We were up early, partly as we were excited to get to Charleston, and partly because it was so cold in the boat. We had the propane heater and propane stove running to warm things up.
We can't run the propane heater at night as it can burn up all the oxygen in the boat. It only takes it a little while to make the Carbon Dioxide detector quite unhappy.
Bonnie got coffee going, and I got the boat ready to move. We could hear all the duck hunters around us shooting like it was a war zone.
It was an uneventful and pretty run. This was a nice change, as nothing broke and no mishaps happened.
As we entered the harbor, Bonnie saw seagulls following one of the late season shrimp boats working deep water in the harbor. She grabbed some stale crackers and threw a few out. Within a couple minutes, all the gulls left the shrimp boat en masse and moved to us. We could have made our on Hitchcock thriller.
They followed us all the way to the mouth of the Ashley river.
We had been remiss on contacting the City Marina about a slip, and as it was Thanksgiving there was no one to answer a phone call or hail. We thought it best to anchor in the 'new' anchorage across from the marina, and check-in, in the morning. As with Beaufort, the currents would be opposing the wind. Not fun. We found a good spot near another catamaran and prepped to drop the anchor.
The owner of that catamaran came out and held up his radio mic for us to hail him. I was having visions of the Frenchman in Beaufort. We established contact on the radio and he warned us of a large debris field under where were looking to anchor. We thanked him and started looking for a different spot.
I moved forward to the channel and close to the Megadock (the City marina's massive front dock). It had many open spaces on it. So I figured that we should just grab a spot - as we planned to check in with them in the morning anyway. As we approached, we saw Fortunate and Comocean, two boats belonging to friends of ours, just on the back side of the Megadock. So was tied up just across from them.
As we looked around we saw two other boats here from our travels - Ata Marie from our few days in Cape Charles, and Windward (actually they saw us) from our first days on the ICW. It was like old home week.
The next day My Pleasure, from our sandbar adventure day, arrived. We spent an evening reminiscing those events, and helping them with their new iPad.
Tokkie on Ata Maria invited us for drinks and some great cheeses one night. We reciprocated by having them over for lamb chops. Then today they took us to lunch at Hymans downtown, and played tour guide for us at the market.
Somewhere in there, as group of happy sailors came by and asked about Bonnie's lights. It ended up that they were from the Annapolis area - one couple owned a marina in Tracy's Landing, one couple left to explore the east coast this winter on their Lagoon 44, then plan to go to the UK in the spring. Also among them was the Lagoon sales rep from Annapolis. We had drinks and played Mexican Train dominoes with then until late one night. Notice a trend here?
The folks at the City Marina were great. We signed up for a month, and they moved us to a spot near, and on the same side, as Fortunate and Comocean.
Tomorrow we will arrange for a rental car to take home for a few weeks. We'll also check out downtown again, and start setting up Desert Star for her few week rest here.
I need to coordinate new parts for the AC/Heat pump and record all the model and serial numbers.
So that was pretty much our Thanksgiving weekend. It'll be hard to top it next year.
We can't run the propane heater at night as it can burn up all the oxygen in the boat. It only takes it a little while to make the Carbon Dioxide detector quite unhappy.
Bonnie got coffee going, and I got the boat ready to move. We could hear all the duck hunters around us shooting like it was a war zone.
It was an uneventful and pretty run. This was a nice change, as nothing broke and no mishaps happened.
As we entered the harbor, Bonnie saw seagulls following one of the late season shrimp boats working deep water in the harbor. She grabbed some stale crackers and threw a few out. Within a couple minutes, all the gulls left the shrimp boat en masse and moved to us. We could have made our on Hitchcock thriller.
They followed us all the way to the mouth of the Ashley river.
We had been remiss on contacting the City Marina about a slip, and as it was Thanksgiving there was no one to answer a phone call or hail. We thought it best to anchor in the 'new' anchorage across from the marina, and check-in, in the morning. As with Beaufort, the currents would be opposing the wind. Not fun. We found a good spot near another catamaran and prepped to drop the anchor.
The owner of that catamaran came out and held up his radio mic for us to hail him. I was having visions of the Frenchman in Beaufort. We established contact on the radio and he warned us of a large debris field under where were looking to anchor. We thanked him and started looking for a different spot.
I moved forward to the channel and close to the Megadock (the City marina's massive front dock). It had many open spaces on it. So I figured that we should just grab a spot - as we planned to check in with them in the morning anyway. As we approached, we saw Fortunate and Comocean, two boats belonging to friends of ours, just on the back side of the Megadock. So was tied up just across from them.
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| Our friends' boats |
As we looked around we saw two other boats here from our travels - Ata Marie from our few days in Cape Charles, and Windward (actually they saw us) from our first days on the ICW. It was like old home week.
The next day My Pleasure, from our sandbar adventure day, arrived. We spent an evening reminiscing those events, and helping them with their new iPad.
Tokkie on Ata Maria invited us for drinks and some great cheeses one night. We reciprocated by having them over for lamb chops. Then today they took us to lunch at Hymans downtown, and played tour guide for us at the market.
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| Prepped for company. |
The folks at the City Marina were great. We signed up for a month, and they moved us to a spot near, and on the same side, as Fortunate and Comocean.
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| Dessie at the Megadock |
Tomorrow we will arrange for a rental car to take home for a few weeks. We'll also check out downtown again, and start setting up Desert Star for her few week rest here.
I need to coordinate new parts for the AC/Heat pump and record all the model and serial numbers.
So that was pretty much our Thanksgiving weekend. It'll be hard to top it next year.
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