Cape Hatteras: A Sailor's Worst Nightmare

We flew directly from Europe to Norfolk to ready While One for Season 2.

We learned a lot from last year and spent the better part of July and these handful of days prior to heading south, provisioning and doing maintenance on While One.

In this Episode is a How To change the engine and transmission oil on a Honda, 15 H.P. engine. There is also a How To on ascending the mast to fix a problem while trying to raise our headsail.

It's a lot of hard work.

We also successfully completed sailing around Cape Hatteras for the first time as a couple, without the assistance of a captain and his first mate. This trip was cause for much deliberation. We constantly watched our forecast models on PredictWind, read Chris Parker's forecasts and the National Hurricane Center and made our own interpretations.

Our current insurance policy requires us not to navigate south of Cape Hatteras from July thru October. The weather was shaping up for a perfect rounding...but doing so would result in us being south of Hatteras before November. We reached out to the insurance agent on Thursday, requesting permission...it took them practically a week to give us a written endorsement and by that time, we had already made the trip. Suffice it to say, it was a good decision. The weather was perfect but I suspect a storm could have developed in the GOMEX or Atlantic.

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