Pulled anchor around 6:30am. Dense fog. Started motoring slowly using Garmin. Fog would lift then reset before getting out of Adams Creek. Lifted fully around 8am and I then sailed across the Neuse River at 2 to 3 knots. Got to Deatons at 10:30am. Pump did not come with UPS at 11am as they thought it would. Instead, it came by Fedex at 1:30pm. Poured rain from about 1 to 2pm. Installed pump while it was raining and pulled out of the dock at 3:30pm. Sailed about 20 miles with a 10 to 15 kt tail wind to Bear Creek. Great sail but an hour before I got there, within a period of less than a minute, wind went from SW at 10 to NW at 20. I saw it coming and furled the jib and started the engine. Motor sailed on a close hauled course the last 4 miles with just motor and main. Got in at 6:30pm - very nice anchorage (glad I had the Garmin to get in though).
Like motoring with your eyes closed. Thank Garmin - but still nerve racking.
New fuel pump and hose - no more recycling fuel back into the tank!
Adam's creek, across Neuse River, into and out of Oriental, Neuse River north to Bay River.
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