Hilton Head to Kilkenny

We departed Hilton Head Saturday morning at 7:30 for a ten-hour run to Kilkenny.  Wally organized a special locking for us. 

The morning was. My muscles were tense. 

It was a long day doing 50 miles in 9 1/2 hours. The weather was cold causing me to have some muscle spasms. 

Gypsy Wind had an oil problem after Hell Gate. 

I anchor with Midnight and Sundance. Very tired and overeaten at South Carolina YC, I decided not to have supper at Marker 107 which seemed to be an excellent seafood restaurant. 

My Axiom had performed better after resetting the previous day but some problems with freezing, crashing and autopilot issues. The waypoints database was corrupt with a waypoint becoming a directory. I cleaned up the database manually and deleted most of my autogenerated routes to clean up the auto generated waypoints. 

I did an oil change 

I offered to bring Midnight a dingy ride in, but they declined which was good as I was tired..  I made some Manwich from some ground meat. 

I’m very tired.

Hilton Head

 Arrived at Hilton Head

Hilton Head Hilton Head Marina is a gated community with marina called Windmill, 

Included in the Marina was South Carolina Yacht Club, and many many nice houses. 

The bay is very well protected with its own lock that can accommodate 70 foot yachts. I had made reservations as a reciprocal club member giving me two free nights. They only gave me one free night but at $50 per night I did not want to put up a stink. 

I called on the VHF to enter the lock and they were already expecting BELLUM. The fuel dock gut knew where BELLUM was going to. At the club dock Ted was there waiting to help me dock. 

We were supposed to spend two nights but the third day was very windy so we spent an extra night - replacing one night at Brunswick. On Wednesday we raced the Harbor 20. Had beer an

d supper at the club. 

On Thursday I worked on the boat and then took a golf cart to tour the community. 

The staff at the marina had a steak BBQ supper at 3:30. It was early because it gets dark so early. I tried updating the problematic Raymarine Axiom and eventually resetting the Axiom settings. Tomorrow, we will test it while navigating. 

On Friday Ted took us to do groceries, Ace Hardware, west Marine and other chores. We had a prime rib supper at the club.