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Explore Albemarle Plantation in Coastal North Carolina, Albemarle Sound, NC
An on-the-water retirement home or vacation home for those who love the rich cultural ports-of-call cruising waters of North Carolina, Albemarle Plantation Marina, a port on the Albemarle Loop and a CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, is located just off the AICW on the northern shores of Albemarle Sound on Yeopim River/Creek.
The only way to truly know if a community is right for you is to experience it for yourself! Visit and experience Albemarle living at its best: sail on the Sound, explore trails and nature, dine at one of our onsite restaurants, play spectacular golf and see a wide variety of properties. Plus—enjoy bespoke accommodations in Edenton’s historic district at the luxurious Inner Banks Inn. 
Now is the perfect time
to plan your visit.Explore homes and homesites.
Discover inspiring natural beauty
and our refreshing lifestyle. Enjoy
unforgettable experiences and
imagine your Albemarle Plantation
dream home!
Your Discovery Visit includes: - 3-day/2-night stay at the luxurious
Inner Banks Inn in Edenton’s
historic district. - Round of golf for 2
- Golf Cart, Bikes, Kayaks/Canoes
- Dinner at one of our onsite Restaurants
- Full access to Fitness Facility and
classes and Pool Facilities (when available) - Breakfast each day
- Explore downtown Edenton by bike
and discover the charming waterfront. - Plus, tour homes and see home plans!
Discover Albemarle Plantation | Plan A Visit | Contact us 
128 Lakeside Drive, Hertford, NC 27944 • (800) 523-5958 • (252) 426-4653 This Discovery Package is designed to acquaint you with Albemarle Plantation real estate opportunities. If married, both spouses must attend the property tour. Participants must live outside a 75 mile radius from the property. The $249 is paid to the hotel at time of booking. If customer does not cancel or reschedule within 14 days of arrival, the customer forfeits the $249 as a cancellation fee. Customer is responsible for any incidentals at the hotel. A valid credit card is required to reserve an Albemarle Plantation Discovery Visit. A limited number of packages are available. Subject to availability. Some blackout dates. 
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- 3-day/2-night stay at the luxurious
Hands-On Sailor: How To “Age in Place” On Your Boat – Cruising World
Harken makes all kinds of equipment that aging boaters can use to make being on board easier. Courtesy Harken
Hands-On Sailor: How To “Age in Place” On Your Boat
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Brownbag February 11th- Collecting Acoustic Data in the Coastal Ocean: New Insights from Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Brunswick, GA
Brownbag Presentation
February 11th, 2025
Brownbag 12:00PM-1:00PM
Science After Party 1:00PM-2:30PM
Brownbag will be held at the Susan Shipman Environmental Learning Center @ GADNR Coastal Regional Headquarters
One Conservation Way, Brunswick, GA 31520
Please join the GA Coastal Management Program for a Brownbag Presentation on Collecting Acoustic Data in the Coastal Ocean: New Insights from Autonomous Underwater Vehicles by Dr. Catherine Edwards and Frank McQuarrie with the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.
Gliders are autonomous underwater vehicles, or ocean robots, that fly by changing their buoyancy and center of gravity, which makes them a relatively quiet platform for collecting acoustic data in the coastal ocean. Catherine Edwards will give an overview of her recent work in coastal Georgia using gliders for acoustic telemetry and real-time monitoring of right whales using passive acoustics, give some examples of how understanding environmental conditions can help inform interpretation of the acoustic data, and consider how to leverage these data streams to design smart systems for fisheries science and management.
Science After Party: In the science after-party, Frank McQuarrie will dig into the data from recent acoustic telemetry work at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary in more detail, and consider what processes control the effectiveness of telemetry on tidal, daily, weather, and seasonal time scales, showing data from Gray’s Reef as evidence. The second half of the after party will be a group discussion to consider the practical implications for interpretation of the data for management purposes.
Speaker Bios:
Dr. Catherine Edwards is a physical oceanographer and Associate Professor at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and in the Department of Marine Sciences at University of Georgia. Edwards’s research focuses on answering fundamental questions in coastal oceanography and fisheries sciences with autonomous underwater vehicles, developing novel ways to optimize their use with engineering principles and real-time data streams from models and observations. Her work has been featured in local, regional, and national press, including NPR’s All Things Considered, Science Magazine, WIRED, Forbes, and The Weather Channel.
