Sounds good! Wilmington is mostly locals with a few expat Yanks, not as many as Charlotte. Nothing in Singapore or the Caribbean? You don’t want to be near the Med with this blowup going on. Well, maybe you would, but sensible people wouldn’t. Cape May, as you saw, isn’t a bad place, and you could hook up with the Allen relations to get dinners out (or in) when you felt the urge. And go skiing with your Uncle Russ and Aunt Charlotte in the winter.
We’re expecting the weather miseries back late next week, but a few days of drying out is nice. Ash approves of a whole day of sunbeams. Even Susan came out.
I think summer trips to the Carribean are fine without actually living there. And they don’t usually send anybody lower than E-5 to foriegn countries. Except Bahrain, where they’ll send anyone who asks, but I can skip going there unless they’d put me on another cutter, which is a chance to take. I wouldn’t do small boats there.
Actually, I’d like to avoid small boat stations at all, because they look extremely boring. Although my old BM1 worked out of a station in NC...Hatteras, maybe, and said there are SAR cases all over the place due to the number of stupid people that drive boats around the Outer Banks. So that’s a possibility.