The day started with fog that persisted into the afternoon.
Some boats with radar left the marina and pressed on but we stayed. We took the opportunity to go shopping using the marina's courtesy car.
The River Forest Marina is pretty unique in that it is also a hotel that used to be a private house in another age.
Saturday 15th NovemberThe weather suddenly turned dangerously warm with temperatures in the 70's but threatened thunderstorms and there was also a tornado warning. Fortunately neither phenomenon transpired but it certainly kept us in the marina giving me chance to finish installing the automatic bilge pump.
Sunday 16th November
More high winds pinned us down for one more day giving me chance to install a Y-valve - don't ask if you don't know - the last of the big things that were to be installed.
Monday 17th November
Up really early (5:20) and we make the most of a good weather window and finally leave Belhaven heading down the Pungo River, across the Pamlico River and up the Neuse River to the sailing capital of North Carolina, Oriental which has three times as many sailboats as there are residents. Here we were lucky enough to find a spot on the town dock which has only space for two boats (we're the one on the right).
The picture is actually from the town dock web-cam (http://towndock.net/harborcam). This link should show us in real time (the picture is updated every 10 minutes) for at least another day, as we intend to stay here and weather out the 35 knot winds that are promised. If you pick the right 'slide show' you can actually see us arrive - sort of.
