Leg 1 - Monday, August 1, 2016

We were woken at 7:30 by a phone call from the electrician with bad news about the windlass.  Parts are no longer available for my model and new unit would not be available until late on Wednesday.  We figured out a way to haul the anchor safely without needing the windlass.  We decided to leave without it.  After returning the rental car to Enterprise, at 1310 we dropped the dock lines and headed toward Boston.

We headed up the Intracoastal Waterway toward the Pungo River and on to Belhaven.  We decided not to stop at the R. E. Mayo Shrimp Factory because there were no pleasure boats stopped there, only shrimp boats.  So, we continue on to Belhaven.

Jeff Jackel cooked up some stew in a sauce pan on the propane barbecue and we enjoyed dinner underway.  We pulled into Belhaven town dock at 2200 and tied up for the night.  We had traveled 61 miles today in 9 hours.  It had been a long day, but we are now back on schedule for the trip.  

Tomorrow we plan to head up the Alligator River Canal to Elizabeth City, NC, to spend the night there before heading to the Great Dismal Swamp Canal towards Norfolk, Virgina.