Day 3 - Norfolk to Coinjock

Guest blogger First Mate Martha
Today nothing broke down. We traveled south and crossed paths with three boats from the Norfolk marina. We passed about 10 bridges and went through our first lock, the Great Bridge Lock. It is a good thing we saw Rev and Sam of What Yacht to Do handle their first lock in our video prep for this trip. The water level changed just a few inches, but the whole procedure took 30 minutes. Of course, next we crossed under the Great Bridge Bridge. (That is the real name.)

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The day 's big challenge was handling the choppy, wavy North Landing River and Currituck Sound. The boats were tossed around like the Minnow and we (Bob) had to back off the throttle to gain control. Our companion boat out of Norfolk, Encore V from Chicago (about 75 feet long), was rolling around in front of us as we hit the boat traffic jam of about five boats in close quarters. It was too crazy for pictures. We felt bad for the sailboat (under power) that was passed by all of the larger power boats.
We overtook the tug Island Express pushing a barge of scrap metal and saw it come by a few hours later after we tied up Coinjock. Slow and steady goes the tug.

Does Coinjock live up to its reputation for the best prime rib on the ICW? It was fine.