January 16, 2025
0800 Capt OhNo and Swabs dinghy over to land for showers and NY style bagels.
0830 LBP returns to Pisces for Bagelfest 2025 and Banana Blueberry Bread made by Chef Popcorn.
0939 Pisces departs Swansboro, NC heading south for Mile Hammock Bay
0958 Dolphin sighting!
1030 Pisces pass through Camp Lejeune and hearing explosions and firing and all kind of chaos.
1200 Pisces passes through Onslow Swing bridge (the new construction and the old one).
1300 Pisces anchors at Mile Hammock Bay beside a sailboat and motor vessel (New World). Popcorn watches military diving exercises with binoculars. Swabs cleans the windows.
1750 Popcorn takes first steaming hot shower on Pisces!!!
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.*