Our plans for the Thanksgiving Day Holiday were simply to make beautiful Beaufort before noon, and spend the holiday and a few more days on the hook. Beaufort is a wonderful stopover, with a good anchorage, easy access to shore, and a beautiful town to keep us occupied. We arrived around 10AM after a leisurely […]
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Overnight to Charleston
Nov 21st 2010Cruise Log & Location & Southbound '10
We headed out of Wrightsville Beach Saturday morning, and decided that given the conditions offshore and the full moon, we should consider an overnight run. Our planned course would end at Calabash Creek, about the only anchorage available in the Myrtle Beach area, and notorious for groundings, so we decided to head offshore there, using […]
Wrightsville Beach, NC
Nov 19th 2010Cruise Log & Location & Southbound '10
A few uneventful days’ travel took us to Wrightsville Beach, a favorite stop on our trek south, so we stayed a day. Calm winds and temps in the 60’s gave us an opportunity to make for the beach with the dogs, who always have a great time there. Molly smells it a block away and […]
Oriental, NC
Nov 16th 2010Cruise Log & Location & Southbound '10
Oriental’s one of our favorite stops on the ICW. It seems that every time we’ve been here though, the weather’s been something less than ideal. Today’s arrival was true to form, with winds gusting and threatening clouds all around. We set the hook in Green’s Creek as the rain began in earnest, and decided to […]