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These are all the Blogs posted on Friday, 19 April, 2019.
GA to CT Day 4
Murrells Inlet, SC to Carolina Beach, NC
We left Wacca Wache Marina at 0710... it was a dark and gloomy morning with forecast of 100% chance of rain with 20 -30 knot winds... cold front to cross the area late afternoon... not the best forecast for cruising but being in the ICW you're well protected from the wind... rain you get and as long as it's not a real heavy rain you can navigate without any issues.

virtually no other boat traffic out today... which we assumed with the forecast. We did have one boat that was docked at Wacca Wache in front of us leave just before 0700... they were very nice couple that we had dinner with at the Deck 383 Restaurant at the marina. They were on a 50ft Nordhavn and had been traveling non-stop since leaving Marathon... They came inside to the ICW at Georgetown. They were going to Southport to stop and visit family that was on Oak Island... enjoyed our evening with them.

We stopped at Bucksport Marina to buy some of their famous sausage... I love it... Susan thinks it tastes like dirt... But we always stop and pickup sausage.

Shortly after leaving Bucksport the rain started and it continued for a few hours... heavy for brief periods and then just light drizzle... not pleasant to cruise in weather like this... we just hoped to make it to our destination for the night before the line of the cold front hit... it was forecast for leading winds gusting to 50kts... it appeared as we would make it.

As we reached the Southport the winds started picking up...seeing gusts to 30 knots and the rain started... timing was good for current and we had a flood current pushing us up the Cape Fear River... 8 plus knots but the wind continued to increase... looking the weather radar the line of the cold front was very close to us... winds started gusting over 45 knots... never saw the 50 knots but there's really not much difference between 45 and 50 when it comes to wind... it was WINDY and ROUGH... our timing to make it to dock before the front was off... it was here and we had 5 miles to go... about 35 to 40 minutes if we maintained the 8 knots. The wind subsided a little as the leading edge of the front crossed over us... down to 20 knots... LUCK was with us... 15 minutes out from the marina the rain stopped... winds dropped to less than 15 knots and we were able to get into the dock very easily....

Arriving to Carolina Beach State Park Docks at approximately 1825 and were securely docked at 1840. Our position tonight is N34°03.014', W077°55.153'. We traveled today for 11 hours and 30 minutes covering 76.5 nautical mile averaging 6.7 knots.

Sorry no photos today... was just not a "photo" day with the weather.
Posted at 7:08 PM by:Jay
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