Hi, We brought Angel Louise from South of Morehead City where we were at Spooner's Creek 2 days ago. We are at Oriental, NC on the NW banks of the Neuse River. Last evening Tornado Warnings, and two squalls came through, We were at anchor in their small bay behind part of the sea wall, but the wind was direct on us for the first part of the storms. Angel Louise's DELTA Quick Set anchor failed to set the first time yesterday, but we pulled it up and set it again. Although it would have been enough, I took our Bruce out in the dinghy and set a second anchor well before forms were forecast for us, as we had a lot of wind and two boats close behind us. During the storms both anchors were prime at different times. Afterwards, around midnight when all the lightning stopped, it was a calm and nice night afterwards.
At 6:00 am this morning though, upon waking up, I checked the Oriental town Web Cam. They have two slips at the Town Dock. One of the boats that had been there for the two day limit left at first light. We scrambled, pulled up both anchors and motored over and got it. No electricity or water, but we have that already. So, today 5/21/08 and maybe tomorrow, you can see Angel Louise at the left side of the town dock! We are the big floating barge of a catamaran on the left side of the dock on the camera. http://www.towndock.net/harborcam/ Sailing in here, we had gusts up to 36 knots. We motored slow and used the headsail only partly out and did speeds up to 7.4 knots on the ICW coming up here. We will head further north tomorrow or the next day with a plan to spend some more time in Elizabeth City, NC when we get up to the Great Dismal Swamp. We will send some more photos of Oriental later. HAVE A GREAT DAY. Ed & Sue Ed Kelly (& Sue Kelly) USSV Angel Louise - lying Oriental, NC heading North bound Our Skype Phone (202) 657-6357 Email: EdKelly ("at" symbol) netins.net _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
