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These are all the Blogs posted on Monday, 18 April, 2016.
FL to CT - Day 24
St. Johns Island to Bucksport, SC
The evening on anchor was great... nice cool breeze... windows open... 48°... Brrrrr! I ask why are we heading north?

We pulled the anchor and were underway at 0745... short distance back to the ICW and Elliot's Cut toward Charleston. EArlier I had seen C_LIFE depart the St. John's Yacht Harbor and just before we left another bost we first met in Delegal Creek Marina... BIRD OF PREY also left the marina. We followed them through Elliott's Cut and passed them just before the Wappoo Creek Highwway 30 Bridge... but soon they passed us across Cherleston Harbor... heard thema few times on the VHF throughout the day but never saw them again... very nice folks that were in the process of doing the Loop.

We had a falling tide as we Sullivan Island Narrows under the Ben Sawyer Swing Bridge toward Islae of Palms... in thepast this has been a real trouble area with very skinny water... last year heading south they were dredging this stretch and as we passed through there were no issues... appears the dredging is holding up well.

Can't say the same thing about the ICW near McClellanville... as we passed through this area is was almost dead low tide and our depth sounder stopped wroking a few times falshing that dreaded... "LAST" with 5.0 feet on the guage... we have a 5 foot draft so needless to say we were pushing through the mud a few times... hate when this happens... :)

As we were passing through Estherville Minim Creel Canal toward Winyah Bay we came to the Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center Bridge... this is a barge that they swings across the canal and drop ramps on both sides to allow cars to pass... in the last 15 trips north and south we have nver seen this closed... today ot was closed... w3e waited about 10 minutes and a few cars passed across... think it was employees as they all had the Wildlife Center logo on the side of them... slowly the barge swung out of the way... pretty cool to watch it operate.

Our planned destimation of Georgetown was just ahead... we had picked up the incoming current at this point and were being pushed 8 knots up the Waccamaw River... it was only 1600... great speed... we opted to continue till we lost the boost of speed... 2.5 hours to Wacca WAche Marina... a good stop... reached it and still had current... another hour to Bucksport Marina... we continued... arriving to Bucksport at approximately 1930.

We were secure at the dock with power at 1945. Our location for the night N33°39.046', W079°05.670'. We traveled today for 121 hours covering 83.12 nautical miles averaging 6.9 knots.
Posted at 8:34 PM by:Jay
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