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After a week stay at Waterside Marina and a great rendezvous we we said goodbye to Arty and headed north up the Elizabeth River passing the Norfolk Naval Station to enter the Chesapeake Bay. Our destination is Deltaville, VA where we will be staying at the Regatta Point Yachting Center. Continue Reading

Today is our first lock. There were several sail boats with us waiting on the 1st lock of our Loop. The Great Bridge Lock was within view of our dock so we but we had to wait for the Battlefield Bridge to open at 0800. We entered the lock with Continue Reading

After a good nights sleep at Coinjock we headed towards Chesapeake City, VA joined by ” We Got This” crossing the North Landing River to the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. It was a short day because we were a day early for check in and at Norfolk so we were Continue Reading

After a windy night all the Loopers in Alligator Marina had a morning meeting about crossing the Albemarle. Alligator Marina did not have a lot to offer but it was a refuge from the strong wind and waves of the sound. We decided along with Bruce on “We Got This” Continue Reading

We stayed one day at Bellhaven and decided to head east down the Pundo River then the Pungo River Alligator River Canal. It was still a little windy so we prepped for a choppy day with the wind off the bow. Today we had “We Got This” as a buddy Continue Reading

We woke up early to head north to our next dockage at Bellhaven Marina. The wind was strong out of the north right off our bow so we had basically the same choppy run as yesterday. We entered the Goose Creek and made it to the Pamlico River which was Continue Reading

After a great stay in Beaufort, NC its time to move on. Our goal was to get to an anchorage near Goose Creek, NC but with some weather conditions and traffic we had to adjust. We had to move the boat for a pump out and got going early knowing Continue Reading

We got up early today as we had a long 65 mile run to Beaufort, NC and we expected lots of sunday boat and jetski traffic. We headed out to the ICW following my cookies from yesterday’s entrance. The water was calm the sun was shining and the boat traffic Continue Reading

Well it’s time for day 2. We had a great night’s sleep and got up early to ride the incoming tide up the Cape Fear River. We headed north with a pleasurable ride in a swift current turning right to Snows Cut. Snows Cut which continues the ICW on the Continue Reading

Well it finally happened. After years of talking about it, describing and explaining it to family and friends, we have started our adventure on America’s Great Loop. But before we talk about day one we have to go back about 17 years to the year 2006 when I worked at Continue Reading