April 15, 2004 - View the pictures
We’re back in the boat again. We flew back to Charleston on
Monday. The afternoon was windy and gray. All was well with
the boat.
We had a great trip to Eddyville. Taylor had a non-stop
birthday for about 4 days and has quite the array of “Rescue
Heroes”. I was happy to be the babysitter since he was also on
spring break. I hope we didn’t spoil him too much but we sure
had fun. I have to add a picture of the party so you can see
our now 4 year old grandson.
Back to the boat. We planned to leave Tuesday but we awoke to
hard rain, thunder and wind. It blew and rained until about 3
PM. By them it was too late to get started.
Wednesday dawned cold and windy. The forecast was that the
winds were to get worse during the day so we took off through
Charleston Harbor. Once we got thru the Harbor and into the
Intercoastal which at Charleston and north is more like a
ditch we were protected from the winds so the running was
better but still cold. We spent the night at Wacca Watche
Marina in Murrells Inlet, SC. Nice people.
Our plans for today were to travel to Wrightville Beach where
we would meet a neighbor from Islamorada. Plans interrupted!
In the past 24 hours we have seen more disabled boats than in
our boating career. First was a hard grounded catamaran
cruiser then a 30 foot fishing boat that had literal run the
boat out of the water and 20 feet up on the bank. You could
see the ruts where the props dug into the bank. Today was an
even worse story. The Intercoastal around Myrtle Beach is
narrow and lots of shoaling from the huge amount of
development. There also seems to be an abundance of captains
that don’t know what “No Wake” means. We were waked by several
bigger boats that just couldn’t slow down. Well, the worst was
yet to come. There’s a swing bridge at Little River that
advertises open on demand. Currently it is under repair. They
have no notices that there will be delays so traffic bunches
up while the construction continues for a random amount of
time. In a short stretch while we were waiting (for
indeterminate time) for the opening in a running tide with a
narrow channel and several boats waiting one boat ran hard
aground and we were pushed so far to the side we bent a prop
and a shaft as we got ourselves away from the rocks.
The icing on the cake was a sports fisher that was probably
bounced by a passing wake that sent it up so far it bounced on
the dock where it was tied and then hit the ground from the
low tide. Diagnosis-hole in bottom and broken struts.
No Wake means No Wake!
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