Yet another beautiful sunset

Yet another beautiful sunset
Approaching Charleston last fall

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Still laying over at Hampton Yacht Club. We had the honor of having the highest wind gust on the east coast last night at 53 mph according to the weather channel. The high tide this morning at 5 am was right up to the sea wall. Forcasting another 1 1/2 feet higher at the next high the afternoon at 5:30 pm. Looks like we will need our sea boots to wade over to the bar. Forcasting gusts today to reach 60 (holy crap!) Fortunately the slip I am tied up to is very strong and very well protected, so no worries about the wind.
The lift bridge in the intracoastal to the south of us won't open until the winds are down around 20 which could be late Friday or even Saturday.
Working on hooking up the RAM Mic today and possibly getting the remote switch for the propane solenoid wired in the be able to start cooking for real. So far we have been using the microwave (draws 86 amps at 12 volts so we need to be running the engine to have that luxury).
We have met a lot of nice folks along the way, many of which are also sailing (read motoring most of the time) south. More later today need to get to work.

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