I sailed to Bald Head Island on friday to go to the Bald Head Island regatta.. Hans came as crew… we were supposed to leave on thursday but the port pushpit wasn’t repaired like it was supposed to be and we ended up waiting till 2 pm on friday to get it installed and leave… at the time I was tempted to just go without it but now I am glad we didn’t. We had some really extreme weather and sailing on saturday and having working life lines and port push pit were a life saver… litterally…
The sail up there on friday was a beautifull one… but long.. we left at about 2pm and didn’t get to the Cape Fear River Inlet till about 10:00… actaully getting inside took about anothe 30 to 40 minutes… it was dark with no moon… GPS comes in handy.. not to mention seeing the lights on the channel markers. The combination of the two made it a fairly easy time getting in through the inlet… The sea state was also very calm for the inlet.
After dropping Hans off at south port I motored back to the bald head Island Marina and carefully found my slip and tied up… this was about midnight… a quick shower at the marina and I had a very nice nights sleep on the boat.
I only took a few pictures all weekend.. most if not all were on the sail down with Hans…
Here are some of those.
Love your pics and accounts of sailing. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the nice words 🙂 I use the weblog for my log book and to track what I have done on the boat…… not to mention other stuff.. I even have part of a book Ive worked on posted (on and off for about 14 years.. mostly off 🙂