Jan 2, 2016
Osprey Marina, Socastee, SC
Today we left Lightkeepers Marina in Little River, SC. We planned to leave Dec. 31. We were 10 min from departure when we discovered our fresh water pump was not functioning. It had worked fine the day before. We filled and drained our fresh water tank 3 times the day before. It took until 4 in the afternoon to get a new pump installed and working properly.
Jan 1 we made our second attempt to start. We departed Lightkeepers Marina at 10 and as soon as we pulled into the ICW a cold breeze hit us. I turned to put down the canvas behind me and only the screen was there. The solid panel was still at the canvas makers and had never been put back on the boat after we had him make screen panels. Being New Years Day the business was closed so we had to wait until Jan 2nd to get the missing canvas piece.
Having had 2 false starts the 3rd time was a charm. We got off about 9:30 Saturday. We traveled about 6 hrs to Osprey Marina in Socastee, where we met up with Martha and Mitch who will be traveling with us in their trawler. When we were almost to the marina we decided to roll up the front panel to get clearer vision. As soon as I started to roll it the plastic window broke and cracked. I stopped and I taped the cracked part with packing tape. It was so cold it lost its flexibility. We cleaned the front "windows" after that but do not know if it helped much.
Some of Mitch's friends were taking him out for dinner as he has a birthday coming up Jan 4. We were invited to join them. There were 10 of us altogether. After wishing the old guy a happy birthday and eating we returned to our boat and everybody went home.
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