We left Monday morning to head back to our home base in Oriental. A hurricane was brewing offshore, and we had more work to do on the boat before heading south for the winter. We got off to a rough start as I somehow managed to get a line in […]
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Vayu Blog 08-10-25. On the road again
Monday morning we got off to a fairly early start and headed down the river bound for St. Michaels. We had planned to head to Annapolis for a couple of days but decided instead to check out St. Michaels as we had heard good things about it. It was only […]
Vayu Blog 08-03-25 Taking a break
There’s not much new this week. We arrived in Easton and secured alongside John’s houseboat. We planned to stay the week to visit and to wait out the heat wave. Temperatures were predicted to be near 100 for the middle of the week. Staying with John, we could enjoy full-time […]
Vayu Blog 07-27-25
Monday morning, we left the quiet anchorage in Little Harbor and headed north. We were not sure where we would spend the night just yet. but there were several locations that would make for a nice over night stop. The wind was out of the North so we would have […]
Heading north again Vayu Blog 07-20-25
On Monday morning, we headed across the York River to a marina for some fuel and to top off the water tank. Once topped up, we headed out of the river and north to a nice quiet anchorage in a place called Little Bay. After a few days in civilization, […]
Exploring the past in Yorktown, Vayu Blog 07-13-25
We left the marina in Virgina Beach around 10 AM, headed back over to Hampton where we had anchored the previous week. We had filled the water tank and gotten fuel and were ready to start exploring the Chesapeake, or so we thought. The trip back to Hampton was again […]
Giving Boot Key Another chance (week 8)
We left Key West on Monday April 1st. Again the wind was a bit against us but we needed to take advantage of a short weather window to get East. After a long day of pushing as close to the wind as we could we arrived in Boot Key harbor […]
Key West winds (Week 7)
We left Bahia Honda with a strong east wind making for a bumpy run south. We made good time to Key West but it seemed to take forever to get to the mooring field with the wind and current against us. Once at the mooring field we found a free […]
It’s getting a little better all the time. (Week 6)
On Saturday the 16th we dropped the mooring to head over to Key Biscayne. Well the bad luck had not left us yet and we immediately got fouled in the mooring after dropping the line. This was a tight mooring field without a lot of room to maneuver. This combined […]
Some days are better than others (week 5)
We left North Palm Beach headed to Miami early Tuesday the 12th. The weather prediction was good and we got off to a fairly good start headed down the waterway towards the ocean inlet. We planned a short offshore hop to Ft. Lauderdale or Miami. About the time we got […]