Wind Magic

and the final push home

March 13
Southport to Mile Hammock Bay artificial anchorage near Jacksonville, NC. Deisel at Southport Marina.
March 14
Mile Hammock Bay to Gale Creek (passing Moorhead City and Oriental)
March 15
Gale Creek off Bay River...

Southport, NC

March 12
Out through ocean again. Georgetown to Southport. Last ocean day, after this all ICW and Cheseapeake Bay. About 10 more days. Went to grocery store in Charleston, they were completely sold out of toilet paper. (luckily we are still...

Georgetown, SC

March 11
Left Charleston before Dawn, lots lights everywhere. Made it to Georgetown through ocean and anchored by 4 PM. Lots of discussions with Sean today and last night about Stanford going on line and asking kids to leave campus. Also, Sean wants...

Bike riding and sailboats in Charleston

Next day we went bike riding from near their house to the beach and rode bikes ON the beach. Very fun long bike ride. Drinks on our boat at sunset, watched college sailboat racers come back into harbor, and more equipment discussions on boat, then dinner out....

Charleston with friends

Lovely bridge lady held the bridge open 3 minutes extra for us (though she announced publicly on the VHF that she wouldn't) and we made the 9:30 am bridge opening. (next one was 10:30). Got all deiseled and watered up then met our friends the Thigpens and...