Wednesday, October 26th, 2011, Mile Hammock Bay, Camp LeJeune, NC

  Happy Birthday, Jeremy!

  We made it through the 9am opening of the Beaufort Bridge, then through the turning basin into Morehead City and out into Bogue Sound.  Just before hailing the bridgetender on VHF 13, Warship 44 announced on VHF 16 she was leaving Morehead City and to give her plenty of space, that any boat coming within 100 yards could be stopped.  When we got into the channel we could see the huge outline of the ship, which was, luckily, out the inlet.

  The current was with us until Bogue Inlet and we made good mileage even against the 15K SW wind.  High tide was early so we would be going through some of the inlets at near low tide.  Geoff and one of the boats ahead of us kept up a running commentary of the depths and Browns Inlet with the dredge near the middle of the channel proved the most challenging.  We turned into Mile Hammock Bay and 14 boats are anchored here for the night, which might not be too quiet because the marines are doing some type of night maneuvers with the Osprey.