Took the boat out for a shake down cruise. Found a couple of, small things that need to be taken care of by Hinckley's before we leave. If all goes well, they will be done first thing tomorrow and we'll be on our way before noon. We plan to go about 41 miles to Beaufort, SC and hang for a couple of days. Then we'll start on toward our first real destination of Oriental, NC and spend about a month. We plan to spend some time there doing some day sailing on the "outside" so we begin to feel more confident when we start back south in the winter. When we do start back south, we hope to be able to spend more time outside and avoid all the issues along the ICW.

We got the dingy motor back this afternoon and also took it out for a sea trail. All seems to be well with it too.

More as we start north