Went to the coffee shop at Wrightsville Beach one more time to get on the internet. Pulled anchor about 0850, which proved to be about five minutes late . We reached the Wrightsville Beach bridge at 0905. After 0700 the bridge opens every hour on the hour so we had to weight for the 1000 opening. We slowly motored south for 30 minutes and turned around and motored back.
Because there weren’t any good anchorages we stopped we stopped at 1500 at Swan Point Marina near New River Inlet, which is about 40 miles south of Morehead City, NC. The small marina basin, right off the IWW, had a narrow entrance with little room to maneuver inside. There were a mix of local recreational boats, small-scale local fishermen, and cruisers. I had to go in fast because of the strong cross current in the IWW. As we pulled along side the dock, Dora handed the dock lady a spring line but it didn’t pull us up to the dock as it should have because we were not moving, stuck in the soft mud. It took an hour for the tide to come up enough to enable us to pull Seascape along side the dock. The marina was pretty rundown but nice in it’s own way. They loaned us a car to drive seven miles to the grocery store and back. When we got back, we washed the outside of the boat, washed clothes, and collapsed.
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