Back from Pamlico Sound

gregcrawford · Post by **gregcrawford** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 4:38 pm

Okay, I actually got back from my sailing trip in October, but just tonight finished my blog detailing the trip. If you would like to read about it, you can find it here:

bluesimage.blogspot.com

astrorad · Post by **astrorad** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 7:09 pm

Greg....I really enjoyed reading your blog about your adventures in the Pamlico....Thanx for posting.

I guess living vicariously thru someones adventures will have to do for now...

EmergencyExit · Post by **EmergencyExit** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:43 am

I did too, salivated over every word and pic

EE

cs3079 · Post by **cs3079** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:13 pm

Nice story, pics and blog page too. A real picker upper!

lecker68 · Post by **lecker68** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:29 pm

Very good blog Greg It will help when we get down go and read a few blogs.

EmergencyExit · Post by **EmergencyExit** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:43 am

Greg, meant to ask if you had "Ride Captain Ride" playing on the speakers at any point in your trip ?

CaptainScott · Post by **CaptainScott** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:02 am

Great read Greg! Thanks for sharing!

A note about them squeeky boards.
GEt one of those cheap emergency white candles and use it to wax the edges of the boards! Works great for a season!

Just rub the candle up and down the edges where they squeek!

Scott

gregcrawford · Post by **gregcrawford** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:21 pm

Thanks for all the kind comments, guys. I know prior to the trip I read everything I could find on the web about sailing Pamlico Sound and just couldn't get enough to satisfy me. I thought anything written about it, even as poorly as I write, might be helpful to someone contemplating a similar trip.
I got started on this by reading a guy's story about sailing from Ocracoke in a 14 foot sailboat, intending to sail around a little and then return to his truck and trailer. Unfortunately, his jib ripped, he couldn't go to weather, and ended up sailing all the way to the other side of the sound, at night, in big waves, sleeping on the boat, and getting eaten up by bugs and stinging mud. It's called "Crossing Pamlico Sound-The Hard Way", and I heartily recommend everyone read it. You can find it with a Google search.

EE, I did play "Ride, Captain, Ride"! After all, I DO have a six pack license!

gregcrawford · Post by **gregcrawford** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:23 pm

Captain Scott: I did think about wax, as I was laying there at 2 in the morning listening to the boards squeak...

I just should have thought about it sooner!

EmergencyExit · Post by **EmergencyExit** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:41 pm

gregcrawford wrote:EE, I did play "Ride, Captain, Ride"! After all, I DO have a six pack license!

Only a guy of my vintage could tie that song to your C22, huh ?? Even better can still play it on on the equally old guitar, albeit a tad slower than long ago.. !

Looking forward to my first outings to the Mississippi Barrier Islands this spring !!

mcrandall · Post by **mcrandall** » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:29 pm

Thanks Greg! Really! Thanks!! Such a joy for a novice as myself to read a true story of a trip. I am SO looking forward to getting into adventures of my own, but I have to live vicariously through stories told by you and others. Thanks for taking the time and effort to document and share this with the rest of us. May not seem like a lot to the well-seasoned lot in the group, but I cannot think of the words to adiquately express how much I enjoyed sharing your trip with you on these pages!

Just "Thank-you!"

gregcrawford · Post by **gregcrawford** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:39 pm

Thank you for the kind words. Be sure to google the other story and read it. I've read it several times.

mcrandall · Post by **mcrandall** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:23 pm

I did, Greg. Now I daydream too often about making my own small trips here in my Lake Michigan waters. Maybe a trip north, pulling in to various lakes for anchorage and spend the night before heading on or back home. Man, looking forward to that!!