Day Three
Well, at around 4 this morning (Monday morning) the wind finally clicked around to the southeast. Unfortunately, it also died.
Beginning at around 11pm of the first day (Saturday..it's getting hard for me to remember what day it is out here in the ocean, so I keep stating the obvious) we had been sailing, only using the engine twice a day for about an hour to charge the batteries. That ended at 4 this morning. It was great while it lasted. At one point early Sunday morning the wind started gusting into the low 20's on a beam reach. I was doing 11 knots - 7 knots by sail and a 4 knot current as a boost..awesome
Today is bright, sunny,warm, and no wind, so we are motoring to Moorhead city (twin city with Beaufort, NC. We expect to get there tomorrow (Tuesday evening..see, there I go again) sometime between 6 and 8 pm. We'll pull into a marina for the night and then off at first light for the Pungo river (up Adam's Creek, across Pimlico Sound, and then up the Pungo to a marina near the entrance to the Alligator-Pungo canal (a 28 mile long narrow canal with no place to stop or pull-over. Then up the Alligator river to the Albemarle sound the up the Elizabeth river to Coinjock, home of the 33oz prime rib. Can't wait!!
Notice in the photo how flat the ocean is today.. And how empty. We have no company excepting some flying fish which come sailing by from time to time
If take more pictures, but they'd all look like the first one
I'll see ifI can catch a photo of a flying fish, but it's doubtful
Nope, no fish. Ah well
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