To Little River

 I got up early.  At night I heard the bilge pump run.  It ran twice.  I checked the shaft packing and she was leashing a lot. Tightened it and departed up the Waccamaw River to Barefoot bridge at 12:15, missing the noon opening and the next opening was at 2PM.  I kinda expected this and pulled into the free Day Dock at Barefoot.  I dropped my gargbage and tried to update my iDevices at LULU’s but the Internet was very slow.  I had lunch, pumped out the water in the dinghy and departed for the 2PM opening which was on time.  

Motor and motor sailed to the inlet at Little River and anchored near Bird Island

The next day looks like a south wind which should provide a good bear reach on the outside for 25 miles.  

Waccamaw River north of Enterprise Creek

 Departed Minim northbound.  

Got  a lot of motor sailing in closed haul and with the current I regularly did over 7 knots SOG.  I went by Georgetown but didn’t stop. 

I decided to furl the jib to go through the 

Ocean Highway (Lafayette) Bridge

Chicken shit

I keep motor sailing to 

Wacca Wache Marina and bought 17.78 gallon of diesel including refilling the Jerry can.  

I motored another 5 miles to anchor at MM 375. There are no more anchorages for another 30 miles. 

Minim creek

 I departed at 9:30 aiming to get to Georgetown 42 nm which was ambitious.  I ended up at Minim creek - about 10 miles short.  .  Very isolated. Did not put out anchor light.  It was that isolated and a little challenging to get in. 

I did refuel from the Jerry Can while underway  

Beaufort to Isle of Palm

 I got up early and departed at 8 AM to catch to slack water at Elliot Cut which was about 10 AM.  

The currents were in my favour and then against me and I made it to Elliot Cut at 10:20 which was fine and easy.  But I missed the opening of the Wappoo Creek bridge by 10 minutes.  I decide to anchor at Wappoo creek for 40 minutes to rest and have lunch.  I did a lunch anchorage and did not seriously tested it.  When I did weigh anchor, it was heavy.  I had snagged a 44 LB original Ronna in excellent condition.

I went out and did Wappoo creek bridge and motored in very shallow channel and almost missed the bypass at MM 460.5 and I turned back to do the loop.  I had also accidentally turned off USACE charts.  

I motored further and for 15 minutes motor sailed until the winds died,  The channel was fairly straight and the winds were a beam from the ocean,  

At 3 PM I decided to call it quits and entered White Creek at MM 451.  We had stayed here with the Rally, but I did not remember much of it. It looked like the safest anchorage round.  Like the whole area around Charleston, the tides are 5-6 feet.  But in the creek, there seems to be no change of currents, which is one of my fears.

As I anchored, MY Radar, ACCUWEATHER and the VHF announced Thunderstrom Watch… Not warnings.

Norm suggested I tie down the solar panels  I used stretch wrap to tie them down

Also I broke my prescription  glasses

Beaufort to Church Creek

 I got up early at 8 to try to catch the current so it would favour me.  It did work for a while but with such a long run, parts of the trip would be fighting the current.  

My plan was to anchor at Stream boat landing   I arrived at 3 and decided to go further and I ended up at Church Creek at 5pm   

I hat put out my jib and at MM 491 was a barge that appeared to be approaching so I sailed to past port to port   It looked like she was not giving me much space and I steered to the starboard ending up in a dead end and had to tack to avoid grounding   It turned out the barge was anchored!

Got to Church Creek at 5 with 9.5 hours on the Yanmar,  The day was overcast   The anchorage was buggy with these small gnat type bugs that I’ve been seeing recently.

Hilton Head to Breaufort SC

 Got a lazy start, but only got 20 miles to do. 

Departure at 11 ish and arrival at 15:30 at the free dock.  

 I was going to try to fit in between two boats, but it was tight and then I remembered I had the dinghy behind me.

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I had to back in as two powerboats departed on the other side of of the dock.  I came in reverse and a powerboat ear helped tie my mid-ship line.  I docked her.

Walked through town, but I’ve seen Beaufort before and I ended up doing groceries at Food Lion and restocked the bar including Bushmill, Canadian Supiiour Whisky, Remy Marin, and Sambuca.  Avoiding USA!

Walked back to the boat doing 7km by foot and my left leg was really bothering me.  

I got some help leaving the dock and decide to cross the lady Island bridge which was willing to open on my demand. This would save me from requesting an opening at rush hour tomorrow and the anchorage on the North side was better.

Supper was the Catfish and lobster cake and shrimps I bought at Food Lion. 

Hilton Head - SCYC

On Thursday morning, I got started at 10,30 and weighed anchor in contra wind current.

Motored 2 1/2 hours upcurrent to get to SCYC.

Locked through, fueled up and pump-out and docked at SCYC.  54 dollars for 13 gallons with a consumption of 2 1/2 liters per hour versus an average of 2 litres per hour.

SCYC is a recipatory Yacht Club in a very gated community of gorgeous houses.  The club is fancy, and as a guest member, I find it inexpensive for food and beverages.  The dock was $50 for the second night.  The first was free

Did laundry, worked on the blog and other Internet-related work.

Found the pool and went for a swim

Had their buffet on Friday and departed on Saturday.