7/8/15

Leaving Great Bridge

We all have favorite and least favorite stretches of water. On e of my dislikes is the stretch up the James River, through the ship yard to the lock. Ships, tugs, no wake zones, dirty water, noisy ship yards and tons of wakes from recreational boaters combine to raise my ire. But now, that’s behind us; once to the lock it’s fine.

Currituck Sound was windy with chop. The wind carried spray over the bow so except for the area cleaned by the wipers, it was hard to see out the windshield. Thankfully there is not a lot of fetch or this could be a nasty piece of water.

We have done our last bridge openings of the trip. Approaching the dock at Coinjock was easy despite their warnings of strong winds and current. We have had showers and an outstanding prime rib dinner.

Wi-Fi is free but dead slow. I tried uploading pictures and it just ground on forever so I will post this later.