Another Jordi Post
After 3o hours at sea we arrived safely in St Augustine, FL at 8am this morning, which meant it was time for me to go to bed after being on watch. Once we headed to shore John and I went for a run around America’s oldest city and I realized how much I […]

[Read more →]

Thursday
2315 - Its go time in t-minus 2 hours for our 0100 departure from the floating dock in Savannah (the currents that will carry us down the river our most favorable for the 6 hours starting at midnight) and back into blue water for our safe crossing (”knock on […]

[Read more →]

Christmas and holiday spirit abounds this Thurday AM here at the Savannah Coffee Roasters Cafe listening to holiday tunes in the background with a stomach ache…the direct result of over indulgence from the Savannah Candy Shop last night. Crawfish, crabcakes, oysters at Bernie’s on River Street topped by listening to these two […]

[Read more →]

By Jordi St. John
South Carolinia is just what team Audax needed! Warm weather, a first swim, porpoises swimming along with the boat, and visiting friends. Georgia and her husband Brian were great dinner hosts while we were in Charleston and it is always fun catching up with Small Pointers out side of Small Point, Maine!
On […]

[Read more →]

Splash!

With warm weather comes our first swim!!
Monday
1425 –and also cometh the bugs, no Maine crazed mosquitos, but those pesky little “no see ums” and if not for temps in the 70’s, snow in Maine and the ability to have such a wonderful experience complain we shall not. A […]

[Read more →]

“What you do you choose to do” and when the temperature cracks 70, the sun is shining and the seas are calm you may sometimes get a hairy chested, shirtless man, sipping semi-burnt percolator derived coffee  at the helm of a sailboat! I figure with all the body hair is […]

[Read more →]

At least till 10 today

Also take a look at this sweet site as well www.riverearth.com another crazy around the world sailor who actually met Phil and Amy from World Voyagers on their respective travels.
Today we say goodbye to Oriental, sitting here in the Bean, shooting the sh$! with the locals, […]

[Read more →]

Tuesday
1940 – Belhaven, oh beautiful Belhaven, population 1400 and nestled up Pantego Creek just off the Pungo River. Freaking shallow water everywhere!!!!! After attempting to land on a dock, running aground and then getting pinned against pilons thus followed by banging the zodiac motor on the river bed as the food got soaked […]

[Read more →]

Sunday
1214 - You know someone is out of place in Norfolk when you are caught running down the street, in shorts, on December 1st, passing an outdoors skating arena, with an alternator belt grasped in the one hand, camera in the other! Transition to a bald eagle atop a tree, a deer […]

[Read more →]

By Jordi
Wow the Intra Coastal Waterway is quiet the expericnce! Shallow, narrow, murkey, then wide open through huge sounds but only about 15 feet of water in the channel and 5 to 10 feet outside it. Being a New England boater it is wierd sailing or should I say motoring along with tons of water […]

[Read more →]