THE SAILING PADGETTS

We decided on Friday (Feb 8th), before the winds and storms that will be keeping us on the boat for a couple days start, we would take a...

If you were to look online for the definition of hunkering, you would see several. Here are a few you might run into: To squat down and...

On long ocean passages small crews set up a watch schedule which typically is something like 3 hour watches and 3 hour rests. With a...

Our journey here was rather drawn-out at times with long days of motoring in the ICW and at sea, cold rain, too many drawbridges to...

We left Oriental, NC on January 10th and have been moving south for about three weeks now (took 5 days off to fly back to Baltimore for a...

Our original plan, as many of you know, was to leave NC in Mid-November, enter the Atlantic Ocean At Beaufort Inlet, head east to get...

It's been a long time since Hurricane Florence had her way with our boat in New Bern NC. She made landfall in NC on September 14, 2018. ...

We stopped in Alligator River Marina for the night on the 12th. It was very hot and humid again and we were looking forward to plugging...

We're in Solomons MD waiting for a part for our propeller shaft coupling. We do, however, have pretty good internet, so I'll post some...

Wed June 27 2018 We spent a recent night in a beautiful and very protected anchorage, Shaw Bay, off the Wye River on the Eastern Shore of...