Winds for this 36 hour offshore leg started with 10-15 knots out of the SW. We left St. Augustine 8 am on Wed under sunny skies and raised both sails and used our autopilot to steer 23 degrees north. Our sail on Wednesday was uneventful and our speed ranged between 4.5-6.5 knots. Thursday morning the winds died so we motor-sailed off and on much of the day since we wanted to reach Charleston before nightfall. When we passed 20 miles off of Savannah, we had to snake our way through about 20 tankers/cargo ships sitting on anchor awaiting their turn to enter the port. As we approached Charleston harbor around 5 pm, a storm developed to our southwest hitting just as we got in the harbor. We dropped our anchor close to Fort Sumter with the intention of staying the night but found it too rolly. Knowing that the Charleston City Marina was full for the night, we felt our next best option for a quiet anchorage was 7 miles north on the ICW at Caper’s Inlet. We had to wait a short while before heading north on the ICW as a bascule bridge’s next opening wasn’t until 6 pm. Once through, we motored north and dropped our anchor in quiet, marshy, Caper’s Inlet where we had stayed on our way south six months ago.
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| Sunrise and freighters off of Savannah |
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| The approaching squall as we pass Fort Sumter |
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