Quiet Night in Coinjock, N. Carolina

We rose early and were under way before 7 AM. When we are at anchor it's much quicker to get under way, we lift the anchor and motor away. When we are at the dock, depending on what the marina has to offer, we can have as much as four things to disconnect, such as, water hose, cable, and up to two electric lines. Not to mention all the dock lines, depending on the wind speed and direction we can have any where from 2 to 6 lines. Needless to say Larry is much happier to leave an anchorage than a dock.

We were quite amazed at how little boat traffic we encountered on the ride up to the first bridge. We were not the only ones in the anchorage Monday night but we were the first to leave and none of the others caught up with us. Not that we are fast by any means they just left much later. It seemed like the commercial boats may have been in observance of Veterans Day, we encountered very few of them.

The picture above is of three of the around thirty military boats at dock as we came though Norfolk. This is the most we have seen in port when we have past though Norfolk. It seemed odd and impressive to see them resting but knowing they would or could be deployed at any moment. I'm sure they get off the dock much faster than we do.














This picture is of the 15 boats we caught up with at the only lock we had on the Virginia Cut. Most of them probably anchored in Hospital Basin the night before and with the time schedule of the bridges and lock that helped us to catch up with them. I'm glad we didn't travel against the current Sunday night to get there, it doesn't appear like it would have gained us any thing in time.

Last night we docked at Midway Marina and met up with our buddy boat from the New Jersey Coast. We joined Rich and Linda for dinner at Crabbie's, the restaurant here on site. We caught up on all the events that have happened since we were last together. We are planning on traveling together today. It looks like they won't be going as far South as we will. Their boat is new to them and they plan to do some work on it. They are looking for a boater friendly town with easy access to boat stuff and supplies and of course a little warmer in temperature.

The sun is shining this morning and the temperature is to reach in the upper 60's with wind speed 10 to 15 knots. We will cross the Abermarle Sound and travel the Alligator River today. Our plan is to drop our hook for the night.