We pulled anchor this morning at 0800... 8 to 9 hour day planned to Beaufort, SC. It was a bright and sunny day with heavier winds than what we have had in while... NE winds 10 to 15 knots steady all day... again today we had the typical ICW Yo-Yo currents... one minute we are going over 9 knots and then you drop to under 5 knots as you pass each inlet from the Atlantic.... overall we averaged slightly above our planned 6.5 knots.

We tried making reservations at Lay's Island Marina... we had never been there and thought it would a nice change... they were full... tried Safe Harbor Beaufort... they were full... even the moorings were full when we called... thought maybe we were going to have to anchor... then we found a slip at Safe Harbor Port Royal... a little further south of Beaufort but we could Uber to downtown easily.

We arrived to the Safe Harbor Port Royal at 1620 and were secure on the dock with shore power at 1630... Our location for night N32°23.769',W080°40.658'. We traveled today for 8.5 hours covering 57.0 nautical miles averaging 6.7 knots.