November 4, Thursday:
Wind turned south again blowing 15 to 20. This is the windiest fall I can remember. We motored thru the ICW under cloudy but warm conditions covering 53 miles. The last several hours the wind went a little more west and we raised the foresail alone. In heavy winds this works out well. So well in fact that on the grand banks fishing schooners it was common practice in a blow. They called it "being in foresail harbor", even though they were over a hundred miles to sea.
Several more bascule bridges to deal with on the way, the first three, the Crescent Beach, the L.B. Knox and the Main Street Bridge, opened on request and were very good about opening with perfect timing so we didn't have to even slow down. The last one, the Memorial Bridge, however, was being worked on and the schedule was changed and unpredictable. This one we wound up waiting on for a 1/2 hour.
Our anchorage was just past the Memorial Bridge on the east side near shore. We had a quick dinner aboard and watching the weather radar on Jason's Iphone successfully timed our trip in the dingy between waves of rain.
The cruising guide recommended the Chart House which was right across the way, we checked to see if they had a TV in the bar so we could watch Georgia Tech play Virgina Tech. As there were two inlets right next to each other and it was dark we took the wrong one and Jason came to the rescue again with his GPS feature on the Iphone, so we were able to figure out that if we docked on the south side of the wrong inlet we could walk the short distance to the restaurant. Only one tinsey little problem, the condo complex we docked at was a gated and fenced in community. A little creative fence climbing took care of that and we "escaped" the compound to finish the short walk. We enjoyed the game in luxury as the Chart House is a high end restaurant, but got out cheaply since we had to remain sober enough to climb back over the 8 foot fence.
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