Day 39, Saturday,
November 5, 2016
You can monitor my trip at the link: Second Winds Progress Live
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| Typical view in the cypress swamp. Note faint high water mark on the trees. |
We were advised that we
should probably get underway early so that the tall boats could pass under the
one bridge that we would encounter and the tidal currents would be in our favor
at least for the first part of the trip.
So to honor that suggestion, I overslept. I had just enough time to fix some sausage
gravy over toast, get some clothes on and start the engine as the sky was
passing though the celestial phases of dawn.
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| A sad sight. Once she was a proud boat. |
It was cold. I layered up and headed out via the narrow
channel towards the ICW. We looked like
a pack of rats leaving a sinking ship as our 20 boats streamed forth. Sam and Phil, in their little Sweet Pea, lead the pack for about 5
minutes until the big ones began passing we little ones. It was a beautiful ride through the narrow
passages of cypress. In the beginning,
there was a light breeze coming from up front so our headway plus that moving
air caused the chill factor to dive well into the 40.
As the sun came up, I
slowly began to peel off the layers to the point I was down to
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| Kevin and Margaret's proud sloop Osprey |
a sweatshirt and
jeans. It never really got warm on the
entire trip.
The tide was indeed in
our favor for most of the trip. I cruised along at over 6 knots for probably ¾
of the way. The two tallest boats
reached the bridge at a bit before noon.
The first boat tried to go under but hit the bridge fairly soundly. The tide had risen enough that he and another
boat, Docks Orders, turned back and
headed for a marina that we had passed about 5 miles up the Waterway. I talked to him on the radio and he
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| I find this one curious! |
was
convinced that there was no damage. His
is the boat that we had practiced having me tip him over. I offered that we
could do that but he said that the wind and waves at the bridge were such that
he didn’t want to try it. There is to be
a low tide at 7:30 tomorrow morning and he will be able to pass through at that
time.
Three miles from the
bridge I entered the harbor of the historic little town of
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| Interesting sight. An old three master |
Georgetown, SC. Our marina is right on the Harborwalk that
affronts the main part of town. Our
guide book provides that the town was first settled in the 1700s and over time
became the center of the South Carolina rice industry. Later it became a steel town and now caters
mainly to the tourist trade. Most of the
old building of the main street in town have been nicely restored and the guide
book tells of beautiful old antebellum homes and live oak trees throughout the
rest the village. I plan to check them out tomorrow.
They were having a
“Taste of Georgetown” fund raising event on the restored main street of the
village. Their main restaurants offered
small portions of their wares out on the side walk. One could purchase tickets for $1.00 each and
use those in exchange for the food. Most
of the food items cost 3 tickets each so I bought 9 tickets. I ate
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| Sunup looking over Georgetown Harbor |
Mexican beef
tips and rice, pulled pork, and she crab soup before I went back and bought 5
more tickets. I used those to buy a dip
of sea salty caramel ice cream and a praline.
It was a nice late lunch. They
had a special. If you spent $20 you got
23 tickets and several of our group bought 23 tickets for each member of the
couple pair. They came back stuffed.
Later I invited Bobby,
Sam and Phil to join me on Second Wind
for some grilled sweet Italian sausage sandwiches. Bobby brought mashed potatoes and wine and
Sam bought chips and salsa. Bobby had
heard about blob cakes so we baked a blob carrot cake with cream cheese icing.
Kevin and Margaret came by and joined us for dessert. All 6 of us sat in the
cockpit eating the cake. There was
absolutely no more room for others to join us.
It was fun
I piled the dishes in
the sink with the intention of washing them in the morning and crawled in bed
at about 8:30. It was a good day.
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