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Boating Adventures with Charles and Kay Mortimer
Join us on the Adagio as we travel The Great Loop - a 6,000-mile nautical journey around the eastern third of the United States. Â
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Charles and Kay Mortimer's Boating Adventures on The Great Loop
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
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Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Kay
Apr 28, 20221 min read
Walking by Faith, Not by Sight
This favorite scripture came to mind as Adagio crossed the Chesapeake Bay from Solomon's Island on the southern tip of Maryland's western...
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Kay
Apr 23, 20221 min read
Happily Reunited in Washington, DC
Adagio's Potomac excursion culminated at the Capital Yacht Club on the Wharf in Washington, DC near the Smithsonian Museums, Capitol...
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Kay
Apr 23, 20221 min read
Mount Vernon
Our side trip up the Potomac continued with an early morning stop at Mount Vernon before the cruise ships and tourists arrived. The...
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Kay
Apr 18, 20221 min read
Happy Easter!
We attended Easter services at historic Pohick Church in Lorton, VA, just south of Mount Vernon, George Washington's home. Built in...
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Kay
Apr 15, 20221 min read
Norfolk and Yorktown
Adagio emerged from the Dismal Swamp Canal for an overnight in Norfolk, Virginia, where Charles toured the USS Wisconsin docked just...
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Kay
Apr 12, 20222 min read
The Great Dismal Swamp
They made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true; And she’s gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where, all night...
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Kay
Apr 9, 20221 min read
The Lost Colony of Virginia
In 1584, Queen Elizabeth granted Sir Walter Raleigh permission to explore and take possession of the land the English called "Virginia,"...
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Kay
Apr 9, 20222 min read
Graveyard of the Atlantic
Adagio took a side trip to North Carolina's Outer Banks, docking in Manteo on Roanoke Island for two nights. We had never been to "the...
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Kay
Apr 8, 20222 min read
Twelve Seconds That Changed History
As a sleeping child, I used to dream of soaring like a bird over the wide, gently sloping yard at our family's home in Oklahoma. The...
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Kay
Apr 6, 20221 min read
Beaufort to Belhaven and Beyond
From historic Beaufort (pronounced BO-FORT), the third oldest town in North Carolina, Adagio sailed northward for 76 miles through...
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Kay
Apr 6, 20221 min read
Running Against the Wind
Beaufort, NC Marina After overnight thunderstorms rocked Adagio to sleep in the Beaufort NC marina, we awoke to clearing skies and 25+...
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Kay
Apr 4, 20221 min read
Charleston Rendezvous
With passengers Cynthia and Hugh Parker still aboard, Charleston provided the perfect venue to see our Jackson choir director and South...
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Kay
Mar 27, 20221 min read
Hilton Head and Beaufort SC
Jackson friends Hugh and Cynthia Parker joined us from Savannah to Charleston with stops in Hilton Head and Beaufort (BEW-fort), South...
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Kay
Mar 24, 20221 min read
Savannah/Coastal Georgia Trivia Quiz
Forsythe Fountain, Savannah After cruising coastal Georgia's labyrinthine network of rivers, sounds, and inlets, Adagio docked on the...
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Kay
Mar 20, 20221 min read
Fly Me to the Moon
"We have dreamed big, ventured on wild seas, lost sight of the land a few times, and found stars to guide us on our journey." We loved...
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Kay
Mar 18, 20222 min read
Russians in St. Augustine
Adagio docked in St. Augustine yesterday (3/17) for a trolley tour of the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the US,...
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Kay
Mar 13, 20222 min read
Florida's Founding Father
Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon discovered Florida in 1513, but it was American industrialist Henry Flagler who created the foundation...
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Kay
Mar 13, 20221 min read
America's Venice
The "Venice of America" is more than just a sobriquet on Ft. Lauderdale's city seal. It's the perfect moniker for over 165 miles of...
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Kay
Mar 7, 20222 min read
Prop Shaft Blues
We give thanks for safe passage across the Gulf Stream last Thursday, March 3rd. The seas were too rough to get to Ft. Lauderdale so we...
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Kay
Mar 2, 20222 min read
Weather Windows
Yesterday Adagio cruised 98 miles across the Great Bahama Bank from Chub Cay to Bimini. Most of the Bank is remarkably shallow (10 to 15...
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