I lived in Oriental for a few years. Fun little town, the inhabitants of which can get pretty rowdy. The new years celebration is NUTS. Because the wind tides are so prevalent, all it takes to cause some flooding along the waterfront is a few days in a row of westerly wind. I was there for hurricane Joaquin, which is the highest I ever saw it. Thigh high water in the road in front of the bean. Funny story about the piggley wiggley. The building they're in was built by Wal-Mart for one of their neighborhood stores. Obviously all the small town shops couldn't compete with the prices, so a handful went out of business almost immediately. The Wal-Mart then closed, having been open less than a year. Not only was this shitty for the owners who went under, just to have Wal-Mart move out, but it left lots of people with only a family dollar for groceries since the next town was like 11 miles away and lots of residents didn't drive. It made national news, they called it a grocery desert. Anyway, piggley wiggley opened a store there and saved the day.
We sailed around Oriental for 12 years before untying the dock lines. Love the Bean. Tom at Oriental Marina is awesome. We've stayed in your slip more times than I can remember. Glad you got to experience this great cruising town. Sail on!
Wish I'd known you were here. Been watching your videos for quite a while and would have enjoyed meeting you. Please come again one day! And safe travels to the three of you.
Hey you kids were dealing with an amazingly HIGH tide there In Oriental! Yes, and thank goodness for that little heater too! Lola looked not excited about going ashore to do her business but apparently went it's time its' time. Thanks for the Kate's junk bunk shot Wes. I just knew there had to a part of the boat that looked that way. Glad to see you heading further south and into warmer weather. So happy to be watching you kids living your dream!
I stand corrected, my first mate says she runs oyr smaller little electric heater when underway and she also said she runs it off the honda genney as well. All this time I thought she was running it off our inverter while down below staying warm while I froze at thenhelm lol
Glad you got provisioned up well at Mr Piggly! (what a great name) Bet you'll be glad to get outside and to get sailing again, all that steaming in the ICW would probably finish me off! We have a Webasto diesel heater it runs off the main fuel tank and blows hot air into the cabin, they are brilliant. Love your films, it's a great thing you guys are doing, keep them coming, wishing you fair winds and following seas.
Got tired of all those shallow channels and sticking around in the cold! Thankful for all the good weather windows we had and timing at the inlets, made running away from the cold a lot easier than pushing down the ICW
i have a heater just like that for my 35 foot camper , it works fantastic even up here in michigan when there's snow on the ground it'll heat up out if to set it too high
We stayed right in front of the bean too, on the free dock. The bean was still closed back then, a little before Thanksgiving. The water was pretty high but not that high. It wasn't over the finger docks but it seemed like it was only a few inches before it was over the wall to the road The pig came and got us, like an hour after we called them -right when they said they would come. No trouble getting ahold of them. That's a long walk. I hope you at least got a ride back.
just doing a quick google search on oriental's flooding, almost seems like a rite of passage for oriental locals to make the trek to the bean through the flooding, glad it was open so we could get the full experience!
@@WickedSalty yeah, we were bummed it wasn't open when we were there. The workers were working on it literally through the night. I could hear them sawing and pounding right across the street from us. But my wife could sleep through a Cat 4 hurricane so no worries.
@@svbarryduckworth628 That's a bummer that it was closed for you, you gotta go back again now that it's fixed up! it just opened up a couple weeks before we arrived so we got lucky. One of the only perks of leaving late, that and the non-crowded anchorages but that's about it. I feel for you on being at a marina with the annoying construction! We were just on the dock with a jackhammer fixing a concrete wall next to us starting at 7 am, and now I know why they gave us a complimentary 6 pack when we arrived!
It's been a little over two years since MrsTree and I were in the Bahamas, just about the same for you guys also hey? Enjoy the islands for us while we freeze in this artic vortex. Much love and respect sent to ya!
it is wing keel so it's very forgiving when we hit the shallows. (3.88' I believe) but looking forward to testing the limits in controlled anchorages in Bahamas where we can dive and check it out, so we can know exactly what we can get away with in comparison to the depth reads and charts. Grounded once in a canal in New Jersey but was a quick experience, no camera, just nose first into a sand bar, aground then back out, so it's still possible :P
Wicked Salty totally get it. I’m moving my Cat 30 from its current marina because of the shallows there. I wish I had the wing keel, I’d be fine. Draft is just over 5’ and marina entrance MLT is about 4’9”.
