I stayed in Belhaven last night. A great little marina, but unfortunately, every restaurant in town was closed on Monday night. Fortunately, the marina owners took pity on me and loaned me their car to ride into town so I could get a sandwich at the local pizza place. It was the only place that was open. Anyway, food was okay and mission accomplished.
The other draw back to Belhaven is that the marina does not have any fuel. So I had to stop in route today to fill up the tanks. I stopped in Coinjock and topped off the tanks with 200 gallons of their finest. However, I had a timing issue to continue on to Norfolk. The last bridge I needed to get under which has a 12 foot clearance is on a restricted opening from 4:00 to 6:00pm. This meant that I would have to wait until 7:00pm to get under the bridge since this 31’ Albin has an air-draft of 12’6”. Fortunately, I knew the guys at Coinjock and they let me borrow a socket set. I had to remove the radar and the mast light to have clearance to get under the bridge. It was just a little bridge surgery to keep things moving.
Like a good NASCAR pit crew, we had that stuff off in 20 minutes and I was on my way. I had no problem clearing the bridge. As my luck would have it, after clearing the low bridge, one of the railroad bridges was down. I had to wait 35 minutes for that to open before continuing to Norfolk on my way to Hampton Roads, VA.
Tonight I sit at Bluewater Yachting Center. I had a nice salad for dinner with an amazing crab cake on top. The crab cakes are one very nice advantage of the Chesapeake Bay.
Weather is getting ready to turn really ugly. The wind is forecast to gust to 50kts on Thursday. I hope the weather man is wrong. The adventure continues…
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