Nicole and I in Cape Fear. Check out the palm tree. Just a little reminder of the changing weather as we move south. We are in shorts and t-shirts, but there was a quick shower.
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Close up of the little tunny
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Very happy to catch the first fish
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I have been writing about the ICW but I haven't really explained it. The Intracoastal Water Way is a series of rivers and bays that is connected by canals from New Jersey all the way to Miami Florida. The are pros and cons with the ICW. It is nice to be in protected waters when the weather is bad, but it also means we do a lot of motoring and not much sailing.
In the 885 miles of coastline between Beaufort NC and Miami FL there are 14 "Class A" inlets that allow us to get into and out of the ICW. On Tuesday we made a jump from Beaufort NC to Wrightsville Beach NC. It was 64 miles and took us about 13 hours. The waves and wind made it a less than ideal passage, but I did catch the first fish of the trip. It was a member of the Tuna family called a "little tunny" but our guide book describes it as "a trash fish with meat that is not edible." Probably a good thing, because I am not dying to gut my first fish.
Today we had a short motor to Southport NC and tomorrow we are looking at making a 24 hour passage outside the ICW from Cape Fear (not that scary, it is where Dawson's Creek was filmed) to Charleston S.C. We will leave the SPOT on so you can track our location with the link on the right.
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