First day at sea, and a lot more...

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We made it! First day at sea with Rolianne. We left Beaufort early Wednesday morning to exit the ICW by the Beaufort inlet, following a bunch of other boats taking advantage of the perfect weather to do some coastal sailing: North West / North East winds of 10-15 knots, with 3-4 feet waves. We didn’t see any dolphins, but we spent the day reading in the cockpit or playing cards. 
We made it to Masonboro before dinner time, where we met again with our new friends from Montreal. They have a 7 yrs son and a 11 months little girl onboard, so they came over for dinner with some drinks for us, and video games for the kids!  The boys were pretty stocked to have a playmate, so the day after, we stayed in the ICW so that Romain could spend the day on Ohana. Lucky them, they had a bunch of dolphins swimming next to them for 2-3 minutes!! It was awesome!!!




We arrived in Little River in North Myrtle beach, at low tide. During this day, both Ohana and Rolianne touched bottom. You could tell that Florence modified the channel depth where the ocean is linked to the ICW... Florence did not only moved sand.


We then made it to Georgetown, only stopping at a marina early in the morning to gas and take a shower. I just badly needed a hot shower!!! 4 days without showering = my threshold for bad mood and irritability. 🤪 We slowly made our way to Charleston, anchoring in Five Fathoms river for a night. We arrived in town  midday yesterday. We saw tons of dolphins on the way there, they are such beautiful animals!! The ICW is definitively a fun ride!!


         


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