Adams Creek becomes Core Creek on the south end of the waterway cut which goes by Beaufort Inlet. We proceeded south under the Highway 70 bridge and around the south end of Radio Island. There the channel leading to Beaufort goes back north. We rounded the buoy and continued up to Beaufort. I had called the Beaufort Municipal Docks by phone earlier to determine if there was a space for us, and we radioed the dock just before turning east into Taylor Creek. They directed us to a great slip within sight of the bath house and along the famous Beaufort Waterfront. The dockmaster made us very welcome and treated us as if we were in a much larger and more expensive vessel! We paid for the night's slip rent and had a free drink at the Dockside Bar courtesy of the dockmaster. He also loaned us a shorepower cord as the one we had brought was not quite long enough to reach.
The weather was not forecast to be pleasant on Monday and Tuesday with high winds and rain predicted. We ambled around Beaufort (pronounced bo-fort with a long O) the rest of the day with our jaws hanging down and drooling over the various megayachts. Without exaggeration, except for a couple of dinghys in adjacent slips, which I don't count as they didn't have sleeping accommodations, we had the smallest boat in the entire marina. I guess that is something to brag about. Best we had, anyway. Oh, and no other boats had Tennessee registration numbers!
Beaufort Dock's slips are considered to be expensive at $2.00 per foot plus $6.00 for electrical power. Our cost per night was about $48.00.
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