Sunday November 18 Georgetown SC: Rainy, Rainy Days

Plans always seem to be changing. When we left yesterday morning we intended to travel the 60 miles to Georgetown.

It wasn't raining yesterday - cloudy, cool but no rain. Plus we had the current! There is an opening (to the ocean) north of Myrtle Beach that carries current almost 30 miles south. We rode this current until it was obvious that the rest of the 60 trip was going to be a fight against the current.

Change plans: stop at Osprey Marina - a mere 30 miles down the waterway - plus we were stopping for fuel anyway. Great decision - we were in by 1 pm and there were great college football games being played. What more could we want? Heat for a warm cabin and good football :-)

So a few jobs were done just to make (me at least) feel as though it was a somewhat productive day and then I camped out in the front cabin. This is a really nice marina even though there isn't really much around.

Up early this morning to catch the current again. It was slightly raining when we left and by the time we were out of the marina, it was raining full force. And windy. What a day!

But under the flybridge enclosure no issues - unless you count the drips that started. Of all of space on that flybridge canvas, wouldn't you know the drip would be right over my head? How annoying for sure  ... must be time for more waterproofing :-)

The travel down the Waccamaw (isn't that name just fun to say? Waccamaw, Waccamaw - rolls right off of the tongue :-)  ) was uneventful. I was entertained part of the way listening in the conversation between the two sailboats traveling together (they had left Osprey Marina just about 5 minutes before we did).

This is a beautiful area of South Carolina - unfortunate that the weather was not better. One anchor spot held a half dozen sailboats and one trawler. Nice place to spend the night for sure.

I've been thinking that our fishfinder is not really showing the water temperature accurately: 25.9 degrees. There are definitely no icebergs floating around so there is certainly an issue.

At first I thought maybe the setting got set to Centigrade but a temp of 78 degrees didn't make sense either. (Besides which the little F was a clue!) Must be barnacles growing on the sensor.

Anyway, we are in Georgetown - arriving during a timely lull in the wind and rain. We'll stay put here tomorrow and head on to Charleston on Tuesday. It looks like the rain from offshore is finally about finished.