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Old 07-17-2016, 06:21 PM   #8
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Oriental is quite remote and sleepy, however, Beaufort, Morehead City and New Bern are small cities with full services, such as medical and real supermarkets and other stores.But still sleepy compared to a big city? Absolutely. A noted above, great cruising grounds right there (and well beyond the ICW) available almost year around. The ability to boat in our preferred style (anchoring out in fun and beautiful places) in a nice area year around is an important parameter for us.

In general, if you are not going to live aboard, better to have the boat near as possible to the cruising, and the house further inland if that is more economical or otherwise preferred) as opposed to the boat well away from the cruising. Much faster and cheaper to drive the car to the boat than the boat to the cruising grounds. For instance, we unscientifically observed that boats in inland New Bern tend to leave their slips much more seldomly than the boats in the marina we used in coastal Morehead City.
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