Today is Tuesday, May 29. Tropical Storm Beryl is still spinning over southern Georgia...actually now it's a tropical depression. The winds have "calmed' down to 15-20k sustained and 22K gusting. The rain comes and goes but when it does it's torrential. So we took the "captive" time to do laundry, boat keeping and planning. Jane is checking the charts and tides for our next journey...whether it's inside the ICW or outside in the Atlantic. Both will depend on weather conditions. If we stay inside it will take another 2-3 days to just get out of Georgia because of the tides. There are places we can only travel mid to high tide. Since low tides are running around noontime that means we only have mid afternoon to evening to travel in. If we go outside we can get to Hilton Head or maybe Beaufort South Carolina. Peter is on the phone with Navionics (our GPS electronic charts) and trying to upgrade the internal software for our GPS chart plotter unit. The sun has popped out briefly which could dry everything up. We just want to be able to get our enclosure back on and move everything out of the forward cabin. It's getting a little claustrophobic in here!
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| Happy Memorial Day |
Yesterday we had a marina party for Memorial Day. They wrapped one of the covered docks in plastic and grilled steaks. There was a 3 person band playing great songs...mostly boating, country & Jimmy Buffet tunes. Everyone brought a side dish, salad, or dessert. The food was great and the company awesome. We had a great time. It was partly sunny all morning (the calm before the storm) and just at 2:30 when the party was suppose to start the heavens opened up with fury. Wind & rain kept most of us from joining for about an hour. We finally retired to our boats around 6:30. Everyone was exhausted from the lack of sleep during the previous night's storm raging around us.
We are planning a move now on Thursday but will decide if it's inside or outside probably that morning.
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| Our 3 man band |
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| Peter coming through the crowd with chairs |
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| The other side of the dock |
2 comments:
We've been watching your progress--glad to hear you weathered the storm with no damage. Safe passage on the remainder of your trip.
We'll be heading to Quissette tomorrow to put the dingy in and hopefully launch Slicker next week.
Deanna & Bob
We are following you and hope that you soon manage to move on.
A&T
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