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		<title>2013 Charter Rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring is just around the corner and it&#8217;s time to start planning a little getaway to relax and do some exploring along the coast of North Carolina.  Sail the Pirate Trail from Bath to Ocracoke and on to Beaufort. Visit the Colonial Capital in New Bern or the Story Telling Festival in Hatteras.  Like music? How about Ocrafolk or the Outer Banks Bluegrass Island Festival. That&#8217;s just a small sampling of some of the great activities going on this year around the Pamlico Sound and we didn&#8217;t even mention all the great anchorages located with a short distance of Boat Bumz Charters. Check our rates for the weekday, weekend and full week bareboat charters then give us a call to reserve your dates at (252) 557-9783.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Knot II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have listed Why Knot II our 1981 27&#8242; Hunter Cherubini over on YachtWorld.  She will still be available for 3 day charters until she sells, who knows maybe the buyer will leave her in the fleet for awhile to offset some costs. Hunter 27 Sales Brochure I bought Why Knot II in November of 2007 in Arnold, MD, up near Annapolis. She had been &#8220;on the hard&#8221; for a couple of years and had about 6&#8243; of rain water in the floor.  I had all the thru hulls replaced before she went back in the water as well as all the circuit breakers. I sailed her down to Oriental, NC by myself.  You&#8217;ve probably heard me say it once or twice but that trip changed my life.  So, I have an emotional attachment to the old girl.  She is just one of 10 sailboats in our fleet and that is about 9 boats too many. I like the Hunter because all the ports open for great ventilation. She has a wheel, roller furling and a diesel engine.  She is very comfortable for an extended stay and a blast to sail.  The only thing I don&#8217;t like is the headroom, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology Afloat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 03:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please excuse me while I exercise my inner geek. I have spent the last few days reinstalling the operating system on my 6 year old MacBook Pro which has been on every voyage and road trip that I have embarked upon.  It has taken a few licks along the way and served me well, keeping me in touch with friends and family. Dented and scratched it just keeps plugging right along, well almost.  After being bounced out of the v-berth and onto the floor during a gulf stream crossing, it started acting a little funny and needed some tlc.  She is back up and currently running like the day I bought her. While I was reinstalling all the programs I work with I thought that just maybe I should share some of the things that we use to keep everything up and running in our floating home/office.  Jane ,btw, uses an Acer Netbook running Windows 7 running the same versions of most of the software we use. We both have Kindle Fires and use android phones. We  use a lot of open source software on our computer(s); my operating system of choice is linux (free), our office suite is OpenOffice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boat Bumz Charter Season is almost here!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting ready for our first season of chartering. You will find that the rivers, sounds and coastal destinations of the Carolinas have been some of the best kept secrets around.  Thanks to an article written by Jules Norwood for the folks at All at Sea: Southeast we hope to have a banner inaugural  season.  Just a day sail from some of North Carolinas best cruising grounds you are sure to have a great sailing adventure.  Our season starts April 1st!]]></description>
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		<title>Switching Gears</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nothing seems to matter, that&#8217;s the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don&#8217;t; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you&#8217;re always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you&#8217;ve done it there&#8217;s always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you&#8217;d much better not.&#8221; ~ the river Rat to the mole: The Wind In The Willows.  Rat is a classic Boat Bum! I am taking the day off, sort of, and rereading the book The Wind In The Willows and this time, I really, really understand Rat.  Anyway, the sailing school season has ended and I&#8217;m switching gears to get into the groove of the off season.  I&#8217;ve got a couple of invites to go visit friends in the Exhumas,  to help friends move a boat from Mexico to NC and I may or may not take them up on it.  I&#8217;ve got lots of projects to catch up on: boats to mend and sell, setting up our first bi-annual cruisers/sailing get together.  Looking for a spot and some buddies to jam a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Was Great Offshore!