day two - Bay River and Bonner Bay

A calm, mosquito free night (surprising for Mouse Harbor!).  Southwest wind, pretty morning with the sun creeping over the horizon as the anchor comes up.  

6:45 Pamlico Sound, crossing mouth of Little Porpoise Bay, 4.0.  Round up to put bibs and boots on, lots of spray.  

7:30 tack to the west.   Big Porpoise Bay.  7:40 tack to the southeast.  7:55 tack towards Middle Bay.  8:10 tack out towards the Sound.  8:20 in Middle Bay.  8:25 tack southeast towards Sow Pen Point.  8:40 at the Point, two quick tacks, then a third, then a fourth to round the Point onto Jones Bay making 4.0.

9:20 doing 4.6 with a green marker ahead in the distance.  Spray coming over the starboard bow, water sloshing about in the boat.  9:55 main and jib down, under power to the little cut to Goose Creek Canal and the ICW.

10:25 in the canal.  We follow the canal south, skirt around Gale Creek Point and enter a little creek just north of Bear Creek.  11:00 anchor down, dry out the boat, strip off bibs and boots.

12:10 wake from an unexpected sleep.  Sunny and hot.  I guess I needed the rest.

12:40 sail off anchor.  Raise centerboard and rudder to slip over a shoal.  Out on the Bay River less wind than this morning.

1:30 tacking up the Bay River, 3.9.  2:30 at green marker "5" come about to head back down the river.  2:40 doing 5.7 in afternoon gusts.  2:50 tuck in a reef, then skirt a long shoal.  

3:00 round a second shoal, slipping into Bonner Bay using crab pot floats as depth markers.  

Make several tacks up Spring Creek, the wind good and the water calm.  Wonderful sailing.  Bear to the east to where two small creeks open onto Spring Creek, charts showing three feet of water and there is good protection from the wind.  Anchor down 4:00.

32.99 NM