[Rhodes22-list] Bill W's outer banks trip

[William E. Wickman]

I didn't take any pictures traveling up Core Sound until that night once we
got anchored.  I was in survival mode and picture taking was the last thing
on my mind.  I didn't see any good anchorages along Core Sound past
Atlantic.  The charts looked like there might be something south, but my
steerage was really bad at the time and with the deteriorating weather and
waves, I didn't want to venture out of the channel at all.  The cut before
Cedar Island is pretty well marked, but I was surprised that the waves were
almost as rough as Core Sound even though there was a land mass blocking
the long fetch that existed in the Sound.  I think the high winds resulted
in any open water area being rough.  In calmer weather, navigation would be
a walk in the park.  The bridge was a new high rise with plenty of
clearance.  The final cut over to West Bay was very narrow and VERY shallow
at the edges.  You really have to stay in the channel through this stretch,
even with a 20" draft.  I made the mental mistake of passing the green
markers to port and red to starboard through the entire channel; or at
least until I ran aground north of the bridge.  The channel markers change
over once you pass under the bridge to where you should pass with the green
to starboard.  I don't know why they did that , but the mistake cost me
some anxious moments of getting unstuck while the wind blasted the boat
further onto the shoal and the weather called for lightening and gusts up
to 60 mph later that evening.  After getting unstuck, there was some really
nice anchorage past the cut.  It is all wildlife refuge so there is
absolutely no development for miles around.  It is mostly marshland and
really quite beautiful.  We rode out the storm nicely there.

Bill W.




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Bill:

Fantastic, your sunset scene will now replace Peter's!

Furthermore, maybe those shots will entice some other Rhodies to the area.

Are you hiding anymore?  Did you take any shots while motoring up the
channel by Atlantic and Davis?  Did you see any moorings in those areas.
How was the trip in the cut before Cedar Island?  Was there a draw bridge
involved?  Or is that where they put that new high rise bridge?

Whose boat has the line controlled tiller tamer?  I think that might be in
order for taking pictures.  I do not have the autopilot.

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA


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