Century Club: Billy Hannigan

Sunday, December 1, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
  • Dozier's Bridge
  • How'd that get there
  • West Neck Creek
  • We are kind of like Lewis and Clarke.

2nd attempt at the Medusa, transit from the ICW to Lynnhaven Inlet through Virginia Beach.    Dozier's Bridge at Princess Anne thwarted is once more.

Monday, November 25, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
  • Yorktown docks
  • The birth of a nation
  • Coast Guard 38
  • Coleman bridge
  • 38 Metalshark

Chilly day out on the water.   Made a navigation run to Yorktown and watched the Coast Guard train at coxswain school.

Monday, November 25, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
  • Yorktown docks
  • Birthplace of a nation
  • Coast Guard 38
  • Coleman Bridge
  • 38 Metalshark
  • Can't believe it is still there

Chilly day out on the water.   Made a navigation run to Yorktown and watched the Coast Guard train at coxswain school.

Sunday, November 24, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
  • What a beautiful boat
  • We found treasure in the North Atlantic
  • Keeping boats full of nuns safe
  • Bringing in the booty

I can feel winter creeping in.    While a nice day out on the water, it is only a matter of time before the open boats see little use until warmer temps return.

Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
  • Yep, still swollen
  • At anchor at Old Point Comfort
  • 'merica!
  • Where are you going Mr fat Jack? I'm going to get the little boat. The little boat?
  • Canadian warship getting demagnetized
  • SV Thalia
  • Patrick and Michaela heading to the Bahamas
  • Hammerhead crane at Norfolk Naval Shipyard
  • Where did these come from?

Took 111 out on patrol today.    I really enjoy the vessels with the large fuel tanks.   300 gallons beats the 100 gallons on my assigned vessel.   Ran into content creators, Patrick and Michaela on SV Thalia. 

Monday, November 18, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
  • West Neck Creek
  • First obstacle
  • Low bridge. Had to remove the electronics and engine cowling to fit
  • Low clearance
  • Assholes.... Go check the fuel, ha ha, very funny
  • Our chariot
  • Could not fit under the pipes at Dozier Bridge

Attempted the yet to be named training exercise, navigating from the ICW via West Neck Creek into the Lynnhaven River then into the Chesapeake Bay.   Foiled at Dozier's Bridge due to high water. 

Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
  • Rudee Inlet
  • Finding Mr. Body

Our unit received several new forward looking real-time sonars.   So we spent the day locating the body and retrieving.

Monday, November 11, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
  • SV Serenity
  • Unloading tomorrow's dinner
  • Campus of Hampton University
  • Facelift at Blackbeard's Point on the Hampton River
  • Make me a hole clown!
  • New VBFD boat 2

Navigation exercises in the lower Bay.    Saw some beauties on the water today.

Sunday, November 10, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
  • Cobb's Marins
  • Stop abandoning derelict vessels in our waters....
  • Vessels supporting Naval Special Warfare Command
  • CBBT
  • Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel

Slow day on patrol.    Checked some fisherman, but mostly just enjoyed a day underway.

Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Number of days:
1 day
  • The Navy at work
  • 'merica!
  • What a beauty
  • Cape Charles
  • Gonna have these checked out by the doc.... They're swollen
  • West Neck Creek/Lynnhaven River

Quick jaunt over to Cape Charles to blow the skirt off of 111 and then jump in the SeaArk to check out the water connection between the Chesapeake Bay to the ICW via the Lynnhaven River and West Neck Creek.

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