Day Eleven - Wednesday, August 7 -Arrival

We got up around 7:30 AM and went to "The Bean" in Oriental for coffee and breakfast.  They have some very tasty blueberry muffins.  We hung out at "The Bean" for a little while.  Mass joined us for breakfast and reported his house batteries were still charged, but his starting battery was dead.  It will not hold a charge.  However, he was able to start his engine with his house batteries and the engine is running.  We finished our breakfast and headed to the boats.  Rich went with Mass for the trip to New Bern.  We helped Mass maneuver around the other boat on the dock and the Ed and I untied Cachalot and followed Mass out of the harbor.

We motored all the way to New Bern because of the lack of wind.  We did see a schooner out for a cruise with their sails up, but they were running their engine to keep the sails full.

 Ed had the dream of sailing Cachalot home, but in August, there is very little wind in North Carolina.  

We turned into Northwest Creek and then made the right into the Fairfield Harbor channel.  The channel is lined with homes with their boats tied up right outside their doors.

We arrived at Ed's dock at about 1:30 PM and Sue was waving us into the dock.  Ed maneuvered Cachalot between the pilings and gently brought her starboard side against Cachalot's new home.

Ed and the crew walked up from the channel and into Ed and Sue's house where Ed, Rich and Jeff crashed for an afternoon nap.

A next door neighbor, Illes, stopped by to congratulate Ed and crew on our arrival and she brought a bottle of champagne as a gift.

That evening Mass and his wife, Nancy, came for a celebratory dinner.  Ed cooked steaks on the grill and we toasted with the champagne that Illes had brought earlier.  

It was a nice ending to our journey to bring Cachalot to her new sailing waters.

Lat/Lon = N 35 4.3 W 076 57.8