It is a very, very gray day today and all factors of grayness are present throughout our journey, drizzle, fog, clouds and more clouds. We left our marina and headed straight for the inlet to catch up on our time and avoid shallows. Thank God it was a short 20 NM run for it was a confused sea that we encountered on this short but bumpy ride. Cape Fear was our inlet of destination to seek refuge from the rough confused sea. Cape Fear is a huge river moving steadily and forcefully towards it’s delta where it deposits lots of the sod and sand that it brings along. Big ships have to go miles and miles out in order to enter their channel safely to come into that inlet. The Contessa, being a smaller vessel was able to cut that entrance by a great amount going through a western bar channel, well known by some good old captains, like Capt. Tom himself.
Up we go through the “Ditch” chugging away to get to Beaufort, NC for the night.
Here we need to refuel, make some fixings that became apparent on this run and have a rest filled night after a good meal that our “Swabbe” is to create out of nothing but with good ingredients at hand.
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