A Collision In the Marina

The wind is blowing and the incoming tide is flowing hard. The marina was, in our opinion, putting boats in places that were not appropriate. The real excitement was when a single engine trawler tried to back in on the inside of our dock. He lost control and hit the new trawler docked across from us on the next dock. Bounced off it at least five times and destroyed the dinghy hoist. Thousands of dollars of damage. Several other boats had great difficulty docking. The picture is the boat that was hit. The rub rail is ruined. Life sometimes is not easy on the ICW. This is why insurance companies exist.

Another Lay Day

Another weather day. The forecast looks OK to leave Beaufort tomorrow for Isle ofPalms north of Charleston.

There is pretty waterfront park in Beaufort. This picture was taken there.

Weather Caught With Us

We had planned to get to Isle of Palms north of Charleston today but fog interferred. We took a lay day in Beaufort today.If the approaching cold front is not too bad we will leave for Charleston tomorrow, otherwise another day in Beaufort.

The picture is the sun rising through the fog as we left Walburg Creek yesterday.

Made It To Beaufort, SC

We went outside from Walburg Creek to Beaufort. As is the normal circumstances the weather forecast was written by an idiot. No mention of a NE swell, or a NNE wind of 20 knots ( as opposed to a forecast of light and variable 5 knots or less). Less then a comfortable trip but here we are. Moving along to Charleston tomorrow. On we go.

A Lot of Miles in OneDay

On Saturday we left Fernandia Beach and went outside about 6 miles offshore and traveled up to Walburg Creek just south of the GA-SC border. This allowed us to bypass about a 100 miles of the worst of the ICW passage. It was calm out and the trip was uneventful. We did notice thousands of jellyfish, first time we had seen them in the ocean in very large numbers. Today we will go outside again to Port Royal Sound and anchor at Beaufort for the night. That will put us half way home.

Moving along

Making good time north. We reached Fenandina Beach Friday evening and are leaving this AM for Walburg Creek in north GA. Hope to be home in a week.

Underway for home

I have been more than negligent about keeping up the blog. No excuse just lazy. Anyway we are underway for home. We left Vero Beach w/o a problem this morning and anchored at Titusville at 1600. Things happened during my "blackout" including Julies new baby boy. I will try to add some pictures and commentary about some of this but not tonight; on to Palm Coast tomorrow.