The Crews


First, thanks to all of the crews that got Incommunigato from Maine to Florida.

Here they are:

Bob and Karen
Crew #1, Bob Sowden and Karen Knockel. It would have been tough to have a better lead off crew.  Understood the situation with early shake down problems. Meanwhile, I learned many sailing lessons.  Here we ponder our position.  Just where are we?  

This crew got me from the factory to Block Island with adventures in Monhegan Island, Rockland and points south.
Yellow Kitten
Crew # 1.5.  Donna Ross joined crew #1 in route.  The crew relaxs here at the Yellow Kitten saloon in Block Island.

Thanks for the tip on the Yellow Kitten Rick.  
Knot Miester  
John Amadon joins up in Block Island.  After a serious brush failure, the knot miester John fixes up the brush. Note the cord wrapped around the handle. Is that class or what.

Note, it started to come apart in Georgia.
Sue on the look out
Sue joined up at Block Island too.  Here she is checking out the New York sky line as we approach the Throgs Neck bridge.
Jeff surfs
Jeff McGinn took over in Annapolis. Weather on Chesepeake Bay was "interesting".  We had 20 to 25 kts every day.  Fortunately, Jeff is a surfer. Once we got the wind at our back, Jeff got Incommunigato surfing.

With Jeff on board, the anchoring scenario changed. His view, "Yea, it's only three feet deep in there. But hey, why did you buy a cat?"
Mark Ponders Smoke
Mark met me in the Atalanta airport as I was on the way back from Brian's wedding.  We headed out down the ICW from Norfolk.  Between narrow channels in the ICW and wind that was always from the desired course, I think Mark only got to sail for about 20 minutes.  That was when we got close to a storm and caught some local breeze from the storm.

Mark the Jynx Typical Wind Direction


Here Mark is looking at what we believed to be a fire.  Well it was a fire of sorts.  This turned out to be a Navy firing exercise.  Lesson learned, pay attention when the chart says stay out of this area, it's a firing range.

Erick at the Wheel
Ericka joined Mark and I in Beurfort NC.

Ericka wanted to go out into the Ocean so we did that at Cape Fear. Bad Move. The weather was not equal to the forcast and we had plenty of weather.

Opposite in calmer water leaving Chareston before the crack of dawn.
Alix Crew
Alix and Charitty joined Ericka and I in Charleston SC.

Hey Ericka, are you sure those soles are non-marking?
Chuck Baird
Chuck Baird rescued me in Savanagh and helped bring the boat as far as St. Augustine.  This included encounters with storms and a submarine that chased us out of the channel.
Kathy nancy
Last crew, Kathy Turner and Nancy Cox.  They joined up in St. Augustine and continued to the Waterline Marina in sunny Melbourne Florida.

Kathy and Nancy liked the crew shirts.  But ladies, you should wear something in addition to the shirts.

   

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