Begin – 34.71N  76.71W – Morehead City, NC

End – 33.86N  78.63W – North Myrtle Beach, SC

Total fuel:  73.18 gallons

Travel time:  9.5 hours

Miles traveled:  138 miles

It was time to pack up from our Cousin Vinny’s and push on!  The morning started a little rough… wind blowing out of the SSW at 15 knots… the good news is that we where able to run the western side of the Bogue sound so we were in the lea and able to run in some calm water.

After Bogue sound it was all smooth running because of the ICW… while passing Camp Lejeune we got ourselves a real treat… we needed to do a little refueling and unbeknown to us we stopped right in the middle of a live fire exercise… WOW!

The bombs bursting in air and live machine gun fire made for a very quick refuel… I’ll make sure we get some of the video posted… it was loud!

We rounded South Port and stopped to refuel and lunch, we had lunch at the Dead End Saloon and enjoyed their food very much… we really enjoyed the clam soup!

We actually refueled two times this day, once in Hampstead and the second in South Port.

Pushing onward we made way for  North Myrtle Beach, we spotted a Marina named Cricket Harbor and had to make a run for it… unfortunately they didn’t have any sleeping accommodations, however as future would have it we bumped into a super guy that was working on one of the head boats and he directed us down the ICW about 1/2 mile, you wouldn’t believe it… once we pulled into this marina Steve actually drove his truck down to help us get squared away… so much so that he called his buddy Tom (which owned a slip at this marina) to see if we could use his slip… which Tom did let us use for the night and that was seriously appreciated!  Thank you very much Steve and Tom… it was a sweet pleasure to be helped like that at the end of a hard day!

So we checked into the Holiday Inn Express had are really nice dinner and Clarks restaurant and called it a night.

Over & Out

Captain Kelly, SPC
(Self Proclaimed Captain)