Wednesday November 30, 2016
All things being equal, today is our last day in Charleston. Tide Hiker has been here for 13 months!
The last 3 days since we returned from Cleveland we have been working steadily on getting Tide Hiker ready to move again. We did such a good job getting her ready for Mathew that its taken us almost three days to get everything back in place. The biggest job has been putting all the canvas back in place - and after three weeks of calm the last 3 days have been very windy, which is not conducive to mounting large sheets of canvas and izenglass. I started the engines Monday and they ran OK. I reconnected all the electronics today and everything seemed to start up. Deidre has been shopping twice and filled up the frig and the pantry. Writing this, I just remembered that I had taped over the two generator exhaust pipes and had not removed it - now done. I think we are ready.
Deidre is getting her hair cut at 2:30 PM today so we will do some last minute shopping, pick up Mason, then head over to the "young Tayloys" for dinner.
Slack tide tomorrow morning is 9:15 AM which is perfect. We intend to head south on the ICW and anchor in Toogoodoo Creek or the South Edisto River. Next day to Beauford, SC where we will probably take a mooring ball and go ashore for dinner - or not. Next day - weather permitting - we will catch the tide out of Port Royal sound and shoot out into the Atlantic and do a 150 mile overnight run to St. Augustine, Florida.
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Monday, November 28, 2016
Cleveland
Thanksgiving in Cleveland
November 23 to 27, 2016
We drove to Cleveland to celebrate Thanksgiving with Kathy, Adam, Ruby, Indy. This is the busiest travel weekend in the USA, so driving 1,500 miles is no mean feat. (But does not compare with David and Jen and kids who drove from Houston, Texas to Ashville, NC for a Blackman Thanksgiving a few years back! Now that is a drive!)
November 23 to 27, 2016
We drove to Cleveland to celebrate Thanksgiving with Kathy, Adam, Ruby, Indy. This is the busiest travel weekend in the USA, so driving 1,500 miles is no mean feat. (But does not compare with David and Jen and kids who drove from Houston, Texas to Ashville, NC for a Blackman Thanksgiving a few years back! Now that is a drive!)
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| Ruby and Indy with their grand parents |
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| GM and GP with the kids, Xmas tree harvesting |
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Charleston, SC
Tuesday November 15, 2016
Our Tuesday was 39 hours long, and most of those hours were used traveling back from Sydney to Charleston. All the flights were good, the two connections in LAX and BWI tedious but efficient, and we arrived in Charleston exactly on time for Kylie to pick us up. Temps were in the 40's and Tide Hiker was cold, so we cranked up our electric blankets and went to bed.
Saturday November 19, 2016
It has taken me until now (4 PM on Saturday) to get to the blog. One reason has been getting access to the internet - the marina wifi system was knocked our by Mathew and is still not repaired. And it took me until yesterday to figure out that the battery in my personal hub had also failed while we were away and so it was not working - most frustrating.
The weather over the last 3 days has been sublime, but a long awaited change arrived this afternoon. Apparently temperatures will be in the 30's tonight. We have been sleeping a lot and generally having trouble getting out of our own way, so not much has been achieved. But today was a new day - we must have caught up on sleep - and so we both got stuck into cleaning the boat and preparing to leave for "places south".
We plan to drive to Cleveland for Thanksgiving - leave Wednesday 23rd and be back on board Sunday 27th. Our aim is to leave Charleston in the first week of December.
Our Tuesday was 39 hours long, and most of those hours were used traveling back from Sydney to Charleston. All the flights were good, the two connections in LAX and BWI tedious but efficient, and we arrived in Charleston exactly on time for Kylie to pick us up. Temps were in the 40's and Tide Hiker was cold, so we cranked up our electric blankets and went to bed.
Saturday November 19, 2016
It has taken me until now (4 PM on Saturday) to get to the blog. One reason has been getting access to the internet - the marina wifi system was knocked our by Mathew and is still not repaired. And it took me until yesterday to figure out that the battery in my personal hub had also failed while we were away and so it was not working - most frustrating.
The weather over the last 3 days has been sublime, but a long awaited change arrived this afternoon. Apparently temperatures will be in the 30's tonight. We have been sleeping a lot and generally having trouble getting out of our own way, so not much has been achieved. But today was a new day - we must have caught up on sleep - and so we both got stuck into cleaning the boat and preparing to leave for "places south".
We plan to drive to Cleveland for Thanksgiving - leave Wednesday 23rd and be back on board Sunday 27th. Our aim is to leave Charleston in the first week of December.
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