The downtown waterfront in Washington, NC is located between a railroad swingbridge and highway swingbridge. Each has only a 7 ft clearance so obviously they need to be open for us to pass. Waking up on Tuesday morning, we noticed the RR bridge was closed. When a train comes, it closed for until it passes. Then it remains open to allow boats to go through.
Welllllll, the bridge remained closed all day! We found out that there was a broken gear and it could not be opened. Trapped between two bridges. Now, Washington is a nice little town but not exactly the place we had planned to spend the winter. Wednesday morning and the bridge is still closed. A call to the bridge operator revealed that a part was to arrive this morning and, with luck it should be re-opened by noon.
While waiting for the bridge to open, a salty old guy came on the dock to our boat. While talking to him we realized he was "Skipper Bob". He and his wife Elaine publishe a number of the ICW "bibles" which have proven invaluable to us. We had a nice chat about the condition of the Waterway.
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