January 15, 2025
1000 Pisces departs Beaufort, North Carolina and waves farewell to our new forever friends on S/V Angelfish. They listen to Mumford and Sons “Going Back to Kansas City” but change the words to “Going Back to Morehead City” and cruise full speed under the Atlantic Beach Bridge because, armed with our new air draft information, we are not afraid anymore!
1400 Pisces arrives at Swansboro and take on fuel and water at Caspers Marina. Pisces anchors out in the wide open space near the low bridge. Popcorn recounts being anchored in exactly the same spot 9 years ago with Capt OhNo on their 27’ boat Soultide.
1500 Crew drops LBP dinghy for Capt OhNo and Popcorn to do further improvements on “Chaffety Safety”.
1530 Crew takes the dinghy into town free dock and explore the waterfront area, all the while listening to Popcorn go, “I remember this!” or “I remember that!”
1630 Crew return to Pisces during a beautiful sunset and a mini rainbow!
1730 Pizza for Capt OhNo and quesadilla party for Swabs and Popcorn
1800 Capt OhNo hails the Coast Guard to inquire about the status of Onslow Swing Bridge, which they will encounter the following day and is currently under construction. Conclusive information on when this bridge will open is hard to find but with diligent research and info from Angelfish, the crew discovers the bridge will open at 12 noon.
We boarded Pisces The Catamaran on December 24, 2024 and pointed her south in a part shakedown, part healing and grieving trip. Notes are pulled from our handwritten, on board log book. Crew are:
Captain Clay (captain and owner of Sail & Surf Adventures, married to Ally); call sign Captain OhNo
First Mate Ally (head chef & lead investigator of all maritime mysteries, married to Clay); call sign Popcorn
Second Mate Carly (Ally’s mom, Clay’s mother-in-law, one-woman cleaning crew of Pisces); call sign Lieutenant Swabs
Dahlia (the cutest ship cat); call sign DD
*there is a very important and traumatic and magical process of getting Pisces that we are working on sharing here. We figured if we waited to start updating until we figured out those words though, we might never start updating at all. Know that there was a before and an after and this trip is part of our grieving process for our brother/son/friend Jacob.*