As we sit in the cockpit with a nice cold sundowner, a calm sense of accomplishment settles over Team Helios. Starting at mile marker 315 we dropped the lines at 0750 and motored North. After a nice drive up the Cape Fear River we headed through "Snows Cut" and into the coastal Intercoastal Waterway(ICW).
The new turbo charger worked like a champ and we made an average of 7 knots over the 7 hour sail. At mile marker 268 we stopped at the Harbor Village Marina. A nice place tucked into a cove off the ICW.
As fate would have it the sailboat that we were racing up the Cape Fear River is now docked behind us on the pier. According to one of the two guys aboard the navigator made a wrong turn and should have been going the same way we did. There was much ribbing going on. It is a newly bought boat and they are returning it to Annapolis. They seem to think that they are going to get there by Saturday. Good luck guys.
We are shooting for Morehead City tomorrow but we may stop sooner at Swansboro.
Only the tide will tell.
Cheers,
P & J
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