Life Aboard: Sam's Point on the Coosaw River

We have some skinny water to go thru again today so we need to travel when the tides are right. It's cold again today, 50 outside and 59 inside.

We left the anchorage at 6:30.

Welcome to my world. Isn't it beautiful!

Southern Star looks beautiful in my world!

Lighthouse near Charleston

Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor

Pretty house along the waterfront

Barge, Coast Guard boat and Southern Star in Charleston Harbor

Wapoo Creek Bridge

Cute tug on a lift

Beautiful house with ivy along Elliot Cut

We had no problems with the Ben Sawyer Bridge area and didn't really expect any since it had been dredged. But again, we didn't know if Matthew had caused any changes. Elliot Cut was not a problem, since we had timed it so we went thru at slack tide.

We had no problem at Watts Cut, Fenwick Cut and neither of the two Ashepoo/Coosaw Cuttoffs. I don't want to make this seem insignificant. We were very fortunate that the tides we in our favor and happened at a good time for us at each of these places. It doesn't always work our this way and sometimes we have to travel a short distance and get thru one place then wait until the next day at a certain time to get thru the next one. We spent lots of time looking at mile marker, tide tables and calculating how long it took to get from point A to point B and at what speed we had to travel.

Beautiful "Trumpy" boat.

Southern Star and crew. Hey who's driving the boat?

We anchored at Sam's Point on the Coosaw River. It wasn't marked as an anchorage. It was just a wide place in the river that we could be out of the ICW and in relatively shallow water. It's sounds funny. We been trying to find deep water all day and now when we anchor, we want shallower water. We like to anchor in water that we can put out about 125-150 feet of chain and feel like we will be secure there. It's complicated. You take the depth of the water plus the tide if any then the height of your bow add those together and multiple by whatever scope you want (6:1 or so) and then put out that much chain or line, whichever you have.

We traveled 9.5 hrs at 6.3kts and went about 60 nm. Long day. We had potluck dinner on SeaSalt and had a great meal and a great time. We all prepared something and it was all good. Maybe we can do it on Escape next time.