Category: ICW
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Blowing Our Engine in Norfolk – Part 1
(Originally published in 2012) We were enjoying a few moments of elation. The first leg of many on our way down the ICW to Miami was drawing to a conclusion. Here we were finally at the very bottom of the Bay, bidding our fond adieus to the Chesapeake – crabs, gunkholing, “creeks” that dwarfed most…
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Blowing Our Engine – Part 2 – The Pungo Ferry Curse
(Originally published in 2012) After our nightmare in Portsmouth, new rebuilt engine in place, we were eager to leave Portsmouth behind and get heading south again. We took off and motored down the Elizabeth River, passing through the lock at Great Bridge. Things were going smoothly and we were starting to relax a little bit,…
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Crossing to the Bahamas
(Originally published in 2012) Miami to the Bahamas Departed for Bahamas in Feb 2005 It’s January of 2005 and we are finally in Miami. It seems like forever and then some that it has taken us to get here but we made it. After the disaster in Portsmouth that took pretty much the entire month…
