Back Inside - Mile Marker 315

Inside St James Marina

We are tied at D dock looking down this row of boats. They claim to have a five foot tide so you have to put a line on the HIGH pole at your stern. We decided it would work just tied to the end if possible. This place is directly off the ICW and very calm because it is part of a gated community with tall condos surrounding the harbor. That makes for a calm water basin.

There is an outdoor bar, restaurant with palm trees and beautifully landscaped well planned buildings. I believe there are three golf courses too !

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We had a good day earlier in Southport. We went to Taylor's restaurant on the main road (Howe) and thought we would be gone by noon. I sewed a bag to contain all the paper charts we have so they stayed together and actually fit in the chart table. Then another bag for the spiral bound guides which wanted to fly across the floor every time we had any bouncing during our sailing. It is handy to have a sewing machine onboard.

This time I decided to take the cheap $100 machine and leave the good one back home. Rina's wonderful metal sewing machine had a frozen bobbin and was rendered useless because we had a little salt spray in a closet where it was stored when we did our last trip south. It surprised me because the machine was in a wooden case and the bobbin was several inches off the bottom of the case so it never got standing water so to speak. Lesson learned. Everything can freeze up on a boat like zippers to computer cases, and tool bag closures.

Charles helped with the installation of a padded back cushion across the combing . I had some had sewing to finish before that got done. He had re-installed lee cloths so we could have a proper bunk bouncing around out there but the weather forecast looked like it was better to leave later. So we hung around for lunch in town. When we got ready to leave it was nearly three pm.

We got outside and the winds were right on our nose. Charles did not like that and felt we should go back inside and head down the waterway. Now instead of being in Charleston by ten am we will likely be there in a few more days.

Tomorrow will be an early start. We have miles to cover. He is disappointed, but we will get there. So we went from mile marked 309 to 315...