h mile 50- mile 1.5 Our destination was Portsmouth. The wind would be favorable for a sail across the Chesapeake tomorrow morning. We got in touch with Bruce, who lives in Portsmouth and made a plan to go to dinner if we got there in time. It was a 50 mile trip and there were
mile 136-mile 50 86 miles was an ambitious undertaking. Features of this journey were the Pungo River-Alligator River Canal, fondly known as the “long straight,” the Alligator River and Bridge (old and new), the Albemarle Sound and The North River. The Alligator River and North Rivers had anchorages in case we did not feel like
mile 202-mile 136 We had a plan for leaving the dock. I would hold the bow in while David backed out, then we would turn and go out forward. We backed out fairly straight, then the bow swung in and the stern out. David changed the plan to back out into the channel and point
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mile 244.5-202 We were the first boat out of the anchorage at first light. The Nordic tug Swell followed us. The mud on our anchor was impressive as we pulled it up. We headed out toward the Onslow Beach Bridge. This area, including our anchorage and the bridge is home to Camp Lejeune. The marines
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mile 311.4-244.5 Today, we were back to dealing with bridges. There were some tricky current areas as well. We left Southport before sunrise. Our first challenge was Snow’s Cut, a narrow channel between Southport and the Cape Fear River, and Carolina Beach. The cut has a bridge at the north side which is fixed. but
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mile 357- mile 311.4 The next stretch was not far and again we wanted to go further but a cold front was on the way and we were perhaps due for some north winds and rain in the afternoon. We decided to try and tuck in before the weather. It was hard to determine how
mile 403-357 From Winyah Bay, we entered the PeeDee River which flows into the Wackamaw River past the little town of Georgetown, SC. The landscape quickly changes to swamp land with beautiful marsh with green grass and Cypress trees laden with Spanish Moss. It is beautiful and so different. It looked like the perfect place
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Cumberland Island has been on the list of places I wanted to visit. It is a large, mostly protected, barrier island once owned by the Carnegie family. It is only accessible by boat and there is a ferry from St. Mary’s. There are several anchorages off the island with dinghy access. We motored there in
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We were going to head to St. Mary’s Georgia but the marina was full so we opted for Fernandina. I had wanted to explore Cumberland Island and there is a ferry from St. Mary’s that we had considered but we did not want to leave the boat anchored for the trip so we opted for
The weather was supposed to be a little better with only scattered showers predicted and a little less wind. The ocean was still quite disturbed so we opted to head up the waterway. We passed through the famous Daytona area where there are four bridges in a little over 1 mile stretch. Coming from the