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Strong winds with line creak, dock creak and boat shudders last night. Rain. David up to check lines andbumpers in the night. Boat sort of heeling to starboard with the wind. Late breakfast and then shower, laundry and walk. Then met the Werner’s for lunch and boat talk.Jeff and Deb so helpful! We talked routes

Woke up early for an early start before bad weather. Beautiful red dawn sky as all the boats left the quiet anchorage. Entered the canal for a fairly straight twenty some mile trek. Very wild swamp and marsh, then some camps and compounds. We were able to use the auto pilot and just correct a

Up early to prepare for departure. Waiting until 8am arrival of dockhands to help us leave the dock. Current still flowing south very quickly. Chris of Yar nervous that we will hit his boat. Dockhand had us drift out stern first and then reverse. We cleared the boats and dock without incident.Chris was elated. They

Still in Coinjock, or not really in Coinjock but across the canal from the town proper. Strong winds with gusts to 30’s predicted although the morning started calmly. The current, however was already moving southward by morning likely spilling out of the Currituck from the south winds of yesterday. We are recognizing that it will

First boat showers went well. Headed out of GB and canal became more rural with surrounding marshland and cypress knees. Hailed our first swing bridge and then one which retracts one side. Not much northbound traffic on Veterans Day. At times there was a line of boats looking back. Several passed us and were courteous.

Got an early start down the Elizabeth river. Navy ships, container ships, cranes loading gravel, the large power plant, juxtaposed with marsh, sports fisherman catching speckled trout, children fishing from bulkheads, ducks. Our first bridge, Gilmerton. We hailed them on the approach. They answered “Gilmerton”. We said we were approaching, they said copy that. Then