Bewfort October 24

We arrived here in Beaufort the day before yesterday after a day sail outside from Charleston to St Helens Inlet and an overnight at anchor in Bull River. Unfortunately we have a leaking water pump seal and no repair kit for it (my bad). I did not find the leak - Sue did (my bad again). We will wait here until the parts arrive from Charleston which I hope will be on Tuesday. Beaufort is a very nice little town with a lot of magnificent old homes and even more magnificent old (and very large) live oak trees festooned with spanish moss and resurrection fern. The current in the marina is amazing and leaving on anything other than slack tide will be interesting. Still not a lot of other boats going South but the nmarina expects the pace to pick up soon. Our next destination is St Augustine.