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bahamas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coastal navigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confidence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When friends sent a Facebook message asking me to crew offshore on their 42 foot Hunter, S/V “Nemo” (yes, as in the fish) from Urbanna, Virginia to the Morehead City Yacht Basin, how could I refuse? We would be buddy boating with other friends of ours on their catamaran, S/V “SeaQuell.” It been about a year since Michael and I delivered a boat up to Middle River, just north of Baltimore on the Chesapeake. This time he was on an ASA 104 and suggested one of our ASA 105/ASA 106 Advanced Coastal Cruising students accompany me on the trip. So, Scott agreed to make the trip! I had complete confidence in Scott&#8217;s sailing ability as he has chartered boats in the Bahamas. Friends picked us up in Morehead, and we were bound for Urbanna. What a quaint little village on the Rappahanock River on the west side of the Chesapeake. We stowed our gear on “Nemo” and went over the systems on the boat with the owners. Later, off for a dockside great dinner of quinoa salad, fresh baked bread, chicken pasta casserole, salad, and vegetarian chilli. They sure know how to feed a crew! Afterwards, we all hung out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Do It!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in May I had the privilege to take my ASA 104 with students Annie and Charles. It was a little cool and a tad windy but a great class. We prepared some delicious meals and snacks along the way, too. Charles went on to charter a boat in the BVI&#8217;s. Annie and I yearned to go out by ourselves without the instructor based on our own confidence in our 104 skills—where WE had to make the decisions, not defer to someone higher who knew all the answers. You see, Annie LIVES on her boat, a great Catalina 30. On a peaceful day this month over in Washington, I watched as Annie was putting the finishing touches on re-bedding her ports. We talked about how cool it would be to take her boat out for it&#8217;s maiden voyage with her as Skipper. Lots of laughs and heehaws later, we&#8217;re walking from bow to stern pulling on this line and that, checking pins, lazy jacks and still, we were sitting at the dock. We decided after going thoroughly over “Sugaree”, that we were ready to do it. Time to test out our 104 Skills based on our own confidence. Needing nourishment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crystal Coast Boat Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 02:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come see us at the Crystal Coast Boat Show this weekend May 19th and 20th. We will be there both days at the Morehead City Yacht Basin and Matthews Point Marina. We will be representing North Carolina School of Sailing and East Carolina Sailing School. We&#8217;re in the big tent next to the Jaycee Park on the waterfront in Morehead City, NC. There is also an Art Show, Classic Car&#8217;s and boats, lot&#8217;s of boats! We hope to see you there!]]></description>
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		<title>Bahama&#8217;s Wrap Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a month since we got back and things are going well. Our 5th season at East Carolina Sailing School is off to a fantastic start and we are finally just about on top of things here again. When I last posted I was tracking down loose connections and doing some minor repairs.  I found the loose wire on the tachometer and fixed that little issue. We were at the  Lyford Cay Yacht Club and left the next day for Chub Cay.  We basically retraced our steps on the trip back which was pretty uneventful.  There were quite a few more people at Chub Cay when we got there this time.  Everyone was waiting out a front and we ended up staying there a couple of days.  We left on Tuesday for the crossing across the Grand Bahama Banks where we hoped to pick up that anchor we left there 21 days before. A window was opening for us to make the run back to Ft. Lauderdale. We left early and headed out across the banks and I headed back to the spot were we lost the anchor.  I had set a MOB (Man Over Board) on Glenn&#8217;s handheld [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Anchor!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I said to Michael, that I wanted more anchoring experience on this trip to the Bahamas&#8230;he obliged and has continued to deliver. Manuals are one thing, chocker block full of great information, cool diagrams and even colorful photos&#8230;but it is what is NOT in the manual that has helped me gain a greater confidence in anchoring&#8230; &#160; It&#8217;s hard not to admire an anchor&#8230;they are strong metals, come in different shapes and sizes. When set firmly in whatever the bottom of the sea/river has to offer, there&#8217;s a sense of good old-fashioned satisfaction. With the boat going in reverse pulling the anchor chain taut and feeling that resisting tug, you know you&#8217;ve set anchor! Then, the anchor watch can begin! &#160; Now&#8230;enter the Bahamian Mooring. It gives you not once, but TWICE the amount of satisfaction to enjoy. It gives the boat some much added stability while anchoring in tidal changes and winds that clock around the compass. Plus, you get to utilize the dinghy to set it. &#160; After setting the first anchor, someone would let out the rode from the anchor locker for the second anchor and walk it to the back of the boat to attache [...]]]></description>
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