We walked to Daddy Cates coffee shop in Olde Town for a bagel and coffee and found it to be another example of the small town friendliness we have found here in Brunswick. Locals chatted with us as easily as if we were in the shop every day. There was a young mother in the shop enjoying a cup of coffee as her 4 month old TWINS sat in their carriers across the table. We learned she was taking a break from her 3 year old who must have been at daycare. Another fellow came into the shop and ordered a special coffee and told the owner his dad would pay for it later when he stopped in – the young man looked to be in his late thirties and told us “he was the son who moved back home”. Like I said, a real friendly place.
We returned to the boat to top the fuel tanks and move FLIGHT to a slip on dock #5 where she will wait for us to return after Christmas. We were getting settled in at the new marina neighborhood when slip neighbors Charles and Teresa Wilsdorf said hello from the deck of their trawler, EPILOGUE. They now live in the Brunswick area settling here after years of cruising the Pacific coast of Mexico, Central America and Caribbean aboard their 59’ sail boat. Charles told me that they stopped here in Brunswick for a respite and Teresa happened to pick up a free real estate booklet and the rest is history.
Charles and Teresa on Epilogue
On the other side of us is a sailboat named WHISPER and owned by a single man named Werner – he pronounces it V-erner (with a German accent. His sailboat does not have a mast but it is obvious that it had one in the recent past. Verner told me “I ran into the Navy down there where they have the U-boats” at Kings Bay, GA. Verner is a bit frugal with chit-chat so I didn’t get a lot more detail than that. Everyone one we met is instantly friendly, with offers of local advice, or to look after our boat or provide transportation, if they have a car.
Captain cleaning the Flight
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