Underway at 0700. We bumped bottom coming out the channel from the marina, but managed to back off and get back to the ICW safely. We are starting to encounter some smoke and haze from the swamp fire north of us. Destination today was the “freebie slips” at the new town docks in Morehead City,. I ran us hard aground in the small channel attempting to locate the town dock and had to call TowBoat/US to bail me out. We came out this channel when we were going south, but the “negative” low tide got us. I should have known better. After getting out of that mess, we were going to go over to Beaufort stay a couple of days and see the town. This was also not to be as we had arrived at the biggest sport fish tournament weekend of the season. There was no anchorage room or slips were available in Morehead City or Beaufort. The Dockside Condominium Marina dockmaster offered us the use of a T-head for the night if we promised to be gone early in the morning as he had big powerboat coming in at that time. Grateful for anything at this time of the day, we took it.
We cleaned up the boat, showered and went ashore for dinner. The dockmaster recommended “Floyd’s 1918” restaurant as a better choice to the usual “Sanitary” and “Capt Bill’s”. It was only about 3 blocks away so we walked there. The dockmaster was right. It was a very pleasant experience. The restaurant was located in a old home, nicely kept and decorated. The entrée offerings were plentiful and varied. I had the crab cakes and Donna had the shrimp and grits. Both meals were very good. We even tried the Carolina Blonde Pale Ales and found them to be flavorful and mild.
After dinner we walked back to the boardwalk and proceeded south to see if we could find the city dock area. We located the dock and noted we were only about 300 yards south of them when I ran us aground. Well, at least we know where they are and not to use the little north channel at other than high tide.
We arrived back at the boat after 2130 so we called it a day since we had to leave early the next morning.
Location: Morehead City, NC at MM 205. Boat distance traveled, 57 miles. Time in actual transit, 10 hours. Top speed 8.0 mph, average speed 5.6 mph
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