We had some delays this morning. We had to wait 30 minutes for the bridge to open. Right before brown’s inlet the military shut down the icw for their firing practice or something. We had to drop the anchor in the middle of the channel with a bunch of boats
Woke up at 7:15. We were supposed to meet Bill at the marina at 8 am. When we tried to pull the anchor up there was a really bad snag. It took us over an hour to get the anchor up. It was stuck on some old rode from someone’s
We woke up at 6:30 and pushed off at 7 am. The couple we were docked behind said they planned on anchoring in Tina’s Pocket in the Cape Fear River. Tom and I planned to anchor there and headed out. We got through all three of the swing bridges today
We woke up today at 6:15. We carried on further north with the parade of sailboats. It’s so much fun going the same distance and following each other. It was very nice today. The breeze was perfect and the trees were so beautiful and green. I remember really enjoying going
Woke at 6:45 am and pulled up the anchor. We got to the wappoo bascule bridge and they opened on request. The weekend bridge schedules are normally a lot more laid back than the week days. It was nice. Once we got into downtown Charleston the wind and the current
We woke up at 6:45 am and pulled the anchor up. We averaged around 6-7 knots today and went about 55 miles. We got into our anchorage at 4:30 pm. We wanted to go until sunset, but the bridge going into Charleston won’t open up at all from 3-7pm. We
We left the marina at 9:30 am. We had a late start. We had to fill up with gas and water. We were on our way and went through the causton bluff bascule bridge. It was pleasant today. We averaged around 6-9 knots. There were a lot of boats with
Tom finished fixing the steering today and the bilge pump. He took an Uber to Home Depot to get a new generator. It’s beautiful here and I’ve been enjoying Savannah. The marina we are staying at is really nice. There’s a ton of beautiful large ships and yachts. We’ve eaten
After another life threatening occurrence, Bob is done. He’s had enough and is ready to come home. There was a terrible storm a couple days ago that was traumatizing. They were anchored, the furling line came loose causing the sail to pull out. This caused the boat to keel over
Salty Gal 