Category: North Carolina
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Oriental to Mile Hammock Bay to Carolina Beach to Little River, SC
Day 7: Oriental, NC to Mile Hammock Bay, NC; 55.7 Nautical Miles We left before sunrise from our anchorage on the Neuse River in Oriental, NC for a 9.5 hour cruise down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway to Mile Hammock Bay, NC, which is just outside Camp Lejeune. Dolphins greeted us as we passed Morehead City…
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Coinjock to Alligator River to Belhaven to Oriental, NC
Day 4: Coinjock, NC to Alligator River, NC; 46.3 Nautical Miles After a night at the marina in Coinjock, we got a move on for a long-ish day to the Alligator River. The Albemarle Sound was the calmest we’ve ever seen it. Upon arrival, we were greeted with not one, but TWO rainbows as we…
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An Icy Start, But We’re On Our Way
Day 2 – 10.3 nautical miles The first few days of our winter cruise south were off to a slow start. After leaving Portsmouth, we proceeded down the Elizabeth River, through the lock in Chesapeake, and we had hoped to make up some ground and arrive in Coinjock for the night, but the ICW was…
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Our First Sailing Lesson (2010)
In early 2010, we took our first sailboat lesson in Raleigh on a Sunfish. We had a blast learning how to maneuver a small boat. This experience led us to buying our first sailboat two short years later.
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Let’s Start from the Beginning
To understand how we got to where we are today living aboard, we should first go back to the beginning. Our beginning. How We Met Paul and I met as undergraduate students at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He had just begun his senior year in engineering and I just started my sophomore year…
Sailing Mystic Hearts 