Bird Island Anchorage, just inside the inlet. Anchorage right off the beach on Bird Island. This was a popular Beach on the weekend with small boats pulling into the beach or anchor just off the beach. Yesterday gave us time to relax, regroup after the rough offshore passage. I needed time to plan the icw leg from there to Cape Fear. Sunday: just after passing through Lockwood Follies the starboard side steering came loose with no control of the rudder. Luckily the port side work. We decided to stop early in the Cape Fear River as it it started raining and visibility from inside was limited. I also wanted to try and fix the steering. In the evening we were visited by the security team quote Bravo One and quote from the nearby Sunny Point army base ocean terminal. They were friendly and said to radio them if we needed anything. I believe they were checking us out. That’s their job.