Calm, Open Water

The first day went very well. I picked John up at the airport at 9:00am. We stopped at West Marine for a few last minute things. We also stopped for some coffee as well. By 9:30 we were on the boat and stowing gear. We made a quick stop to pump out as the boat was full, and finally got underway at 10:00.

We ran out the Masonboro Inlet and up to Beaufort; a quick 70 mile ocean run. Seas were about a 2 foot swell, but about 12 seconds apart. Just a beautiful day. We would have loved to run up to Virginia Beach on the outside, but it would have been over 300 miles and we would not have gotten in until 10:00pm. So we opted to come in at Beaufort and run up the Pamlico Sound to Coinjock. It was a good decision as the sound was calm and we had almost no traffic. We covered 235 miles today in just over 9 hours. We got in at 7:15pm which provided just enough time to fuel and wash the boat before we lost daylight.

John got a good feel for the boat today and we had no issues. Tomorrow we will run past Norfolk on the inside (ICW) and then turn and go out the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay (weather permitting) and see if we can run all the way to Cape May, NJ. We might detour at Ocean City, MD if we run out of time/daylight, but I think we have a good chance to make it all the way to NJ. Then we will have a short run to Montauk on Thursday if all goes as planned. We will see how it goes tomorrow.





Lots of open water today, so not many pictures. I'll try and take a few more tomorrow.