And Back to the Chesapeake – Days 13, 14, 15

Days 13 and 14 weren’t very exciting, so there wasn’t really much to write about.  We stopped in Brunswick Ga. to wait out some more high winds, probably a remnant of the nor’easter that was pounding the northeast.  While we waited we did some minor maintenance items, laundry, grocery shopping, not very exciting stuff.

 

But, are you freaking kidding me?  What is with all this freaking wind?  It just won’t quit.  It was still blowing pretty hard this morning when we left Brunswick, and in addition, the temperature was 36 degrees.  What the heck!!  Needless to say we operated the boat from inside.  With the wind blowing, and temps in the upper 30’s, the wind chill had to be in the low 20’s.  The wind blew so hard the boat was heeling over a couple degrees like a sailboat.  The temperature peaked today at a whopping 48 degrees.  To add insult to injury they are calling for a hard freeze tonight.  We are anchored out tonight, so there will be no heat on the boat.  Guess I’ll be sleeping in sweats.

 

The ride to Wahlberg Creek where we are currently anchored was uneventful, the currents were pretty intense.  The tides here have a seven foot range between high and low.  That’s a lot of water that flows in and out of these inlets.  The decision tomorrow is do we go outside and avoid the trouble spots we avoided on the way down, or do we stay inside and make the best of it.  If we stay inside, the good thing is we will hit the worst spot, Hell Gate, on a rising tide.  That would be a good thing and quite a help, so maybe it won’t be too bad.

The other thing that happened today is my get home track disappeared off the chartplotter.  When we travel, the chartplotter leaves a track of where you went.  So going back, all I had to do is follow the track back, which was advantageous because we had navigated all the problem areas successfully on the way down.  If I followed the track back, I wouldn’t have to “re-navigate” everything all over.  I believe what happened was the memory got full, and began deleting the old track as I added the new track I was leaving on the way back.  So, from here on out, the old track is gone, and we have to navigate the problem areas again.  Oh well, that’s the way it works.

Tomorrow we are headed about 60 miles farther north past Savannah.  We won’t make Beaufort if we stay inside, but we will probably have a smoother ride

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There is no internet around here, and we will be on the hook for the next several days, so I don’t know when I will get to post this.

Today we traveled 69.9 miles for a total of 540.6 miles so far.  Travel time was 8hrs. 50mins.

Until next time boys and girls…….

P.S. Hi Tyler