Sunday, May 22, 2016

New Bern, Blackbeard Sailing Club, Day 2

Linda starts going through our mail and we do not find any of the many checks that BoatUS was suppose to have sent us. We call Rose and the next day she opens what she thought was nagging BoatUS magazine subscriptions and finds all our checks. They can wait until we get home in mid-June.
Morning at Blackbeard
I also start setting up our new TV antenna. I am very surprised that we pull in 42 channels, New Bern is not that big. Of course many are duplicate PBS or Home Shopping network channels, but enough to channel surf like we are home on cable TV.

Mark and Karen invited us to their home for lunch, they also live in Fairfield Harbor, where most of New Bern sailors we know live. Their house is on a creek and their boat “Sea vu Play” is docked out in their backyard. Now that is cool. Must be nice to work on and load the boat from your house, not too mention having an extra guest room when you need it. Very nice house and location, almost has me thinking of giving up on Vermont and skiing and moving to North Carolina. I'm sure I would feel different in the summer.

We have a very nice lunch and play cards out on Mark & Karen's enclosed windowed porch. Linda has been getting her card game playing fix here in New Bern. Mark and I geek out on installing video server software so they can watch movies on TV via WIFI directly from the hard drive of their computers without running around with USB sticks. Mark and I also play around with a boat WIFI radio and router system that his son put together for him. I was quite impressed with the documentation and hardware, his son who works in IT, put together for him. Linda and Karen headed back to Blackbeard while Mark and I played with computer stuff.

Sunday Potluck dinner at Blackbeard Sailing Club
Mark and I head over to Blackbeard when we are done for a potluck cookout with other members of Blackbeard, including Bill and Sandy. Everyone brings a side to share and whatever they want to cook. Unfortunately we did not have the time to catch up with Lisa & Craig “Second Spree”, who we snorkeled with in the Exumas and Dave & Polly “Illusions”, who rescued our run away dinghy at Black Point.

Bill and Sandy a rather tired after having a string of guests so they head home. We are hoping to see them in Vermont this summer.

Mark and Karen come back to the boat and we play Hand & Foot.





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