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02-18-2016, 01:11 PM
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Senior Member
City: Beaufort, NC
Vessel Name: Previous owner GB 42 Classic
Vessel Model: Currently running a 23' CC
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 210
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MI>NC Learning the Coast
Making the leap to live aboard lifestyle. We are gathering as much info as we can about the ups and downs of living aboard a boat. Our search is for a GB Classic 42 and we are narrowing the field at this time. We have a ton of questions about insurance, residency, etc. and look forward to browsing the forums for anything we can learn.
Deep channels and round docks to you all.
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02-18-2016, 01:19 PM
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Guru
City: Atlantic Highlands, NJ
Vessel Name: Moana Huaka'i
Vessel Model: Selene 53
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 816
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Welcome to the forum! Definitely lots of folks here happy to talk trawlers anytime.
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02-18-2016, 02:17 PM
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Guru
City: Cary, NC
Vessel Name: Skinny Dippin'
Vessel Model: Navigator 4200 Classic
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 5,841
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Bess and I are in Cary and would love to get together with you. While we aren't live aboards, we have know a few and know the NC waters pretty well. Like to talk about boating a bit too. Send us a PM, we can get together at Fortnight Brewery sometime and chat it up.
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2000 Navigator 4200 Classic
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02-21-2016, 07:16 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 494
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Welcome aboard, good luck and best wishes for your great project !
Olivier
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02-21-2016, 07:17 PM
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Enigma
City: Slicker?
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 16,332
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Greetings,
Welcome aboard.
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RTF
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04-18-2016, 03:50 PM
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Senior Member
City: Beaufort, NC
Vessel Name: Previous owner GB 42 Classic
Vessel Model: Currently running a 23' CC
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 210
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It is done. We are now the proud owners of a wet house. Our dream is coming alive! The comments and insight of this group have been priceless to us in making our decisions and learning about this lifestyle. Thanks to so many who have offered up great advice.
We should be moving aboard within the next 10 days or so. Full bottom strip and repaint plus new electronics all going on/in now. Then we start our trip from VA to NC.
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04-19-2016, 01:34 PM
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Guru
City: Beaufort, NC USA
Vessel Name: Sylphide
Vessel Model: Kingston Aluminum Yacht 44' Custom
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 2,228
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Welcome to the forum, and Congratulations! If that's her in your avatar pic, she's beautiful.
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04-19-2016, 02:00 PM
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Senior Member
City: Beaufort, NC
Vessel Name: Previous owner GB 42 Classic
Vessel Model: Currently running a 23' CC
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 210
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That's her. We're very excited to get aboard and begin our new life journey.
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Jan & Lee
Beaufort, NC
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04-19-2016, 06:29 PM
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Guru
City: Cary NC
Vessel Name: Skinny Dippin'
Vessel Model: Navigator 42'
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 800
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Congratulations!! Will you take your time cruising from VA to NC or go directly to Southport? What route will you take? We need more pictures!
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04-19-2016, 08:16 PM
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Senior Member
City: Beaufort, NC
Vessel Name: Previous owner GB 42 Classic
Vessel Model: Currently running a 23' CC
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 210
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We will travel mostly on weekends. Taking the Dismal ditch if there's enough water.
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Jan & Lee
Beaufort, NC
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04-19-2016, 08:50 PM
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,449
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NightCrawler
We will travel mostly on weekends. Taking the Dismal ditch if there's enough water.
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If you take the Virginia Cut, just keep in mind that the Norfolk Southern #7 Railroad Bridge across the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, will be closed-to-navigation from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Thursday, April 25, 2016 to May 26, 2016; and 9 a.m.to 1 p.m. Monday through Thursday, June 6, 2016 to June 9, 2016.
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04-19-2016, 08:51 PM
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Veteran Member
City: New Bern, NC
Vessel Name: Finale
Vessel Model: Rosborough RF246 Custom Pilothouse 2000
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 70
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Congrats to you, I just recently bought a Mainship 34 from the Norfolk area and brought her back to my home New Bern, NC. Hopefully the winds will be calmer for you!
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04-19-2016, 09:41 PM
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Veteran Member
City: Tarpon Springs
Vessel Name: Conchy Jac
Vessel Model: Rosborough RF 246
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 36
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Congrat's!
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04-19-2016, 09:46 PM
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Guru
City: Cary, NC
Vessel Name: Skinny Dippin'
Vessel Model: Navigator 4200 Classic
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 5,841
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Quote:
Originally Posted by newbernbuck
Congrats to you, I just recently bought a Mainship 34 from the Norfolk area and brought her back to my home New Bern, NC. Hopefully the winds will be calmer for you!
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Yea? Bridgepoint? Grand? Galley Store? NWCM?
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2000 Navigator 4200 Classic
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04-19-2016, 09:50 PM
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Veteran Member
City: New Bern, NC
Vessel Name: Finale
Vessel Model: Rosborough RF246 Custom Pilothouse 2000
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 70
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Duck Creek at the moment, then probably Bridgepoint
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04-20-2016, 09:08 AM
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Senior Member
City: Beaufort, NC
Vessel Name: Previous owner GB 42 Classic
Vessel Model: Currently running a 23' CC
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 210
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How did you find the Dismal Canal?
Ok, poor choice of words - follow the signs. . .
Was there good depth, clean passage?
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Jan & Lee
Beaufort, NC
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04-20-2016, 10:32 AM
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Veteran Member
City: New Bern, NC
Vessel Name: Finale
Vessel Model: Rosborough RF246 Custom Pilothouse 2000
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 70
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Did not go the dismal canal route. I might be wrong, but thought it was not maintained so much these days. Others would know better. Coinjock and Belhaven still good places to stop.
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05-11-2016, 10:44 PM
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Veteran Member
City: Hobe Sound FL
Vessel Name: CORISANDE SHADOW
Vessel Model: PDQ 41
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 66
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Belhaven
I just had a great stop at the River Forest Marina in Belhaven, under new management since Oct 2014. New free washer dryers, golf carts for going into town, and a friendly attitude. They also jab very nice guest suites, where I put up a mechanic who came down to fix my engine. There is a gym for $5 a day, accessible by golf cart.
Best of all is a restaurant called Spoon River, great food ,and great service. Last night it poured while we were at dinner, and the owner sent her staff out to wipe our golf cart with tablecloths. That is Southern hospitality!
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05-12-2016, 09:25 AM
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Senior Member
City: Beaufort, NC
Vessel Name: Previous owner GB 42 Classic
Vessel Model: Currently running a 23' CC
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 210
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We are on our way!! Spent first night in Coinjock (yes, the prime rib is delicious) and now a week in Manteo. I now have a degree in crabpotdodgology. Next stop is Ocracoke. Finding this vessel to be very responsive, easier to maneuver than some smaller ones I've captained.
A very special thanks to the folks at Atlantic Yacht Basin in VA. We had a lot of prep work done, some trouble shooting on systems startups and all new nav equipment installed. These guys rock. Great team. The got us on quality tradesmen who did excellent work on time and on budget. And a thanks to Ayers Electronics for their work!
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Jan & Lee
Beaufort, NC
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05-12-2016, 09:27 AM
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Senior Member
City: Beaufort, NC
Vessel Name: Previous owner GB 42 Classic
Vessel Model: Currently running a 23' CC
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 210
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We were told in VA that the southern lock on the dismal is down, waiting for parts. We went the eastern ICW route.
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Jan & Lee
Beaufort, NC
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