Day 231: Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Port to Port: Morehead City to Cedar Creek Anchorage

Underway: 12:20 pm      Motor Off: 5:05 pm      Miles Traveled:       Stayed At: Anchor

First Things First: Found our first puffer fish laying on the dock this morning – threw him back in.

Mile 205 to Mile 187: After an unexpectedly long but fun stay at Portside Marina in Morehead City, we finally cast off our lines after lunch for a short cruise up river to an anchorage about 18 miles away. It took us forever – against a strong north wind and an equally strong unfavorable current. We averaged somewhere around 4 mph. At least the sun finally made an appearance after hiding for several days and the clouds cleared out completely by the time we were anchored.

Boris purred like a kitten all the way today. We are always nervous but especially so after he got twisted around and bent. You never know what could have been messed up. Surprisingly, he started the first pull both for my test after I remounted him and when we left. So far, so good.

We are excited to get moving again and finish up the next 200 miles. We will need a good weather window to get across a couple large shallow bodies of water but all we can do is take it one day at a time and see where we get. We aren’t on a schedule or in a hurry which makes for much safer travel. We will get there, we just don’t know when.

Saying good bye to our new friends Denard and Kay was hard. They have been incredibly nice to us and made our unplanned stay a treat. We will miss them and hope to visit again in the future.