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... s two crew members from Norfolk airport as the airport was much closer to our location than Hampton. He drove them out to Hampton along with picking up the fishing tackle that our crewmember (and fishing expert) Paul had prepared for Bob.

That evening our temporary crew moved aboard at Willoughby. The B&G electronics component arrived that same evening in the nick of time! Unfortunately, we had no time to install it ...

... bringing the beast with us. The marketers could appreciate our sponsorship decals we post all over the RV.
I was not too worried about Josh's first competition. He could have warmed up at the first two which should have taken place before the Dawn of the Shred. Hotline Surf and Skate moved their dates to November 14th, which we already have left town for that, and WRV's competition ...

... to see their home and their two girls (cocker spaniels) Misty and Breezy.

We left Carter Creek after fueling on October 4 to head for Mill Creek off the Great Wicomico. We had a nice spinnaker run out of the Rappahannock in west wind 10-15 kts. It was then a nice reach up to Mill Creek on the main and jib. We picked up a crab pot in the Great Wicomico River so Dave had a chance to go swimming to release it! Milll Creek proved beautiful as ...

... that road trip. I checked the oil, and left the last few days for us to say our goodbyes slowly as well. It took the edge off of saying our goodbyes, made it easier. Josh spent the last 3 sunny days before the competition skating at mt Trashmore. He felt good about his skating, and pushed his own limits.

Josh's friends from around town stopped by at Brandon's place where we spent the last 2 weeks of October hanging ...

... in. A few tuna and a wahoo thrown in made it a great day on the water.

I highly recommend deep sea fishing in Virginia Beach with Waterman Sportfishing. Next time you are in Virginia Beach you can find them at 757-753-3113. I believe they dock the boat at the Va Beach Fishing Center, 200 Winston Salem Ave., Virginia Beach VA 23451

... checkup performed and had filter dryers installed in the refrigeration lines for both the freezer and refrigerator. We would be setting the larger unit to act as our freezer which we wanted for more capacity.

During the summer, we noticed that the satellite phone wouldn’t turn on. Donna placed a phone call to a representative in Norfolk who identified the problem as a dead internal battery. Unfortunately, the batteries (which have a 6-7 year ...

... Bay on the Piankatank River arriving just before 4PM after a pleasant sail with partly sunny skies and N NW wind 12-18 kts. We spent the following day laid up in Fishing Bay due to stong NE winds and rain. Dave cleaned the props and barnacles off the hulls. We started the watermaker for the first time since it was “pickled” years ago by the prior owner. The quality of the water seemed good but we were ...

... to the internet and had no luck either. Finally I found one in Los Angeles and had it air freighted in. Two days later the heater was in. I was a grand poorer but at least we were ready to go.

It had been a fully week since we arrived and First Forty we fully provisioned and all systems were running. We were finally ready to shove off for New England.

Aside from all the work, we had a great time seeing old friends ...

... of living on a small vessel and running it for hundreds of miles for months at a time. I'll try to keep that up although as we get more and more used to doing this there is less and less of the bad and ugly. It has become very routine which is both good and bad. The good is that things work better, jobs get done faster and problems don’t seem as big. The bad is that one has to be careful about becoming complacent ...

... 9300 Fax 011-353 21 477 4173 info@tridenthotel.com Breakfast and dinner provided Bandon is 15 miles away. Pen Pal? 3 ...