We were up early. Time to make a decision whether to stay another night, to wait until the wind dies down a little, or just go. The prediction was 25 to 35 knot winds to continue from the northwest for the rest of the day and begin to calm around midnight. We decided to go for it. We left Lady’s Island Marina about 0800. Even with he high winds motoring was pretty comfortable.
A beautiful 55 foot power catamaran passed us .in Brickyard Creek and we talked for a while. They had cruised the Great Loop four times, been to New Zealand, and to Alaska in catamarans. Their home is on one of the Great Lakes. He said he motors on one engine most of the time and uses two gallons per hour at eight or nine knots.
The seas got pretty choppy in the broad Coosaw River. We crossed several very shallow spots in the Dawho River and bumped bottom hard at Marker 110,raising the stern and healing us to starboard, but we managed to slide over the shoal.
Anchored at 1330 in Steamboat Creek about a mile south of the ICW, in about 12 feet of water. Steamboat Creek is about 27 miles south of Charleston. The wind was blowing very hard. About 1730 we had to lower the dinghy an engine from topside in a howling wind to take Sailor to shore. With good teamwork everything went smoothly. We got pretty wet from blowing spray on the way to the landing.
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