Washington NC

We arrived in Washington on Monday, we didn't go into Bath but stayed another day at Dowry Creek. Our friends were waiting for us on the dock in the rain. What a welcomed sight. Our friends took us to the grocery store, West Marine, etc...had us for dinner Monday and Tuesday nights and we actually stayed in their house last night (Oct 27) It was a great treat, hot showers, good food and good company. We will probably leave here Thursday or Friday and head for Beaufort, NC and then on to Wilmington where we will have the engine looked at. We are still getting a lot of black smoke and the mechanic that looked at it in Washington recommended Mack Boring in Wilmington, NC (also he couldn't work on it for about 3-4 weeks....all the good guys are very busy). We are all well and enjoying our trip. Traveling on the ICW is a mixture of motoring through areas that are like canals(like the Cape Cod canal only with trees and stumps in the water) and crossing sounds. However even though the sound is a large area of water there is only a very small area deep enough to travel through, so we have not been sailing. The most we do is motor sail.