Charleston SC

Days 4-5-6
Jan 5,6,&7, 2016
Tues -Wed- Thurs
City Marina
Charleston, SC

We came into the marina in the blowing cold Tues afternoon.  
We took the shuttle to the grocery store and walked to the market district. It was cold and the market area was almost empty.  We then went to a greek restaurant Martha and Mitch like and stuffed ourselves.  My knees were killing me I could hardly walk.  

Wed. the guys and Martha went to West Marine for odds and ends of things.  I stayed on the boat because my knees had not recovered from the day before.  We put some of Lee's purchases to work on the boat. Martha and I did a little laundry at the marina laundromat.  Our new water pump started making loud pulsing noises like it was having trouble drawing water. Lee was inclined to ignore it and figured it did not matter. We filled the jerry jugs with water and got things ready to go in the morning.

Thurs morning changed our plans. Stricklands boat was leaking oil and we tore up the bed to look at the offending water pump in our boat.  After a mechanic looked at Stricklands motor he thought a part would fix their troubles but it would take til Fri to get the part. After a call to Richard Truett our boat guy in Little River, we decided that a filter might be our issue. So off the guys went to West Marine again. We all stayed another day at City Marina in Charleston. 

We will see Fri if everyones problems are solved and hopefully we will leave here Fri. It is a bit warmer today and less windy and bright sunshine so we are all more comfortable. We should be able to spend Fri night on the hook if all the repairs go as planned.