This afternoon, we are approaching Morehead City, North
Carolina, the location we departed down
the ICW 523 days ago on a warm December
morning. We have had an amazing journey since our last regular blog post (not
counting the kids great posts) through the Bahamas, over to Florida and now up
the coast to Beaufort/Morehead City. We were noting today that the last really rough night we
spent on the boat was travelling from St. Maarten to St. John more than a month
ago. We have travelled many miles since
then and this latest passage has been downright relaxing. We have had days of
five to 10 knot winds out of the south and, albeit slow, it is quite relaxing.
Most of our cockpit discussions have been around the coming weeks, preparation
for integration back to a land-based life, and where best to prepare Midwatch
for sale and where to sell her.
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| Departing Morehead City 523 days ago. |
We bought Midwatch with the knowledge that, returning from
this journey, we would have little funds to maintain her and so we bought her
with the intent to sell when our journey was complete. So we are a little sad
but have no reservations about the sale, the problem is how to define
‘Journey’s End.’ In our minds the
journey will continue with new adventures including school, work, moving back
into a house and reversing the logistics we were knee deep in two years ago, insurance,
mail routing, banking, etc. Much of the discussion over the past two days has
been where to prep Midwatch. Our first reflex move was to return to True World
Marine here in NC, an affordable and nice boat yard where we have been treated like
family. In fact the kids are jumping out of their seats today, excited about
seeing their old friends at True World. Immersed in deep discussions in the
cockpit, we are beginning to lean more towards taking Midwatch directly to
Annapolis, planned sale location, or back to New Hampshire where we could
vacate, allowing a more effective work schedule to complete our growing list of
tasks. We won’t make the decision for a few more days and meanwhile we will
catch back up with friends and do a little business in the Beaufort area.
Our blogging pattern has been, in general, I tackle visited
locations, Bob takes on the passages. This has worked well for us and meets our
original stated goals for the voyage, Bob was looking forward to the sailing
and I, the travel and places. We had such an awesome time in the Bahamas and
have been busy, busy (including a three-day wait on customs and immigration in
St. Augustine, Florida), that I totally forgot to post Bob’s en route updates.
Meanwhile, I am far behind on travel. With that said, we have numerous updates
and photos that we will be posting in the next few days, many half written (Kim) or
waiting to be typed (Anna transfers hers from her journal.)
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