Coinjock Marina

Early morning crabber.

We leave at 7:30 and pass other boats still anchored, rather unusual for us. As we head north up the Alligator River to the Albemarle Sound we are inundated with horse flies. Can't swat the buggers fast enough, unfortunately we only have one fly swatter. After, we go through the Alligator River Swing Bridge with two other sail boats, that we realize we met in Bimini back in January, the flies get worse. Daniel on “Water Music” hails us on the radio and ask how are the flies on our boat. Of course I reply “What flies ?”, liar - liar. We have good wind across the Albemarle Sound and the waves are not too bad. 

 

Sailing on the Albemarle Sound

This Sound is only about 20 feet deep so the waves can build up pretty fast. And because of the shallow depths you can find crab pots almost anywhere. We pull into Coinjock dock wall along the ICW channel behind “Water Music” and “Wisp in the Wind”. For years our friends John and Genie have been telling us how good the prime rib is here at the restaurant, so we make a reservation. 

 

Coinjock Marina

John is right it is quite good. Most of the other cruising boats on the dock are at the restaurant for dinner. After dinner I get talking with Ivan who has a Catalina 34 about some cooling problems they had in Nassau. They were there for two weeks just before we got there with our rudder problem. We have the same engine so he “pops the hood” on the engine to show me the modifications that were done to their cooling system.