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Thalia
Sioux Falls, SD
Brand new Sailor who full sent and bought a 1987 Prout Snowgoose Elite, Thalia. Learning to sail and live aboard as we explore the east coast of the US and Bahamas. Need a hand with something? Reach out! I need the experience 😅
Long day of waking up before light and arriving right before dark, but happy we had a nice calm motor south! Can’t wait to get back to clear water and beaches again! Couldn’t do it without @Michaela
The weather was a bit rough this morning, with a small craft advisory and 20 knots of wind, but we full sent it and hand steered for the first few hours up and down 2-4 ft waves, until the day settled into a manageable upwind sail. Feels so good to be back out on the water with @Michaela
It started off as a pretty easy trip to Elizabeth city with enough wind to get the sails out, it turned into a crab pot filled nightmare! But we made it here safe and crabless either way. Dismal swamp appears to have reopened, but will likely wait out the weather here in an anchorage all to ourselves. Not a bad place to spend a week it seems. Absolute shout out to @Michaela for being the best crab pot spotter around!
Even though the dismal swamp is still closed, we are looking for the next place to spend a week and Elizabeth city seems like the place to go! Was a very long, but calm, day so we busted out the swing to sit in while watching for crab pots 😂 If anyone has any recs for Elizabeth City please give us a shout! Shout out to @Michaela for doing a ton of canal driving as I cut up my hands catching a drone 😂
We have finally pushed past Hatteras and should be good for Hurricane season! We still are making our way up to the Chesapeake, but are thinking about avoiding the dismal swamp this year. This trip consisted of killing 40 something horse flies that were non stop attacking us. Makes me worried about going more inland and losing the breeze.
Wanted to test our engine out after an oil change and fuel filter swaps! Had plenty of wind to help get us there even faster. We did pop a fuse for our windlass when picking up the anchor due to a jam, ended up pulling it up by hand and swapping the fuse out under way. All is well now.
Lovely trip in the ICW to Oriental! Took a bit longer than I would have liked due to some currents that weren’t on the chart, but enjoyed the journey! Very different being up here than anything we’ve experienced so far, forests on both sides in small channels, opening up to nice wide rivers and bays. Hoping we can see more small towns on our trip and see what people like about the east coast!
A rolly overnight sail to Beaufort, ending our ocean sailing until the end of hurricane season! We will be taking the ICW the rest of the way to the Chesapeake! Does anyone have suggestions on places to stop?!? Heading towards Annapolis for the boat show, but would love to see some places along the way!
An uneventful motor sail where everything went just fine. Sails like this one really make me want to figure out getting a spinnaker so we can do more light wind sailing. Super excited to get into more of these smaller beach towns and see what the northeast is all about!
It is kind of wild that we went to a new country (the Bahamas) before we went to a new state, but finally making our way north! Overall sail went off without a hitch! We had enough wind to spend most of the time sailing, the weather held solid with the waves staying small, and we even had a group of dolphins swim with us for 5 minutes! Getting through the inlet with 3 knots of current coming out was brutal, but the Ft Johnson anchorage was wide open and easy enough to drop the hook in the dark. Finally a spot to take a bit of a breather and hang with some friends. Anyone have any recommendations!?!
