About Ms Bettencourt

Ms Bettencourt is a Swedish built 25-foot trailerable trawler. Her hull was completed in 1971, No. 1117 of about 2500 built. The boat is named for my wife Dia, whose maiden name is Bettencourt.

This little vessel came to me as a gift in 2004. Before then she had been abandoned about 12 years on the Savannah River near Augusta, GA. I have repaired and refitted the boat extensively, and I have cruised her along the East coast of the US, from Cape Lookout, NC, to the Florida Keys. I dream of taking her to Havana some day.

This blog started in 2011 to chronicle the building of a hard top for the boat to replace leaky canvas. Since then the blog has become an Albin-25 boatkeeping and cruising journal.


Monday, October 8, 2012

Thunder, lightening, downpour, in Georgetown

...and it is dry and cozy inside Ms. Bettencourt!  My friend Major is convinced we are victims of some kind of cruiser's curse because it rains every time we leave town, today being no exception. He may be right.

We are at the Harborwalk Marina in Georgetown,SC, which is a very nice, recently renovated marine center with 30-amp 120 volt electricity for the space heater and high-speed wireless internet for the blog.

This will be a brief post because I want to spend some time "in this moment" enjoying dryness and warmth inside this 40-year-old boat.

It was just about 13 months ago, in another pounding rain, lodged on a mud flat near Beaufort, NC, with water pouring through the canvas camper top, that I declared "one wet cruise too many."

The outcome was more than a year on the hard for Ms. Bettencourt  while we built this wonderful new hardtop. It was definitely worth the work and expense.

Life is good. Dry is great.

Tomorrow is to be warmer and sunnier. We expect to be winding  northwesterly on the Waccamaw River. Reports will follow.


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