I have taken the Connie on the NC ferry system several times. First of all, don't bother calling them for any info, because they don't answer the phones, and if you ever do get someone on the phone, they don't know what to tell you. They provide no tie downs or anything else, bring it if you want. When you drive onto the ferry, the ferry people tell you, stay with your bike, we are not responsible for anything that happens to it. The ferry boats come in different sizes, and the procedure is different depending on which boat you get. Sometimes you get told to drive front tire first, up to the pipe that is a perimeter car tire stop around the entire deck. Several Harleys were trying to back them in, and they made them turn them around, that took a while. On other ferry trips, they just let us go right in with the cars. One time I was parked, when an old home brew Honda V bike worth at least $25 that was barely on it's homemade side-stand parked, leaning dangerously, parked right next to me. Sheer terror the whole ride! If the winds are up, you may get spray over the ferry's little side walls. One time the bikes were drenched with salt water over and over. Not good, as when you get to the outer banks, they treat water like gold and we couldn't wash the bikes until late at night when no one was watching. And we were supposed to 'stay with the bikes'? In a salty rain storm? Obviously the jerks that put us there knew that was the place where the spray would be likely.
