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<\/a>We enjoyed\u00a0a pretty uneventful day making our way to Southport, NC. \u00a0For some reason this section of the Waterway has quite a few partially sunken boats as landmarks. \u00a0![\"P1020803\"](\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1020803.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nIt was time to change the oil in the engine so we decided to spend 2 nights in Southport and do some boat chores and enjoy some wonderful local cuisine on our “off day”.<\/p>\n
One of the services offered at Southport is a most informative and free\u00a0presentation by a meteorologist and sailor about the ICW and known trouble spots. \u00a0We attended the seminar to learn the latest news about potential upcoming hazards and conditions. \u00a0It was an excellent source of information and we used those notes for the rest of the trip, noting bridges that were not operational, new shoaling areas, actual surveys of depths in the channel, and one section where the recommendation was to ignore the channel markers and go outside the channel to find the deeper water – something we would never even\u00a0consider without the briefing. \u00a0 Thankfully we had no issues, but were grateful with the latest and most up to date information available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 23 & 24 April – North Myrtle Beach, SC to Southport, NC We enjoyed\u00a0a pretty uneventful day making our way to Southport, NC. \u00a0For some reason this section of the Waterway has quite a few partially sunken boats as landmarks. \u00a0 It was time to change the oil in the engine so we decided to … Continue reading Welcome back to North Carolina<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Our next door neighbor had a very inquisitive cat who decided to joined us and explore our boat, comparing the differences between her own motor yacht and our sail boat. \u00a0 We definitely enjoyed playing host to Tito.<\/p>\n<\/a>For our hospitality we were rewarded with a bowl of the most awesome crab bisque prepared by Tito’s mom. \u00a0It was a win win win for us!<\/p>\n