November 7, 2011
We departed Town Creek Marina @ 0715 hrs bound for Mile Hammock Bay at Mile 244.5 on the ICW. On this particular stretch of the ICW there aren't many places to anchor so most yachts choose Mile Hammock Bay for the first day. This is actually a military basin that is used buy the Marines at Camp Lajeune for maneuvers and training. As long as they aren't conducting live firing exercises, they permit yachts to anchor there. When we arrived, they were having some kind of helicopter exercise that lasted until around 1900 hrs. After that the anchorage fell silent.
We arrived at 1430 hrs and dropped anchor along with our friends on "Auburn Angle", a Tayana 37, who are traveling in the same direction as ourselves. We first met them in Port Colburn and again in Quebec. We traveled together from Quebec to Halifax. Once again we met up in Annapolis, MD and Beaufort, NC. It's a small group of sailors that are heading for the Bahamas or Panama Canal so you keep running into them along the way. There have been about twenty yachts in our rat pack traveling South. The secret to finding good spots at the various anchorages is to weigh anchor and get underway at first light. Nevertheless, everyone seems to find a spot: always room for one more.
We had wanted to sail coastwise to Charleston, SC but there is a subtropical system to the South of Bermuda that is generating strong N'ly winds and seas. The plan is to motor sail to the Cape Fear River in the ICW and see if the Wx moderates. If this happens, we will exit the ICW at Southport, NC and sail to Charleston along the coast. In the meantime, the ICW is quite scenic at this time of year.
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