I just discovered that only the May 3rd Blog posted from SailMail made it onto the web site. So, I have just added the rest. Great feeling that no one apparently missed me or sent the coast guard out looking for me, without any news since May 4…… You are all scratched from the will. “Fleetwood” will be given to the poor with the left over King Mackerel.
I will check and see what went wrong.
The North Easterly stayed in the 20 plus knot range all night. I made my tack away again from the N.C. coast at the edge of the Camp Le Jeune bombing range. This added a lot of miles tacking into the wind. The afternoon cleared up and I did get a lift from the east and arrived in Beaufort late afternoon. Turned out to be a very nice sailing day. I did manage to hear Garrison Keiler last night and again this morning. My Sunday radio service was a Spanish mass from Wilmington N.C. So, my plan is to drive to Chesapeake, Va. on Tuesday and be back here on Monday the 15th and then depart on the 16th for the Azores. It will be a family reunion in Chesapeake, I get to see Madison my 1st great granddaughter and her nephew Mark who was born last year. And their parents and grandparents.
Here are a few pictures of the sail here:
The paintjob afloat
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- Friday second King Mackarel
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- The paintjob afloat
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- note Pelican Perch
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- Shrimper off Jacksonville
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- Wednesday’s King Mackarel
Hey, I called you on Saturday and Sunday to see how things were going. Doesn’t that count? We were in the RV Friday night when the tornado watch came across the TV, and yes I was thinking of you. Our emergency plan was to dart into the bath house across the street from the RV should we see the funnel cloud!