June 2 and 3rd, 2012 Charleston, SC

We spent Saturday, June 2nd, touring the naval museum on Patriot's Point across the harbor from us. Below is the water taxi which took us across the harbor.

The naval museum consists of the aircraft carrier, Yorktown 10, a destroyer and a submarine. We spent several hours touring the aircraft carrier. The carrier has a display of  the Medal of Honor recipients, airplanes, historical pictures of WWII, the Koren War, Vietnam, and the Iraq War.

Below is a recipe for 10,000 chocolate chip cookies, just in case you need it for an upcoming event!

The flight deck of the carrier. The carrier not only had adult tourists but scores and scores of boy scouts having a great time walking through all of the nooks and crannies of the carrier. 

Gordon Lee looks like he wants to fly.

Want to ride on this Tomcat?

Pilot briefing room.

Let's go up to the bridge.

View of flight deck from the captain's bridge.

The ship's knot meter just like on our boat!

This is a automated course plotting table that is driven by ships speed log and gyro compass. 

Container vessel coming into port to pickup a load.

How about this loggerhead turtle. He was poking up his head for a breadth of fresh air while we were riding the water taxi back to Charleston.

We finally got a weather window to head north to Beaufort, North Carolina. On Sunday, June 3rd we headed out of Charleston harbor.

Captain Gordon Lee, was holding a steady course as we headed back out to sea at 7::30 a.m.

Unfortunately, we didn't get to Beaufort, N.C. Around 3 in the afternoon our autopilot stopped working and  the wind and seas picked up . We were not looking forward to hand steering the boat in following seas for 24 hours.  Since we were fairly close to Georgetown, S.C. we changed course and headed west to Georgetown harbor. The entrance to the harbor was as wild as ever, but the tide was with us so we had a fairly quick ride up Winyah Bay to Georgetown. Below is a bright yellow freighter which was anchored about 10 miles out side of Charleston harbor.



It is a picturesque ride up the Winyah river to the entrance to Georgetown.  We tide up the the dock of Georgetown Landing around 8 pm. On Monday the 4th, Gordon did some diagnostics on the autopilot and determined we needed to get a new one  ( can't get replacement parts for the 20 year old computer) so we will be here for a few days while we wait for a new autopilot.