Day 3 - Portsmouth VA - Morehead City NC
Magic Friday
Phil, Di and Annelise
Sun 7 Sep 2014 15:42
Thank goodness for the
trip line - anchor appeared stuck (maybe just heavy mud) - but we certainly
needed the line to free it's grip! Good faith in the sat nav lead us the
entrance of Pungo River canal - not obvious. A pleasant 10-12 nm of
fixed depth, swamp trees and barges to watch for passing places....and then the
Wilkerson Bridge! Not a good sight to see a northward sloop tied up after the
bridge with no masthead instrumentation. We had done our best to time arrival at
the lowest possible tide (as such they were), no boats afro or aft to create
wash - we lined up and help our breath ... touching the antenna again on each
steel joist...and we were through! A bug releif to enter the Pungo River.
Faced with more headwinds, shoals either side of the channel and forboding storm
clouds on the horizon kept the concentration. Rounding into Bellhaven and into
Riverforest marina - couple of calls to the dockmaster to find a channel in
without running aground (!) - tied up just before the rains
arrived!
Phil & Di
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