We've been slowly making our way north since our departure from Stuart, FL on the 30th of March. Some days we cruised for 40 or 50 miles. Some days we cruised 60 or 70 miles. Sometimes we took the day off. We cruised for 5 days with our good friends Rick, Deb & Izzy (M/V Broulee). One day we cruised for 87 miles with the help of a flood tide so that we could rendezvous with our good friends Joe & Ann on S/V Short Walk. Since reuniting with Short Walk on the 9th of April, we have been cruising with them. They have been taking side excursions to different towns to visit friends. We have been meeting some of our friends on the waterway. Just last night I went up to the pilothouse just before sunset and spotted M/V Epilogue, another Krogen 42, heading off for a different anchorage. They had not seen us because of the other boats that had anchored with us. We hailed them on the VHF radio and managed to catch up on some things. This morning Epilogue stopped by for a drive-by hello. We hadn't seen Phillip and Connie for almost 18 months and we managed to say hello and spend a few moments "together" albeit from 30 feet away as we each stayed on our respective boats.
If our planning pans out, remember Jello, Short Walk should catch up to us on Thursday morning in our current anchorage on the Alligator River. Our anchorage is on the south side of the Albemarle Sound. This body of water has always been our arch enemy because we do not have stabilizers which would prevent us from rolling from side to side. The Sound is oriented in a east west lay and with its shallow depth can provide for some very rough seas when the winds are strong. Big Run always handles best when she is very heavy so yesterday we topped off the fuel and fresh water tanks to give us a fighting chance.
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