January 20, 2025

0600 Crew awake before dawn to brisk north winds and subfreezing temperatures.

0700 Pisces pulls anchor and departs Carolina Beach, bound for Calabash, NC.

0800 Capt OhNo on watch, iPad dies due to battery issues and cold weather, at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. Popcorn brings OhNo the paper charts which Capt OhNo uses to guide the boat.

0930 Pisces passes in close quarters with a giant container ship.

1000 Pisces makes a fuel and water stop at South Port

1400 Pisces arrives at Ocean Isle Marina. Swabs disembarks with about half of her belongings for shore leave at her parents house in Little River, SC.

1430 Capt OhNo and Popcorn bring Pisces to anchor in Calabash Creek.

1500 Capt OhNo and Popcorn launch LBP and explore the waterfront at Calabash. They speak to Patrick, a very kind manager for Oyster Rock, who says they are allowed to dock LBP on the Oyster Rock dock!

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.*