Nov 7. We motored down Cape Fear River to get near an inlet that is safe to let us out to the ocean, but we should have a plan of where to go back in to the ICW, even if for a break. We spent hours researching the depth of inlets in SC. Finally found tide info for them- wasn’t easy. To make our jump to the ocean easier, we motored down the ICW a couple miles to just before Bald Head Island. The ferries taking people there passed us several times each way. We’ve heard it’s a beautiful place to visit.
The reason to go out in the ocean is to avoid the curvy ICW in SC. We can sail or motorsail in the ocean for the same distance between towns in less time and save ourselves stress of micro-navigating every foot. We would need to take turns navigating at night, unless we can get in an inlet before dark. It takes time to get in and out of an inlet and ya want to do it at high slack tide, which only occurs 2X a day. So if we find we won't make it in in-time, we'll probably try for the next do-able one.
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