Diana Beading during Sandy

Our Anchorage during Sandy

Beaufort NC

Off off starboard Beaufort anchorage

Beaufort, NC Nov. 2

I everyone we had a very long day yesterday. We were up with the sunrise and slipped out of the finger pier making our way out of Pungo creek. We had to motor all of the way but a few time when we weren’t in a land cut we pulled out the headsail and it gave us sometimes a knot or more of speed so we were able to cover more ground in less time.

We stopped for fuel at a dock in a land cut 7 miles out from Beaufort. The tide was going out so right by the dock there was quite a current. It took a few tries but I finally got her to the dock without breaking anything on the boat and just a new crack on a board at the dock. Whew! We asked if we could take the time to hoist David up the mast to get the light, wind instrument and VHF antenna back in place. With only one more bridge to go under and it being dead low tide we knew we could get under with the equipment back in place. We made it under the bridge with dolphins all around and the sun just setting.

We anchored just inside the Beaufort inlet, made dinner and had a dark and stormy (for the non sailors it a drink with dark rum and ginger beer) then went over all of our weather information.

We are relaxing this morning. Tomorrow we will head out of the inlet and go off shore because we have a 24/36-hour window of fair winds to head south. We plan to make landfall in Georgetown SC. It looks like we will have a day to rest up and then another window to head out again. We will see when we get there what and where we will go next.