Embrace your Pivots

Pivot is docked on the free dock next to historic downtown in Darien so we are primed for the 54th Annual Blessing of the Fleet Festival! It wouldn’t be a day on the Great Loop if it didn’t have some excitement and for today that happened when a boat literally ran into Pivot on the…

We had a fantastic holding in Fort Frederica throughout the blows and had been brainstorming what to see next! Looking through Navionics and Google Maps, we saw Darien was a town not too far away and had a festival on the upcoming weekend. Why not give it a shot! Nothing went according to plan but…

In today’s video documenting our Great Loop, we journey North from Jekyll Island, Georgia to the Fort Frederica National Monument on St. Simons Island, Georgia.

Now that our guests are gone after we spent 3 days exploring Cumberland Island, we have some tidying up to do! Any day on the loop can be eventful like this one proved to be. We decided to cruise to Jekyll Island and arrive around sunset, but St. Andrews Sound had other plans…

We are sad to leave Cumberland Island after our fantastic weekend but it is time to continue North on the Great Loop! We have a 9-mile cruise to St. Mary’s, Georgia up the Cumberland River to the Georgian ICW. Our surprise for the day was a pod of dolphins coming to say hi and swimming…

After a wonderful day hiking yesterday at our Sea Camp Anchorage in Cumberland Island, we decided to take a cruise North to a much more remote part of Cumberland Island, Plum Orchard! In Plum Orchard, there are tours of the (still standing) Manor multiple times of day but it is not easy to get there.…

After our breakdown yesterday in Fernandina Beach, we were extra cautious leaving St Marys Georgia. But all checks pass, so we decided to really dive into Cumberland Island with our family, Uncle Westby and Aunt Patti! They both have a background in Science and Biology, Westby is even a high school science teacher, so they…

Cruising on America’s Great Loop gives us so many different life experiences. Many highs, many lows, and we have it all here as we leave early from the St. Augustine Mooring field and cruise up to St. Marys, Georgia.

It wouldn’t be a cruise on the Great Loop without some excitement! Cruising up from Peanut Island in New Smyrna up to St. Augustine was our longest day yet, almost 60 miles! Fortunately, we had an amazing guest, poppa Schoenfeld visited for his first time cruising on a Trawler. We ended the day in the…

After an amazing time with family and seeing a rocket launch from Pivot – we are continuing North on America’s Great Loop. A long day means an early departure as we leave Cocoa Beach and head through Florida’s Space Coast towards New Smyrna Beach where we meet a new guest!