26 Oct 2011, Helping a Friend, 34 02.538 N/ 077 53.496 W
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 Jule III is at Bennett Brothers but Bob went to Deale MD
to help Jaren move his Mainship 40 to Jacksonville NC where he and Nancy
were doing the right thing for their son and his family. It took almost
a week to get MV NanSea D fixed of all her little problems. Finally
last Monday, we left Herring Bay for Reedville VA. NanSea D was a
pretty speedy trawler and at 9 knots, Reedville was an easy day trip.
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 However, the weather did not want us to leave for four
days and so we stayed. We visited a very nice maritime museum which
depicted the menhaden industry in the area. None of the restaurants
would open for a couple of days, so Jaren became the cook. Finally,
we went to Tommy's one day and the Crazy Crab the next. We saw the
expression, "Save the Stack" everywhere around the town. We discovered
that one of the abandoned menhaden smoke stacks was rebuilt and
refurbished. It is a very impressive sight, especially at night.
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 Saturday, we left Reedville and hoped to spend the night
at Hospital Point. However, NanSea D was fast. We passed Hospital
Point around 1430, passed through the Gilmerton bridge just in time to miss the
closing of the Norfolk and Southern Bridge #5. We knew we could not
make the Deep Creek lock in time so we just 'putzed' up the creek and
planned to anchor before the lock. We realized that we might have a prayer of
making the locking at 1530 so we called Robert and asked if we had a
prayer. He said, 'you always have a prayer' Ten
minutes later were were going up the 9 feet with 4 other boats. We found
a place to tie up along the canal as darkness approached. Not bad
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 The next day, we headed for Elizabeth City where
we spent the night at the Pelican Marina. Bob had a great time talking
to our old friends at the marina. The following day found us at R.E
Mayo in Hobucken. There are new owners of the facility and there were
signs of construction but nobody was around. We had to hide in the boat
as the monster mosquitoes were out in force. This boat is fast! The
last night on the water was at Dudley's Marina where we had to tie
inside the T-head dock which limited our options for the next day.
Today we waited until 1000 for the current to go slack and (with the
help of the staff), we got back to the ICW without hitting anything. An
uneventful drive to Jacksonville climaxed our voyage on the NanSea D.
Jaren became an ICW voyager. He 'did good'!
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