For whatever meteorological reason (there don’t seem to be any storm systems in the area) the wind picked up last night. Steady 8-10 knot winds increased to 15-18 knots and were gusting to 30ish. It was like sleeping on a rocking sailboat. So a little after midnight I got up and went out to yank the slide stabilizers so I could retract the two slideouts. (Yikes, it got cold too!) Anyway, I figured the prudent sailing advice to reef sails before you need to applied here, too. I’m thinking it likely reduced stress on the slide mechanisms, it eased some of the minor rocking action & killed a good bit of wind noise. And in a few minutes it was all about the zzzzzzz…
Headed back south 35 miles today to visit the Graveyard of the Atlantic museum and climb the Cape Hatteras lighthouse. More on that along with yday’s visit to the Wright Brothers National Memorial in my next post.