Bennett Brothers Yard, Wilmington, NC

We left Southport on a rising tide at 9:45 am for a lovely reach twenty four miles up the Cape Fear River to Wilmington, NC. This is a busy shipping channel and there was a lot of ship traffic and channel markers to negotiate. We arrived at Wilmington and docked at the Hilton Hotel dock for a quick lunch while waiting for the 2:00 pm drawbridge opening. We arrived at the yard at 2:15pm but had to wait to tie up at our slip until slack tide at 4:30pm due to swift river currents. It is very, very hot and humid.