Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 Tuckahoe Point, Alligator River

  We had agreed to leave at 7am, even though sunrise wasn’t until 7:19am.  Three sailboats got out before us and more after with a parade of about 10 boats going down the Pasquotank.  The Albermarle was churning with waves all which ways.  As we got out into it the waves increased in size and we were pooped a couple of times.  We were all nervous about the entrance to the Alligator River and the increased shoaling, but we followed the markers and the parade of boats and saw nothing less than 9’.  We motorsailed up the river and by the time we got to the bend where it narrows to go into the Alligator-Pungo Canal, the wind had increased to near 20K and the waves with it.  Even though the wind still blew, there were no waves around the bend and we anchored in near calm conditions.  9 boats were anchored at Tuckahoe Point and 7 others anchored at Deep Point and Bear Point.