Wicked Salty in our neck of the woods we avoid winged keels and generally prefer fins. The seabed is shallow and very muddy so if you run aground the winged keel can drive down in to the mud like a plough!! Doubt you'll have that problem.
here's some details i found online, it's the wing keel version with bowsprit and tall rig. Catalina 30 Mark II This model was built between 1986-1991 (wikipedia seems to have gotten that wrong because ours is 1993) and was designed by Gerry Douglas. Improvements include a T-shaped cockpit and a new deck and liner design. It has a length overall of 29.92 ft (9.1 m), a waterline length of 25.00 ft (7.6 m), displaces 10,200 lb (4,627 kg) and carries 4,200 lb (1,905 kg) of lead ballast. The boat has a draft of 5.25 ft (1.60 m) with the standard keel and 3.83 ft (1.17 m) with the optional wing keel. An optional tall rig has a mast about 2 ft (0.61 m) taller. The boat has a hull speed of 6.7 kn (12.41 km/h).[15]
Lola definitely looked like a "deer in the headlights" in this video. I guess it was all the cold and water everywhere. Do you think she is embarrassed at having to be lifted up the companionway? Anyway, loved the video as always!!! Surely you two are in the Bahamas by now, or at least puttering around Miami or something!!!
what, wrightsville beach? lol im kidding it used to be my favorite, but carolina beach has that old feel. so i moved there. but wrightsville is far more accessible than carolina beach. but were a small drinking town with a fishing problem, who else can say that :)
@@WickedSaltywhat :D just kidding, if i were on a boat cruising the icw, id go for wrightsille, but as far as living there, id go carolina beach every time. that small town feel is great.
@@carolinabeacher1558 wrightsville was better on the water perspective, anchorage wise, closer dinghy dock, easy access to a great inlet but I feel that, the college town feel can get old I'm guessing
I lived in Carolina beach for 4 years on my boat s/v On Tilt, But would go anchor at Wrightsville in banks chanel for s change. We would go up and out their inlet instead of Carolina Beach Inlet a lot, a much safer inlet!
Come on you guys you have had internet everyday and it is Feburary 6 and your just putting this video up and it's before Christmas for you that is really bad
Moving the boat, working on the boat, planning passages, fueling up, filling tanks, emptying holding tanks, getting groceries which can take up half a day, filming every day then editing as well as any other curve ball that occurs in this lifestyle can feel like more than just one job going on. We have made it so we can consistently release a video every week right now which back to the way it was and that's the way it's going to be until we can manage more.
I lived in Oriental for a few years. Fun little town, the inhabitants of which can get pretty rowdy. The new years celebration is NUTS. Because the wind tides are so prevalent, all it takes to cause some flooding along the waterfront is a few days in a row of westerly wind. I was there for hurricane Joaquin, which is the highest I ever saw it. Thigh high water in the road in front of the bean.
Funny story about the piggley wiggley. The building they're in was built by Wal-Mart for one of their neighborhood stores. Obviously all the small town shops couldn't compete with the prices, so a handful went out of business almost immediately. The Wal-Mart then closed, having been open less than a year. Not only was this shitty for the owners who went under, just to have Wal-Mart move out, but it left lots of people with only a family dollar for groceries since the next town was like 11 miles away and lots of residents didn't drive. It made national news, they called it a grocery desert. Anyway, piggley wiggley opened a store there and saved the day.
So happy to see you guys and Ben and Tambi and Molly out sailing again! Life is good!
Loved watching the few seconds of you leaving the harbor with all the commercial shrimp and fishing boats!
We sailed around Oriental for 12 years before untying the dock lines. Love the Bean. Tom at Oriental Marina is awesome. We've stayed in your slip more times than I can remember. Glad you got to experience this great cruising town. Sail on!
