April 9th Saturday


 Carolina Beach to New River Marina (42.7 miles0


Well after falling asleep right after getting back.  I did sleep OK not great but OK I guess that is now the new normal, My hands hurt and I wake up.  So long as I am awake I play a game or tow on the Ipad and read a little then fall asleep again.


I must admit I pretty disgusted with the news so we won’t even go there.  Except to say it keeps getting worse and worse.


Dianne was out of bed fast for her lately up at 7:00 and breakfast done by 8 AM.  I guess she is eager to go as made me hang the Looper banner off the boat flag pole before she gave me coffee.  Talking about coffee that is one advantage of being on a boat having coffee whenever I want it after breakfast.  Just have to start the generator and bing bang boom Coffee without having to light a fire.


After breakfast plotted our course on the GPS on the boat and then deleted instead of saving so I had to redo the plotting exercise.  Maybe someday someone will teach me not to touch computers again. 


Tested out the mirror and back up camera and they did the trick they work really well and are easy to use.  In the end the 50 dollars were well worth the investment.   


The ride was from Carolina beach to New River Marina almost 47 miles.  With the currents and the wind we made good time and had good gas mileage as well.  Average speed was 6.5 miles per hour and the gas rate was over 5.5 miles to the gallon.


Sailboat washed up on shore
Note the eagle on the nest.


Just an empty beach

Stuff seen
  • Phil and Karen’s house (they took pictures I hope to post them sometime)
  • Lots of beaches
  • 31 boats (6 sailboats only one sailing)
  • A man on a powered serf board Really cool
  • One boat that ran aground
  • 3 boats that were rude passing me 
  • 6 kayaka all of them in pairs (one set had a death wish as kept in the channel and would move around the center chasing dolphins they are small hard to see and not everyone pays attention while driving,  Also some boats would not slow down so they could be easily flipped.)
  • 8 dolphins I can not say that some were not double counted
  • 1 wreck on the shore


Went to Bed Happy and Content

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