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5/23/2025 Running in Circles

Sometimes life feels like a traffic circle: a roundabout where you’re stuck on the inside lane. I’m not sure that analogy holds up with Oriental’s tiny yellow traffic circle, but you get the idea. It has been that kind of twenty-four hours. I think Pete and Katie felt it, too. It began with yesterday’s highContinue reading “5/23/2025 Running in Circles”

5/22/2025 Oriental

“There’s four thousand sailboats in this town and eight hundred people,” the woman tugging on a fishing rod told me. She was wrestling a cownose ray she’d hooked along South Avenue near Lou-Mac Park. The ray finally worked himself free. She retrieved her line and chatted with Pete and me while Katie played with herContinue reading “5/22/2025 Oriental”

5/13/2025 Current Reverses

The first half of today’s 45-mile transit was in the Waccamaw River a few miles west of and parallel to the coast between Georgetown and Myrtle Beach. The second part of the trip was in a dredged channel heading northeast toward South Carolina’s Grand Strand. Five miles south of where the dredged channel and WaccamawContinue reading “5/13/2025 Current Reverses”

5/12/2025 Somewhere Out There

Today Katie ran, off the leash, after her ball, in a park big enough to satisfy her need for speed. She hasn’t gotten to do this for weeks. She reminds us of this fact by sitting on the boat and staring into the distance — the far distance — where, she’d like us to know,Continue reading “5/12/2025 Somewhere Out There”

5/11/2025 Reading the Water

”Chance is underway. So are Sweet Melissa and Panther,” Pete informed me a few minutes after 0800. I was dragging my feet. Storms in the night brought Katie to the Vee berth where Pete racked while I starfished my way across his side of our bed. Heavy thunderstorms were predicted throughout the day along theContinue reading “5/11/2025 Reading the Water”

5/9/2025 Planning

Today, we planned to move thirty miles, from Hilton Head to Beaufort, South Carolina. Then, we planned to stay in Hilton Head, then decided to run 50 miles north to a favorite anchorage behind Edisto Island. Unless it was okay and we thought we could reach Charleston. Today’s plan changes revolved around weather. There’s aContinue reading “5/9/2025 Planning”