It's one of our favorite cruising stops, the bean is the best coffee shop we've been to on our travels and there's a great community in Oriental.
Wow, crazy flooding! Keep em' coming guys!
Wish I'd known you were here. Been watching your videos for quite a while and would have enjoyed meeting you. Please come again one day! And safe travels to the three of you.
Hey you kids were dealing with an amazingly HIGH tide there In Oriental! Yes, and thank goodness for that little heater too! Lola looked not excited about going ashore to do her business but apparently went it's time its' time. Thanks for the Kate's junk bunk shot Wes. I just knew there had to a part of the boat that looked that way. Glad to see you heading further south and into warmer weather. So happy to be watching you kids living your dream!
Where we lived in Flordia on the west coast was this way...crystal river Flordia
I stand corrected, my first mate says she runs oyr smaller little electric heater when underway and she also said she runs it off the honda genney as well. All this time I thought she was running it off our inverter while down below staying warm while I froze at thenhelm lol
Glad you got provisioned up well at Mr Piggly! (what a great name) Bet you'll be glad to get outside and to get sailing again, all that steaming in the ICW would probably finish me off! We have a Webasto diesel heater it runs off the main fuel tank and blows hot air into the cabin, they are brilliant. Love your films, it's a great thing you guys are doing, keep them coming, wishing you fair winds and following seas.
Got tired of all those shallow channels and sticking around in the cold! Thankful for all the good weather windows we had and timing at the inlets, made running away from the cold a lot easier than pushing down the ICW
Another great video.. thks guys!!!!
i have a heater just like that for my 35 foot camper , it works fantastic even up here in michigan when there's snow on the ground it'll heat up out if to set it too high
Great to meet you in Oriental!
great to meet you too!
So cool you can sail to the grocery store there
We stayed right in front of the bean too, on the free dock. The bean was still closed back then, a little before Thanksgiving. The water was pretty high but not that high. It wasn't over the finger docks but it seemed like it was only a few inches before it was over the wall to the road
The pig came and got us, like an hour after we called them -right when they said they would come. No trouble getting ahold of them. That's a long walk. I hope you at least got a ride back.
just doing a quick google search on oriental's flooding, almost seems like a rite of passage for oriental locals to make the trek to the bean through the flooding, glad it was open so we could get the full experience!
@@WickedSalty yeah, we were bummed it wasn't open when we were there. The workers were working on it literally through the night. I could hear them sawing and pounding right across the street from us. But my wife could sleep through a Cat 4 hurricane so no worries.
@@svbarryduckworth628 That's a bummer that it was closed for you, you gotta go back again now that it's fixed up! it just opened up a couple weeks before we arrived so we got lucky. One of the only perks of leaving late, that and the non-crowded anchorages but that's about it. I feel for you on being at a marina with the annoying construction! We were just on the dock with a jackhammer fixing a concrete wall next to us starting at 7 am, and now I know why they gave us a complimentary 6 pack when we arrived!
@@WickedSalty a six pack of what? Ambien? ;)
@@svbarryduckworth628 XD
I keep saying the Bean needs to put in a drive through but for dinghies 😂
That looks like a pyracantha bush that has been pruned into a tree. Birds LOVE to nest in them.
Thanks for sharing 😎
great video. thanks
Kate and Wes, heard you made it to Miami, check out Oleta state park anchorage
Enjoy your videos. Think you are all done with the cold? LOl
12 volt heater, no way. Get a propane that takes the small canisters. We even put it under the dodger when we’re on the mooring.
Hello wes and Kate. So good to see you two again. I love your videos. Keep up the good work. ⛵ ⛵ ⛵
It's been a little over two years since MrsTree and I were in the Bahamas, just about the same for you guys also hey? Enjoy the islands for us while we freeze in this artic vortex. Much love and respect sent to ya!
Thanks Tree, we will make some great videos for you to enjoy until you return!
They're probably not needing heaters in the Bahamas right now.
not needing them in Florida right now! Glad we made it.
Holy shit was that an ipod nano around 8 minutes?
