day ten - the tides and shoals of Barden Inlet

A choppy night. The wind swung to the north and strengthened. SPARTINA was exposed to wind and chop coming down about the mile-long fetch of Cape Lookout Bight. A bumpy night, got some sleep somehow. Sleep in, wake to a cool north wind. Hot chocolate and freeze-dried scrambled eggs for breakfast. 9:35 sails up with a single reef in the main. 1.8 downwind following the channel that heads south then…