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Holbrook Island

Short 2 hour downwind sail today from Belfast to an anchorage just East of Holbrook island. Nothing significant happened, but we did get a chance to practice jibing. Leaving Belfast Harbor Dinghy dock at Holbrook Island Holbrook Island Sunset

Posted by svcurrentlife on Saturday, August 24, 2019

Belfast Harbour

We spent a little under a week on a mooring ball in Belfast harbor. The mooring ball was managed by the town which gave us access to showers in the public restrooms and a place to have packages delivered. We could also use the town dinghy dock, but anyone can do that regardless if they are paying for a town mooring ball or not. The anchorage was one of the calmer ones we’ve been to lately.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Friday, August 23, 2019

Baltimore to Rhode Island

While we were in Baltimore suffering through the early summer heat, we decided we’d head North to find some place cooler. We planned a trip to Rhode Island over the 4th of July, intending to be at sea during the 4th. It would have taken us three nights to get from Baltimore to East Greenwich. At the last minute we decided to relax a bit and take the entire week for the trip instead of rushing to Rhode Island.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Thursday, July 4, 2019

New Standing Rigging

Current Life’s standing rigging was about 14 years old and we weren’t sure how hard it was used the first 13 years of her life. We had Charleston Yachting inspect the rigging in Charleston last year and they didn’t find any problems. We decided that because of its age, we would change it out. We emailed back and forth a few times with Jeff from Mojo Marine while we were in Ft Lauderdale and worked out a time in late February when he could replace the rigging.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Fort Lauderdale to St Augustine

We left our mooring ball in Fort Lauderdale at 3:30PM and arrived in time for the 4:00 PM 17th St. bridge opening. After the bridge, we exited the ICW through Port Everglades and were out in the ocean a little after 4:00PM. Our home for a month, the little white mooring ball in the background. We had about 8 hours where the wind and gulf stream worked together to let us sail at 8 knots, but eventually the wind died and the gulf stream got choppy making for an uncomfortable night from about 2AM to 6AM.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Sunday, February 17, 2019

Daytona to Cocoa Village

Motored up the ICW from Daytona Beach to Cocoa. We spent three nights at Halifax harbor marina in Daytona Beach. We thought it was an excellent marina and enjoyed our time there. Although the surrounding area was a little rough so we mainly stayed around the marina. We were planning to leave at 7AM as soon as it got light, but for some reason it was light enough at 6:30 so we left a little early.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Tuesday, December 11, 2018

ICW St Augustine to Daytona Beach

We left St Augustine at 7AM so we could make a 7:30 bridge opening. It was just barely light enough to see. We’re really looking forward to the days getting longer soon. Historic St Augustine. It’s probably touristy, but we want to come back and grab one of these mooring balls one day and explore. We passed under a half dozen bridges during the day. None of them showing 65 foot clearance on the depth markers that we like to see.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Saturday, December 8, 2018

Charleston to St Augustine

After waiting for almost two weeks for a weather window out of Charleston, we settled for a few cold days with almost no wind forecast. Our thinking was that it was better than cold with a headwind. In preparation for the cold, we bought a small propane heater for the cockpit and a couple extra canisters of propane. Each canister was supposed to last 6 hours on the low setting which is about what we got out of them.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Friday, December 7, 2018

Bald Head Island to Charleston City Marina

Finally a day outside the ICW. We left Bald Head Island at 1:10PM on Tuesday, October 30, intending to get to Charleston around noon the next day. It felt weird not leaving in the morning. Seemed like we were wasting most of the day waiting around. We wanted to make sure it was light when we arrived at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, though, so leaving Bald Head early afternoon for our overnight sail made the most sense.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Wednesday, October 31, 2018

ICW Day 6

We left Dudley’s marina in Swansboro at 6AM while it was still dark. We wanted to get to Bald Head Island marina and knew it’d be a long day. The depth gauge was showing 0 feet at the dock, and we did bump a little bit on the bottom as we were leaving, but the depth increased as soon as we were a few feet away from the dock. 7:15AM – Entered Camp Lejeune.

Posted by svcurrentlife on Sunday, October 28, 2018