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Exploring Bear City before heading into the Sailing Capital of North Carolina, Oriental!
Today we have our favorite type of day on the loop, exploring a new spot as well as a beautiful cruise! We hope you enjoy our walking tour of New Bern North Carolina and our Play-By-Play of backing into our slip-in Oriental! Episode #241 Filmed on April 22nd, 2022 New Bern, North Carolina CAMERA GEAR…
Timing the tides to New Bern from Beaufort!
Today was a bit rocky at the beginning of the day. We had timed the day to where we left some time to grab breakfast before catching the tide up Adam’s Cut but the coffeeshop took much longer than expected, leaving the whole day in jeopardy. As with most things, however, they are bigger at…
Navigating an ICW Coast Guard SECURITY ZONE on the way to explore Beaufort, North Carolina
Today, a section of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway is restricted… and it’s the section we need to pass through! A few miles outside (and including) Swansboro, North Carolina, the Coast Guard is practicing rescue operations from 8 am to 4 pm. The goal is to have anchors up at 6 am to be through the…
MONTHLY EXPENSES ON AMERICA’S GREAT LOOP – MAY 2022
Our third month on the Great Loop was more expensive than we would have hoped. Attending the America’s Great Loop Cruisier’s Association Spring Rendezvous in Norfolk, VA put us about $1,000 off budget, but the information we gained was well worth the budget detour. Traveling around America’s Great Loop doesn’t have to break the bank.…
Cruising to the beach on the way from Wrightsville Beach to Camp Lejeune by Trawler
The weather finally cleared up and we are able to get moving on the Loop! Before leaving Wrightsville Beach we took Ollie out for a lovely beach walk-in… 50deg weather! Then we left for our 49th day on the Loop and continued cruising North. Surprisingly, most days on the Loop you are not that close…
Finding a protected anchorage off the ICW in Wrightsville Beach on the Great Loop
We have some nasty winds coming to Pivot and it’s time to move anchorages! Fortunately, the cruise from Carolina Beach to Wrightsville Beach is short! We’ve been to Wrightsville Beach once before, but this time we’re entering from the south which is known to have less shoaling and a more straightforward approach. Episode #237 Filmed…
Choosing our perfect weather window to cruise Cape Fear to Carolina Beach
When we attempted the Loop last year, traveling up Cape Fear was rough. In the morning we lost our wheel at our upper helm, we had large swells and the current against us. Going 2 kts it was 3 hours of tough cruising. HOWEVER today we are staging from Southport and leaving at 0 dark…
Cruising through Myrtle Beach and heading to Southport on our Trawler
We are exhausted after our LONG day of boat projects, but PIVOT and her crew are ready to disembark! Today is going to be a long one folks, we have to first get off the dock with winds gusting into the 20s. Cruise a few hours to get fuel (and dock again) and finally make…
Catching up on Boat Projects in Myrtle Beach
It is our “day of reckoning” – we’ve been having too much fun so know we need to give Pivot (our 34′ Marine Trader) some TLC and spend a day doing boat projects. If you have any experience doing boat projects, you will know that they rarely (if ever) go according to plan, and today…
Cruising from Georgetown to Myrtle Beach on our Trawler
On the agenda today are the famous cinnamon buns from Indigo Bakery, refueling our empty diesel tanks, and docking “STERN IN” for the second time ever. Unfortunately, the boat gods had other things in mind…
