Rude

Pungo River, N35 34 W76 28
November 7. We had a very strange experience this morning. We stopped at Alligator River Marina to buy diesel fuel. The man there who helped us was belligerent and rude. I don’t know what we did if anything to provoke this man but nobody should treat customers the way he did. Fortunately for us, we didn’t get overly upset and it didn’t ruin our day.

It was a fine fine day for sailing. We sailed some motored some and motor sailed some. We navigated some very narrow channels. We traversed the Pungo River canal. The canal is 18 miles long. It goes in a dead straight line through a wildlife refuge. The nature is very pretty. We didn’t see creatures except for a big dead tree full of vultures. The tree looked like a prop for a Hollywood movie.

Today for the first time it was really warm. I went for my after lunch nap on the foredeck but it was too hot. I had to go below.


Tonight the strangest sailboat I ever saw anchored next to us. It appears to be about 40 feet long with a 19 foot beam. The cabin roof is only one foot above the deck with black glass wrap-around windows, otherwise the deck is flush. The windows look like slits in a Nazi pillbox. It makes me think of the Monitor and the Merrimack and of the James Bond movie Doctor No.