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Voyage 3 - 2006 After a couple of sailing sabbaticals from IBM, including the initial trip in 1999-2000 from Texas to Maine and the Caribbean, and then a similar trip in 2003, Fred finally retired for good in 2006. Planning some longer trips, we did some equipment upgrades and a haulout, then headed north in July of that year. After a couple of days offshore in the Gulf Stream from Palm Beach, we made landfall at Wynah Bay in South Carolina, chased inland by a series of squalls and forecast for worse. Making our way up the ICW, we visited with Bob and Kay of Rima in New Bern, NC, then on to Norfolk, Virginia. Weather was still not great so we took a liesurely route to the Chesapeake Canal and through Delaware Bay and then offshore to Newport, RI, Provincetown Massachusetts and finally to Maine where we spent much of the summer hanging out at Mt. Desert Island and the islands around Penobscot Bay. As the weather turned colder, we headed south through New England, New York, New Jersey and were in the Chesepeake again in time for the Annapolis boat show in October, then returned to Florida through a series of ditch runs and offshore hops, arriving home November 8. The plan had us spend Thanksgiving and Christmas at home, then head down island in January, but engine problems over the latter part of the trip intervened and we decided to begin a series of repairs that ultimately led to repowering in 2008. See the project pages for a synopsis of that undertaking. Although we had made the trip north twice before, there are so many places to visit in 1500 miles of coastline that we had a lot of adventures in new places and learned some new things about old favorites. Some of the highlights included the more rugged trails in Acadia, marine museums in Bristol, RI, St. Michael's Maryland, and Solomon Islands Virginia, the Charleston Naval Museum, and our favorite Maine place for lobster - Boothbay.

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Florida to Maine 2006

Voyage 3 - 2006

After a couple of sailing sabbaticals from IBM, including the initial trip in 1999-2000 from Texas to Maine and the Caribbean, and then a similar trip in 2003, Fred finally retired for good in 2006. Planning some longer trips, we did some equipment upgrades and a haulout, then headed north in July of that year. After a couple of days offshore in the Gulf Stream from Palm Beach, we made landfall at Wynah Bay in South Carolina, chased inland by a series of squalls and forecast for worse. Making our way up the ICW, we visited with Bob and Kay of Rima in New Bern, NC, then on to Norfolk, Virginia. Weather was still not great so we took a liesurely route to the Chesapeake Canal and through Delaware Bay and then offshore to Newport, RI, Provincetown Massachusetts and finally to Maine where we spent much of the summer hanging out at Mt. Desert Island and the islands around Penobscot Bay.

As the weather turned colder, we headed south through New England, New York, New Jersey and were in the Chesepeake again in time for the Annapolis boat show in October, then returned to Florida through a series of ditch runs and offshore hops, arriving home November 8. The plan had us spend Thanksgiving and Christmas at home, then head down island in January, but engine problems over the latter part of the trip intervened and we decided to begin a series of repairs that ultimately led to repowering in 2008. See the project pages for a synopsis of that undertaking. Although we had made the trip north twice before, there are so many places to visit in 1500 miles of coastline that we had a lot of adventures in new places and learned some new things about old favorites. Some of the highlights included the more rugged trails in Acadia, marine museums in Bristol, RI, St. Michael's Maryland, and Solomon Islands Virginia, the Charleston Naval Museum, and our favorite Maine place for lobster - Boothbay.