Tag: Chesapeake Bay
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Gone to Godfrey Bay, VA
After two nights on the Ware River, we weighed anchor and headed toward Deltaville on the northeastern most portion of Virginia’s Middle Peninsula. After a glorious 32.9 nautical mile sail with light winds and a comfortable sea state, we arrived in Godfrey Bay, an anchorage we were already familiar with. Winds overnight were forecasted to…
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Anchored on the Ware River
As long as we’ve lived on the Chesapeake Bay, I can’t believe we had never sailed to Mobjack Bay! We’ve talked about it for years, so when we decided we were going to spend the rest of the summer on the Bay, it just made sense. When you enter Mobjack Bay, you can anchor in…
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Time to Untie the Lines Again
After nearly four months back at the dock, it was time to untie the lines and head back out to sea. Since returning from our 3.5 month cruise to Key West and back over the winter, we were itching to explore again. After weeks of final preparations (including last minute boat projects along with West…
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Bringing Mystic Hearts Home
Finally, on September 4th over Labor Day weekend we took possession of Mystic Hearts and brought her to her new home port. It felt a little intimidating driving a boat this large at first (14 feet longer than the last boat we owned and 6 feet longer than the largest boat we’ve chartered), but we…
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Selling Our House
Last July, before we sold our house and took the leap living aboard, our realtor advised us to get a storage unit and begin moving items out of the house that were cluttering it. She said it would help show the home better so that it could sell faster. We trusted her judgment and began…
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Mystic Hearts (2020-Present)
After selling Rocinante and our home, we bought Mystic Hearts, our 2005 Beneteau 473.
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Rocinante (2015-2020)
After selling Gabriel in 2015, we bought Mistress (and quickly renamed her Rocinante). She was a 1972 Pearson 33.
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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 