Begin – 33.86N  78.63W – North Myrtle Beach, SC

End – 32.77N  79.84W – Charleston, SC

Total fuel:  67.90 gallons

Travel time:  7.5 hours

Miles traveled:  114 miles

Seas – Calm ICW

We shoved off late this morning because of intense thunder and lighting storms… luckily Kelly downloaded a very cool app from NOAA Hi-Def Radar App for our IPAD… that works great! We could see clearly that we only needed to wait a couple hours before we could leave and it was spot on… so by 10:00AM we were able to finally shove off and head to my buddy Matt’s slip in Charleston.

The running was smooth in the ICW and our first fuel stop was in Socastee SC, we poured off my spare 10 gallons to lighten up my ride, I’ve been having some porpoising issues and have found that if I burn off my spare fuel first the rest of my day riding is much nicer!

We ran down through the ICW which I believe was the Waccamaw River, the riding was really smooth until we hit the mouth of the river where it meets Georgetown, all at once it went from flat calm to 3′ waves every 3′!  The good news is that were able to maintain about 20 miles per hour and stay on the peaks of the waves… this only lasted for about 3 miles.

We ended up having lunch (2:00pm) in Georgetown at the Lands End restaurant, the food was worth coming back for sure. :-)  We didn’t play around here… we refueled and shoved off for Charleston… we made Charlestown by 5:30pm and my man Matt was waiting on his boat to help us tie up for the night!  We hung on Matts boat for a bit, threw back some coldies and headed for his house.

Over & Out

Captain Kelly, SPC
(Self Proclaimed Captain)