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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.

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Penultimate Post

Posted by Bryan on Thursday, July 3, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

We are safely back home in Cookstown now at our old mailing address. It has taken some time to get our internet and phone back together, along with all our other things, like health cards, insurance, remembering when trash day is, where we put everything, etc...

It has been a great adventure but we are all excited to be home and seeing all our friends and Scout. The tenets were great and took good care of our home. Our plants are all out of control and it looks like a jungle in places, but h...
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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 ...

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.

L...

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.

Marine land and Traveling to Georgia

Posted by Sahara on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

Welcome, to this blog post, which we are posting in the hopes of appeasing our family who believe us to have either given up on this whole trip or died. Perhaps even both. Anyway, i will be commentating- or simply captioning- the following pictures, to your- hopefully- entertainment. Enjoy.

I have no idea who that is surfing in the picture below, but seeing as it made its way onto this site, i would believe it to be Devon. And of course to the right of said picture there are some geese. Canadi...
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Cumberland Island round two

Posted by Devon on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

This is our second time here and it was a very peaceful anchorage, we even saw one of the boats that we saw last time. when we were at Cumberland island, we had to row against a very strong current, around at 2 knots. we first went around a long trail to see the horses and there was a lot of spanish moss.

When we got to the horses, there were only two so we thought that the horse people must have took the people somewhere else. as we moved on to the beach, we found out that it was low tide f...
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St. Augustine

Posted by Devon on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

On our way back north we went through St. Augustine. We did not stop this time. As we were waiting for the bridge to open, we noticed two famous boats on either side of the river from each other. Old and the New.

Kiwi Spirit

Kiwi spirit is a 63 foot sailboat piloted by Dr. Stanley Paris age 77. This guy tried to sailed around world all by himself on this boat. (Failed...because the boat broke) For more detail this boat had a 14 feet draft when his keel was down and when his keel was up th...

Melbourne to New Smyrna Beach

Posted by Sahara on Thursday, April 24, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

A long trip, but few opening bridges to deal with. And with longer day light, we can go for 10-11 hours.

One of the days we were in Melbourne (oh my, doesn't this sound familiar.), we saw this amazing cake in the grocery store. It was all rainbow and colorful, and seeing as we felt like we didn't celebrate Easter in its fullness, we could bake this cake to compensate.

And, as probably most of you will have guessed by reading the above statement, it did not resemble the box picture, whatsoever...

Pompano to Melbourne Fl. Three days

Posted by Bryan on Monday, April 21, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

Currently at Melbourne. ICW mile marker 920

It feels good to be on the water again moving north. Over the last three days we did not cover a lot of miles (125) compared to our normal travels due to Bridges!!!! In the last 3 days we have had to time our trip to go through 23 bridges.

All while dealing with Holiday traffic, which wasn't that bad due to the cool weather.

15 bridges on Saturday, 7 on Sunday, and just 1 today.

Going north from Pompano the ICW doesn't have any natural shores. The e...
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Heading North Again

Posted by Bryan on Saturday, April 19, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

The repair work is finally done!!!!! We had the work done by Yachting Bliss who are located next to the Sands Harbor Hotel and Marina. They moved around some other jobs to get ours done as soon as they could. It took us a week to get quotes and then the O.K. to get the work started. Then a week to get the work done. We start Heading north tomorrow at 7:00 am. Will go through 14 bridges in only 30 miles!!! that along with Holiday traffic and crazy boaters. It will be interesting.

After ...
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Rapids Water Park

Posted by Devon on Saturday, April 19, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

April 16th

Rapids waterpark was not one of those waterparks with the fountains and the little things that spray water everywhere, no, this was a waterpark with slides that go down 70 feet. It had 30 slides and some of them were really scary at first.

The one we went to first was a inner tube one that we all went through at once, it was really scary because it was our first slide and it had big and sudden drops. My favourite one was called the pirate plunge, it went down a total of 70 feet and...
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Pompano Beach

Posted by Bryan on Friday, April 18, 2014, In : ICW Northbound

April 7th to April 18th.

We have been stuck in Pompano Beach Florida waiting work done on our stern rail. The boat market has been doing well and it is hard to find people to are available NOW to get work done. Most people we contacted gave us a 3 to 4 week time just to come give us a quote!!! But we eventually found a great company, more in the next post.

So we kept our selves busy a number of ways. Along with all the most rain we have had the entire trip.

We rented a car so we could get a...
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