Sunday evening

Sunday evening 205 miles from Beaufort
For awhile today the wind backed to the south enough for us to sail on a good line to Beaufort Inlet. It was glorious for a few hours. Long enough for us to decide to head for Cape Lookout, Beaufort Inlet and not go to Norfolk. That was fine until some showers came along and the wind stopped. With no wind we started the motor and continued on toward Beaufort. Now, six hours later we are still motoring to Beaufort, and will be for the next two days, or until the wind goes back to something we can sail in. The wind is back up to about 12 knots from the west and we are motoring straight into it at about 3 knots. It will be slow going. The hope is that we will be able to check in at Beaufort Wednesday morning. Whether we are sailing or motoring we still need to deal with the Gulf Stream so we are going south, now that we are motoring we are going a little south, hoping the Stream will whosh us back up to Cape Lookout.
Motor, motor, motor
Bill Doar
motor boat Advent II