Friday, November 4, 2011

We have moved.

However we are now a little further north.  We left New Bern on Thursday after waiting a couple of hours in the morning for the fog to dissipate.  We couldn't see the channel markers that are about 100 feet off the dock.

Once it did clear out we motored down the Neuse River to Oriental, NC.  We needed to stop at Deaton Yacht Service to do a short haul to replace our Airmar depth tranducer that quit working over the summer.  I had ordered a new one last week and had it shipped directly to Deaton's.  We were out of the water for only a couple of hours to get it replaced. 

We are now sitting and waiting for the rain to pass over.  Also there is forecast to have very high winds and seas for the next two to three days.  Winds to 45 knots and seas running up to 20 feet.  We have no business being out in that.  It looks like we may leave here on Sunday or Monday and head down the intracoastal waterway to Southport and see if we get a good weather window to head out for Florida.  If not we will continue down the intracoastal to either Wynah bay and exit there or go to Charleston and go out there.

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