We stayed at anchor again this morning so Gale could complete the hull scrubbing project he began yesterday and Maureen could take care of some online business related to bills and budgets. We hauled up the anchor and motored out of the harbor at 12:15 pm to wait for the 1:00 pm opening of the Wrightsville Beach highway bridge. We had a nice wind out of the east and southeast of 10 to 12 knots and were able to cover 40 statute miles in about five hours even though there were two additional bridges that had to be opened for us to pass. With the wind and the motor, we averaged about 7 knots for most of the cruise. The afternoon was warm but not hot and it felt lovely. The sky was mostly clear.
At 6:30 pm we had come to our anchorage for the night. It was a little bay off the main waterway that had been dredged out for use by the marines of Camp LeJeune. There was already one sailboat anchored and a second sailboat entered the bay right before we did. We dropped the Delta anchor three times before finally deciding that we would use the Fortress as our main anchor. Fortunately, the Fortress grabbed right away and we dropped the Delta as a backup anchor. The bottom was soft mud so the heavy plow anchor (Delta) just drags through it. The Fortress was made for the mud!
The photo of the day captured the big giraffe in somebody’s front yard along the waterway!
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