Frank McQuarrie is a PhD candidate in the Edwards Lab at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography focusing on acoustic telemetry efficiency. He first saw a glider at Rutgers in 2011 and they have fascinated him since, he loves deploying/piloting/retrieving them as acoustic receiver platforms around the South Atlantic Bight.
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January OBX Park News: Looking forward to another year of supporting our OBX national parks!
Your January e-news preview: 
A new year is upon us! For our team here at Outer Banks Forever, January is a time to celebrate the impact you helped us make in 2024, as well as a time to look ahead and plan our next round of projects in our Outer Banks National Parks.
Let’s celebrate together a few of the projects your generosity made possible in 2024:
We supported the production of a new video series following the progress of First Flight High School students who are a part of the Wright Flight Academy. These students are currently working to build an FAA-certified airplane in a workshop on the grounds of Wright Brothers National Memorial, the site of the first heavier-than-air, powered flight. The video series is available on our YouTube channel, so don’t miss it! At Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, the newly enhanced Freedom Trail was unveiled this past spring. This expanded educational experience, featuring artwork by Sonja Griffin Evans, life-sized silhouettes, and new educational signs, helps tell the story of the freedom seekers who risked everything to create a safe haven for themselves and their loved ones on Roanoke Island beginning in 1862.
This past fall, the new Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Pathway opened for public use! This multiuse pathway connects Route 12 to Old Lighthouse Beach and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. The final part of this project – expected to be completed this year – is a new family-friendly, accessible restroom and shower facility at the Old Lighthouse Beach access. Recognized as one of the best beaches in the United States for surfing, kitesurfing, windsurfing, fishing and many other watersports, these upgrades were way overdue and thankfully in place by the next time you visit.The more people and businesses who support Outer Banks Forever, the better Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial can be on a consistent basis. At REAL Watersports, Watermen’s Retreat, and Watermen’s Bar & Grill, the companies I co-founded here on the Outer Banks, we make sure that what we roll out to our customers is better every year than the previous year. And that’s what we want to see happen with our Outer Banks National Parks. Every time a family comes back, we want them to say, “Wow, this wasn’t here two years ago when we were here. This is awesome!”
Outer Banks Forever can – and does – make that happen with the help of people like you and businesses like yours.
As we begin a new year of work together, we’re also seeking our next passionate Director to lead us in our mission to protect and enhance our Outer Banks National Parks. We will be forever grateful to Jessica Barnes, our founding Director, for her incredible leadership these past six years. Until our next director is hired, feel free to reach out to Nicole Erickson, our Interim Director & Development Manager with any questions or needs you have. I am confident that Outer Banks Forever is in great hands with our whole team – Nicole, Rachael Graf, and our dedicated Advisory Board who bring with them an incredible and varied list of talents and backgrounds.
We have an exciting year ahead full of new opportunities! We look forward to partnering with you and updating you often on the important work we do together.
Sincerely,
Trip Forman
Co-Founder, REAL Watersports, Watermen’s Retreat, Watermen’s Bar & Grill
President, Outer Banks Forever Advisory Board
As you may have heard recently, the Bodie Island Double Keeper’s Quarters (Visitor Center) was impacted by a fire in the afternoon of Tuesday, January 7. Fortunately, the Outer Banks Forever store staff and park staff who were in the building at the time made it out safely, and the fire was extinguished without any reported injuries. Due to the interior damage the Double Keeper’s Quarters received from the fire, the building is closed indefinitely. The investigation into the cause of the fire, clean up, and repairs are ongoing. During this time, the park’s outdoor areas remain open for visiting. The annual Bodie Island Lighthouse climbing season, which typically begins near the end of April, will not be impacted by the current closure of the Double Keeper’s Quarters. We’d like to express our gratitude to the Nags Head Fire Department, the Roanoke Island Volunteer Fire Department, the Kill Devil Hills Fire Department, the Colington Fire Department, and Dare County Emergency Medical Services, who all responded to the fire.
“Cape Hatteras National Seashore is grateful for the timely response to this afternoon’s fire by multiple local fire departments,” stated David Hallac, Superintendent of our Outer Banks national parks, in a press release. “Their efforts minimized damages to this historic structure.”For more information, click here. How You Can Help: Our mission is to help protect and enhance our Outer Banks national parks, now and forever. That includes supporting our parks when they face unexpected challenges like this one.
