Ramagosa Yacht Outruns Hurricane Earl

By Greg Fieg

Details are sketchy but word comes from the high seas that Carol and Bob Ramagosa hastily furled sails on their 43-foot sailing yacht Sunnylands just in time to find a safe haven from a rendez-vous with Hurricane Earl.  Luckily the storm only brushed the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., though seas were predicted to be twenty feet in some areas, and Sunnylands, whose homeport is in Onslow County, NC, was presumably undamaged. 

Carol and Bob reside near the original North American Fieg homestead, now operated as the Black Walnut Inn bed-and-breakfast near Milford, PA, but spend much time at their second home in the Carolinas when not at sea.  The area of the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Susquehanna River dominates most of Cap'n Bob's charts. 

Carol is the daughter of the late Emma Fieg of Milford and granddaughter of Max Fieg.  Bob is an important builder in the Carolinas where he specializes in lake shore development.