November 10, 2008 Port Canaveral, Florida

I guess it is about time we did a log update. We had an uneventful trip from the Neuse River to Beaufort, N.C. and then out of the Intercoastal Waterway to the Atlantic Ocean. A good sail got us to Georgetown, South Carolina. Since it was still Hurricane season and our boat insurance prohibited us from going into Florida waters we left the boat in Georgetown , rented a car and drove to our place in Venice, Florida. It was nice to have some land downtime. After a week we headed back to South Carolina and then took a three day sail from Georgetown, South Carolina (which is about 40 miles north of Charleston) to Cape Canaveral Florida. The seas were calm and at night we had a brilliant 3/4 moon and saw several "falling stars " lighting up the skies. The last three hours as we approached the Cape, the winds picked up and a following sea had us in a sleigh ride to Port Canaveral. At 5 a.m. the cruise ships were sighted at the outer buoy not far from the channel into the port. We saw the launch pads about 10 miles off shore for miles before reaching the port. The next shuttle launch is a few days from now. We are resting up today and hope to do a 24 hour run to Miami.



The 2008 Wooden Boat Show was held in Georgetown while we were there. The participants have 4 hours to make a wooden boat and then they race it about 200 feet and hope they don't drown in a large leak. It was fun to watch the crown cheering their favorites to the finish line. Many of the racers got caught in a swift current that steered them into the watching boats as you can see this rower near the watching fleet trying to row the boat out of the current.