And we're safely tucked in for the night at the Westland Marina in Titusville. We set sail from Boston on 40 degree weather on Friday, Nov 12 (never leave on a Friday - bad luck) and we pulled into Titusville on Sunday, November 21. The total open ocean time was 7 nights. Mass Bay and Pamlico Sound, NC was another 2 nights. This was the first open ocean sailing for Linda and John Fraine and they were absolute champs! Everyone kept to their shifts and John made some great and timely course changes when we were battling the Gulf Stream. Now that we're here, Jenée and I will get some clean up work completed before spending time with our sailing friends, Charlie and Saundra Gray and land based friends Martha and Carl Williams. Then we'll pull Jungle for a much needed bottom paint job. Jungle will remain "on -the-hard" until we return from California in late January. Of course that's after my 3 month check up at the Boston University Medical Center.
Back to the Inner Coastal Bridges. The fixed bridges are set at 65 feet - Jungle was designed with a mast that stands 62 feet off the water - phew !!!
And on this same evening, beautiful moonshots. This one was taken at 4 AM on my watch.
Ahh, more beautiful sunsets once we are out to sea.
Here is a bridge view coming into the Oregon Inlet.
Here is another view of our roller coaster ride into the Oregon Inlet in North Carolina. We entered the Inner Coastal and spent two nights before heading back out sea for a 4 night sail to Florida. 
I wanted to show off a little technology - this is a screen shot from Jungle's Furuno GPS system. The one we have is a bit older technology but it works very well so we decided to make it work versus going for the "latest and greatest" new toy. Here we see the tracking from Boston down to North Carolina. - approx 600 nautical miles. The yellow dots are waypoints or target destinations on the map. You can see one yellow dot at the 76 degree waypoint where we changed course and decided to keep going on to NC since the weather was so good.
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Hey Jim,
In looking at the pic of the nav. plotter it looks like there is quite a large offset around Cape Cod! When you get back to Jungle you should make sure that the position is shown correctly on the electronic chart. You may need to do a manual offset like I did going down the Mexican coast.
Cheers! and all the best to you guys for the Holidays!
~Kai
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