The overnight watches into Day 3 (November 4) were speedy ones. At midnight we were seeing 25-30 knots of wind, and that stuck around all night. A SOG of 11.6…
As day one turned into day two, November 3, it was Patrick’s birthday. At midnight shift change, there were happy birthday wishes exchanged. (How cool is it to be sailing…
Before dawn on November 2nd, we dropped the lines at Safe Harbor Bluewater in Hampton and pointed Oestara‘s bow out of the harbor, heading out for the first leg of…
On Wednesday the 25th, we left the dock at Willoughby and made a quick trip across to Hampton, where we stopped at the fuel and pumpout docks at Safe Harbor…
We scheduled a quick haul out at a yard in Norfolk for Monday the 23rd, to take a look at our rudder and have the bottom of the boat power…
Late that night in the Onancock anchorage, we got to see a tugboat pass by us to pick up a barge that was docked nearby. We had seen the barge…
We hadn’t had a chance to get to the eastern shore of the Chesapeake yet on this trip, and we were determined to make it over there for at least…