Almost Famous: Windward at the Town Dock

This was pretty cool.  Through an unscripted series of events, met Keith Smith and Bernie Harberts of Oriental's TownDock.net, and ended up interviewed by Bernie for the Shipping News.   Bernie's a jockey, boat builder, circumnavigator, mule driver, wagon boss and fundamentally cool guy. Check out his site at http://www.riverearth.com/, where you can read about his latest venture to Tasmania. 

Paved with good intentions

I guess these things are most engaging when actually updated from time to time.  I had a phenomenal time on the coast, but apart from photos at Windward Goes Coastal - OBX Fall 2010 have not done much to share the experience.  One more thing to add to the list of things that competes with time for sailing.

Cockpit padeyes and batteries

Boy, this makes sailing sound hellishly fun.  Got the cockpit padeyes installed -- two good, solid points to clip tethers to -- and house battery #1 is in the midst of equalization.  Just need to finish the spare tiller, reinstall primary water and fuel tanks, then cleanup and get set to trailer her to the coast.  Well, plus all the other crap I need to do next week before I get to actually embark.

Going Coastal: Windward's 4th annual OBX Outing

Once again Windward will go coastal in October, this time for  two weeks and change.  Plans and destinations are tentative and largely weather dependent, but include Oriental, Turnagain Bay, possibly Elizabeth City, Manteo, Ocracoke, Cape Lookout, possibly Masonboro Inlet, Beaufort, and many points in between.  Some solo time, some family time and some time with my buddy and frequent fellow adventurer.  I so need this trip.

Still a slew of preparation remains, but apart from reinstalling the water tank, auxiliary fuel tank and the cockpit padeyes for harness tethers, most of it's noise-level.  Most of the cosmetic work is off radar for this trip, but that's unlikely to affect my enjoyment.