{"id":6285,"date":"2016-11-03T19:03:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T19:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=6285"},"modified":"2016-11-03T19:03:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T19:03:50","slug":"the-home-stretch-for-now-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=6285","title":{"rendered":"The home stretch, for now at least…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Thursday afternoon and we are closing in on the canal that runs from the Albermarle Sound south toward Beaufort where Pandora will be until I return in mid January.<\/p>\n

The list of items that need attention has grown in an alarming way including re-bedding of some ports and a few items with the engine. \u00a0 Oh yeah, don’t forget the new charger\/inverter. \u00a0That hurts… \u00a0All and all, it reminds me why I do most of the work on Pandora myself. \u00a0I\u2019d go broke if I hired everything out.\u00a0 Alas, no choice on this list as I am way to far away from Beaufort to come down and do the work myself.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it\u2019s a nice day with temperatures in the lower 80s but that won\u2019t last long as a front is coming through tomorrow that will bring brisk northerlies and much cooler temperatures.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was the longest day for us as we left at daybreak and didn\u2019t arrive in Ocracoke until shortly after dark a distance of nearly 80 miles.\u00a0 Going down the twisty channel in the twilight and then dark was a bit unnerving and I was very glad to have Jim along.\u00a0 At one point we nearly ran aground as the marks had been moved a good deal compliments of Matthew so the charts weren\u2019t the same as what marked the channel. \u00a0A combination of temporary floating marks and pilings sunk in the sand, many of which were unlit and hard to see made it just a blast… NOT!<\/p>\n

As we left today, the treachery of the channel was brought into sharp focus as we passed a large shrimp boat hard aground in about the same spot where we had a \u201cnear brush\u201d with a sandbar last evening.\u00a0 Another shrimp boat was standing by that hoped to pull them off. \u00a0Several hours later I saw on AIS that the boat was still hard aground and his friend was steaming away. \u00a0Mission NOT accomplished.<\/p>\n

The channel was so narrow that a ferry that was headed into the channel as I left the harbor stood by outside to allow me to pass.\u00a0 In all the years I have been out on the water today was the only time that a commercial vessel has ever stood down to wait for me to pass.\u00a0 Tells you something about the dangers in that channel.\u00a0 This is the ferry.\u00a0 \"11-3-16a-032\"The night before, when we were entering the little harbor a ferry came in right behind me and shined their searchlight on me as I was approaching the dock to tie up.\u00a0 It was unnerving, to say the least and the lights blinded me. \u00a0We tied up to our friends on Acadia across the dock. \u00a0It is indeed a small world to run into friends unannounced. \u00a0We enjoyed our visit.\u00a0\"11-3-16a-030\"So now, forgive me but I am going to bore you with yet another group of \u201csunset photos\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cNOOOOOOOO, NOT AGAIN BOB!\u201d\u00a0 Sorry\u2026 it was beautiful with more than a dozen shrimpers plying the waters in the setting sun.\u00a0\"11-3-16a-022\"Every few minutes the scene changed. \u00a0\"11-3-16a-029\"I was struck by this view that looked like liquid silver in the waning light.\u00a0 Not sure what I\u2019d do with this photo. Perhaps it would make for nice \u201cwallpaper\u201d on my laptop.\u00a0\"11-3-16a-024\"Tomorrow I rent a car to head back to Hampton to deliver Jim home and then board a train for Stamford CT and a visit with my friend Craig along with a presentation about Cuba to a group that I belong to. \u00a0The Corinthians are having their annual meeting on Sunday.\u00a0 Other than that, nothing going on, nothing of note at all.<\/p>\n

In any event, I guess you could say that I am into the home stretch, well at least the home stretch of this chapter.<\/p>\n

Once again, I can only say, “details to come”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Thursday afternoon and we are closing in on the canal that runs from the Albermarle Sound south toward Beaufort where Pandora will be until I return in mid January. The list of items that need attention has grown in an alarming way including re-bedding of some ports and a few items with the engine. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6291,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions\/6291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}