[tartuffe]

Take the job, your only regret would be passing up the opportunity. You have protected waters via the Intercoastal Waterway most of the way. My only advice would be to make sure you have good charts for the entire trip. Having spent a good deal of time running the Innerbanks I can tell you it can get very confusing trying to navigate only by channel markers with multiple inlets and islands.

I wouldn't plan on running at night either in figuring my travel time. There are some large barges that make the waterway look much more narrow than it really is at night.

Take a picture of every drawbridge, you will have quite a collection.