A blog about exploring North America in a Camper Van and a Sailboat.
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Fast Forward
New, to us, Pleasure-Way Plateau-TS After taking a ten year hiatus to return to the working world, life has allowed us to resume full-time adventuring. The “vessel” this time is a van. Instead of sailing vessel, sv now stands for sprinter van, so we get to keep the name svIntuition. Beth looks at home in…
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Welcome to the Adventure
Welcome to the record of our year-long sailing adventure. We took off from North Carolina in June of 2006 where we explored the East Coast of the US and the Islands of the Bahamas until June of 2007. We’re back at work and school now and missing the life of new vistas and new friends.…
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Back in Durham
Intuition Log – 17 June Thursday morning, 07 June, we were up to meet Pete Waterson at 0730 who stopped by to take our Raymarine autopilot head back for warranty service. It was good of him to stop by on short notice. After spending the day organizing and cleaning the boat and packing the Honda,…
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School’s Out
Intuition Log – 06 June Noah worked hard Monday and Tuesday to finish his reviews and complete his final tests. Tuesday morning he completed the last exam! He built a fort in the salon out of sheets while we graded his exams. We’re happy to report that he did very well on all his tests.…
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Hampstead to Morehead City, NC
Harbour Village, here in Hampstead, had very nice facilities and understood that cruiser’s want to get up and go. The dockmaster came back last night after hours to let us and another boat pay for the night so we could get going early on Saturday. Casting off at 0628 we were only a few minutes…
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Back at NW Creek
We awoke at Morehead City Yacht Basin to clearing skies and light winds. This was a contrast to the 30 kts of wind with 46 knot gusts that blew through last night. The only wind damage was to some of the stitching on the Bimini. Since we were out of cereal and we didn’t play…