Monday 23 March 2020
Underway a little after 0700 with the rain holding off and
the terrific current which had flowed through the canal reversed and slowed way
down making it easy to get away from the pier.
We meandered down a very narrow and twisting waterway until we entered
Albemarle Sound, a 14-mile run. The wind
in this open, shallow sound can kick up a heck of a nasty sea as was reported
to me by a boat which came through there on Sunday. Luckily we got only a foot or two of chop on
the starboard beam which made one of us feel not too good, but it was all over
in a little while as our 8-MPH speed ate the distance up. Then we entered the Alligator River where we
met a boat I had been conversing with on the Trawler Forum. We exchanged pleasantries as we passed each
other heading to different marinas. In
total we saw about eight to ten other vessels today, all headed north. Then we entered the 22-mile long Alligator
River-Pungo River Canal which at its western end dumped us into the Pungo River
along the banks of which lies Belhaven, our destination for the day. We made quick work of mooring at 1823 in Belhaven Marina ending
an eleven-hour run of 87 statute miles.
Tomorrow we will head off to Morehead City, NC near Cape Fear.
