Category Archives: Around Town in Oriental
Happenings in the town of Oriental
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Winter Migration drawing to a close…
Posted on December 7, 2012 by Gretchen in Around Town in Oriental, Cruising, Sailing, Uncategorized.Living here in Oriental this Fall and Winter has given us a new perspective of the Cruiser’s Winter Migration South. Last year, we participated in it the first time aboard s/v Alchemy, while this year we have watched the mass-maritime-exodus for points South from ashore. While there have been the moments here and there I […]
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Just another day at the yard….
Posted on December 4, 2012 by Gretchen in Around Town in Oriental, Cruising, Sailing, Uncategorized.Boats are still coming and going as the migration South continues…new friends to be made both of the human variety and the canine variety. In one corner of the yard the boat that has been in the process of being built that I posted in one of my first blog entries has now been covered […]
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Thanksgiving 2012, Oriental, N.C.
Posted on November 29, 2012 by Gretchen in Around Town in Oriental, Cruising.Thanksgiving 2012 was spent with new friends. After four trips in a six week time period between September and October we decided to stay put for Thanksgiving. We were road weary and I had been sick for three weeks in between trips. It was time to take it easy plus we had some […]
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‘There are big ships, and small ships. But the best ship of all is Friendship’
Posted on November 13, 2012 by Gretchen in Around Town in Oriental, Cruising, Sailing, Uncategorized.O.K., so I know it is cliche and hokey, but the title of this blog entry is oh, so true… Proceeding my most depressing blog entry to date that I posted last week, I was messaged by Brittany of s/v Asante. She is the creator of the blog I referenced in last week’s blog […]
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Broken Heads and Cockroach Cookies…
Posted on November 9, 2012 by Gretchen in Around Town in Oriental, Cruising, Sailing, Uncategorized, Writing.It is November…the day after election day. I have never been so lack luster about an election in my life…It just feels like this country is so divided, and in a time when we need to be the most united, and it is hard to believe anyone, even Superman, could turn all of it […]
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Do Over, or more aptly ‘Blinded by the White…’
Posted on September 18, 2012 by Gretchen in Around Town in Oriental, Cruising.Well yesterday was THE Day we had been counting down to for two and a half or three weeks, the big unveiling of the work so far, and rolling s/v Alchemy back into the light…I can’t even remember at this point how long we have been in the paint shed. s/v Alchemy originally […]
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