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These are all the Blogs posted on Thursday, 18 April, 2019.
GA to CT Day 3
Charleston, SC to Murrels Inlet, SC
We were awake early and pulling the anchor...underway from the Wappoo Creek anchorage at 0645 with a beautiful sunrise to watch as we headed toward Charleston Harbor. As we approached the Charleston City Marina a few b oats pulled out ahead of us heading north as well... they were running much faster than we were and soon were out of sight.

Another beautiful day and horrible head currents slowing down most of the day... typically seeing between 5 and 6 knots... we did have a few areas where we got a brief boost in speed.

We had a good tide for running from the Ben Sawyer Bridge to the Isle of Palms area east of Charleston.... We did have to deal with a dredge at work just east of Isle of Palms... they did not leave us much room to pass between them and the green day marker... a bit of a tight squeeze.

The tide was dropping and by the time we reached the McClellanville area it nearly low tide and the water was REALLY skinny... had two boats following us assuming I knew where the deep water was.... however, I did have a new tool this trip... the US Army Corp of Engineers Surveys... imported into an app on my phone... AquaMap... and it worked great... took us through the area and no groundings... a positive thing... Soon as we past the trouble spots both boats hailed and passed us... thanking me for leading them through the area.

We had planned to stop in Georgetown but at the last minute changed our mind and continued on north on the Waccamaw River stopping for the night at Wacca Wache Marina. We were securely docked at approximately 1845. Our position tonight is N33°33.724', W079°05.172'. We traveled today for 12 hours covering 74.8 nautical mile averaging 6.2 knots.
Posted at 9:15 PM by:Jay
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