5\/26\/2024
\nDeep Point Marina, Southport NC
\nPosition: 33 59.77N, 77 59.78W
\nPosted by Bill<\/p>\n
We left Hilton Head yesterday at 6:50 AM and headed offshore. We ran 5-10 miles offshore. This Eastbay model ran so smoothly offshore in about 3 foot seas. We were running about 23-25 mph and made Winyah Bay inlet a little after noon. We were planning to get a slip in Georgetown SC but there was a fishing tournament going on and every slip in town was booked, so we headed up the Waccamaw river\u2026my favorite part of the Intracoastal Waterway\u2026and found a slip in Wacca Wache Marina near Murrells Inlet SC, position: 33 37.768N, 079 05.077W. Nice marina there with a fun bar\/restaurant on site. They had a great band playing. Cheap fuel there (something we are not used to worrying about in our sailboat\u2026lol) so we loaded up.<\/p>\n
We left there today at 6:56 AM and took the ICW back to our home port in Southport NC. The waterway was a complete zoo, especially between Cherry Grove\/North Myrtle Beach and Oak Island. Boats jam packed and creating a nasty mess of chop on the waterway. Our boat took the chop so much better than the sailboat which was a nice change. Note to self: Don\u2019t travel the ICW on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. We pulled into our home port at Deep Point Marina around 1:17 PM and were greeted by 2 of our close friends, one of whom brought champagne to celebrate getting our new to us boat home (thanks again Robin!)<\/p>\n
This was only my 3rd day of running the boat and as I was positioning the boat to back into our slip I came very close (damn near hitting) to the boat docked across from us. That was a scare, but we got her backed in and tied up with the help of our friends.<\/p>\n
The entire trip from Thunderbolt (Savannah) to Southport was 2 full days of travel. This would take us 7-8 days normally in the sailboat, which we usually ran inside on the Intracoastal Waterway most years. Great time savings, but let\u2019s not talk about the fuel consumption\u2026lol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
5\/26\/2024 Deep Point Marina, Southport NC Position: 33 59.77N, 77 59.78W Posted by Bill We left Hilton Head yesterday at 6:50 AM and headed offshore. We ran 5-10 miles offshore. This Eastbay model ran so smoothly offshore in about 3 foot seas. We were running about 23-25 mph and made Winyah Bay inlet a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icw-intracoastal-waterway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ILlB-Xe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nauticalendeavors.com\/islandbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}