Passage - Casper’s Marina to Dockside Marina, Wrightsville Beach, NC
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
56 miles 9.8 Engine Hours
7:50AM Underway
4:14PM Docked inside face dock
Nice ride yesterday. Started out chilly with a NE wind 10-15kts pretty much behind us the entire trip to Wrightsville Beach.
About 8 miles passing Camp LeJeune the boat felt a concussion from something big exploding. We felt a few more of these explosions and I wonder what that sounded like closer. Wow.
The New River Inlet markers were a mess. You had to go what looked like aground to be in the deeper water. And, then it got shallow really quickly. The sailboat ahead of me grounded and spun sideways in the current. I only had about 3’ under our keel and then headed to the next temporary marker and finally it got back to normal depths and normal marker arrangements. I’m not sure if the inlet was messed up by the hurricanes recently or other natural reasons. But, inlets in general have very shifting shoal areas.
We had a difficult time finding a slip for the night in Wrightsville Beach. We did finally get a slip at a nice restaurant. We met an interesting couple that had been traveling on their boat for 11 years. I spoke mainly with the guy and Susan his wife. You need those discussions every once in a while. Both of those people were having physical things happen and were going to have to have knee replacements etc. It seems to come with our age. HA.
I was pretty tired and it wasn’t long after getting back to the boat from the restaurant I fell asleep watching TV.
Today’s picture is THE PINK HOUSE. I love seeing this house near Sneads Ferry, NC
56 miles 9.8 Engine Hours
7:50AM Underway
4:14PM Docked inside face dock
Nice ride yesterday. Started out chilly with a NE wind 10-15kts pretty much behind us the entire trip to Wrightsville Beach.
About 8 miles passing Camp LeJeune the boat felt a concussion from something big exploding. We felt a few more of these explosions and I wonder what that sounded like closer. Wow.
The New River Inlet markers were a mess. You had to go what looked like aground to be in the deeper water. And, then it got shallow really quickly. The sailboat ahead of me grounded and spun sideways in the current. I only had about 3’ under our keel and then headed to the next temporary marker and finally it got back to normal depths and normal marker arrangements. I’m not sure if the inlet was messed up by the hurricanes recently or other natural reasons. But, inlets in general have very shifting shoal areas.
We had a difficult time finding a slip for the night in Wrightsville Beach. We did finally get a slip at a nice restaurant. We met an interesting couple that had been traveling on their boat for 11 years. I spoke mainly with the guy and Susan his wife. You need those discussions every once in a while. Both of those people were having physical things happen and were going to have to have knee replacements etc. It seems to come with our age. HA.
I was pretty tired and it wasn’t long after getting back to the boat from the restaurant I fell asleep watching TV.
Today’s picture is THE PINK HOUSE. I love seeing this house near Sneads Ferry, NC
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