To Wrightsville Beach

 Departed at 9am on Saturday morning.  Waited for a Commerical ship to pass before entering the channel.

The current was against me.  It was supposed to turn around at 11 ish but I had turned towards Wrightsville and it seem the current there was different.  

I did motor-sail with the jib in a run until I turned off the tributary for Wrightsville which was more trechtious and with great caution, I decided to furl the jib.   Good thing.  It  was a good run,

At MM 283, USACE and Bob423 clearly showed the channel was shoved.  I saw a sailboat Le Vent try to go through it and I tried to radio her to be careful.  She ran aground and turned around.  I went out of the challenge to the port and then cut through the channel to the other side and cleared the shoaling.  I was very obvious with Aquamap.  I guilded Le Vent through it.  Love You Aquamap.

There was shoaling in the channel at MM293.  Bob423 are the blue track.  The red track was Bellum.

It was 25miles to Wrightsville Beach and another 30 miles to Hamlock Bay. There were no real safe anchorages that I could find so I anchored at Wrightsville Beach at 2PM.  It was blowing 20 knots.  There was a great 420 regatta.

I dropped the dinghy and went to the dinghy dock and walked 4 km to the Food Lion, had a Wendy’s Bacon burger *double and bought beer and some groceries and walked back to the dinghy dock.

The next day was very windy and I was tired so I spent Sunday at anchor  did some boat repair and cleaning   Tried to lubricant the throttle and shifter below the compass but the steel screws were seized to the binnacle casting   I got two of the four screws off and then dropped one screw down the cockpit drain   Supper was Salmon

On Monday, it was windy but calmed down and I tried to get to Hammock Bay, 30 miles  North.  The Wrightsville bridge warned us we might have to wait at Figure 8 bridge will only open if the winds calmed down.  I figured it would be fine.  I went about two miles and there was a 40ish sailboat aground on the channel.  She obviously did not have Aquamap which clearly shows the proper track.  I think this might have been the same guy on the radio earlier who was at the fuel dock asking for the Figure 8 bridge phone number because his VHF was not working.  Tow boat was there  

The channel was obviously shoaling

I got to the Figure 8 bridge and the winds picked up  after 40 minutes doing circuits, I gave up and returned to Wrightsville Bridge   

The ride back had the winds in my face and was a little rough.

On the way back the grounded boat was anchored in the middle of the channel about 1000 feet north of the shoaling  

A Storm Watch was announced.  I decided to anchor anyways.  Today’s trip was from 10:30 to 3PM