If you’d like to support restoration efforts at the historic Bodie Island Double Keeper’s Quarters, make your gift today to our Parks Forever Fund. This fund allows us to pool funds from each of you, as well as our local business partners, to help our parks adapt to immediate needs as they arise and create a sustainable way to address longer-term needs.
We know how much you love the Outer Banks, and how many of you have a special place in your heart for Bodie Island in particular. To learn more about our Parks Forever Fund and to make your gift today, click the button below.Learn More 
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In the sixth installment of the Wright Flight Academy, students are kicking of the second year of the build with the class seniors taking the lead!Over the next year, these students will be completing the build of their very own, two person “flying machine” on the very grounds where brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright achieved their world-changing first flight on December 17, 1903!
We’re proud to support this program by sponsoring this video series created by Rayolight Productions. As videos are made available, we’ll be adding them to our YouTube channel, sharing them on Facebook, and including them in our monthly e-newsletters.
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Our Meet Your Ranger series introduces you to the many amazing people who support our Outer Banks national parks every day! This month, we’re pleased to introduce you to Taylor Evans, Partnerships and Programs Coordinator for our Outer Banks national parks!
No two days are alike for Taylor as she meets with partners in the field, visits park staff, reviews and drafts agreements, and explores potential partnership opportunities in order to better connect our community to our three national parks.
In her free time, Taylor enjoys trying new things, whether that’s reading a new book, trying a new restaurant, or experiencing a new part of the beach! Meet Taylor 
If you’re an educator, we want to help you get your students to Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial for field trips! Thanks to an Open OutDoors For Kids grant from the National Park Foundation, we are able to reimburse transportation costs (up to $1,000) for field trips for your students in kindergarten through 12th grade. We are thrilled to be able to provide this opportunity to get your students out of the classroom to experience the unique history, culture, and environment our Outer Banks national parks preserve!
(And this is a great way for your students to learn about and explore our Outer Banks national parks in the winter!)Educators who are interested in participating in this program and scheduling field trips to our Outer Banks national parks can email Rachael Graf, Community Engagement Coordinator at Outer Banks Forever, for more information: rachaelgraf@obxforever.org. Learn More Photo Credits: Alisa Hardin-Lapp, Cody Hammer – REAL Watersports, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Rayolight Productions, Taylor Evans, Wright Brothers National Memorial.Connect With Us!
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LNM: near AICW MM 465 Security Zone, Jan 19, Charleston Harbor, SC
This Safety Zone is just north of the AICW’s east-west path through Charleston Harbor.
Marine Safety Information Bulletin
U.S. Coast Guard MSIB Number: 01-25
Sector Charleston Date: January 16, 2025
Waterways Management Division
1050 Register Street
North Charleston, SC 29405
E-Mail: CharlestonWaterways@uscg.milSECURITY ZONE – Charleston Harbor
Charleston, SC
On Sunday, January 19, 2025, from 10 a.m. through 5 p.m., a security zone will be in effect for certain waters
of the Cooper River adjacent to the International African American Museum in Charleston, SC. The security
zone will encompass all waters within an area approximately 680 yards long and 500 yards wide. No vessels or
persons are permitted within the security zone unless authorized by official patrol. Official patrol may be
contacted via VHF radio channel 16. Mariners are encouraged to plan transits accordingly to avoid unnecessary
disruptions.
This MSIB can be viewed at https://homeport.uscg.mil/port-directory/charleston. For questions or concerns
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NAV ALERT: LNM: vic of AICW MM 465 Dead Ship Tow, Jan 20, Charleston Harbor, SCJan
This dead ship tow crosses the AICW’s east-west path near Patriots Point in Charleston’s harbor.
MSIB 02-25 Dead Ship Tow – USNS PECOS
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Ushering in a New Year on the coast – NC Coastal Federation
As we dive into a new year here at the coast, we’re already gearing up for some exciting events for our members and friends. From annual oyster roasts to new exciting happenings, we have a lot in store for 2025 as we work to protect and restore the coast. – Your Friends at the Coastal Federation
In 2025 the Federation will ramp up our work to protect and restore the coast by collaborating with and engaging people from all walks of life who are committed to preserving the coast now and for future generations.
