Our first night and we have reached Red Buoy 36 or mile zero on the ICW (inter coastal waterway). Across the way was Norfolk they were having a wine festival, the air was adrift with music and lights dancing on the water.
We made a reservation at the Waterside Marina the next day, so bobbed the night away on our anchor. The wind picked up quite a bit 10 kts and with gust to 15kts. We were traveling with the crew of Skye, and while they got settled into the Marina we went to get Diesel - oops. Calling ahead they said they had a small fishing boat and he would be gone before we got there. The fairway is very narrow, wind coming in and pushing us into the docks, where there are a mega yacht, fishing boat, sports boat and catamaran. Tom tried to get us turned around, but the wind was making it impossible and we are horizontal in a vertical space. I scrambled getting lines switched and tossed to the guys on the dock, Fishing boat scrambled out of the way, I ran to the bow to keep us off mega yacht and some how we got turned around and at the fuel dock. Leaving was no piece of cake either - but Cool Hand has no new scratches, Tom and I have a few more gray hairs.
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