It was the captain’s weekly day off and the crew’s social director had already made plans for a day outing in nearby Smithfield, Virginia. We’d passed through this charming little town on our way to Jamestown last Spring, but hadn’t stopped. This time we planned to give Smithfield a bit more attention.
Read MoreBelieve it or not, though crossing the South Pacific seems idyllic, it has its good days and its bad. The weather can be unpredictable with local squalls, big wind bursts and heavy downpours. Our ~600nm sail from Bora Bora to Penrhyn, the northernmost of the Cook Islands, was bumpy, but fast.
Read MoreWhere the heck is the Green Swamp Preserve? Is it far? Are there really lots of carnivorous plants there? What else is there to do around there? After all, we’re pretty close to the North Carolina border, maybe this is a day-off activity for the captain and me.
Read MoreHi there and welcome to Just A Little Further!
We are David and Marcie Lynn and we've lived aboard our Liberty 458 cutter-rigged sailboat since 2000.
What began as an urge to travel slowly and economically at our own pace ended up an adventure of a lifetime.
Well, here we are ... nearly 90,000 miles under the keel, 5 continents, 5 Great Southern Capes, 36 countries and almost two decades later, still taking one passage at a time and going just a little further.
