Underway Again. Finally. Well, kinda.

Sunset underway enroute to Charleston.

We left Wilmington NC on November 18th heading for Charleston SC to visit friends we hadn’t seen in over a year. We decided to fuel up and then depart about 2pm to take advantage of the current going down the Cape Fear River. Since it would take 18 hours to get to Charleston going offshore that worked out just fine. But we soon realized that with the current behind us on the river as well as the Atlantic we would arrive a little earlier, say, 5am. Since it’s never a great idea to arrive at a new marina in the dark we slowed down our speed. Not a problem as it was a beautiful transit with calm seas. Good news was we didn’t use hardly any fuel.

The Coast Guard doing some buoy work on the Cape Fear.

We caught the Coast Guard doing some buoy work on the Cape Fear. It’s a massive job and you need to give them a wide berth and a slow pass out of courtesy if not safety. It’s always a good idea to stay on the good side of the Coast Guard.

We’re now on the “Mega Dock” at Charleston City Marina. It’s definitely different from Wilmington as the “transients”, that would be us, are bow to stern along one very long dock. There is no protection from the boats transiting along the river so we get some rocking and quite a bit of noise. We have noticed a high percentage of larger trawlers here though so we’ve been checking out the Grand Banks, Flemings and Kady Krogens. Quite different from what we were used to in the Caribbean and Bahamas. An interesting group to be sure but we already miss our dock mates from Wilmington.

The only boat in the marina with an owl statue to scare away the birds has…..wait for it….birds sitting all over it.

We’ve also been here for four days tied up at a dock. I told Gary last night I feel like I got all excited about leaving only to not really go anywhere. Oh well. We leave tomorrow for Hilton Head and we’ll finally get to anchor out at Skull Creek again to enjoy the peace and quiet.

Meanwhile here’s a few pictures from our last couple months in Wilmington.

Jason Alan came for a visit in September.
Our jack-o-lantern submission for the year of Covid.
We had an election.

2 thoughts on “Underway Again. Finally. Well, kinda.”

  1. You just passed our home in New Smyrna Beach while you were heading north up the ICW. Such a beautiful vessel! Safe travels.

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