After three weeks of visiting friends in Wilmington we found our weather window to round Cape Hatteras. Most sailors avoid these waters like the plague. Thousands of ships have been lost here over the past few hundred years. See this site for details www.coastalguide.com/helmsman/shipwrecks-graveyard.shtml
In preparing for our trip we consulted the Navy weather site https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/public/ This site provided us with a three day window to make the passage. I wanted 48 hours to make the trip and an extra 24 hours just in case the low pressure system slated to come over the coast arrived early. We hit the window spot on. With a windshift in our favor at Cape lookout and again at Diamond Shoals. Thanks to the excellent forcasting by the above site we were able to arrive ahead of shedule and had excellent seas and weather.