October 26, 2013.
From Elizabeth City to the southern
end of the Pungo Canal is 76 miles. With sunrise at 0720 and sunset
at 1818 that leaves us with about 11 hours of daylight. 76 miles is
ambitious so the answer is obviously leave in the dark. We'll get up
at 0630 and be underway 15 minutes after that. And a funny thing
happened on the way to this plan.
The alarm went off, I jumped up, hit
the head and was brushing my teeth when Christy asked why I was up so
early. We have our old chartplotter mounted next to the bed and I
use it as a drag alarm. I set the range for 80 feet so when we're
anchored in a tidal creek it wakes me when the tide swings us so I
can make sure all is well. The drag alarm only beeps 4 times so when
it went off, I hit the alarm clock, the drag alarm stopped. I
thought that the alarm had gone off and was up brushing my teeth at
0430 instead of 0630. Crap. Back to bed for 2 hours.
Its cold, we do what we have to to get
south. One benefit of this is seeing the sunrise from the cockpit as
you head south.
8 comments:
I'm so glad to be reading your blogs again! Makes me Happy, Happy, Happy...especially to know we'll be seeing you in a few weeks!
We're looking forward to seeing you guys as well
Brings back memories of us transiting the Dismal swamp and waking up with snow on the deck!
Brings back memories of us transiting the Dismal Swamo Canal and waking up to find a fair amount of snow on the decks! Hurry on safely. Looking forward to catching up.
Thats still one of my favorite pictures.
Oh my - Brrrr!! Nice to see you sailing Veranda in the right direction. Enjoy!
We actually ate dinner in the cockpit tonight with short sleeves on. That was at the Broad Creek anchorage.
Deb
S/V Kintala
www.theretirementproject.blogspot.com
Glad to see you guys back on the water cruising south.
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