You mentioned the shallow spots on the ICW, is your Catalina a wing keel?
it is wing keel so it's very forgiving when we hit the shallows. (3.88' I believe) but looking forward to testing the limits in controlled anchorages in Bahamas where we can dive and check it out, so we can know exactly what we can get away with in comparison to the depth reads and charts. Grounded once in a canal in New Jersey but was a quick experience, no camera, just nose first into a sand bar, aground then back out, so it's still possible :P
Wicked Salty totally get it. I’m moving my Cat 30 from its current marina because of the shallows there. I wish I had the wing keel, I’d be fine. Draft is just over 5’ and marina entrance MLT is about 4’9”.
Wicked Salty in our neck of the woods we avoid winged keels and generally prefer fins. The seabed is shallow and very muddy so if you run aground the winged keel can drive down in to the mud like a plough!! Doubt you'll have that problem.
Wicked Salty, What is the depth and length of your boat,
here's some details i found online, it's the wing keel version with bowsprit and tall rig. Catalina 30 Mark II
This model was built between 1986-1991 (wikipedia seems to have gotten that wrong because ours is 1993) and was designed by Gerry Douglas. Improvements include a T-shaped cockpit and a new deck and liner design. It has a length overall of 29.92 ft (9.1 m), a waterline length of 25.00 ft (7.6 m), displaces 10,200 lb (4,627 kg) and carries 4,200 lb (1,905 kg) of lead ballast. The boat has a draft of 5.25 ft (1.60 m) with the standard keel and 3.83 ft (1.17 m) with the optional wing keel. An optional tall rig has a mast about 2 ft (0.61 m) taller. The boat has a hull speed of 6.7 kn (12.41 km/h).[15]
Good vid ya'll.
Did Piggly Wiggly give you a ride back?
they did, did not have to walk with all the groceries, Mr. Pig was redeemed
I suppose when we were kids what you are experincing would be a dream come true.
I love here and it's NOT always under water lol
Yooo thats my home
Lola definitely looked like a "deer in the headlights" in this video. I guess it was all the cold and water everywhere. Do you think she is embarrassed at having to be lifted up the companionway? Anyway, loved the video as always!!! Surely you two are in the Bahamas by now, or at least puttering around Miami or something!!!
haha she expects to be lifted every time! Even in the cabin up the settee which we know she can easily jump but just insists on a quick lift up!
what, wrightsville beach? lol im kidding it used to be my favorite, but carolina beach has that old feel. so i moved there. but wrightsville is far more accessible than carolina beach. but were a small drinking town with a fishing problem, who else can say that :)
stayed in Carolina beach on the first trip, this time we stayed in wrightsville. We love Wrightsville so much better!
@@WickedSaltywhat :D just kidding, if i were on a boat cruising the icw, id go for wrightsille, but as far as living there, id go carolina beach every time. that small town feel is great.
@@carolinabeacher1558 wrightsville was better on the water perspective, anchorage wise, closer dinghy dock, easy access to a great inlet but I feel that, the college town feel can get old I'm guessing
I lived in Carolina beach for 4 years on my boat s/v On Tilt, But would go anchor at Wrightsville in banks chanel for s change. We would go up and out their inlet instead of Carolina Beach Inlet a lot, a much safer inlet!
2 stroke haha I thought you guys said 2 cycle?? we say 2 stroke here in Australia... surprised me there.
What are those red berries?
EvlMagus it’s a type of holly
Nice vid guy's. Sail Safe. Ant & Cid SV Impavidus xx
I'm not understanding why you're not splitting up shifts and motoring 24/7
Rename it the "Icy-W" until you get to Jacksonville... :D
Come on you guys you have had internet everyday and it is Feburary 6 and your just putting this video up and it's before Christmas for you that is really bad
Moving the boat, working on the boat, planning passages, fueling up, filling tanks, emptying holding tanks, getting groceries which can take up half a day, filming every day then editing as well as any other curve ball that occurs in this lifestyle can feel like more than just one job going on. We have made it so we can consistently release a video every week right now which back to the way it was and that's the way it's going to be until we can manage more.
Not always under water. Only when the wind is from a Northerly direction. LOL
We get a wind tide rather than lunar tides here in Oriental