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5/15/2025 Flags

I’m not excited about walking Katie. It’s hot. I don’t do well in heat. I think about black flag days, terminology the military uses to indicate people are at risk for heat exhaustion. Someone told Pete it’s ten degrees hotter than it should be this time of year. Fortunately, there’s a stiff, cooling, southwestern breeze.Continue reading “5/15/2025 Flags”

5/14/2025 Auto Helm

“I’m not going to hand-steer six thousand miles,” Pete said five years ago. Meaning, he wanted autohelm. The installation required him to snake NEMA 2000 cables from rudders to bridge via small holes through inaccessible bulkheads. A lot of sailor mouth was involved. However, now Irish Hurricane can auto-steer a heading or course to makeContinue reading “5/14/2025 Auto Helm”

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”

5/7/2025 Seafood

We started the day watching a young alligator trolling for breakfast between finger piers in Thunderbolt. Twenty-eight miles and five hours later, we were impressed by a deep-sea catch being landed at Skull Creek, Hilton Head Island, where we’ll be docked tonight and tomorrow. The charter captain said they’d been fishing the Gulf Stream. IContinue reading “5/7/2025 Seafood”