FL to CT Day 18
North Myrtle Beach, SC to Wrightsville Beach, NC
We left Barefoot Landing at 0715... it was the coldest morning we have had so far this trip... need to slow down a bit getting to CT...
Seemed like we fought current for most of the day but our average speed for the day says we had more boost than slow downs... Weird!
We arrived to Wrightsville Beach our destination for the day at approximately 1645... we were securely anchored at 1700... our position for the night N34°12.457', W077°47.901’. We traveled today for 9.75 hours covering 69.4 nautical miles averaging 7.1 knots.
Posting this blog entry at 2330... after stopping we had an issue with an anti-siphon valve sticking and flooding the engine room and starboard engine. 10 inches of water in the bilge and all four engine cylinders full of water. Spent the evening removing the water from the engine and bilge... NOT A FUN JOB!
All seems great now... bilge dry and engine cleaned out and running fine....
Posted at 11:35 PM
FL to CT Day 17
Murrells Inlet, SC to North Myrtle Beach, SC

Before departing we needed to feed SAILS some diesel... Wacca Wache opened at 0800 and we had the pumps running by 0815...
3 hours later SAILS was full... yep it took 3 hours to fill her tanks... the pump was really slow and we were only able to use one pump... when there are two pumps we try to use both at the same time... one in the port tank and in the starboard tank... not today... there was another boat already on the dock needing 1000 gallons and several other boats arrived that also wanted fuel... there was 3 or 4 others circling waiting for room on the dock to fuel... they were very busy which is understandable as they currently have the best price on the east coast...
We always thought SAILS held 1200 gallons of fuel... we found out today that she holds more... we put in 1250 gallons.
We arrived to our destination for the day... Barefoot Landing at approximately 1515... we were securely docked at 1530... our position for the night N33°48.091', W078°44.691’. We traveled today for 2.5 hours covering 19.3 nautical miles averaging 5.5 knots.


Posted at 10:45 PM
FL to CT Day 16
Charleston, SC to Murrells Inlet, SC
We departed from Charleston City Marina at 0715... planned destination Wacca Wache Marina.
About 30 minutes out from the dock the starboard engine temperature started rising above normal... engine room check I found a blown cooling hose on the turbo... we continued on one engine Susan at the helm while I replaced the hose... we were back up to speed before reaching Isle of Palms.
The we spent the next six hours fighting current and running in shallow water... 5 to 6 feet deep...
When we reached the Georgetown area we did get into deep water and nice boost of speed form the flood tide that we rode all the way to Wacca Wache Marina.
We arrived to the Marina at approximately 1800... we were securely docked 1815... our position for the night N33°33.738', W079°05.178’. We traveled today for 11 hours covering 73.2 nautical miles averaging 6.7 knots.
Posted at 8:35 PM