I didn’t get digital until 2003. Most of my early sailing is on various film and slides with various cameras that had to be scanned in to get digital copies which you see here. This ‘bucket’ is all areas of sailing and other locations on film except those that follow in ‘Photo Stories’ of long distance deep ocean sailing. If you were here….please write me. Contact above.
Be sure to follow to the bottom panel: Cape Lookout Rendevous. The “Cape” has always been a sailor’s first and easiest destination. Sailing out of Beaufort Inlet (Morehead City) it’s a short sail—about 10 miles—ESE to reach Lookout Bight aka “The Hook”. Good anchorage found on the western side and access to the Lighthouse on the eastern side.
Fog over Sausolito, Ca
Hejira seen by another photographer as she glides north up the Cape Fear river to home.
The 65' slip, room for Lyra to visit, a john boat, my bicycle, and a 'yard'
I get to steer a 55' ketch in San Diego
Same designer: Carl Alberg. Left is Hejira 1984, right is a coastal cutter 1939.
Morehead City stop
Doing wood
Visiting a 'live-aboard' in Carolina Beach
Morning anchorage empties as sailing "wannabes" go south. That's what they call 'snow birding'
Schooling while traveling
Georgetown, SC...Winyah Bay
Chores in beautiful places
Harbor Town, Hilton Head
Waterway to St. Augustine. I stayed with her for days. A beautiful thing all the way.
Ship Galley
Sausalito, Ca fog rolling over Golden Gate Park. Used a disposable Fujifilm camera
The Cape Lookout ‘rendevous’….actually photo composition represents more than one visit. There was a notable weekend about 1982 when Pell Kennedy sailed sloop “Dare” from Oriental, NC on the Neuse River down Adams Creek to Morehead, out the Beaufort Inlet (Atlantic) and met me. I was sailing “Hejira” (my first 30 foot cutter) from Wrightsville Beach up the Atlantic (to the Northeast) about 70 miles where we met at sea along the route into Lookout Bight. The photos following document the meeting….first at sea with ‘Dare’ trailing and then at anchor right against the beach on the eastern side of the bight. Enjoy the scenery! It is uninhabited and accessible only by water (your own boat or ferry from Harker’s Island).
'Dare' rendevous with 'Hejira' outside of Beaufort Inlet
West bound to Cape Lookout
Cape Lookout light...no mistake, this is not Diamond Shoal, Cape Hatteras. I like this location for its remoteness.
Dare (left) and Hejira at the bight.
Lynn Michael....helping along as crew.
"The Hook" looking west. Lighthouse in foreground.
Dare at sea on the rendevous.
Roger...port tack Yankee, Stays'l, and Main.