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.
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