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We are back in Cookstown.

The Boat is at Bert Jabin's Boat Yard in Annapolis Maryland.

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Whitby 42. Northern Phoenix .... FOR SALE.

Our trip is coming to an end and the boat is now officially for sale. Click here for all the boat details and price.

Below: Anchored behind Allen Cay facing north. Boat is 3rd from left.

Browsing Archive: May, 2014

Long Walk Home

Posted by Sahara on Sunday, May 25, 2014, In : Aftermath

Hello again faithful blog followers. We are now at the end of our journey/quest/expedition-whatever you want to call it- and are back in Reedville, after 10 months of living on a floating vessel. For the next week we will just be staying with our grandparents and register Northern Phoenix as an american boat, so as to be able to sell it in America. And then the work begins, where we will be back to fixing up the boat yet again to make it fit to give to a new owner.

So there will be no more...
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Dismal Swamp

Posted by Sahara on Sunday, May 25, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

Will be updated later
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Wrightsville Beach

Posted by Devon on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

One day we went to Wrightsville beach to go in the water, but we also went there because Debbie’s family was going to pick us up to take us to their house. The waves at the beach varied between the 10 foot tall waves and small 1 foot waves. Some waves I had to run away from to get to the beach. There was a dredging process under way when we were at the beach and there was a huge pipe going from the boat to where the sand piled up on the beach a mile away. Every one of us went swimming excep...

Swan Point and Beaufort

Posted by Sahara on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

Three days ago we pulled into the lovelyish marina of Swan Point, with the intentions of only staying the night and leaving early in the morning. Dad had noticed that there was another boat at the marina with kids our age on it, but being the shy, self-conscious kids that we are, Devon and I elected to stay in the sheltered confinements of the boat, taking advantage of the wifi signal and whatnot. Making no contact with other human beings.

However, our plan was to be foiled, as the Dad’s ...

Sushi

Posted by Sahara on Friday, May 16, 2014, In : Food

To celebrate a completely insignificant Thursday night, we decided to make sushi. Hence our long and tedious to the fish store, where we were subject to lots of fishing stories and tips from the fish manager. He was quite nice, however, and gave us 2lb of tuna, swordfish, and some shrimp.

The sword and the shrimp we ended up putting away for another day, and the tuna we also cut up and parted. Most of it was left raw, some was pan seared, and the rest was also put in the fridge. Believe it or...

GOLF CART EXPERIENCE

Posted by Devon on Friday, May 16, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

On bald head island we rented a golf cart so we could drive around to go to stores and parks.

We first went to go to a grocery store to get some lunch things and chips, when we were done we went to the boat to change into a swim suits and left to go to the beach. The beach was really cool because it had a big drop off at the beginning and later on it would come back up in a sand bar and it would be around 1 ½ feet deep so this is where the waves were crashing, it was a very nice beach.

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Mothers Day and Food

Posted by Bryan and Devon on Tuesday, May 13, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

We had our first anchor drag. It wasn't really that bad. As we were trying to set the anchor, it did not seem to want to catch. Unusual, the anchor has been perfect so far. So as we dragged far enough that we realized something was wrong, we pulled the anchor up to try and reset it. Up came a mushed crab put. We had dropped it right on an old crab pot and caught it. So the anchor is still perfect.

We traveled up some rivers, far enough to get to fresh enough water that we saw a few smal...

Charleston S.C. and Beyond

Posted by Bryan on Saturday, May 10, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

We stopped for a day to visit Charleston and visit our favorite wings place. Sticky Fingers!!! first the wings are smoked for a few hours. 2. Chilled over night. 3. Dusted with spice mix, not bread, and quick fried. Delivered with no sauce, but 5 different sauces on the table. Absolutely amazing!!!

So little time and soooo much chocolate. It was a hard decision, and then there are the fresh fudge stores!

Sahara had a deprived childhood with a "stay at home Dad" and never had any dolls...
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big tides

Posted by Bryan on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

tides here are 8-10 feet depending on the moon phase.

Week In Hitlon Head

Posted by Devon on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, In : Meeting People

On March Friday the 2nd, Mom left to go to some unknown place (Boston), before she left though, we went to an aerial obstacle climbing place. How you did it was that you first got into this harness and clipped on this safety roller thing to a wire so you don’t fall off the course and break your leg or something. The first thing we did I don’t remember, but we had to ride a fake bird to another platform for about 5 seconds. My favorite ride was one with a slide that you go down on that dro...

Aerial Course

Posted by Sahara on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, In : Going Ashore

Hello again, people who follow our blog. Now, just a note, I am going to refer the day that we did this activity as “today” when, in fact, we actually did it on Thursday last week. Anyway, said activity was an Aerial Course. An aerial rope course, in fact. That is when a bunch a people that labor many months to construct a giant obstacle course 50 feet in the air, in which you try to navigate without tragically falling to your death. This is quite difficult to do, seeing as they have high...