After reviewing the chart for the Outer Banks Thursday night when we got back from Tim’s house, we decided to only cruise as far as South Lake off the Alligator River with our friends on Dave and Helen’s boat Love and Cheer and then head north to Elizabeth City. The entire Outer Banks area is very shallow with very few places to anchor a boat like Seascape that needs five feet of water. Love and Cheer only draws three and one half feet so they would have many more options where they could go and anchor without us.
We got up early and took Sailor to shore and then loaded the outboard and dinghy topside in preparation to leave. Dave, Helen, Fay, Jack, Annie, and Tim arrived in their 44 foot catamaran at 0800 and rafted with us while we all had breakfast on Seascape. We were underway by 0900.
No sooner had we left when Love and Cheer picked up a crab trap line on one of her seadrives and Tim had to dive under the boat and untangle the line. The rest of the trip was uneventful. It became so calm that Dave lowered his sails and motored most of the way. I anchored Seascape in South Lake about 1500 and Dave rafted Love and Cheer alongside. We swam and had cocktails and Tim and Helen tried fishing. Later in the afternoon the wind picked up and I was afraid that we might pull anchor with two boats on one anchor. So Dave and his crew cast off the lines and went a short distance away and anchored.
The whole crew came over to Seascape for dinner. Dora had baked a picnic ham, I cooked plantains and they brought salad, bread and another cake for Annie’s birthday since she missed the Thursday night party. It was a good meal with great friends.
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