Sunday, June 1st
With great relief, we got off the cement dock at the boatyard and headed towards Swansborough NC. The waterway was good to us. We had the tide so the skinny water was within our realm and we managed to reach Dudley's Marina about noon. They had a courtesy car and Bill needed to fill his prescriptions. We also got some groceries and supplies. In the afternoon we walked around and found the Swansborough Yacht Club for a late lunch. This was not what you would picture as a "yacht club." This was a real country-style bar. But they had a deck for April and the food was not bad.
Saturday AM we are up and off again headed for Oriental NC, former home of WishBone. Again, a good day, tide was with us almost the entire way. However, once again it was a motor trip. Too many twists and turns to pull the sail. The wind picked up in the afternoon and really started blowing by the time we entered the Neuse River. We took a slip in the Whittaker Point marina and by the time we tied up - about 3 pm - the wind was blowing 20 knots. The wind blew all night and into the morning with small craft warnings flying. We decided our slip at the marina was the place for us. We did some laundry, lots of dog walks and took the dinghy into Oriental downtown. We found the town dock to tie up, had some lunch at the marina next to the town dock and then scoped out a marine supply store for some new dock lines (on sale), an Oriental Tshirt and a new pair of Tevas - oh, and one very good dog bone.
Tomorrow the weather is supposed to calm down and warm up (no North wind I hope) so we will head to Belhaven.
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