{"id":3401,"date":"2015-04-12T12:48:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T12:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2015-04-12T12:59:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T12:59:19","slug":"final-days-aboard-pandora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=3401","title":{"rendered":"Final Days aboard Pandora"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mother Nature has been pretty good to us as we head to our final destination for Pandora<\/em>, in New Bern, North Carolina. \u00a0We stopped for two days in Oriental, where we enjoyed a free dock with easy access to town. \u00a0On the dock with us was a boat from Colchester, England. \u00a0The older captain sailed alone across the Atlantic about a year ago. \u00a0At some point along the way he was adopted by a small black kitten he decided to name Mogs.<\/p>\n

\"4-9-15a<\/a><\/p>\n

At each port Mogs goes visiting. \u00a0Maybe one day he’ll decide to stow away on a new boat. \u00a0At least that’s what Bob and I hoped when Mogs made himself very comfortable on Pandora.<\/em>\u00a0We began to think he might stay with us…. but as the English boat made ready to depart Mogs headed quickly back to his familiar digs. \u00a0Ah, well….<\/p>\n

Friday was our final sail on this Pandora<\/em>. \u00a0I could have wished for a bit less wind, but perhaps it’s for the best. \u00a0There is nothing like a couple hours of seasickness to make one willing to say goodbye to a boat!<\/p>\n

In a little over a week we’ll be commissioning a new Pandora<\/em> in Ft. Pierce. \u00a0As you can see, she’ll need a name change!<\/p>\n

\"ariel\"<\/a><\/p>\n

New Bern is a pretty city. \u00a0We are on a dock at the New Bern Grand Marina, where once you walk up the ramp you find yourself in the heart of the historic district! \u00a0Lovely! We had dinner at the Harvey Mansion<\/a>\u00a0on Friday evening, our first night in town.<\/p>\n

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Saturday morning we went to the well attended Farmer’s Market, and then headed out to Raleigh Durham airport to pick up a mini van to load up with all our gear and provisions from Pandora<\/em>. Unfortunately that was the most economical place for a car rental, but it was a long day with 5 hours of driving round trip.<\/p>\n

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It’s Sunday morning and I must wrap this up to begin the decommissioning. \u00a0Hopefully we’ll get a bit more sight seeing in this week, during breaks from packing and cleaning. I know there is a weaving shop in town because I visited it a year and a half ago by car on my drive home from Beaufort! I cannot pass up a chance to see that again!<\/p>\n

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We have to be out of here on Friday morning! \u00a0There is LOTS to do before then!<\/p>\n

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Mother Nature has been pretty good to us as we head to our final destination for Pandora, in New Bern, North Carolina. \u00a0We stopped for two days in Oriental, where we enjoyed a free dock with easy access to town. \u00a0On the dock with us was a boat from Colchester, England. \u00a0The older captain sailed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3408,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}