As we left Morehead City for Beaufort just a mile away, we passed this dredging operation at the mouth of the creek. Our slip assignment was a port turn between these two big boys and against the bulkhead, stern in to port slip which was challenging du…
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Morehead City, NC – 7/22/11
Shortly after 8 a.m. this morning while I was on the helm getting electronics up for our trip today, I heard a noise over toward the marina building and this is what I saw.Most marinas have a place where you can put your boat to be lifted out for dry s…
Swansboro, NC – 7/21/11
More $tuff & Quest pulled out of Beach House Marina at 9:30 for the 33 mile run to Swansboro, NC. Since we would be traveling through Camp Lejeune today and we had warnings that they close the AICW periodically for an hour or two or even sometimes …
Surf City, NC – 7/20/11 (pics 7/19/11)
Here are pictures from 7/19/11 (Wilmington, NC & Wrightsville Beach) that we were unable to load yesterday.Breakfast at the local dinner.Downtown Wilmington.USS North Carolina.Pretty homes. More pretty homes.Wrightsville beach.82nd airbourne buddy …
Carolina Beach, NC – 7/19/11
Road Trip ….In our loaner vehicle we decided to go out for breakfast then on to Wilmington and Wilmington Beach. For whatever reason, I could not get pictures of our outing to load today so all I can do is tell you about the trip.When we got to Wilmi…
Carolina Beach, NC – 7/18/11
Quest & Moor $tuff left Southport, NC @ 9:45 for the 16 mile run to Carolina Beach, NC. We have reservations at Federal Point Yacht Club for the night.As we left and headed for the Cape Fear River we passed the Oak Island light house.A large ferry …
Southport, NC – 7/17/11
Skip & I went to the marina office shortly after 8 a.m. this morning to settle up our account and by 9 a.m. we were on our way to Southport, NC ,a run of 44 miles.Here we sit in our slips at Barefoot Marina. This marina was directly across the AICW…
N. Myrtle Beach, SC – 7/16/11
Finally after a week of waiting, we need to get ready to move. Returned the rental car, mailed a couple boxes home, paid the marina bill and filled up with fuel (117 gallons @ $3.75).We pulled away from the fuel dock at 10:45 and headed for N. Myrtle b…
Murrels Inlet, SC – 7/15/11
We spent today getting ready to move on tomorrow by washing the boat and running a few last minute errands. We got a call at 10:30 that our mechanic had sent a runner to Charleston, SC to pick up our new oil cooler and that he would be over later this …
Murrells Inlet, SC
Still waiting on engine parts so off we went exploring … again.We talked to Skip & Barb and made plans to go to the movies and see the new movie Larry Crown with Tom Hanks & Julia Roberts this afternoon so to kill time, SHE decided to hit the…
