Day 5: Pungo River to Beaufort, NC | |
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After the Pamlico River we entered the Neuse River and encountered more traffic both pleasure and commercial, including this off shore trawler, a tug boat pushing a large barge and numerous large powerboats.
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At 4:00 PM we were still more than 3 nm from the
bridge (blue arrow on chart) and we knew it would be close if we were to make the 4:30 opening.
As it was we arrived at 4:27 and had to wait only a few minutes for the
opening and then entered the Beaufort harbor and berthed Sarah at the
Beaufort Town Dock (red arrow on chart). We had hoped to depart Beaufort either Wednesday or Thursday for the ocean sail outside as far as practical - hopefully all the way to Fort Pierce. However the remnants of Tropical Storm Mathew had other plans. By Wednesday the winds were out of the SSE at 15 - 20 kts with thunderstorms threatening. The forecast was for the winds to build and remain out of the south through Friday with gale force winds expected on Friday. That put an ocean sail out of the question for the next few days, it also made traveling further on the ICW pretty undesirable. Therefore we elected to remain in Beaufort until the weather improved, probably until Saturday or even Sunday. |
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