Boat Weekend - short sail to River Dunes

Finally a bright, sunny weekend!!

We flew down to the boat yesterday and had a wonderful (chilly) sail.

I always love to see the boats with spinnakers flying....always so pretty and colorful. We'll have one some day...as it is, our boat does pretty well in "light airs" (read - very little wind).




We turned off the motor just outside of the Oriental channel markers and sailed up to River Dunes. It's a marina/community that is just being build about 10 miles north of Oriental. Here is Glory Days alongside their nice teak docks. Wow, how can they put teak down for docks? One little piece for the boat costs $50! A very helpful girl came out and helped us tie off.



Then it was on to the very nice restaurant for lunch.

Here is the view from our wonderful, sunny table next to the window.

And the food was wonderful!! And inexpensive, I thought. Duane's blue cheese burger and fresh fruit was $8 and my delicious Jamaican shrimp/chutney po-boy was $10. Those potato chips were obviously fried fresh moments before they were served to me. Always nice to find a place like this in close boating distance.


We ended up using the motor to go back home....the wind was right on our nose and we were chasing daylight.


Capt'n Karen all bundled up! Nice and warm now on the boat!