I checked out the courtesy car when the marina office opened and went back to the NAPA store to pick up the alternator belts I had ordered on Tuesday. I forgot to mention yesterday that while I was installing the batteries I noticed that one of the two belts that drive the 200 amp alternator that charges the house bank was coning apart. On my way to Moorehead City, I had to wait nearly 15 minutes for the 0800 bridge opening because the were letting all the boats through that had been waiting for the weather to improve. I was wishing that we were with them. I got back at 0830 and had the belts on by 0845 but we didn’t have enough time to make the 0900 bridge opening. We left anyway but had to circle back past the Moorehead City port to bypass the bascule bridge. We probably didn’t save any time but at least we didn’t have to wait for the bridge for 30 minutes.
Most of the morning was spent in a land cut going against the current. By the time we got to the Neuse River the wind had picked up making the nearly four mile wide river pretty rough and there were heavy rain clouds building to the north. We decided to head for Oriental, NC and call it a day. We pulled into a slip at the Oriental Marina at 1230, just in time for a downpour. The marina turned out to be very nice. After lunch I changed the oil in the main engine because it was raining and we couldn’t do anything else.
We walked a couple of miles to a small grocery store in the afternoon and got to see nearly the whole town in the process. We had drinks by the pool and talked to other boaters when we got back. We had fried chicken with macaroni and cheese for dinner. By 12000 the marina was full.
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