For starters, we will be implementing projects within several of our existing priority coastal watersheds like Lake Mattamuskeet, Stump Sound, and Bradley Hewletts Creek. We will also advance our work to retrofit failing stormwater systems through a new pilot cost-share program. In addition, we will work with our key partners to restore ditched and drained land to improve coastal water quality.Our salt marsh team will be digging deeper into the 5-year NC Salt Marsh Action Plan launched in 2024 and begin implementing projects to protect and restore the vital coastal marsh. Part of this work will include both large-scale shoreline restoration projects and smaller projects through our successful living shoreline cost-share program. In addition, we will kick start a project to restore about 600 acres of coastal habitat.For our oyster team, 2025 will result in the construction of another 40 acres of oyster sanctuaries in the Pamlico Sound and 10 acres of oyster habitat in the southeastern region of the state. The team will also be working with partners to begin construction on the first shellfish aquaculture hub in Carteret County, which, once complete, will support shellfish growers in a number of ways. The team will also work to expand the oyster shell recycling program with the goal of recycling 14,000 bushels of shells.The marine debris team plans to remove 26 abandoned and derelict vessels while working with partners to set up a long-term state program to streamline the enforcement, removal, and prevention efforts. Finally, our large-scale debris removal efforts will also continue, with the goal of removing 500,000 tons of debris from coastal marshes, creeks, and waters.We’re ready to get to work and combined, these efforts will make great strides toward protecting and restoring the coast.
In addition to all of the work our staff and partners are doing this year, there is also a chance for volunteers to be involved in our efforts! So roll up your sleeves and join us at one of the debris clean-up events happening in our three coastal regions.
On January 20, you can join volunteers for the Coastal Clean-up Crusade on Roanoke Island. Then the debris removal efforts continue on January 21, at Morris Landing Clean Water Preserve, and finally, we wrap up this month’s clean-up efforts on January 22, with a shoreline cleanup at Hoop Pole Creek Nature Preserve in Atlantic Beach.
While we’re working to clean up the shoreline, our contracted commercial fishing crews are scouring the coastal waters in the NE and CE regions looking for lost crab pots. This annual effort is critical to ensuring that our coastal waters remain clean and safe for wildlife and vessels.
Learn more about the Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Project, below.
Tickets to our annual Hatteras Island Oyster Roast are now available but are going fast! The February 15 event is not to be missed, enjoy fresh oysters, clam chowder, cornbread, and other refreshments.
If you can’t join in person there are still ways you can participate in this signature event. Our silent auction will open soon and you’ll be able to bid on incredible items from some of our favorite local stores, restaurants, and outdoor adventure opportunities. You can even find spectacular getaways. Remember, members get notified when ticket sales open, so join as a member to hear about tickets first!
Want to be an Oyster Roast sponsor? There are still opportunities to participate in this sold-out event! Email Catherine Snead at catherines@nccoast.org for more information on this and other sponsorship opportunities.
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All proceeds from this event directly support our work.
Adopt an Oyster is back! We are once again offering this popular and perfect Valentine’s Day gift – adopting oysters for your special someone! We offer single oyster adoptions and group adoptions that are perfect for families, groups of friends, or classroom valentines!
When you adopt an oyster, you receive fun text updates about your oyster and a variety of benefits at different adoption levels. You can also request an adoption certificate to print at home at any time.
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For many of us, January is the perfect time to take stock, make resolutions, and get our proverbial houses in order. Updating your will or estate plans could be an important part of your January checklist, particularly if you have had any changes in tax status or anticipate any significant life events like a move, a marriage, or new grandchildren. Reviewing or updating your will in January can help set a course for the year and provide peace of mind all year long. An estate planning attorney can help you include loved ones and causes that are important to you in your will. Contact Development Director Sarah King with questions about including the Coastal Federation in your estate plans.
Looking for unique ways to promote your business? Visit our website to learn more about our Community Partners Program, which offers a wide range of promotion opportunities including this newsletter, print publication, and our online news service.
You can also promote your business – or a special someone – on our award-winning online news service, Coastal Review. Our new Supporter Spotlight opportunities start at $500 for a two-week ad feature in front of 60,000 readers per month. Promote your business or honor an anniversary, retirement or other milestone.
- Tickets are now on sale for Hatteras Island Oyster Roast on February 15 – Island Free Press
- Coastal Federation’s lost fishing gear recovery underway – The Outer Banks Voice
- From the archives: Groups clashed over Brunswick’s last undeveloped island in the 1990s – Star News
- Annual ENC Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Project is underway – Public Radio East
- Coastal Federation’s lost fishing gear recovery underway – Coastal Review
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