As we approach the end of our stay in Fort Lauderdale, we celebrate the beauty of the place and friends we have made here
Renaissance
The Captain and the Seaman sailed the factory demonstrator Renaissance, an Amel 55, from Fort Lauderdale to Miami today.
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Who looks inside, awakens
––– Carl Jung
The Alférez in Fort Lauderdale. 20 January 2015. Nokia N9.
Like a fish out of the water
Peregrinus was hauled out and put on the hard this morning, via 88-ton crane, for regularly scheduled maintenance: antifouling paints, protective zincs, bow thruster, propeller, c-drive transmission. An existing thru-hull orifice will be resized in preparation for installation of ForwardScan.
It will be a week or so before the boat is back in the water.
Who looks outside, dreams.
———Carl Jung
The Alférez, dreaming.
Peregrinus is back in Palm Beach. 5 January 2015. iPhone 4S.
In l'île de Mai, for Christmastide
Jean Ribault originally named the island after the month of May as he landed on it in the third day of that month in 1562. The Franciscans who colonized it from 1573 called it Isla de Santa María. When Oglethorpe scouted it in 1735, he named it after George II's daughter, Amelia, and by this name is the isle known to this day.
Fernandina was founded on Amelia Island in 1811 under the Leyes de Indias of 1680 and named after Fernando VII, who at the time was an involuntary guest of Napoleon at the Château de Valençay.
The Seaman's nephews, sister and brother-in-law joined the crew for Christmas. Here the nephews take the Peregrinus kayak for a jaunt in the storied Fernandina riverfront.
27 December 2014. iPhone 6 Plus.
Hilton Head, Port Royal Sound
Port Royal Sound was named in 1562 by Jean Ribault, who founded a short-lived colony at the bequest of the French admiral Gaspard de Coligny. Port Royal Sound is thus the second oldest surviving French place-name in the U.S.
One of the shores of Port Royal Sound is Hilton Head island, so named after himself by William Hilton in 1663. Here we interrupt this little bird's nap as we disembark at Hudson's for happy hour.
12 December 2012. iPhone 4S.
Related: Port Royal, Nova Scotia
South of Myrtle Beach
Dolphins like to come to the bow of moving ships and ride the bow wave. These guys hanged around the bow of Peregrinus for a while as we were traveling to south to Charleston on November 29.
The garage
Unless the winds blow above about 30 miles per hour, this is how Peregrinus' tender, our Zodiac, gets parked at night, to prevent marine growth on its hull.
The Amel has a halyard hanging from the mizzen mast spreaders, and the halyard goes to an electric-powered winch, so that raising the dinghy is a matter of seconds.
Charleston, 6 December 2014. iPhone 4S.
Six flags over Fort Sumter
With Peregrinus anchored right in front of the garrison, the crew found the display of the six flags that flew over it quite interesting:
US flag with 33 stars (1860)
South Carolina state flag (1861)
Confederate States "Stars and Bars" (1861) with seven stars: SC, TX, FL, AL, GA, LA, MS.
Confederate States "Stainless Banner" (1863) with thirteen stars
US flag with 35 stars (1865) -The Northern states never subtracted about a dozen stars from their colors, which sums up their stance regarding the possibility of secession
The tallest flagpole features the current US flag with 50 states
6 December 2014. iPhone 4S.