Our Story In a Nutshell

In 2003 , we began our labor of love and started to restore our CSY 44 sailboat,which we named Freedom. After 5 1/2 years of pure sweat, (Florida in July in a t-vac suit and full mask)some tears, endless reading and lots of leaps of faith, restoration was completed in January 2009. The rest of the story is unraveling as we learn to become the sailors we have always read about. Their inspiration has always lead us to new places...the real reson we started this adventure to begin with. We left from St. Petersburg, Florida in January 2009, sailed to Longboat key, then Useppa, St. James City, Cape Coral, Marathon, Rodriguez Key, Miami, then onto the Bahamas. In the Bahamas we sailed to Norman's Key, Shroud, Hawksbill, Warderick Wells, Black Point, Staniel Key, Spanish wells, Eleuthera, Little Harbor, Marsh harbor and then over to Beaufort North Carolina...up the ICW to Norfolk and finally we ended up in the Chesapeake Bay.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Time To Catch Up


Since I last left everyone, we were on Tangier Island. We sailed onto Willoughby Bay, just off the channel from Norfolk Harbor. It is a crazy place where you have to keep very close track of container ships. Navy warships, barges, and other boaters. We almost had a close encounter with a container ship. They appeared to be anchored in the channel (not that unusual) but upon the sun moving and finally shinning upon the bow, I yelled to John that it was moving very quickly towards us. They were being pushed by a pilot boat and the captain came on the VHF to warn us to get out of the way. Luckily, we were already moving out of his direction and over into safer waters. We stayed a nite in Norfolk with 3 other boat(all friends) and moved a slow 10 miles to Great Bridege where you can tie up for free for a nite.Great Bridge is like an oasis for a cruiser because you are no more than a 15 minute walk to a grocery store, drugstore, landromat, liquor store, bank...you get the picture. I can not forget the mexican resturant...all good things. One of the great things about fellow cruisers is that everyone has a specialty...One of our friends loves to bake bread (which we are very fond of) and he gave all of us a baking lesson. He definitely has the touch..the bread turned out amazing. It looks simple enough so I have purchased all the necessary ingredients. After the bread baking lesson we were give a tortilla making sesson by another cruiser...again it looks easy enough. They do not last in the fridge very long because they are so fresh without preservatives...but they do not last long also due to the fact that they are scumptious! I know you are thinking that it is a lot of work making bread and tortillas from scratch but that is one of the wonderful things about cruising. If you go to places where the bread isn't tasty, then you just make your own. The Bahams is known for many things but the bread is not one of them Our nite ended with Chris jackson reading an excerpt from his book Scimitar Moon...he is very talented and it is a treat to read...Pretty cool!.Now we are in Beaufort, NC...great town, very sail friendly. Beautiful day...No pics today....problem with website....
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angelfire761 said...

Heading our way...to the warmth! It is a good thing!

October 15, 2009 at 1:14 PM

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