After a night filled with heavy winds and rain, we left our anchorage around 9:00 for a quick one hour trip to New Bern. New Bern is the second oldest city in North Carolina. This was our first visit and we weren't disappointed. We walked to Baker's Kitchen for brunch and then wandered around the very lively town for a while. Since the storms kept us awake the night before, we took a quick nap before our first MTOA docktails followed by taco Tuesday at Prohibition Restaurant. Wednesday started the rendezvous with a day of speakers and lunch at the Chelsea Restaurant. We had numerous speakers including the mayor of New Bern, a guy from NOAA who talked about various websites to find weather/water conditions, and a man who talked about the Lost Colony. The Lost Colony was a group of settlers from England who came to North Carolina around 1590, before Jamestown. These people disappeared and there are many theories about what happened to them. The talk was very interesting since it happened in this general area.
Thursday was the tour of the Hatteras plant. It was a lot of fun walking through all the buildings watching boats being made from bottom to top. There are huge molds that form the hull of the boat. We watched workers putting wiring into the boats, building the cabinets, and doing all the finish work. Most of the boats we saw were huge and expensive (over $1 million). All we came away with were t-shirts. We finished the day with lunch at Baker's Kitchen with Mary and Scott (Mascot), and David and Shelia (Mary Jo), then, of course, docktails later in the afternoon.
Friday we took a very interesting trolley tour around New Bern. There are many large, old homes with the wealthy building their homes on the corner lots. After that, it was another lunch at The Chelsea and then a very successful trip to WalMart. There were no formal docktails that night, so we had a small group aboard Satisfaction for docktails and then tours of the four boats. A nice end to the week.
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| Finally a little blue sky after a windy, rainy night |
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| New Bern is the second oldest city in North Carolina |
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| Our meeting spot for the day |
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| Our conference room |
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New Bern is also the birthplace of Pepsi Cola
(in other words, you can't buy a Coke anywhere)
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| An entire store of Pepsi souvenirs |
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| Looking down one of the main streets |
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| Another main street |
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| Our party area for docktails |
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Getting ready to tour the Hatteras plant
(no pictures were allowed to be taken inside)
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| Lunch with David, Jack, me, Mary, Scott and Shelia |
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Since North Carolina is known for its black bear population,
there are painted bears all over town - some are standing
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Some are on all fours
(this is the Learning Bear - they all have specific names)
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| The original governor's house built in 1790 |
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| A beautiful Episcopal Church |
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| Our restaurant for Taco Tuesday |
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| One of several old cemeteries in New Bern |
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| Another beautiful old church |
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| This house belonged to the inventor of Pepsi Cola |
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Docktails with Tom and Brenda (Kissed Some Frogs), Steve (Satisfaction),
Sam and Jerry (Tanuki), Susan (Satisfaction), and Jack
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| Our last sunset over New Bern |
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It was like meeting an old friend when I saw this at
WalMart. This is the farthest north we have been
able to find Blue Bell
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The marina is part of a Hilton Hotel
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