Spooner Creek Marina

We had our briefing for the next leg of our journey.  We will be encountering our first “trouble spots” on the ICW which are places where it is easy to go aground due to shoaling, strong currents or contend with other factors such as live-fire exercises at the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejuene.  We will also have to plan to arrive in time to meet bridge opening schedules.

Provisioning, boat maintenance and heavy duty shopping filled the day after the briefing.  Janet started her Christmas shopping and brought back a Little Caesar’s Pizza and some Arby’s roast beef sandwiches.

The SAIL fleet splits into three groups for the passage to Southport.  One group is going off-shore into the Atlantic to avoid the “trouble spots”.  A second group will move to Topsail Sound, anchor for the night and get into Southport Marina the next day.  The third group will make two stops before arriving at Southport.  The first stop will be at anchor in Mile Hammock Bay.  The second stop will be at Wrightsville Beach to anchor and dingy over to the South Beach Grill for “Happy Hour”.  The following day they will arrive at Southport where we will all be reunited.  Foreign Affair will make the two stop move with the second group.