2024 Schedule

DATE LOCATION LAUNCH TIME RESULT
1 March 23, 2024 ROANOKE RIVER Shipyard Landing (Cashoke) 7:30-3:30
2 April 27-28, 2024 KERR LAKE Bullocksville 7-3
3 May 18-19, 2024 CHOWAN RIVER Cannon's Ferry 6:30-2:30
4 June 22, 2024 NEUSE RIVER Cool Springs Landing 6-2
5 July 6/27, 2024 OPTIONAL TBD
6 Aug 10/17/31, 2024 OPTIONAL TBD
7 Sept 14, 2024 TRANTER'S CREEK Mason's Landing 6:30-2:30
8 Oct 19-20, 2024 ROANOKE RIVER Water Street / Jamesville (Astoria) 7-3
9 Nov 23, 2024 PAMLICO RIVER Haven's Garden 7-3
10 Dec 14, 2024 TAR RIVER Mason's Landing TBD

TAR RIVER

The Tar River is a river that is approximately 215 miles long, in northeast North Carolina flowing generally southeast to an estuary of Pamlico Sound. The Tar River becomes the tidal Pamlico River once it underpasses the U.S. Highway 17 Bridge in Washington, North Carolina. North Carolina was originally a naval stores colony—that is, the blanket of long leaf pines that covered the coastal plain was used by the British Navy for ships' masts and the pine pitch was used to manufacture tar caulking for vessels. The river derives its name from its historic use as a major route for tar-laden barges as they headed to the sea. The city of Tarboro is on the banks of the river. Recent research conducted by East Carolina University, Greenville and Pitt County historians has uncovered documentation noting that before the Civil War, the North Carolina Legislature had appropriated funds to construct dams and locks on the Tar River in an attempt to facilitate almost year-round navigation for the farm products and naval stores shipping plus passenger boats which were travelling between Tarboro, through Greenville to Washington.