Wind Magic

Almost at Charleston, lovely sunrise

March 9, 2020
It's been cold, we are travelling north about a month too early, but want to get back for a variety of reasons including Sean 21st bday. I actually have more warm clothes on board than cold. Two down jackets, 4 pairs wool sox, two heavy...

Sunrise and reflections

March 8 Left lovely Collawasee Island before sunrise, 90 mile to Charleston. Picture of Mark raising anchor . Very low tide during the day, due to full moon, actually negative 1.5 ft in places. Could not go through one of the cuts, but another sailboat...

Collawassee Island, and Sinicks

March 7
Visited with Ed Sinick (Nancy out of town) at their lovely home on Callawassee Island. House is on a large pond with resident alligator (we saw him, on opposite shore of pond from house) Lovely dinners, warm shower !!!, and nice bike ride...

Lots birds on sandbars

March 6 Travelling to visit cousin Nancy and Ed Sinick. Current with us, making great progress. Wind pushing us along. Problem with docking - winds were 30-35 knots and current at least 2 knots when we arrived around 3:30. Made a few attempts at docking...

FOG in St Catherine's Sound area

March 5
We really got hammered today. Started in dark 6 AM today to get through Little Mud river before half tide at 7:10 am. We managed this just fine, through the 8 miles from our anchorage by 7 AM. Sunrise is 6:45 AM However, as daylight came...

We miss the ocean!! another underwater photo from Chris from Cambridge Cay

March 3, 2020
Weather deteriorating. Parker now says ocean today is only for extremely salty sailors, so we are changing and going up ICW. Having Bursitis in left elbow so a little difficult to bend my arms long enough to type in addition to other...