Voyage of QEII - Oriental NC to Norfolk VA - March 2009

Time came to bring our new to us ship home from Oriental to Norfolk. It was mid March and weather can be a bit bolloxy that time of the year. We were however very lucky and managed to time good weather with an opening in the calendar of our good friends Tim and Diane Leighton.

Tim and Diane had kindly offered to help us bring our boat home and we were happy to take them up on that offer!

Tim and Diane owns a nearly identical Catalina 400, "Magic", of the same year model and only a few hull numbers apart from ours.

Anyways, we hopped in a truck fully loaded with gear and headed down to Oriental on a Tuesday night.

Early wednesday morning we departed Oriental for Belhaven. Arrived in Belhaven in the afternoon and tied up in a small marina.

Thursday morning we headed up the Alligator river canal to Alligator Marina where Timmy made a life long friend in Wanda the Marina Manager.

Friday it was off to Coinjock where we tied up for the night and sampled the Prime Rib, not quite as good as the reputation but tasty nonetheless.

Tim now has a new favorite movie ;-)

Saturday morning saw us heading north to Norfolk Waterside Marina and Sunday afternoon we docked Querencia in her new slip at Bay Point Marina.

All in all a very pleasant voyage up the ICW.

Some photograph from the Voyage of QEII