Moving slowly

 11/20- We got a lesson this morning on getting our boat off the dock. The way we entered last night had us on a T dock but the bow was pointing downwind. It was a fairly narrow fairway and I was sure we could not turn it around with the wind blowing right down the fairway. I talked to the guy who runs the place and he was no problem. So Sandy came and helped us. He held the bow line and kicked the stern out and the wind just took it and we spun around as pretty as you please. He pushed us off and we were away. It was as slick as could be. 

    We also found out what all the hype was about on the Cape Fear River. The flood was going up the river and the wind down making it fairly rough. Fortunately we only had about a mile to go until we turned off into the channel and we had the current pushing us along.

We were only going about 6 miles today to get into a protected spot for the weather the next couple of days. We pulled into St James Plantation Marina around noon. Of course we couldn’t follow directions so we ended up in the wrong fairway and had to do 12 point turn to spin her around and get into our assigned slip. This is a gated community with condos surrounding the harbor. It is very well protected but there are not a lot of services here. The staff is very helpful and attentive. It should be an interesting couple of days. 

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