Day One Done!

Chris Hannant

Pretty close to perfect sailing down the Pamlico for the first leg of our 3rd season cruising South! My mom even came along to help us out with Talon for the first couple days which is sweet. Left the dock in 30kn gusts but as we motored our way through the channels toward open water it relaxed. Started off with just the jib as it was still pretty gusty and we were almost DDW. Once we were seeing under 15kn consistently we swapped the jib for the code 0 and then when things really started to settle we got some wing on wing action for a few hours! Eventually we weren’t deep enough for wing on wing, but still too deep for the main, so I caved and fired up the engines to motorsail the final few hours and will happily gain an extra 2 hours of sleep for the sacrifice. Pushed on through the dark and thanks to some helpful info from our buddy boat @SV_Chief and @camilledegabrielle we anchored smoothly in Adams Creek. Talon was an absolute gem all day…super impressed especially considering he’s basically a different human than he was a year ago. Slept through a hard right turn with swell suddenly on the beam and even through the anchor dropping. Legend. Janie was able to finish organizing our stores and my mom got to spend the day on the water with her favorite person (no longer me 😂) Wild to think this is just day one and can’t even imagine what other adventures we’ll have this season!

Boat & Crew

Cloud II

Lagoon, 40

Janie Munsey

First Mate

Talon

Child, Male

Chris Hannant

Owner