Overnight run; Charleston to Brunswick, Georgia, Ocean Petroleum

After a tasty and filling breakfast of omelets, bread pudding, sausage, and juice on the KK42 Forever Exploring we headed out of Charleston Harbor midday for a run down the Atlantic instead of the ICW with a goal of arriving at Ocean Petroleum for fuel fill up in the morning.  Since we were in the ocean it was a two hour side stop to get there and after arriving were told that they were out of fuel.  The refill truck was late and would not be there until this afternoon.  The next marina was filling a 2,000 gallon yacht so had no space for us for several hours. 

 

As we travel along, people ask us where we are going.  I tell them we are going to the Bahamas for Christmas.   Peggy just looks at me, while doing some mental math.  In the ICW, we do about 50 miles a day, and that would put us down to Miami some time around Christmas time, obviously not in the Bahamas.  Meanwhile, Peggy is getting good at using all the weather apps.  There is a 5 day weather window coming up where the wind is not out of the north, and calms seas, and low wind.  To get to Bimini before Christmas, we would need to do about 4 over nighters requiring good weather.  Guess what!  The next 5 days were forecast to be just what we needed!

Setteling in for the night

With the weather on the outside being so calm we decided to take advantage of it and shoved off to Cape Canaveral. At sunset we both saw the “green flash”!   The stars are much more clear offshore but I was surprised to not be able to see the milky way.