Mahi Mahi – Monday May 19th: Tuckahoe Point Anchorage to Coinjock North Carolina

On Monday May 19th, we moved from the infamous Tuckahoe Point Anchorage to Coinjock Marina. Thanks to the weather watching we had been doing in preparation for crossing Abermarle Sound, the crossing was effortless. There was more wind than we expected, but the 55 mile ride to Coinjock was very calm the entire ride because we were heading into the waves.

The first event of the day was our passing thru the Alligator River Bridge. It is a14 ft Swing Bridge that opens on demand 24hrs a day. The Bridge was about 2 hours into our 6 hour trip. We ended up buddy boating thru the lock with about 4 other boats.

That’s when the fun began. The lock operator was hilarious, his voice was like a character out of Hee-Haw 😃. Here is a clip of the lock opening, hopefully you can hear the lockmasters heavy southern drawl.

Ok, then it was on to the Work Famous Coinjock Marina. At least it was world famous to Jerry. That’s all me & Deena have heard about for the last week – was Coinjock’s famous Prime Rib & the 1 Free Beer we were gunna get from the special “Coinjock Wooden Dollar” that Jerry had received at Coinjock, with his buddy Bob in 2003CY.

The excitement was building day after day, until today, when Jerry found the old Wooden Dollar Coin he had in storage for the special occasion.

Ooops- the special Wooden Dollar Coin was for Beauford Docks, not Coinjock !!!

Crap – we passed Beaufort a couple stops ago 🤣 😂 🤣

But the highly hiped world famous Prime Rib did not disappoint. It was an impressive 32oz cut. I doubted that me & Jerry could finish it, but I was sure that Deena could not. The bet was on – who could finish the 32oz Beast.

JUST KIDDING KIDS – we split the Beast 3 ways, had several delicious sides (baked potatoes, green beans, muffins), and were stuffed to the gills after the meal.

Coinjock is a pretty cool place. It is unique in that the marina has over 1000ft of linear dockage on both the east & west side of the ICW, running parallel to the ICW. The dockhands pack the boats in bow to stern but the dock is so long that many boats can tie up here. Several boats were asked to allow another to raft up with them to allow more boats to moor (including us). The dock is almost full in the evening and clears out by noon, ready for the next day’s wave of transients. The dock hands are very helpful and knowledgable about mooring boats of all sizes. We saw several vessels over 75ft long.

Then it was time for another Good-Night Tequila & beautiful sunset. Another day in Paradise !