Up early and away at 0700 to catch a favorable current down the Cape Fear River to Southport... current pushing us over 9 knots for most of the way to Southport…

Made the turn into the ICW at Southport and the brakes came on... 9.5 knots to 6.0 knots in just a few seconds... CRAZY! with the various inlets we passed we were up and down with speed... less that 6 knots and near 8 knots... overall it averages out but it sure feels good to be running along with the current boosting your speed.

Was pretty cold this morning when we left... 28°... Brrrrrr! We turned the generator on so we could have heat...

Not many boats out today at all... the last two days being the weekend must of been why were were seeing more boats... Did have one boat pass us that passed us yesterday... and they were moving fairly fast... planning hull so they should have been far ahead of today.... not behind us....

We made plans for tonight to go to the Alabama Theater and see the Christmas special so we needed to stop at Barefoot Landing... have not stopped here a few years... they revamped the docks to support small recreational boats and daytime use only... no overnight allowed... we'll see how it goes cause we are docking and spending the night....

We arrived to our location for the night at the Barefoot Landing at 1345 and were secure with NO power at 1400...N33°48.091', W078°44.691’. We traveled today for 7.0 hours covering 49.2 nautical miles averaging 7.0 knots.

Did not see any signs posted about "No Overnight" docking... we'll see how this works out... hopefully, we won't get kicked off in the middle of the night... but won't be the first time we have been kicked off a dock...