We signed up for the courtesy van this morning from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. with plans of going to breakfast before hitting the grocery store. The four of us returned to the Village Restaurant and had another very good reasonable breakfast. Our GPS indi…
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Oriental, NC – 7/24/11
Weather and wind kept us in the marina today. Still have strong winds predicted for tomorrow as well so it looks like Wednesday will see us leaving here. The marina is very nice and pretty cheap at $1 per foot and the courtesy van is also one of the b…
Oriental, NC – 7/24/11
When we came into Beaufort Town Docks it was practically full but when we were leaving this morning at 9 a.m. it was nearly empty. Apparently most folks are up and out before us.The current was again pretty stiff but neither of us had any trouble getti…
Beaufort, NC – 7/23/11
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…
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…
