We went sailing today from Valkyr’s new home. What a difference a face dock on the the ICW makes from being buried deep in a marina. Leaving is just a matter of pulling away from the dock. No backing and carefully missing the other boats in their slips or worrying about the current carrying you into them etc.. It also is really nice to sit on deck looking at the unobstructed view of the marsh across the waterway and watch the sun come up.
Surprisingly though not as long a haul to the ocean as from little river it was still a bit of a ride as the wind was on the nose most of the way to the inlet. On the final turn out the inlet we raised sails and sailed out. Winds were light so we had a long slow sail straight out till about 3:00 pm and then headed back. We had two large freighters pass us on the way in as they came out the Cape Fear Inlet. The first one did a bit to freak us out as they were on our port side approaching and wanted to cross bows with us so they could pass on our starboard. We went ahead and did as they asked and all passed safely but it was kinda weird that they wanted to do that.
After getting back in we did the docking drill and it was much less crazy than in Valkyr’s old slip. Even though there is a lot of current and cross wind at the new location becuase it is on a face dock the approach is wide open and your able to just ease in instead of doing Angela’s normal Capt’n Ron approach.
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