12-12-12- Just spent a week in NC getting the boat set up. It was a busy week of putting up sails and canvas and getting the boat ready to travel. Lookin' good!  CrossRoads is a 1985 Irwin38.  That means she is 38 ft. long and a little over 12 ft. wide.  The fact that she is over 25 years old means we sail an antique boat!  But she has been well-cared for and will stand us well as we travel.  She weighs in at 10 tons, but I am sure is more than that right now all loaded up for the journey ahead. She is 54 and 1/2 ft. tall and draws 4 and a 1/2 ft. of water.  Those two numbers set a limit on where we can go but we still can travel most places without problems.(Most ICW bridges are 55ft. or taller.) 

We keep our boat at Northwest Creek Marina in New Bern, NC. It is by far the best marina on the east coast and a very safe hurricane hole. It is the starting place for what will be our 2400 mile journey.  january 4th of 2013 is the shove off day...just a few weeks away!