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<\/a><\/p>\nAnd here we are just last week at Lockwoods Folley Inlet…not much worse for wear!: Initially we had intended to cruise down the eastern Caribbean island chain for our second year, but after cruising the central and northern Bahamas, we wanted to go back and cruise down the southern chain of keys. We have sailed several times in the Virgin Islands, and after being in the Bahamas, we are not sure it is worth going further. That being said…I think Cuba will be our target for the year following this one. We want to check it out before the rest of the world screws it up. <\/p>\n Thanks for following us via this blog. I am amazed at how many people are reading it…never expected it. I still get a load of crap for not keeping it up as often as I used to. Stay tuned. Once we get moving again I’ll have more to share.<\/p>\n So far this week we got the secondary anchor locker cleaned out and the fuel filters cleaned\/changed. We also redid the stitching in the sacrificial leach of our genoa (front sail), which wasn’t even on the official list of stuff to do. It was a pain in the ass, but we got it done! Thanks to our friends John and Mary Ann for letting us use their truck and driveway, it made it so much easier!: 9\/14\/15 Southport NC Posted by Bill Well today marks one year since we left our home dock and started cruising full time. Time does fly when your having fun! So far it has been the adventure of a life time. When we left we had a general goal to make it to Florida and maybe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icw-intracoastal-waterway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ILlB-eI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nWe also got all of the stuff ordered that we needed for the boat to get the other projects done. Just a few more weeks!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"