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Marco Island to Chatham
Thursday - May 14, 2009 (A Cook's Log) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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LOG Saturday 05/9/09 Friday, 05/15/09 Sunday, 05/10/09 Saturday, 05/16/09 Monday, 05/11/09 Sunday, 05/17/09 Tuesday, 05/12/09 Monday, 05/18/09 |
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Last of the pontoon bridges on the ICW
This will replace the pontoon bridge The last pontoon bridge tender sometime next year |
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Myrtle Beach, SC - Oriental, NC Totals today: 144 nm 11 hr 35 min Avg speed 12.5 108 gallons of fuel Off the dock 0610. Arrived Oriental 1700
Grey, overcast, drizzeling rain again. Good day for sailboats though. Sailboats actually were sailing! Rare to see I guess. So, we were a little more sensitive to not waking them. We even tried to "Dr. Phil" them (i.e. hail them on the VHF and actually talk to them). The Dr. Phil method didn't work sometimes. So in those cases, we just Be-Attituded them (i.e. blew past them).
One very nice Tartan seemed to be sailed by a couple of young brothers and their dachshund. I think that they were brothers because they were sitting awfully close in the cockpit. Jimmy thought otherwise, but I thought they were just trying to stay warm in the cooler, rainy weather. The name of their boat was "White Heather". Very nice.
We had to pile up with about six or seven other boats at a swing bridge that we had to wait for. Unfortunately, the group in front of us really were going very slowly. As I turned over the helm to Bob, I gave him my breifing, "Put the throttle down and let God sort 'em out!" Bob didn't though?
Another young captain in a Sea Ray was coming down the ICW with at least three fenders dragging in the water! I think that this should be an offense punishable by at least some sort of fine. It's like walking around with your zipper down for god's sake!
At one point we did contemplate heading outside when we came to a suitable pass. A quick glance at endless whitecaps as far as the eye could see made us keep on the inside.
Sailboat Island! |
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We're fair. We overtake power boats as well as blow-boaters |
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White Heather and The Boys sailing up the ICW! |
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