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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.
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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.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

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...

Kay

Apr 28, 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...

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...

Kay

Apr 23, 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...

Kay

Apr 18, 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...

Kay

Apr 15, 20221 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...

Kay

Apr 12, 20222 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,"...

Kay

Apr 9, 20221 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...

Kay

Apr 9, 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...

Kay

Apr 8, 20222 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...

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+...

Kay

Apr 6, 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...

Kay

Apr 4, 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...

Kay

Mar 27, 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...

Kay

Mar 24, 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...

Kay

Mar 20, 20221 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,...

Kay

Mar 18, 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...

Kay

Mar 13, 20222 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...

Kay

Mar 13, 20221 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...

Kay

Mar 7, 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...

Kay

Mar 2, 20222 min read