We had a very nice evening in Georgetown. Nick showed up for a few hours and we had a fine dinner at the River Room. He took off and we relaxed on the boat until it was Farkle Time.. Gosh we play almost every night and it is vicious but we enjoy it. I might add that lately I'm winning most of the games.
Karen got to sleep in this morning and make one of her complicated breakfasts. Glad she enjoyed it because no such luxury tomorrow. Leaving at first light.
The forecast has changed and it looks to be very mild weather tomorrow so we decided to try an out front trip from Winyah Bay here to Charleston. Buoy to Buoy it is 43 miles. Long inlets though so to shorten the trip we came out Winyah Bay today and anchored behind the Georgetown Lighthouse at the entrance to Winyah Bay. We only have to go 5 miles in the morning to the Sea Buoy then on to Charleston. If we don't like conditions we can come back in and continue with our slog down the ICW and make Charleston in 3 days rather than 8 hours if we can go out front in the ocean. Wish us luck.
This little anchorage behind Georgetown Light is very nice. AS we approached the entrance we had an ocean swell come in but once we turned into the anchorage it was gone -- just lots of current.
This is a great place to wait to go out or if you are making a hop from Cape Fear or Little River it would be a nice place to overnight.
We were first here around 1pm -- had a favorable current all the way here. Now at 4:30pm we have been joined by a large pleasure trawler and a sailboat, and we see 2 more sailboats and a trawler coming. They will most likely anchor here too so it will be a nice crowd leaving in the morning. A cold front comes in Friday morning so I expect we will all be going in to Charleston.
We are really in the midst of the mass migration south so competition for marina resources is fierce. We tried to make reservations for the weekend in Charleston but they are full. We will have to move on.
Wish us luck and hopeful the next post will be from Charleston -- on anchor since no room at marina.
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