completed before we left and then we will head off to New York City.

Chesapeake Bay, VA We stopped for the night in Mill Creek off of the Great Wicomico River for our first night. This turned out to be a great anchorage and we had a very restful night. Then off at first light to St. Michaels.

Well, leaving Charlotte and moving aboard proved more challenging than planned. It is hard to leave good friends and a great house at the lake, but we did it. We arrived in Hampton with a car full of stuff and immediately proceeded to go to shopping to buy the rest of the things we needed […]

After 29 years with EDS and over 20 years of running a successful advertising business, we have decided to quit work and go cruising. While waiting until we were retirement age would have been financially more lucrative, we opted to quit work early and start our adventure. We were very happy to have a Bon […]

Hampton, Virginia To get Berkeley East out of the hurricane zone we sailed her from Charleston, SC to Hampton, Virginia. This was our first offshore passage with just two of us aboard. After almost 90 days at the Charleston City Marina, getting to know the boat better and enjoying the town, we left for the […]

Charleston, South Carolina As Hurricane season approached, Mary, Christian and I left Ft. Lauderdale on our first offshore passage to Charleston, SC. We had an exciting first 24 hours covering 235 nautical miles that Mary described as a “run away freight train“. After that the wind died and we motored, arriving in Charleston 40 hours […]