Coming in from Offshore to Beaufort, SC
When we had a good Cellular connection I called Craig to give him an update. I should never have boasted how we were “beating” the ride through Georgia on its convolyuted portion of the ICW. Georgia still made us pay!
About dark the previous evening that advantageous wind had now set up a wave pattern and a swell that was directly abeam of the boat causing it to rock and roll and yawl. The motion became alarming by 10pm. The stuff in all the lockers were banging and rattling. The Genoa was snapping from the roll so we pulled it in. We were frced to slow down so the motion did not become violent but we were now averaging less than 5 knots. It just got worse though.
I stayed up with Kourtney through her watch – not because she needed me there but I was more comfortable on deck. I tried to sleep but couldn’t. I joined Buck during his watch. It is just too rough tonight with all the lockers rattling and bumping and water sloshing in the water tanks.
Ohhh and what about the sloshing fuel?? I was worried that the fuel filter might become clogged and stop the engine. It was a restless night.
At day break we were approaching the Sea Buoy off of Port Royal Sound. We decided to head into Beaufort to refuel and rest. We were whipped.
When we headed into the Port Royal Inlet I left the helm and went to sleep for about an hour. Buck and Kourtney brought the boat back into the ICW. I rejoined just as we passed Parris Island on the way to Beaufort.. We made the City Marina by 11am and took on 47 gallons of fuel – 26 in the tank and 21 in the Jerry Cans on deck. We wanted a slip but none were available. A fishing tournament had taken all the slips so they could not accommodate us. We moved off and anchored just off of the marina.
It was hot with a heat index of 105 degrees already today – we need Air Conditioning.
I started the generator – no problem – then switched the transfer switch – Uh Oh – no juice to the breaker panel!! Damn!! I cut the switch back and forth a few times – finally power from a finicky switch. Oh the AC felt good..
We went into town for lunch -- very good and very coool.
When we got back to the boat we all went for a swim and took some naps. We went back to town for dinner. The place we ended at had loud music which was a downer for the dinner. Afterwards we took a nice long walk around the town and their Beautiful water front.
Back on the boat we went to bed early. We needed to be in motion by 6:30am to make the 7 am bridge opening. Miss it and it will be 9am before it opens again.
Ohhh we slept good in that AC. Hell we ran that generator for some 18 hours and the fuel gauge hardly moved – got to love it.
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