New Perspectives: Newly Salted Interview

Brittany and Livia (of Windtraveler and SV Estrellita) suggested that Brian and I interview on the new companion site to the Interview with a Cruiser Project. If you haven’t checked it out before, there is a link on my sidebar, please give it a click and check it out. The site is chalked full of [...]

Fair Winds on the Chesapeake

After a final farewell dinner with our anchorage neighbors on Sunday, we drove to a bus stop in Baltimore to pick up our third crew member. We found our friend Michael Kayton, a San Franciscan musician and photographer, picking strings on his guitar with cold fingers at the deserted stop. With news from New York [...]

From Hampton Roads to the York River

It was a bit of a shock to go from the quiet rivers of northern North Carolina to a jumble of bascule bridges and a lock system in Virginia. Waiting in narrow waterways for bridges to open while avoiding other, larger sailboats that are also waiting, a large tug boat that is waiting [...]

Travels up the North Carolina Coast

Illusion covered the coast of South Carolina in just two full days of offshore sailing, and had conditions been a little more favorable, we could have probably made the trip in less time. In contrast, it took us a couple weeks to cover the coastline of North Carolina on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW). Partly [...]

How Sweet It Is

Rockville, SC, to Hilton Head Island via the ICW: 3/8 – 3/10.

It was great to get to know Illusion again (and on the water!), after nine weeks in the boatyard. This being our first (test) leg of the trip, a leisurely motor down the ICW to Hilton Head Island, there was much to go over. [...]