Pongo creek Oct. 31

We hope everyone on the east coast has weathered the storm and come through unharmed. Our thoughts have been with all of our family and friends north of us where Sandy hit harder than here. It has been windy and cold here. We feel fortunate that we didn’t see more than gusts of wind 35/40K. The only thing we watched for was chaffing on the anchor snubber. We changed the rope and continued to ride out the storm.

We came back to the marina yesterday afternoon. We will go up to the office to get this off so you know we are safe. We have to get the full enclosure back up and a few other things to get the boat ready to head out again.

Tomorrow we will be heading to the Oriental, NC area, get fuel and make final preparations for going off shore. We hope to be in the Beaufort, NC area Friday morning. Once through the last bridge we will anchor and I’ll hoist David up the mast to get the wind, light and antenna back up and working then head out for a passage. We hope to make it to Ponce inlet in Florida. It is a 3-4; day and night sail. Abe wish you were with us again we’ll miss the help.

While sitting on the hook and as cold as it was I did up some casseroles so we will have easy meals to warm up on the crossing.

Our plans may change depending on the wind and how fast we can go. We will be staying about 10/20 miles off shore so if the need arrives we can stop at several harbors along the way.